Payday 3 has online only lobbies. On launch nobody could play for weeks because they were entirely overrun. Truly a baffling decision after the steam deck launch, probably made because they had some deal with their server provider. All while also competing with payday 2.
Just checked and payday 2 is sitting at 20k current players while 3 is still <300.
For comparison helldivers launched several months later, also had always online with launch server capacity issues, at a much higher scale, and fixed them within a week. That’s with Sony resources backing them, but still. Payday was out for weeks before it was playable for most.
Just checked for laughs and helldivers 1 has more players than payday 3 right now.
Yeah the rubber fell off of one side immediately. And opening it up to try and fix it was a hassle. From the article activist shareholders forced them to work towards right to repair, but if they don’t switch to Hall effect sensors it’s really just forced to repair. Potentiometer controllers have a forced shelf life, and controller manufacturers are fine with that. Now they’re just making money selling the parts too.
I've seen lecture halls larger than this. (lemmy.world) angielski
Baldur's Gate 3 "feels so alive" because it used mo-cap and 248 actors to bring its characters to life (www.eurogamer.net) angielski
Microsoft keeps pushing toward repairability, now with Xbox controller parts (arstechnica.com)