They sue the crap out of non profit ones too. Hell they target fan games for god’s sake.

Just to answer your first part: Nintendo continues to offer old ROMs via subscription and individual sale and appears to be making a decent amount of cash from it, so clearly they and consumers seem to think there’s value there and therefore Nintendo probably feels the availability of these ROMs on download sites…

From what I’ve read this case seems more damaging than most because he was charging users and the site had newer Switch games. Is it super damaging to Nintendo? Probably not too much, but if there’s a case you want legal precedent on your side, this is it.

Valve can’t count to 3.

Most places have either a lot of time off or even unlimited time off. Here is the reality, every two weeks you need to turn in a lot of work, so taking a day off or two usually leaves you working on those days. So generally you take sets of two weeks off. However if you take too much time off you get fired, or you…

I think for people over, say, 30 (maybe a little older)... it still represents a high-water mark for gaming and brings them back to their youth and a very different era of gaming.

Like Portal 3.  It's not going to happen, but it'd be fun if it did.  But Portal 2 gave sufficient closure...

I don’t even necessarily want Half-Life 3 or Episode 3, just more games in the universe. It’s so fertile with potential. Fun fact, I’m going to be 40 in a couple of months, so I was there for Doom 2, Quake 1->3, Half Life, Sin, Duke 3D, etc. There was a time in the early 00's where I thought I was just ‘over PC…

Every time I can think of that a follow-up game/episode/movie has been released in a franchise after a very extended delay, the fanbase has always been extremely happy with it and moves on with their lives in short order.

Explain Artifact.

Maybe it will come out when they make the Steam Switch.

I have zero investment in half life, and i promise this is a good faith question, but why in the world are people still expecting a follow-up? ARE people really expecting a follow up, or is it wishful thinking?

And thawed, headless, plucked turkeys went down in mediocre game history

I’m sure if you check the Wayback Machine, you can find shitloads of people grumbling and bitching about Steam and why they needed to install it.

I like to think the next game will come out when someone finally manages to make a next level desktop interface.

I had to use a 56k modem to download steam overnight, my parents weren’t the most technologically advanced however we did have that. I remember telling a friend at school that I had to download steam in order to play Half Life 2 they said I was lying because that’s the dumbest thing they had ever heard. Downloading a…

One of the other posters covered it but we absolutely complained about having to install steam, in a way they were forcing us to adopt the technology before the infrastructure was actually in place to do so. It did however lead them to their path of market dominance being fully established years before they even had a…

Well they could have called HL: Alyx something different, say, HL3, if they only cared about money. However, they’re saving that card to play somewhere down the line, likely when they truly need mass adoption of something, just like they did with Steam and HL2. There will be a HL3 someday though because it’s…

As a Series X owner, I can say that, at the moment, the benefits to the new console gen are exclusively QoL stuff. But the QoL benefits are great. I upgraded to a fancy 4K 120hz/VRR TV out of necessity last year, and...yeah, the steady framerate in super high-res HDR is nice and all, but quick resume/significantly…

Don’t pay scalper prices! But...