Endymion_Mallorn

That’s what they’re aiming for, obviously.

Was about to say this. Hank absolutely did the right thing by exposing the scam.

Or, and maybe I’m the weird one here, we shouldn’t include romance in games. We absolutely shouldn’t have the players’ avatars involved in those romances. Games are escapist fantasy, and I don’t believe it’s helpful to allow anyone to experience romantic things in an escapist context - that should be constrained to the real world.

Then again, I think the only game I’ve played with a narrative that I really appreciate anymore is Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. So maybe I’m just old and jaded.

I didn’t say it’s the only place I get burgers from, it’s just the only burger place I go to.

Funny, the only burger place I got to anymore is Wendy’s.

if I’d known that Revolt was using LLM code, I would never have tried to re-engage with the community there.

Or you add lanes, widen the road, and keep it straightened.

Burn it down.

Think about speeding on a highway. If you’re the lead car or the tail end, you’ll get nabbed. But if you’re in the pack, there’s too many people to nab, so they let it go.

He didn’t get a chance to see her in the '80s. He’d be just as glad to see the old lady.

Honestly, it’s almost a drop-in replacement as far as UX is concerned. The challenge is the lack of existing communities, which could be overcome if a whole community joined.

Well, I hope that Revolt/Stoat picks up most people.

Have we considered that if we go back in time, only give things to peasants and common people? It’s best if we never try to act top-down. Give the normal folks the means to revolt first.

I was never expecting an SC2 after Brood War, honestly. I was hoping that if Ghost succeeded, either they’d expand their 40K ripoff into other genres and let the WHFB knockoff fizzle out, or they would see that people did want games other than RTS games that are obviously GW properties with the serial numbers filed off, and maybe look back at old games like Blackthorne or The Lost Vikings. Maybe they could even have created a Rock N’ Roll Racing 2.

Instead, we got a “not-WHFB” game in the EverQuest mold and more click-wait-click games with cow levels.

That’s funny, whenever people do that, I just assume they wouldn’t sell without making a profit. And unless it’s immediately valuable to me, I don’t buy.

Are you forgetting StarCraft:Ghost?

No, paint 'em blue, they’ll be luckier.

That’s in the desktop environment.

How about a different pattern;

• Figure out what your breakeven is - in other words, how much money you need to make to recoup salaries, licenses, and generally keep the lights on.

• Put out a free demo (and I mean free - no DRM either). See how many people download it within a month or so.

• Project the production budget for the next game.

• Price based on a 2% retention rate of the demo downloads to accommodate breakeven + next game + 5% profit for op-cap.

Rinse and repeat as necessary.

Mine is more:

$0.00: Is it FOSS, or is it on GOG? Is it DRM-free? Cool. (see: Luanti/MineTest, OpenTTD, Battle for Wesnoth, Beyond All Reason, FreeCiv, FreeOrion, Remnants of the Precursors, Endless Sky, The Ur-Quan Masters, Mindustry, Jill of the Jungle Trilogy, etc)

$0.01+ - $4.99: Is it in eXo? I’ll get it that way.

$5+: I can’t imagine buying it if there’s anything either in the FOSS category or in eXo that does the same thing.

And 99% of the time, if there isn’t, straight to torrents.