Wait…

People still play Fortnite?

It won’t change the fact that no one wants to use your product, Tim.

Donations are donations, though.

If you’re coming across mods locked behind donations, they’re not donations. Perhaps this is your confusion.

If you want to reference the old days, you should no doubt remember old PayPal buttons in kod descs.

Content locked behind Patreon is not accessed with donation. It’s literal purchase.

I get it. It sets a precedent that mods shouldn’t eventually be a capital environment. Mods have always been passion projects and have always been paid for with donations.

If there were a hypothetically good balance, it’d be that the developer gets their initial income for the game, worthy of support for continued good quality games from them. Then, rather then releasing shitty DLC for gamers to waste money on, redirect that towards modders with promotions, reminding the audience that they deserve donations. Leading fundraaising events like “modder packs” that’s nothing but a $5, $10, $15 things to pay for with not content attached, for the audience to buy, where the total kitty is distributed to the modding community for their part of carrying the game on.

The last thing I’d like to see is mod slop because once the precedent is set, given a few years later it’s the norm to only get mods after paying for them. This would ruin modding communities and the longevity of games long after they’re developed.

Implying people are happy to buy the shit, which isn’t likely, especially in a competitive environment.

That’s any smart device. Unless you’re the one.doimg the updates.yoirself, they will all become obsolete as technology evolves. This is the case here too; sounds they just don’t have enough people using them to justify figuring out how to keep them working as new devices and platforms roll on. 9.5 years is an alright run, comparatively.

USE JELLYF-

Be prepared for a barrage of “Jellyfin” in your comments.

Oh.

THAT’S why my winrate went THROUGH THE ROOF in the past 2 days. I gained 6k ELO and I see some players that are same rank as me who actually like bots. Easiest 48 hours of CS2 I was wondering what’s up. This makes perfect sense.

I am very happy for this person.

They’re not soulless game farms churning out shit for the large non-gamer audience of video games. Indie is like an Oregan alehouse; AAA is like a Vegas game bar.

I don’t know, and don’t really want to know how much money i’ve got sunk into my acct, but it’s a lot

Oh you can know. It’s a viewable page within the menu. I’ll leave it to you to search up on where.

No, no. Let’s pat them on the back for drawing a line in the samd—all by their own initiative—and sticking to it. We all know how hard it is to develop a game with offline mode these days. I salute them for sticking to their promise.

I’m glad they’re testing too. It must be so hard to figure out how to overcome IP checks to launch a game and have it run. True heroes of the industry. No doubt we’ll see indie games follow with offline options too.

Just get another disk or partition and get it running on that. If it goes fucky, boot into Win and game, try again later.

I have one, but remembering the password and all that is too much effort.

Huh? A Fortnite-Disney metav-

1. FTL
2. Whichever Rockband has the most songs (obv all instruments, mods, DLC)
3. Asetto Corsa (with my selection of mods) + standard decent sim wheel/pedals/rig.

Unfortunately it depends on who’s doing it. Who’s creatively in charge and what freedom they get.

At the moment, it’s reliably bad. Even when the vision is good, it’s dominated by invested poo poo.

Feels ritualistic at this point.

Bethesda does the thing; gamers and modders do the thing. Bethesda says, “Whoops!” We all laugh.

Only difference this time is it feels like 76 has been out longer than when they usually try this.

Yes, but at least it’s well regulated and for militia purposes-…oh, wait, that part of the constitution is for TP.

Yeah, but you’ll get a few hours in and uninstall because you stop playing.

I think the issue is there’s a constant influx of young gamers entering the market and all the old tricks are new to them. The teen to young adult age bracket is very lucrative and will never stop unless we stop having sex and procreating. If we all abstain for like 20 years, we’ll finally disrupt big gaming and also have no one in chat insulting anyone’s mother.