There are many ways to motivate corporations to do R&D outside of offering them a monopoly on a silver platter
The main alternative is offering them a subsidy on a silver platter, but then you’re making everyone pay for that R&D, not just the customers who want whatever that product is, and there’s no protection against IP theft unless the government owns and enforces the patents or something abroad.
I personally prefer the IP law approach, but I think it needs significant reforms, both in duration and the approval process.
I agree IP law is messed up, but that doesn’t mean the idea doesn’t have merit.
Having a temporary, legal monopoly on something that requires a lot of R&D and not much production cost (say, a novel or new kind of asphalt) allows the creator to make back their R&D costs before competitors come out with cheaper alternatives. Without that protection, companies would be less likely to invest in R&D.
We need shorter durations and more scrutiny on scope. Also, patents should generally not apply to software.
I’m stoked! I watched a gameplay review by someone I trust, and they were super excited, so I’m genuinely excited as well.
The one thing that worries me is they weren’t allowed to show anything after 1500 or so. This could be because the game isn’t fleshed out after that time, or that they want players to experience it themselves. I really hope it’s the latter.
Regardless, it looks like a fresh take on the EU franchise. I’m sure there will be ways to cheese the new game, but it looks like they fundamentally changes a lot of the systems that used to be abused.
I’m probably not getting it day 1, but I might get it close to release. I usually wait for the first DLC before jumping in for Paradox games, but this might be an exception.
Yeah, that’s just racist in the other direction. You could read the article where it gives some examples and the part where Schmidt-Hori met some of them on video.
Can confirm, I have Asian friends and they can say some pretty spicy things about their neighboring countries. Of course, if they actually meet someone from that country they’ll call them an exception.
Honestly, that’s most racist people. As soon as they actually meet the target of their vitriol, they’ll usually fold. Just make sure they’re alone and not with their racist buddies.
My SO did translation as a contractor for a little while, and that’s what they did too. Run it through a translator, and fix whatever it messes up. A lot of the output is totally fine, but not all of it, so you need someone experienced with both languages to make sure the result is good.
This sounds a little like the AC formula. In those games, I don’t really feel like I’m in the animus, so I think direct control over the hero should be thrown out, otherwise the bits where you’re not controlling the hero will feel out of place.
Inscryption is a very different game and I certainly felt more trapped, especially in the first third of the game. In that one, there’s an ever present reminder that you’re trapped, and there’s interesting stuff to so outside the main gameplay loop.
So you need to play as the princess and make interaction with things other than the hero fun, but not so fun that you don’t want to be rescued. I think you also need some kind of peril to give urgency as well. Some ideas:
elements from Prey - hide from your captor when helping your hero
puzzles and whatnot in your prison
periodic checkins - i.e. need to be in certain places at certain world times