For lighting, I would personally avoid smart bulbs, especially if you are redoing the apartment anyway.
All they lead to from my experience are annoyances when guests/partners inevitably flick a switch and turn off the smart bulb.
I live in Australia so the spec may be different from where you are, but I have found ZigBee to work amazingly.
In competitive games, as you pointed out, it doesn’t really. Usually they end up with controller only servers.
In a co-op game it doesn’t really matter that much. I would argue it’s more about the movement than the shooting anyway.
Factorio has cool, and very customisable, procedurally generated maps. The ore distribution, quantity, biters, cliffs, water, all change game to game.
These guys are crazy, I just hope their quality doesn’t suffer for it
Make a shitty live service game and people are going to think it’s shit.
I don’t understand why this is surprising to execs…