We don’t even know it’s business model, they all want live service games right?

Feels strange, especially for a dev that has actually made a modern and (apparently) profitable MMO.

How accurate is this do we think?

Most of my steam deck playtime is offline and it’s awful at recording that playtime.

How is the anti-cheat nowadays?

Depends on the ISP, my old one just handed out Fritz box routers with nothing locked down. Still using it now with the new ISP!

Having two could be useful - allows you to separate anything that virtual you wants to host from anything real life you wants to host.

(Without having two domains pointing at the same IP)

And everyone already has an account, they can just press a button to join the server and be interacting straight away.

Huh

It’s a custom chip though isn’t it? Seems a strange choice

That’s basically what hibernate is. Shouldn’t be hard to offer as an option.

The difficult bit is having it wake from sleep to hibernate itself. I suspect that would require hardware.

Hibernate would be great as it’s a slightly longer restore, but should work the same (if you are willing g to sacrifice the disk space)

Being able to pick up the deck and know it will have battery left would be really nice. It drains pretty fast in sleep mode.

Got my hopes up there might be some sleep limit too. Would much prefer if it shuts down/hibernated after being asleep for more than 26 hours (or past a certain battery level)

Makes sense in the dune world with all the sandstorms and worms too…

They also said in their last Q&A that there isn’t a non oped monitor on the market that they can recommend for this use case ☹️

Faf?

I know supreme commander 2 has the second screen as a tactical map. Not sure if it’s interactive though.

You can do basic 5 man content with AI players nowadays.

Version desyncs too, even when we have the exact same (small) modlist. You spend at least 45 mins getting everyone onto the same hash.

Is there an alternative app that offers a centralised account service but with user hosted servers?

Their problem is probably that they actually took too long to monetise it.

Before Discord, groups were often paying for hosted team speak, ventrilo or mumble servers. Then along came discord with it’s VC money and did what they did and more for free. Now most people probably are not willing to pay for what used to be a paid service.

BBC (pre launch): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55463366

After launch: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/style/japan-wooden-satellite-hnk-intl/index.html

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LignoSat