None of that is relevant to the other comment’s point that these companies should not have that level of authority to dictate what we can or cannot purchase. If it is legal to purchase, then payment processors should not be allowed to deny the purchase. Period.
Of course they are. They are both prime examples of settler colonialism in action.
People forget that Israel started as a British colony
I am honestly shocked to see a reference in the wild to Ken Ashcorp.
Bruh wuuut? That song was the best song on the soundtrack.
Edit: oh shit, just saw it was 2 not 3.
My steam library is full of humble bundles that I only bought for 2 games because it would be like $5, cheaper than buying regularly, and still getting like 7 other games with them.
And that’s even with me giving away keys from games I know I won’t ever play.
NDAs have always been bullshit. Any obligations that I have to a company ends as soon as they terminate me. Want me quiet? Keep me on the payroll.
Drama aside, I’m just glad to read the goal was reached. Hopefully something comes of the effort.
At least it is still being updated and just happy to hear it hasn’t gone dark like most other Early Access titles.
How has Enshrouded been doing? I haven’t been able to get on my PC in almost a year and only got to play it on initial release.
Hey, having access to entertainment is actually pretty damn important. What you gonna do to pass the time?
Though honestly, wasting the limited power someone would have after the grid fails on gaming isn’t the brightest of ideas.
Not to mention, after the collapse, free time will basically be a rare luxury. Your entire time would be taken up by surviving and maintaining your ability to continue to survive, especially if you aren’t preconfiguring a community support network for when shit hits the fan and just going the “lone prepper” route.
The death of community servers is why I stopped playing multiplayer.
The gaming landscape was just so much better back when communities were able to self-host and moderate before matchmaking and corporate automated moderation became the norm.
BG3 is still from a mid-size studio, Larian is not AAA, they are AA. They are just really fucking good at what they do and are able to pump out AAA quality cause they focus on their strengths, which is making CRPGs, instead of trying to chase trends.
Naive if you think this is only going to stop at pointlessly banning NSFW mods. This is only the beginning of the enshitification.
I don’t even use NSFW mods, I’m just not gonna stick around as some soulless corporate entity slowly destroys the site.
Way fucking shittier too. You conveniently left that part out.
Bruh even fucking Kaiserpunk? I was super excited about that game.
Fucking hate this timeline man.
Nexus is basically dead to me.
That was the last time AAA publishers allowed devs to take risks. Those games, while profitable, were considered financial failures by executives.
That era taught the industry to be risk averse.
Gaming was profitable long before by decades at that point, mostly due to the quick evolution of technology propelling a lot of the innovation and novelty of new titles. Yet, due to how the economics of capitalism work, the industry reached the peak of how much they could ride those coattails before they had to begin creating their own industry growth, which was around the time of those consoles.
Publishers and Devs scrambled to find new ways to bring in more players. They eventually learned what worked and what didn’t, and the economic necessity of growth forced those companies to rely on what they knew had mass appeal instead of taking those risks like before. The wiggle room just wasn’t there anymore.
It is fun but it requires a lot of patience. If you didn’t like Metal Gear and don’t really have much patience then this game most likely isn’t for you.
It’s a very very slow burn, if the first is anything to go by. Like, there are high-action, combative moments but they are absolutely not the focus of the gameplay — majority is just planning routes, figuring the best ways to traverse the landscapes, and helping rebuild the local infrastructure for your Strand (the asynchronous multiplayer server shared with other players)
The main focus is on the messages, themes, and other literary merits of the story. Supposed to get you to think about things from new perspectives.
Which is why the retailer, Steam, already restricts certain regions from buying titles if they are deemed illegal in that region.
Again, it is not the authority of the payment processors to dictate what people can and cannot purchase. Period. No excuses or justifications will be accepted.