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Would people 40 years from now who haven't even been born yet really want to play their grandad's copy of Frontline Fuel of Fail?

I think that as the world's politicians start to age out, addressing Digital Inheritance may start to become more of a legislative priority.  Probably at some point in the next 10-20 years I would guess, although I would also expect corporate influence to totally fuck us all on the issue as much as possible in the US, that doesn't seem likely to change at any point in the foreseeable future.

If you force companies to create systems that allow people to transfer their collection to their next of kin, don't be surprised when services that are now free start to become subscription based.

Been unenthusiastically watching some CoH3. It doesn't look like much of an upgrade over the previous two. Probably wait for a sale.

It didn't look terrible. Just unambitious, if that makes sense. Units still seem to have a that floaty quality in their movement, and infantry still looks very disengaged with the world. I had hoped they would build a bit more on them reacting to things and seeking cover, but it looks like you still have to micro that. Even so, the firefights between two infantry squads standing in the open like, someone hit something. The blobbing also makes it feel quite dated. Maybe that means I'm asking for a different game, but bleh at least give me something that isn't a copy/paste.

Did they at least fix the stupidness where an entire tank column can get stuck on a bridge behind an abandoned machine gun? Pathing in this style of Relic RTS has been awful since Dawn of War. With all the computing power at our disposal, you'd think this would be addressed in like 30 years of this genre, even as flaccid as it's been. What even changed between Essence 5.0 and 4.0, 3.0?

Only so much you can do with war torn Europe, but the game also looks the exact same as the previous, outside of Africa. In three games: where's our Pacific? Only modders ever get to that.

Very samey, anyway and not seeing much to bring me back after enough hours into the previous two. Maybe I'm being unfair to the devs, but I already feel quite critical of and pessimistic about what I've seen. What have we waited all this time for, really? Maybe I'd have to play it for things to click.


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Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2023-01-16 19:07:51)

Fallout 76 worth playing single player? Would it be worth it to buy it on discount but drop a $20 into whatever micro thing they have? I have an inch for Fallout 4 but my last save if FUBAR and I don't want to grind.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Fallout 76 worth playing single player? Would it be worth it to buy it on discount but drop a $20 into whatever micro thing they have? I have an inch for Fallout 4 but my last save if FUBAR and I don't want to grind.

I'm having fun with it, mainly doing coop. Single player depends on what you want. Story is meh. Main issue is probably the mmo like levelling and cards for keeping damage up

There's (security) reasons why sub based products are safer than ownership based products.

For example, Plex Pass. I just pay monthly, vs spending $90 on a Plex Pass lifetime subscription. It's $3.99 a month, so a lifetime sub is almost 3 years worth.

However they have been breached and accounts get "hacked" and stolen quite often, to then sell elsewhere.

With PP monthly sub, there's no reason to "hack" the account to sell it, because the original owner can just cancel the sub and then it's a useless free account.

But if it's a PP lifetime pass, there's a huge incentive to "hack" the account and sell it on, as well as corporate incentive from Plex because then they get to sell another lifetime Pass to the victim, and make twice the revenue / profit.

The cynical part of me always wonders if these "hackers" breaching the DB and stealing all the PP Lifetime passes...are Plex themselves.

Look at EA, we know EA don't give a shit about their customers, just $$$. So makes you wonder why they spend all that money on FairFight...ahh because if they ban "hackers" they can then sell them their games over and over. Customer LTV (life time value) goes exponential vs a one time purchase.

so steam finally did a universal ui update

They hate you

am I the only person in the world that doesn't have issues with Steam, or is Newbie riddled with gremlins?

I open it to find a game, double-click that game, then close steam. What else needs to be done? It's just app that shows me my list of games that I play.

Honestly my biggest issue is that the videos in the Store always start muted.

Last edited by pirana6 (2023-06-16 09:19:33)

must be newb then. He needs to download more ram

I expect the minimum and get the minimum. I'm not saying you're wrong or any of your arguments don't hold weight, I just use the UI for one very minor thing (finding and launching games from an alphabetized list of games) and it seems to work for that.
I don't have friends, so no worries on any of that. I don't care about achievements so no worries there. I don't take screenshots, videos, or stream anywhere.
I use it as minimum as you can possibly use it, so I guess it would be surprising if Valve couldn't even muster that.

If someone uses it more than my base-level and has issues, I believe them, I just don't experience it.