I mean it’s fancy, but als pointless since that’s the price point of a Steam Deck, a strictly superior device.

I mean, personally it just feels like there’s too many games. And consequently too many game studios.

On top of that, the cleft between the production value of a triple-A game and anything not that is gotten so big that the moment you aren’t some Call of Duty or Dragon Age or something, you might as well be a 1-person hobby project that as a result has no need to keep making money as it can trivially just go at whatever pace it wants. Add that it’s not uncommon to make the vast majority of your money via an unfinished game that you can then leave unfinished so you can reduce costs while making most of the money, and you got a recipe for disaster for any A or AA development studios wanting to scrape by.

You basically got to have your own little reliable niche, while also being lean enough so you can make games with extremely little cost per game. Hence everyone turning to mobile, where exactly that MO has become established.

For me it’s less positive, but still quite impressive!

Sure, but independent of whether we are spending money or not, we can critique their changes, no?

Still need to play that. But soooo much to play, and I already got a few games I’m actively playing. And I stopped buying onto backlog when I said I’ll need to improve that spending habit of mine on NY 2015. Heh, actually stuck to one of my NY promises for once. 😅

Yeah, far as I know they also started to struggle with Risen already, as cost started going up for 3D RPGs with open worlds. If you are a niche creator, that’s a problem as your niche cannot be endlessly expanded.

I never tried ELEX or ELEX 2 (kinda should, but eh, bit late now), but they looked fine. Nothing noteworthy, but decent. But the thing is, I have a long long list of just RPGs that I still want to play that are on my backlog, like even Baldur’s Gate 3. And now Dawntrail for FFXIV just released. It’ll be years more before I get around to ELEX. I wish they had gone more something more artsy in style than just generic-3D open SciFi world, as that ages badly. Look at Mass Effect 1 and so on.

It’s pretty common to show various things near your routes? It’s a feature built-in car map systems had since forever, at least. Always got the odd moment where you want to detour to a gas station or need to stop at a pharmacy.

As they say in the update, this is in fact nothing new, and isn’t distracting or detouring in any way.

It’s always existed, and is meant to show you something like gas stations along the way. It’s actually quite helpful, even though it is of course - in a lot of ways - ads. But for businesses i might actually need while driving, so fuck if I mind. And also as said in the update, these only appear briefly, and do not pop up. I’ve seen this before plenty of times, they’re really not intrusive at all.

Oh I meant that, that’s why I worded it that way.

In which case you could also go right-click -> properties -> security -> advanced -> click change where it lists the owner.

It’s not as quick but hey, mouse-driven UI exists.

Yeah like, complain about the one thing MS is finally improving in recent years, clamping down on non-admin users and non-admin permissions.

Definitely. Age of Wonders 4 was awesome to play at launch, but it definitely feels more “complete” now that all 4 DLCs are out. It feels like it was clearly hacked to pieces to be sold separate.

Eh… yes? Isn’t that kinda obvious from the word itself?!

coupled with a rating system akin to those used in the banking sector

No. No, that really would not be great.

It’s doctor, actually.

It is if you don’t get pay to run, getting anywhere faster doesn’t help you at all, and it costs more energy. And you gain nothing from it. That’s my point.

Geezus fucking hell, 40 minutes. For the answer that is just “do the same thing as the first Switch because that thing prints money despite what everyone predicted”.

These people don’t get to pick whether they use Excel, either. They have to, they just want to get their job done and go home, too.

They don’t get paid to walk upright, basically. So why do it just so someone else can buy another yacht?

Hrm, I would argue that if your update gets in the way of productivity on the user side, then it’s actually worse, not better.

Sure, in a vacuum it might be superior, but that is now what is happening.

We used to rail against our users always wanting an Excel like view for everything, but when you observe them working to understand their work flow it makes sense. They use excel the other 75%of the day, we’re the one breaking their mental flow and ruining their productivity.

EA just means “we released unfinished and we’re still working on it”. Because factually that’s what it is.

So Coffee Stain:

• Released a game quite unfinished (but still fun, don’t get me wrong!).
• Actually invested the time and money to get it finished and fix it up after release.