Fifty dollar less than Nvidia with objectively worse features, it’s clearly a winning strategy.

Because that was the beginning of the adventure game era where there was no concept of game design and ensuring that the games made logical sense, hence the birth of “moon logic”, thanks Roberta. These games were also made to be obtuse because games were very expensive back then and making obscure logic was an incentive to make things more “worth” it, often intending to make the game last months of play time to solve their “logic” puzzles and you had to be in tune with the game designer to get them.

Not to mention that due to intention or lack of game design, these games were notorious for allowing you to put yourself into a unwinnable state with no way to correct it, things like Space Quest with the alien kiss of death that won’t trigger until the very end of the game or that Kings Quest game where you had one shot to throw a boot at a cat or you’d be dead man walking.

Not being able to finish these games wasn’t even unusual back then without the help of friends or BBS. Heck I had games adventure games I bought from that era that I never finished until the got re-released on Steam.

I’m right there with you. I’m past the point of wanting to own a console for the exclusives, if they never get released and there’s no emulator available, I’m absolutely okay with never playing them.

Yup. And now due to GaaS only on the company owned server, this game will never be preserved and playable for those few that would like to play it.

You mean the same AMD that just announced a deal where they’re devoting 20% of their CPU AND GPU production to Meta AI?

Yeah, they aren’t going to be doing crap for gamers either.

Good

Gaming with Linux man. Just take the plunge now before AI consumes your rig completely.

Come on, you know damn well that if the bubble pops, the global taxpayers will be bailing them and the rest of the affected companies out with direct payments just like the last global crash caused by corporations.

Executive bonuses and buy backs for corporations and austerity for the working man who just wants to play a video game is always the plan.

Come on, they never were. They’re just another company with no ethics other “make all the money, consumers be damned” and always have been.

Don’t forget that Persona, the Peter Theil backed company, was found by whitehats to contain a us government backend for them to run facial recognition against government watchlists and scanned your chat history to determine your age and also reported any “suspicious activity” to the government.

The time to delete this privacy cancer is now.

Self hosting posted a good example off a recent vibe coding security nightmare.

https://lemmy.zip/post/59649386

Honestly I never even heard of this game.

That would be a closing a gate after the horses have escaped situation.

Letting unverifiable code in would damage to developers and users that wouldn’t be easy to disentangle and erode trust in the product, killing it.

Those who buy -side Witch- can purchase -side Wizard- as DLC and vice versa, allowing you to experience both versions without having to pay for two full-priced games.

Still, kinda leaves a bitter taste in my mouth as it sounds like a capcom-esque dlc-on-disc type of scenario.

They’re literally making sure that we gamers/consumers cannot own a PC and must rent from the cloud.

Just glad the Patriots and Kraft lost.

A new headquarter to ignore Democrats and progressive ideas and being out of touch with the average voter?

Lady, you had your chance and blew it hard. Just fade away gracefully and let the younger generation take over.

Fuck, when did late stage capitalism become woke?

Epic can finally add all the features they want but until they stop the BS of PC exclusivity deals, I’ll continue to never buy from them and will stick to Steam, GoG, and Itch.

Lack of competition? WTF are you even talking about?

You’ve got Epic, GoG, itch.io, and not to mention publisher specific storefronts like origin, ubisoft’s whatever the hell launcher for PC.

That’s plenty of competition, it’s just that they suck at actual competition or are comfortable in their niche market.