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It gives out free Steam items that you can sell to other suckers. Sometimes it gives a valuable one. It isn’t a game, it’s a money-maker.
It gives out free Steam items that you can sell to other suckers. Sometimes it gives a valuable one. It isn’t a game, it’s a money-maker.
A torrent link won’t either? In either situation, the site needs to seed their own data, at a minimum.
And “100 developers working on it” doesn’t mean much when they’re unpaid and there’s no lower limit on how much they have to actually contribute.
That was highly specific language. There was no miscommunication. They were inappropriate. They were not misleading. They said exactly what they meant.
Also, "All terms will go live only when both parties have discussed and have agreed.” ? Hah. The vast majority agreed last time! It was only a vocal few who didn’t agree, and there will always be some who don’t agree. That’s such a nothing statement that I can’t even believe they said it.
Play and completed it on PC GP. It was short, but fun. I only ran into 1 game-stopping physics/control glitch. Quitting and loading again fixed it.
What I’ve heard from gamedevs is that Linux games are their lowest sales and their highest bug reports. Some of that may be from working on a system they aren’t used to, but it just reinforces the idea that they aren’t going to make money there yet.
Is it a “review bomb” for complaining about a legit problem with the game that stops you from playing?
I agree! Which is partly why so many people were surprised and excited that Bethesda took this challenge on. They failed at it.
Because someone in the gamedev community once posted about using achievements to measure engagement with users, it caught on, and now there are actual achievements mixed in with standard progress, including just launching the game, apparently.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. They clearly skimped on the content for all those planets and handwaved it away as perfectly normal and expected, when it clearly wasn’t good. Why? To add breadth without adding time to the development. To “increase their output” without adding more input.
It clearly didn’t work there, but it could have worked with some decent mechanics and a little more thought into the content. It worked for No Man’s Sky.
Luckily for Bethesda, AI has suddenly gotten a lot better, and they’ll be able to use it to generate a ton of content that feels better than standard old procedurally generated content. That is, of course, if they can manage to work it into their tooling for their ancient engine.
As a wannabe game developer, I plan to use UE5 and take advantage of the deals that Epic offers for selling on their store, but not the exclusivity. I would actually like to launch there, so that my first sales get me as much money as possible, instead of some storefront, but it’s basically game-suicide to do that.
I wish Epic would smarten up about all the complaints about their stores and exclusivity practices and realize that gamers would use their store if it just had the features it needs. They aren’t as entrenched in Steam’s store as Epic believes. Especially after all the free games that Epic has given away already.
As for “Alan Wake 2 dev”… Wake up! Trying to frame this as a “woe is me” situation is ridiculous. That game had a ton of hype before it was even announced, and failing to capitalize on that is the dev’s and publisher’s fault, not the consumer. A Kickstarter would have been nuts if money was what was needed.
I use nearlyfreespeech.net. They bill for usage, and since my site gets almost no hits and doesn’t take much storage, it’s ridiculously cheap. Much cheaper than even he $2.50.mo VPS listed in another comment. I just checked, and I spend an average of $.30/mo.
It’s not a huge discount, and you probably don’t want the majority of those things. I’d just buy what you like, and ignore the rest.
So far as I know, points are only for cosmetics like this and adding more blocks to the Steam profile page, etc.
I disagree about humans reading these… As someone who has to read resumes while hiring, I’d rather see this than the word-soup I often get. It gives me an idea of what you’re best at, and I can figure out that you’d also be able to learn/do similar things.
I started playing 76 for the first time. I got it for free at some point.
At first, I was inundated with ads for the monthly fee thing. When I got into the game, it took me through a tutorial and then asked if I wanted to be level 2 or level 20 w/ pre-set perks selected from a few sets. I took the latter.
I was initially fairly impressed. It felt very much like Fallout 3/4/New Vegas, except that VATS didn’t pause time, IIRC. Which sucks, obviously.
I got through a few more tutorials and was setting out from my C.A.M.P. (which you place wherever you want in the shared world) and was about a mile down the road and the server disconnected. I found myself back where my CAMP was placed… But no CAMP! Someone in another instance had put their CAMP too close to that spot, so mine couldn’t go there any more and was back in my inventory.
But back up a step. I was a mile down the road, and a server blip put me back at CAMP, losing my progress.
I exited the game and uninstalled. I’m playing 4 again.
Everyone’s monitor is calibrated differently. That can massively affect readability on low-contrast text. Plus, those letters are a little blurry there, too, which doesn’t help.
I can read it on my monitor calibrated with a calibration device, but it’s not comfortable.
You know he’s on Youtube as “Fully Ramblomatic” on “Second Wind” channel now, right?
“Developers” aren’t going to get that tip. The company will.
As another senior software developer, but at smaller companies, this was my answer as well.
If I start right away, the idea they had in their had but couldn’t put on paper will emerge as “No, that’s wrong” about a million times, trying to coax my idea into being their idea.
If I wait for their idea to be on paper, they’re stuck for it and if I do what they said, even if it’s awful, there’s no consequence to me. If I do what I wanted, even if it’s amazing, it’ll be destroyed in front of me and they’ll think I’m a screwup because I didn’t do what they wanted.
If you’re one of the people that control the company, you can afford complete creative freedom. If you aren’t, everything you do will be crushed in front of you, and you’ll just have to work harder to get back up to speed with what they really wanted.
And I don’t even have the “5 other teams” problem, since I’ve been in small companies. That would make it 10x worse.
Despite it being in the FAQ, all it actually says is that they try to cause as little performance loss as they could. No idea how much that is, or if people will turn it off to get a few frames back.
It does say that without a GPU the performance is considerable.