Cethin

Switch is only exclusive from PC if you care about legality. The Switch emulators are quite good.

More importantly, PC has significantly more and better exclusives. Factorio, Dwarf Fortress, Ostranauts, and Squad off the top of my head that I’ve been playing lately. There are so many incredible games, frequently that are $20-40, that will never be on a console. They’re never advertised as “PC exclusives” because there’s no marketing budget to push that stupid concept, but they are. People always talk about which console to buy because they have better exclusives, but any reasonable person would choose a PC if they cared about that.

They’re only halting sales. My guess is they’re going to make the switch to F2P. It’ll take time to build and rework the systems for that though, so they’re taking it offline while they do it. I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. From the article: “at this time, we have decided to take the game offline beginning September 6, 2024, and explore options, including those that will better reach our players.” That implies it’s at least not dead for good.

Still, not interested in it at any price really. It looked super generic. That market is crowded with good competitors so they need to do something new to stand out, not just copy what others have done.

Probably not. I assume it registers it as different systems and blocks after too many.

I for sure play HL cracked days after release. I haven’t touched the others though.

I really liked 5, but I never got 6 and don’t plan on getting 7. Honestly, I’m not into what they offer anymore. There’s other civ-likes out there now, and there’s other genres I’d rather play anyway. I was watching civ 7 with some interest still, but for sure not with this.

Yeah, the “diversity” (aliens and shit, really? You want to tell me they’re targeting the “diversity” crowd with non-humans?) is not the reason for this failing. It’s a generic $40 live-service game. That market is far too over saturated. Plenty of people like and buy games with diversity, although they have to be good games first and foremost. It’s just a way to help your game appeal to a larger audience, but it has to appeal to anyone first. This doesn’t.

I assuming it says the same thing as the English before it, but in Chinese.

Why do they feel the need to forbid that speech if it isn’t related to the game. If the content of the game inspires people to discuss such issues then they should be allowed to discuss them. If it’s extremely misogynistic, they should be allowed to point that out.

Except he’s not saying people have different tastes. He’s saying genders have different tastes, of which only that gender can enjoy and they should enjoy them. He’s saying the opposite of what you’re implying it says.

If you’re a troll, whatever.

If you’re serious, most games have male leads. Apply your logic to them. They’re far too over-represented.

NFTAnt.

Honestly, a rich simulation human ant farm game could be pretty cool to chill out and watch. That’s sort of what The Sims is, except they’ll die if you don’t provide some input.

(Also, why have we never gotten a SimAnt 2?)

If they built a rich simulation, that could make it appear larger without the extra manpower behind it. It’ll be interesting to see no matter what, assuming it also doesn’t get canceled.

The game delayed at least three times I believe, for several months each time. They weren’t being rushed. They missed deadline after deadline and still weren’t where they needed to be, so I’m assuming Paradox saw this as the core being broken and canning it, instead of just throwing more money into that hole. I can’t really blame them either. Everything we saw looked janky and not good. That was pre-release content of course, and I was still hopeful there was something worth it in there, but Paradox must not have.

I really doubt Sims 5 would have been what Sims 4 tried. I’m reasonably confident it would have been a single player first game, and with that in mind would bring back the open world and that stuff. Would it have been good? Who knows. I doubt it’d be the dumb lobby thing that The Sims 4 was.

The Sims 4 was an online game forced to be single player. That’s why it’s so broken. Lots have to be instanced, unlike 3, because they were basically lobbies for players. Showing them all would have been too much data.

This isn’t to say The Sims 5 would have been good but, assuming it was single player from the start, it couldn’t have been worse. I would have pirated it probably.

No, you didn’t. You saw a third party controller.

I guess the goal is to profit from confusion, and it seems like it’s working because even people on Lemmy are tricked by it. Consider the average consumer.

As a Virginian, I hadn’t subscribed to a VPN until our legislators decided to pull this shit.

Were people angry because it was low or high? I’d give it a lower score personally, though I’ve still seen some people argue it’s a perfect game

I’d say it deserves a perfectly mediocre 5. Everything it does is better in other games, and the one thing it’s supposed to do (exploration) is better in their other games. I live sci-fi so I was willing to overlook a lot of issues, but I think the biggest letdown is that the sci-fi stories it tells are boring as hell and don’t actually make use of the genre. If they really wanted to make a sci-fi game they should have been ready to tell interesting sci-fi stories. Instead they gave up all the strengths of their other games to tell uninteresting stories.