Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
For a brief halcyon moment in gaming, all of two generations, we got away from the blasted Atari joystick. We had D-pads on the NES, the TG16, and SMS, and on the SNES & Genesis. We were free of the curse of “arcade controls” at home. And then Nintendo and Sony screwed up and went back to it. What a shame.
Yep. Tomb Raider and Resident Evil are the only 3D games I like.
Honestly, it’s almost a drop-in replacement as far as UX is concerned. The challenge is the lack of existing communities, which could be overcome if a whole community joined.
Well, I hope that Revolt/Stoat picks up most people.
Have we considered that if we go back in time, only give things to peasants and common people? It’s best if we never try to act top-down. Give the normal folks the means to revolt first.
I was never expecting an SC2 after Brood War, honestly. I was hoping that if Ghost succeeded, either they’d expand their 40K ripoff into other genres and let the WHFB knockoff fizzle out, or they would see that people did want games other than RTS games that are obviously GW properties with the serial numbers filed off, and maybe look back at old games like Blackthorne or The Lost Vikings. Maybe they could even have created a Rock N’ Roll Racing 2.
Instead, we got a “not-WHFB” game in the EverQuest mold and more click-wait-click games with cow levels.
That’s funny, whenever people do that, I just assume they wouldn’t sell without making a profit. And unless it’s immediately valuable to me, I don’t buy.
Are you forgetting StarCraft:Ghost?
Batman doesn’t always wear black. There’s a time and a place for everything.
No, paint 'em blue, they’ll be luckier.
That’s in the desktop environment.
How about a different pattern;
Figure out what your breakeven is - in other words, how much money you need to make to recoup salaries, licenses, and generally keep the lights on.
Put out a free demo (and I mean free - no DRM either). See how many people download it within a month or so.
Project the production budget for the next game.
Price based on a 2% retention rate of the demo downloads to accommodate breakeven + next game + 5% profit for op-cap.
Rinse and repeat as necessary.
Mine is more:
$0.00: Is it FOSS, or is it on GOG? Is it DRM-free? Cool. (see: Luanti/MineTest, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth, Beyond All Reason, FreeCiv, FreeOrion, Remnants of the Precursors, Endless Sky, The Ur-Quan Masters, Mindustry, Jill of the Jungle Trilogy, etc)
$0.01+ - $4.99: Is it in eXo? I’ll get it that way.
$5+: I can’t imagine buying it if there’s anything either in the FOSS category or in eXo that does the same thing.
And 99% of the time, if there isn’t, straight to torrents.
Not Punxsatawney Phil! Aside from his short rivalry with Murray over the starring role in Groundhog Day, he’s a good guy!
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On Windows, yes. PKWare is for DOS.
The fact that it’s part of the browser at all is a problem. It shouldn’t ever be in a browser. All it should be is a tool to strictly download and render W3C compliant text and images. Everything else should be a unique program - and no, Electron is not “unique” - it’s just another copy of an awful browser.
When Chrome came out, a lot of us knew that letting DoubleClick have any control over access to the Internet was a bad idea. This is another part of that.
How about they just… not include the LLM bullshit in the first place? Just make a browser that strictly renders text and images according to W3C standards?
I don’t agree, but then again I also don’t want to play 3D games, mostly.