Brilliant advertising. That could be me!

In which market is Steam a monopoly?

If the developers want to just directly sell me their games old school I’d be cool with that.

I can believe it.

In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced.

Back in my day it was called “Last Man Standing”.

Corkyskog’s suggestion would make it actually brag-worthy. Just being rich in real life doesn’t necessarily require effort. I’m way more impressed by a full endgame set in Diablo II.

Well, I guess as long as it’s good for the economy.

Omg I’ve been destroyed

If they’re already okay with IP in general, then it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch. The whole thing is imaginary, arbitrary, and couldn’t exist without the King’s government.

Why do you want to steal from the king? :-P

That doesn’t make sense to me either, how so many people were heartbroken when all they had to do was simply load an auto save. I can’t confirm because I just didn’t give them money until it worked properly.

I haven’t researched that game so I don’t know its frequency or severity.

A bunch of less lucky people did exactly that and then lost 100+ hours of progress.

It’s an essential feature of the game. Literally. Unplayable.

It did have a “literally unplayable” save deletion bug on Xbox until recently. I just waited for them to fix it before spending my money.

Isn’t that just when they make it worse when it already has a lot of users?

Skyrim Shouts on the Kinect were fun!

I’ve always had an easier time adding than subtracting for some reason.

Right, I didn’t get that initially because I thought it may have been the ad blocker.

I thought the lack of a list was because of my blocking stuff.

That can backfire. I didn’t see even the header of a list, and initially thought it was a “false positive” ad block or Javascript.

I hope they lay off mostly management and gameplay designers. Diablo IV looks/sounds great and has a better story than III, but the actual game isn’t fun.

And counterintuitively, having to consult a physical map instead of an in-game map only improved the immersion.

No SKSE either

That doesn’t sound very relaxed.

I’m saying that it would be nice to enhance my voices, not that I need 500 voices to be a good DM, or that we can’t get by without it.

Oh yeah that totally explains why they should relax.

How does that make sense? You’re losing your job… so relax? This is why they have a union.

I could really use that for dungeon mastering; NPC voices (esp. accents) are the hardest part for me.

Machine vision and robotics are advancing quickly too.

Macrotransactions

Todd Howard has been talking about how many big games he’s got left in his career. He should beg Michael Kirkbride to come back and stick to what they’re good at.

They should’ve released the modding tools instead, then the unofficial patch would make it stable and everyone would’ve been happier.

I would love an RPG where you could just type whatever you want for dialog choices.

I STILL use my legal copy of doom2.wad

I’d be frustrated if I kept having to adjust it back.

People disliking your post doesn’t mean you’re entitled to an explanation each time.

That is assuming good faith. They will not engage in diplomacy with you, or work with you to draft legislation. They will lie to your face for as long as you’ll let them. They. Do not. Work. For you.

You can call this protest not an Actual Protest or whatever, but it made this conversation happen where it otherwise wouldn’t have. When we take to the streets, we’ll be told that we’re still “virtue signaling” 🙄 and the right time and place isn’t blocking traffic.

The goal for something like the Gaza conflict is to change public opinion.

Understood. FWIW I wasn’t planning on reading about Gaza this morning, I was just reading game news and now they’ve got me thinking about Gaza at least.

At the same time, meet with reps in their offices to discuss mutually beneficial options.

Reps aren’t actually listening to you at all, they’re just trying to shut you up. So in this example they’d agree with you in person, then maybe provide limited aid in Egypt while continuing to fund the Israeli military.

They can do their jobs first, and then the protests will stop. Do not assume good faith.

Your pleas aren’t going to melt the hearts of representatives or make them see reason. They don’t actually care about people. They only care about getting votes and bribes, so the only way to change their minds is to influence one of those.

Sorry to be unclear, I was being sarcastic and agree with you. The awards are rightfully based on what is actually released, which discourages this habit.

Don’t worry Bethesda, you can try again at next year’s game awards after you’ve fixed the bugs and modders have added the features!