Getting your games from Epic and GoG to work on it takes a bit of work but overall not complicated.
Also if you use an external controller, sometimes it will show the wrong platform glyphs. Personally I just deal with it while using a PS controller but you can just have it show generic ones if you prefer that.
Cancel and try to redeem again, I sometimes end up in the dumb loop for no reason as well.
Good list.
Vampire the masquerade bloodlines also deserves a honourable mention
Not even a good use case either, especially when it spews such bullshit like “there’s no recorded instance of trump ever having used the word enigma” and “there’s 1 r in strawberry”.
LLMs are a copy paste machine, not a rationalization engine of any sort (at least as far as all the slop that we get shoved in our face, I don’t include the specialized protein folding and reconstructive models that were purpose built for very niche applications)
Not sure if this applies to you, but when it just released early on, there were difficulties between versions and save games from earlier ones didn’t play nice after updates, so I struggled to get through act 2, but then I disabled the auto update and played through it pretty much flawlessly, granted I had to start a new save file.
At the workplace if anybody says “we’ve always done it this way” during a meeting where we tackle a problem, that means it’s time to change the hubris because it clearly doesn’t work for us anymore.
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.
I don’t think the current quick ID/age verification systems can be implemented in any sort of privacy respecting fashion, in part because all these verification services so far, at least as far as I dug which isn’t very far, appear be to some random third parties with dubious implementations that can be bypassed with random images or 3D models in game.
Can it be done down the road? Theoretically… maybe. We already have some online services that communicate with your bank or government account to verify your identity. What I’m guessing is the main hurdle in all of this is implementation time. It takes a lot of time to set up these sort of systems with these constraints in mind and then secure them to the best of whoever’s ability. Meanwhile policy goes like “look how fast they did the thing, we can slap something together in a month” and then it goes to the lowest bidder that can demonstrate any sort of surface level of competence. Which… often times none of the actual professionals who have any shred of an idea would guarantee.
As for the platforms… it’s always a good mindset to be ready to go if you need to and have things prepared (same applies for your workplace btw) but how it will impact instances that are outside of these jurisdictions, remains to be seen.