As long as people can host a server instance, does it matter?

Hypothetically, even if it costs 1000$ per hour in AWS fees to get the required hardware to run that, at least you have the option to, alternatively have a peer to peer option to play smaller version on a LAN with a max of however many players your own network can support, there could be many implementations, which at the end of the day would still allow you to play the game when the official servers (authentication or room hosts) are shuttered and inaccessible

The main point of SKG is that currently, we, as customers, are not even getting the short end of the stick, we are getting no stick, despite having paid for it.

And ultimately, at the end of the day, not our problem to try to figure this out, the point is we’re unhappy with the current situation and want things to change.

Also note that none of this is retroactive, will only apply to games released in the future, so having an end of life plan as a requirement from the get-go is pretty simple to work on when nothing was done yet.

“many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only”

So change your design? The corporate mind cannot comprehend this.

The next update is going to be interesting…

I agree that it’s rather unique blend of a walking simulator and does explore death and loss through an extremely lengthy story that has some touching moments, however the slog of the “meat” of the game is absolutely not worth it to get to the core of it all.

If you’re interested, I recommend watching the “game movie” on YouTube, where they just show the dialogues and skip almost all of the walking, granted even then you’d probably want to skip/fast forward through a massive chunk of it all where it’s the same animations over and over again. (Such as the load/unload/qpid sequence, etc)

The “experts” in this case are 2 teachers assistants in game design in one university weighing in on a whole swath of reasons such as financial impacts and other stuff, on which they are totally qualified to talk about.

We have reached the stage where if my son does his math homework, he should be referred to as a “math expert”, article’s a joke.

Never had a sandwich with baby seals, tho I’m willing to try most of anything once

“Red scare 2” now featuring Canadians, coming to a nazi shithole near you

Chronic? Yes. Pain? No, some other strain

Again with the “losing money” narrative. It doesn’t lose money, it costs money.

Now. Does it cost so much more than ever before? I don’t know. And if it does, why is that? Good questions.

But if it doesn’t cost proportionally so much more but we all stopped buying stamps or using the paid services it provides to subsidize its operational costs then that would explain the deficit. Otherwise we’d need to ask more pointed questions, I’m with you on that

But you can’t slap “basic reforms” on something when you don’t see or understand the larger underlying picture past the sensationalist headline and that’s unfortunately the point where most people stop asking questions

Canada post is a service. Its job is to provide a service to every person in the country, not to generate profit for shareholders. When it’s doing well, it can self sustain, which is cool, otherwise it costs money through tax dollars as would any services we pay for.

That is a proper workaround when you don’t have a choice, disposable temp sim will get you through their “security”. Unfortunately doesn’t work with virtual sim numbers though.

You just gotta put it in yourself, like this:

Hi’m

Now you try

The first time the credits roll is very much just the end of the tutorial

Thanks for actually providing a rundown instead of just downvoting.

While I understand that some people can be upset about this, I don’t typically keep up with this sort of stuff and seeing it mutate from one article to another while discussing more or less the same things (mostly protections, rights and such) does put it in the same mutable box of flavours for me.

The fact that the community as a whole can’t even come to a consensus of which one to consistently use signals (to me) instability and infighting rather than a unified power in diversity.

I’ll check the article and read on about what this one specifically signifies but the people who don’t bother saying anything because their whole life revolves around this, and know the ins and outs of it all, really need a wake up call from the ones who at least bother asking or are open to discussion about it rather than just shunning/downvoting them and moving on.

Not sure why people downvoting you. I don’t know what this years flavour is either. Last I remember there was AI or IA or something in there too. And now that’s gone.

TotK was not worth 80$.

Should’ve been an add on to BotW for 40$

Or if you never had either, both as a “complete edition” for 100$ is fine too.

Ah yes. The “we shafted you on the console price and now pay us to shaft you even harder with a technical encyclopedia demo”. Delightful

17%

Any developments since then?

I imagine they would update the article if that changed but maybe I’m putting up my hopes too high here