oo1

how’d they get from 26% in one segment to “almost one third” headline?
Who the fuck buys this drivel for £3,000

Surely if someone is buying research, they dont want to literally buy hype.

shareware - I mean they probably didn’t make much money.

But apogee, epic, id all came fom releasing shareware initially.
but also nethack and all that stuff.

I can’t really remeber how it worked, but i think you got these bundles of paper stapled pamphlets for free with hundreds of shareware packages listed with a few lines of text describing each one.

If you didn’t have BBS, you sent a real mail back to a distributor and they send you disks in the post ffor a fairly small charge.

Some shareware was so good the magazines had to cover it (for example, doom)

Also i think there just werent as many big budget titles back then (on PC),
Consoles probably had most of the money.
elite 2 was massive, but still only 1 bloke i think.

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I don’t know if it was really worse, but magazines did cost money.

Most magazines that I used to buy had coverdisks with demo versions.

If the demo was no good it didn’t matter what the review said. And they can’t really get away with describing things that are proven false in the demo.

Worst thing would be a great demo but very little more in the main game.

But I wasn’t going to pay a lot for a game if I’d not played the demo a lot.
Frankly that also proved it’d run ok on my usually very old HW.

As for getting lots of other peoples opinions - not as important if you have a decent demo.

Is it something to do with modding-community?

If that generates a load of free cool stuff people may play more for longer.

The main IP rights owner probably doesn’t really want this, they want to develop and sell a new game or expansion.

Double your steam deck battery life with this one neat hack!

I think it’s more a top down shoot-em-up.
Llike alien breed, chaos engine, or even asteroids for that matter

I say I want that IRL
but i know full well that if all the slotted screwdrivers magically stayed in, or returned to, the allocated slotted screwdriver place, then I’d get spooked and wonder who’s been f*ing with my tools.

I reckon best just to choose a character who would’t care and try to RP that way.

ther’d have to be some mist
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0IkGDptX6YI

i use it as a rough guide.
but always check some reviews and comments from deck users too.

no three point scale can reflect all the ins and outs, of techical and playability and preferences.

commie
/s

go price discrimination!

we should give more companies more market power so they can do it more.

fucking competetive markets suck - i cant believe all these fucking laws trying to limit monopoly power.

/s

How dumb is a person to define a “career moment” as buying something.

Aren’t careers are suppoed to be about creating things that other people want to buy.

or they could offer people a discount to sign up to use an ‘unstable’ branch, release stuff there for a couple of weeks to prove it before inflicting untested updates on the unsuspecting full price customers.

I just hope they’ve put in a testing procedure.
i don’t understand how they can be releasing updates so frequently.
the game wont get less bugged if they’re just playing whack-a-mole.

relying on user testing is okay when its in pre-release. but by now they should be testing properly before releasing updates.

First you draw an “S” . . .
then you draw a more different “s” . . .

yeah, i like the game and even i can see its hyped in articles and on forums.

every time someone article has the word “polished”.
it has tonnes of quest bugs, these type of games always do.

the ui is remarkably good - for this type of game, on steamdeck controller; but it’s not a slick ui.

there’s always tradeoffs and compromises. complexity of quests leads to bugs, complexity of player choices leads to analysis paralysis/tyranny of choice and cumbersome ui.

yeah, nostalgia for me.
the other larian games didn’t register with me.

“gooeys”

i want to go back in time to coin-op arcades and pay per pla . . . oh hang on