But it wasn’t worthless to Epic, who potentially sold it, active address or not. It doesn’t really matter what happens with it further down the chain after that sale. The point is that simply signing up for an account, even with fake credentials, does give Epic something. Not a lot, but something.
They can. That’s literally what data brokers do.
Sure. I’ll be more clear next time. I think my original point still stands.
Chances are they have already gotten more than a cent from you – depending on what they do with your account data. Even just an email address has a price. That’s my only point, really. Just signing up gives them something.
I mean, I dont think it’s controversial to say it is surprising that a game had an expansion in 2000 but and then only had any other after the HD re-release in 2013. 13 years is an eternity in gaming. That’s my only point; I dont think it has anything to do with keeping “up to date”.
Oh, I mean the OG expansion “The Conquerors”. As far as I know that content is just included in the Definitive Edition now. But back in the day, it was the AOEII expansion.
AFAIK all the other DLC came after the Definitive edition re-release. My original point is that I didn’t expect new expansions to what is ultimately a 90s game.
I legit never imagined I’d see another expansion for this game. I say expansion because we didn’t call the others DLC back then.
A challenge that they themselves don’t understand and couldn’t undertake, but they’ll happily risk the livelihoods of others for their hunch
Mankind Divided is free right now btw
It’s not free. The point is to get me to make an account on Epic and install their stupid launcher. That isn’t free and I’m tired of people claiming things are “free” when in fact they exist to get you to sign up for another service. It’s not free-as-in-air.
Just to add: the Steam Controller may have been a commercial flop, but I still maintain that it is one of the best controllers out there, in particular for playing strategy games from the couch (right pad > mouse). I still use mine regularly and have a couple backups. The price of the Steam Controllers now reflects that it’s technically a niche success.
Edit: and the dual trackpad setup plus integrated configurator technically does live on for the Steam Deck
And I think every live service is a “no buy”.
If they don’t want to make money, they should do it and make whatever business goon suggesting it very happy (until that person looks at the balance sheet).
But without the fun
I want both the “iOS ecosystem” and Epic to fail, so I guess I just enjoy this new form of entertainment.
I think (at least in tech) we are seeing a brain drain where companies with strong RTO mandates can neither retain nor attract talent. Remote-first companies should be at a big advantage. Time will tell if it matters.
As someone who has been remote for 8+ years, it’s extra disconcerting that now some companies are more in the office than they were even before covid. It’s totally about control as you said. I’m at least hoping that it eventually returns to where it was.
The original comment was pretty snarky so I see about as much snark as I’d expect, tbh.
I wanted to love this game. I love this style of game and I loved the first one. But CS:2 is sadly a clusterfuck, and the response from devs has been lackluster at best.
Yeah, mod support would be nice. CS:1 had Steam Workshop support, which was great. CS:2 has nothing, because they want to completely control the mod ecosystem with a new tool. The excuse was to bring console modding to parity with PC, but that’s already bullshit since they admitted that even when the tool is released, some PC mods won’t work on console.
More worrying is the base game. The mods would mostly be useful to fix weird decisions by the devs. From my standpoint, you CANNOT LOSE the game. Have a city in the red? You get free “government subsidies” to bring you into profitability. Even for a good city in the black, it’s like having millions of free dollars thrown at you. You can’t shut it off.
Couple it all with a “simulation” that doesn’t seem to respond to user choices in any meaningful way, a UI that lacks a ton of shit the old game had, a lack of animated assets, etc etc… It’s a shit show.
I’m sorry I bought it on good faith. I knew shit was gonna get wild when I pointed out what seemed to be a glaring bug on their forums (garbage trucks coming from surrounding cities to clear out my city’s garbage – FOR FREE), and was met with the dev tagging it “by design”. Oh boy. It’s a city painter, not a simulation.
I guess I’ll wait for it on a platform with a Linux client, then.
If only there were some regulatory body the government had that could set things right!..right?
Just to make sure it’s clear: not being Deck Verified doesn’t mean it won’t run on the Deck or on Linux in general. It means Valve has not hit their testing threshold for the title to mark it as verified or unsupported.
More specifically, it means Valve cannot guarantee a) the game will run (though anecdotally, I’ve had most if not all unverified games I tried work without issue), b) that the text is large enough to be readable on the Deck, or c) that the controls are usable (=you might have to just use the configurator yourself).
I think a danger Valve has introduced with the verification system is people thinking that not verified == no worky.