Multiple ways.

Companies can completely erase the idea of ownership. If everything is subscription-based, they can simply stop the subscription and have no further obligations.

Or Europe just gets completely locked out of functionality, as already happens in some European countries.

Of course good things can come from this, but I’ve read here several times that this just isn’t a good proposition and might just lead to the anti-consumer practices disappearing in a negative way too.

Or kill it completely. The only reason I’ve held off signing this is that the wording is so vague that it could work in favor of gaming companies. I’d rather not see that.

It’s a web app wrapped in Tauri. So basically a desktop app, but the web app can be hosted too.

Bullet hell requires the player to dodge a shit-ton of projectiles to survive.

Vampire Survivors does not have that element, so it’s not a bullet hell.

This genre is sometimes called a reverse bullet hell or bullet heaven.

It also raises red flags about what they (hopefully don’t) have in mind for the future

I’m amazed that for exactly this product they have not announced Copilot integration (yet)

By your logic they shouldn’t be broken because it’s the competitors’ fault if people don’t do business with them instead.

Yes exactly, that’s why they shouldn’t be broken.

They’re consumer friendly and are not taking specific action to BE a monopoly, contrary to many other companies.

There’s also enough competition and it’s exactly their fault that they fail/refuse to implement what makes Steam so popular.

I’m definitely against monopolies, but mindlessly slapping rules on them just because they’re labeled monopolies is some of the dumbest shit I’ve heard

I think they’re down voting because, no, the singularity is not approaching at blistering speed.

Old railway lines in Europe often aren’t complete anymore and only cover relatively small distances.

There simply isn’t enough infrastructure to handle a full train network and fixing them up would probably require existing infrastructure and buildings to be disowned and destroyed.

The wheel is just there during the testing phase as a backup, seems the final pods don’t have it, as it would make the idea useless.

Love it.

I’ve been willing to learn more about programming with location/map data so definitely checking this out.

Are you looking for contributions or help on anything? I think I might at least look at providing a Dutch translation for the front-end if you’re accepting PRs.

To plan, organize or review routes.

This seems more like Garmin Basecamp, it’s not supposed to be used on the routes themselves I’m guessing.

Most of those reviews are “this game actually sucks, but if you ignore the bad stuff it’s great. 8/10”

People are loving the concept, but I’ve heard the game itself is pretty meh

I mean, comparisons show parts of Pokemon assets have been literally copied though.

DQ Monsters are pretty distinct from Pokemon. Here assets from Pokemon were just copied and (allegedly) AI was used to generate the rest around them.

I guess there are plenty of unique pals, but the copied ones are very blatant in their design.

They were working on TS4, right?

My brother and I played TS2 a ton on the GameCube, good memories

I’m not sure what you expected the Steam Deck to do?

If you bought a compatible game that suddenly updates to be unusable on your platform, I think that’s a big issue…

I really love Terra Nil.

You basically have to restore a wasteland back to lush, green nature.

Much like a city builder, this is achieved by putting down buildings. The twist is that at the end, you can’t leave a trace so you need to demolish everything again.

It’s not a long game, but I thought it was very satisfying. A relaxing puzzle/city builder with soothing music.

I really don’t understand the “$70 DLC” comments. Maybe I’m too old, but TotK is the perfect example of what a sequel is.