I’m skeptical that’s the case. They have a pretty diversified model, and the pay-what-you-want bundle packages are now just a tiny sliver of a marketplace that’s primarily a more traditional key seller. That’s not taking into account that Humble also offers a more traditional monthly bundle subscription plan and even…

I just wish more successful businesses could recognize that they’ve got a good, sustainable, humane model and just stick with that. But this kind of shit is just inevitable now. Any successful business model is going to get bought out, flipped, repurposed for maximum profit, and pimped out as much as humanly possible.

As I started working more, I started giving up on the grindier end of live service games. In short, I used to play Warframe every weekend as a uni freshman, whenever I wasn’t studying or with my friends. Almost 3 years later, I’m doing junior/senior level classes and an accounting internship.

*laughs in late-state capitalism*

The console launched in the west in 2012. The last retail 1st party game (Freedom Wars) released in 2014. When you consider development time, they must have internally made the decision to stop making Vita games sometime in the first, 12-18 months?

True - I’ve lost myself (and spent a big chunk) in GW2 several times - it’s just not the same going back to it (especially without any friends playing) as it was back in the day.

Golly, Guild Wars 1 and 2 were good times - and that’s not just the nostalgia speaking. Both were stunningly gorgeous for their time, shockingly bold in their design choices for the cookie-cutter MMO era (that skill system in GW1 was unbelievably fun and diverse for build nuts like me), and - okay - buried in some AAA…

This stuff is just a re-labeling of HDMI-CEC (don’t ask me what the TLC stands for, I don’t remember), and it has always been a crapshoot if it works or not, thanks to either a shoddy standard from the very start, and/or shoddy implementations of it by TV/video display manufacturers.

“HDMI Device Link” is Sony’s branding for HDMI-CEC, which your display needs to both support and have enabled for devices to be able to take advantage of it. It’s been around for ages, but it’s a flaky standard with even flakier adoption, so it’s mostly just used for changing the volume on your home theater with your…

Even if they fix every bug in the game, it still doesn’t live up to what they promised with their first gameplay reveal. They would need to massively overhaul the quest structure, narrative, NPCs and player character building.

Yeah because the Polish govt is threatening legal action against them if they don’t keep working on it. Kinda hard to give CDPR too much credit on this.

Those improvements could have come through iterative design, instead of starting over from scratch with something worse than the previous OS.

I think this is mostly a keming issue. Just a bit more space before that I would help a lot.

Outside the shared play with PS4, these are all pretty standard features. And remember, they did make a bunch of PS4 games BC for free, which I’m sure eat up a bunch of drive space. The point was getting people new to PS5 the opportunity to play PS4 hits they missed.

“I understand the sentiment behind the environmental concerns,” he said. “Bitcoin mining does use a lot of energy. I think every industry needs to prioritize the environment while operating, too...At the end of the day, Ethereum is here to stay...”

Hyperscale datacentres are pretty energy efficient, a lot of the carbon comes from end-user electricity. The last figures from the IEA put an hour of streaming video at about 36 grams total (server + client), which is roughly how much a train uses to travel a kilometre, or how much a typical car uses to travel about…

Bitcoin at least has a practical use to it. Divorce it from being a commodity and you can still buy and sell stuff with it. Which means that if nothing else, Bitcoin always has the potential to go up in price based on how many people are using it for its actual purpose.

NFTs were clearly created as a scheme to get more people hooked into the cryptocurrency ecosystem. You cannot directly buy NFTs with fiat currency. Headlines that state an NFT “sold for millions of dollars” obfuscates this detail. The NFT was exchanged for an amount of cryptocurrency that is currently valued at…

Remember when Bitcoin was “crashing” because it hit 30k and then fairly quickly dropped to 10k? Now what’s it at?

It takes people five seconds to find out NFTs contribute to climate change and less than five minutes to read an article explaining that. Then they not only proceed to make an NFT and upload it wasting tons of energy. But do so, while knowingly ignoring the issue.