I imagine there are a few mod remakes of them already in the works.

The Creation Store is definitely way too predatory. The Tracking Alliance faction definitely seems tailored for future “elite bounties”, and so far does not seem to have any singular faction questline with a conclusion. The quality is better than I expected and I suspect they will continue expanding it through the free patches as they also release new bounties Creations to go with it. If you don’t purchase them, you are left with the empty space on the board reminding you of it, and paying for plushies? Decorations? Greed upon greed, but no different from what they did with Skyrim.

If Bethesda had any brains they would force developers to only post those as free and only as hooks and essentially free promotion for the content rich expansions they could be involved with, but instead they’ve been trying to push for MMOesque purchases for their singleplayer games for a while now, additions which I wouldn’t even want because of how grossly they intrude upon the game universe. Sudden overpowered suit or base for no reason ahoy! The Anniversary Edition spoiled the Skyrim experience so much …

Starfield was on its lasts legs and needed something that would revive it, not greed, but then again this sort of shit is why Bethsoft isn’t one of the studios Microsoft has shut down. Makes you wonder just how much whales spend on this practice. Judging by the Sims and looking through posts regarding Skyrim, quite a lot, so move over traditional market and let the whales pass. Shame there’s so little competition, I love this particular niche of a genre.

I am not going to look forward to TES6, although I doubt the MMO will curtail its development much. After all, they are already turning singleplayer into MMOs without the service cost.

I think they may have meant a probate court. Steam can ignore or argue against a probate court on several grounds and might have to be taken to a judicial court, GOG may be claiming they would accept the judgement of a probate court. Definitely needs to be expanded upon and clarified.

That’s either awesome or diplomatic. But a court order shouldn’t be needed, that implies going to court which isn’t necessary in some countries.

Really not looking forward to it, even though I’ve played every other game including Tiny Tina’s. They really dropped the ball with the Wonderlands DLC, they undid any and all trust I had in their post-release expansions, so they are really going to have to be announcing some ground-breaking new features if they want me to pay on release. Otherwise, I guess I’ll be playing it in 2028 when it’s discounted, if the state of the world allows it.

I can look past not having iconic villains, as much DLC, or having new releases that are just minor upgrades, but the drop in the expectations for post-release quality, I guess that’s where I draw the line, no pre-orders from me.

I just assume at this point that it is a problem with any publisher.

Another way to influence companies is with your money, and GOG allows you to download entire DRM-less backups of your game.

I think the problem is that games with deep strategy are timeless, no real need for a new release.

Any social networks that have non-censored participants are. Usually, China’s presence in social networks outside of its borders are for propaganda purposes.

Interesting. This and other actions seem to hint that they got themselves into the crosshairs of legal law enforcement. You reap what you sow. I suggest that people don’t ignore potential issues with an instance, because it does spill over in unexpected ways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FFdbbcj4Ao

I just commented on how Ibis just seems like its destined to be misinformation hub, so maybe I’ll be joining you soon. I got banned 2 months ago for this comment against Hamas (Of course, without ever getting a notification) :

What does a terrorist group sacrificing Palestinians for the palaces of their leadership who assault and kill people in an international music festival dedicated to peace have to do with a famous politician and anti-apartheid activist who did his best to do things the right way? Stop gaslighting with terrorist apologism.

The instance is deep into the disinformation game, to the surprise of no one. They saw Reddit doing this and said “Hey, we need to be doing this, too!” I’m now fairly convinced this is the reason they are investing in developing lemmy (and now Ibis). They win, they get to be one of the top instances and the control that means for their communities. They lose, lemmy is still going to be vulnerable from the code base, ghost instances, and hydra-tic participants.

The biggest problem with “federation” is the control given to bullshit admins in some of the biggest and how big into hiding their problems they are. One of the biggest instances has shoved two of their admins under the rug, without openly acknowledging why they did it or the drama there clearly is behind it, giving the impression that the problems those admins were creating have been addressed on one side and on the other just trying to dismiss it as “no big deal, they are just taking time off”.

So keep in mind joining some of those instances is just joining a good paint job. Sometimes, the rust breaks through, sometimes the rusted pieces get removed, but the people painting over the rust are still there.

It matters because when communities crowd around large instances, those admins have ultimate control over participation within them. And while easy to bypass, it will still affect the reputation your comment history would have represented.

Yeah, no, wouldn’t touch that from a longstick, specially from the political slant it’s coming from. Wikipedia itself already has enough problems, Ibis is just asking to be a misinformation hub.

You mean like when people say they like Starfield?

I saw it more as a dig at the whole loli versus lalafell thing, where fans of the former always seem to disguise their intent behind the convenient happenstance of the latter.

I don’t think it is, at least not the current iteration, but he would definitely have helped evolve its successor.

Now there’s a guy that deserves it, it’s sad that he was surrounded by such a spezwad.

Usually never.

Toxocutiosis.

These have some implied requirements like being ivy league material and a certified patriot. They are also both essentially superprodigies who can only exist in fiction.

You can take a self-defense class, though. Get someone to train you with weapons and parkour, and you are all set to be an average person with self-defense, gun training, and some novice-level parkour abilities.