Any and all time I hear of this 'game', I can't help but think that it is a scam. It is perhaps the most decorated and sugar-coated of scams to ever exist. Simply because they're saying 'yeah you can kindof play it' and that alone, is their cover-all excuse. It wasn't too long ago that they invested in some very expensive office and they proclaimed that they needed it to help further development or whatever bullshit reason they stated it was for.
But yeah they can just do whatever they want and fools will still throw down their money, even though they probably will almost never know where all of it will go to. I won't be surprised if some of the money is making one guy rich. I wouldn't be surprised if the money is used to funnel some political campaign. Something. We won't ever know, but because this project is technically playable, they just throw up their arms being like "what? it's still developing! we just need more time and money!".
It is projects like Star Citizen, that has made me have an extremely soured perspective with early access projects. One other game that came to mind was 7 Days to Die, I remember getting that through Humble Monthly. At that time, the game was like 5 years in development and was still in the alpha stages.
It went through numerous changes, both unnecessary and unneeded while progressing. But the years kept piling up. I think it is now fully released but it still doesn't look 100%. It just lacked what direction it really wanted to go and even then I thought that project was grifting people who bothered supporting it.
Me having spent zero dollars on this. Only interaction ever was installing that hangar thing back when it was the only thing. Maybe there was some demo when the space station first became available and some fps gameplay test.
Still looking forward to it. If the story is good, works on Linux, I’ll buy it. I remember a decade ago being worried the Haswell and Maxwell PC I was putting together wouldn’t be good enough when Star Citizen would drop. Not very concerned anymore
Star Citizen works well on Linux via a community-maintained tool called LUG. Getting other fancy peripherals like head tracking requires some creative use of a Windows VM, because those peripheral makers don’t support Linux. If Squadron 42 ever actually materializes, then the community will have it covered.
I actually use Macs as desktop/laptop at home, Linux for servers at home, and Windows at work. And each of those is the best choice for that particular task IMO. I do have the option of a Mac at work but Office is so much better on Windows that I stick to Windows and just install it with Rufus and StartAllBack to make it good. I did buy a little Surface Go to use on planes and in meetings for note taking with my own money, though.
Yeah it all depends on your use case. For me at home, I manage my music and photos on mac, and managing my smarthome servers on linux. Mac is good for that. Office at work, Windows is good for that. Linux is the only good choice for servers IMO.
I think what device work makes you use isn’t too important since they provide the hardware and nothing on it is private anyways regardless of the OS that is being used on it.
Work and private devices are different, since one of them is for you and not some company.
Since I’m getting down voted I have rewritten this comment for clarity.
I first heard of this game when it was being advertised on GOG as being “Banned by Steam”
Since it was only five dollars I bought it thinking Mastercard and Visa were up to their old shit again.
Later I found Steam banned it because they mistook a placeholder graphic for CSAM and had strict no second chances policies about that.
So now I am asking why did Epic ban it? Because now I’m worried I was hustled into buying kiddie porn by GOG disguising it as an anti-censorship protest.
He cites a lot of Immersive Sim level design, Minecraft does not have that sort of detail; it merely provides a block-by-block construction system with some rudimentary decoration, it’s not gonna achieve his design requirement.
That is some very black or white, us or them, red team vs blue team thinking. It’s very interesting that you immediately jump to that conclusion when I am not even from the US at all. The answer to your question is absolutely not, and the fact that it’s a “world economy” doesn’t and shouldn’t mean any people are obligated to do business with and accept the controlling interest of literal monsters fueled by oil and oil money. Ethics must also be allowed to control the economy, not just money. The world’s financial systems have consequences beyond just the economy.
I don’t want them to buy it. But there isn’t anything illegal with investors purchasing a company line this no matter where they are from. It’s just business, it really doesn’t matter who owns them, they suck no matter what
I think its more there is a certain level of baseline public investment in most corporations and it seems dumb to maintain the fiction that people’s livelihoods should be sold as a commodity, especially to a bunch of despots
I’d think we’d be far more concerned about critical resource companies before we got to worrying about gaming companies, but we can’t even do that so I’m not surprised.
You seem to be under some misconception regarding who actually writes our laws. Hint: they’re called lobbyists to get people to ignore the rampant bribery.
And what Valve will get themselves in again if they do not price this right.
Consoles are essentially time-based luxuries because the hardware and technology can be obsolete within 1 - 2 years at a given. That's why consoles remodel themselves after awhile to extend their life.
Valve seems to want to give people an alternative to prebuilt machines on the market. But, if they can't price right where it'll make someone think "I can build a better PC than that" or "I can find a better prebuilt than that" then the Steam Machine was a waste of everyone's time and labor.
My short review as I’ve been playing campaign for 8h so far: If you liked Anno 1800, no need to hesitate, game is super fun and more polished than 1800 was at launch 😍
That’s a good question, but for me Anno (even before 117) has been a very single player focused experience, so I don’t know the answer. Maybe someone else can chip in there
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