Their publisher pulled the plug on the game they were making due to the accusations, so they probably can’t afford to stay open.

The assumption is that Valve made their procurement deals before the sudden price hikes, in which case the costs might actually be sane until the deal runs out and they need to renegotiate prices.

Unless he starts following Elon’s beliefs about spreading “superior” genes and pays tons of women to get artificiality inseminated.

Luckily we have War for the Overworld to pick up where they failed.

They announced a new one a few years ago alongside the Legendary Edition remaster of the original trilogy, but I don’t think we’ve heard anything about it since the announcement teaser.

I wonder if it’d be out by now if they had picked a different engine. It can’t be easy finding devs experienced in fucking CryEngine, especially when you’re using a heavily-customized fork of an ancient version of that engine.

He’s also using the funds to live out his dream of being a movie producer, something he desires as much (if not more than) being a game developer, with the Squadron spinoff mainly being an excuse to hire big-name actors he likes to deliver his script.

Not that that’s a bad thing, but he hasn’t really changed much over his decades-long career, flaws included.

I loved when old games had a basic mechanic you could ignore for 99% of the game, but you’d softlock yourself if you forgot it exists.

Crouch-jumping was another offender.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The original PlayStation release is the only one that has the terrible (in a good way) translation and voiceover work. It also holds up perfectly - I only played it for the first time a few years ago, and it’s easily my favorite Metroidvania. Decades after it came out, it still remains the king of the genre that partly bears its name.

It’s closer to ripping off ARK, but removing all the misery-inducing wastes of time so it’s actually fun to play casually. The Pokémon stuff is there, but 90% of everything else is ARK with the serial numbers filed off.

Given how many systems NMS has and how disconnected they often feel from one another, taking a more focused approach might work out better for the game.

This reminds me of a post where someone hooked a dead spider up to a syringe and used it as a grabber. A spider’s musculature is hydraulic so the legs would curl and uncurl as the syringe was pressed.

Definitely one of the creepier things I’ve casually stumbled upon.

Edit: Behold, necromancy! (time-stamped video)

This kind of game becoming successful would have been impossible before Steam. In the old days the brick-and-mortar stores would refuse to stock any game that was even remotely controversial in content or age rating. Steam has been hands-off regarding what they allow outside of things that are illegal (or, recently, that their payment processors disapprove of - if you want to talk about influential monopolies that shouldn’t exist…).

San Andreas and The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion were even pulled off of store shelves temporarily due to their age ratings being adjusted. Places like Walmart are a hundred times worse gatekeepers than Valve has proven to be.

They also snatched up HiFi Rush after Microsoft’s idiocy. They’d better not screw up the sequel!

Reminds me of a certain emulation site that was hit by Nintendo’s lawyers and removed the download links for all of their games.

Except that’s all they did. The files are still there, the game pages are still up, all that’s missing is the big shiny download button. A simple userscript can add them back and let you download the “removed” games.

Isn’t that the same thing the studios they acquired said? And we all know how that inevitably turned out.

It’s all in how he communicates, not what. He’s an old-school con man, a confidence trickster. That whole style relies on the fact that people are really bad at judging character, and someone who lies with a straight face and never shows an iota of guilt will be believed to be innocent and truthful no matter what evidence is presented against them.

Combine that with a heavy dose of sunk cost fallacy and an increasingly uneducated and desperate electorate, and it’s easy to see why many follow him despite his near complete lack of articulateness.

He’s like if Edison and Henry Ford had a baby and it only inherited the worst parts of both.

He would probably approve of their crimes against children.

Boasting about not putting multiplayer behind a paywall, like they weren’t the ones to introduce that idea in the first place.