Oh lmao nice

How many wishlists is that?

I think Eboshi is actually evil, but she’s charismatically evil so it comes off different.

She allows her own people to be bombed, she abandons the wounded from her caravan, and she’s effectively tricked the lepers into working to death for her. She could have given up on the forest spirit many times, but left irontown under siege so she could have a chance at killing a god.

She only cares about her people so long as they’re empowering her. She listened to Ashitaka talk balance but the minute he went to enforce it, she tried to kill him.

Every time she apologizes and says she will do better, and people forgive her, but she doesn’t actually change her ways.

I think this is why Ashitaka ultimately stays in the town - To basically keep her on the path and to her word. (I don’t recall if he literally says that)

You can report the video.

But to be blunt, I wouldn’t really worry about it. Most people don’t pirate, and trying to chase pirates down isn’t exactly going to convert them to paying customers as they’re not the type to buy it anyways.

Do frequent smallish updates to add QoL options, bugfixes, etc. (As you should be anyways) This will make the store version superior and making pirated copies obsolete and require new versions to keep up. Obviously additional Steam features are valuable here too as you don’t quite get those in alternate versions.

I’ve demoed my games at conventions and had people tell me to my face that they’re going to pirate my game. I’d offer them a free key instead and one guy said he’d prefer to pirate it, so idk some people are just extra.

I’ve seen similar. Whole two story office building’s wifi got knocked out by some big ol’ 1960s microwave.

No one could figure out why the wifi kept going down during lunch.

Hardware being changed up makes sense. Feels funky that MS would pull a bait and switch for a game project, but its hard to say if that was MS or Molyneux being funky since they both have a history.

If you’re American, yes. As far as I’ve seen, every grocery store self checkout station has some sort of camera.

Not in game dev lmao :'-(

It seems like you got your taste of social media, decided you were essentially done with it and moved on.

I am just about in the same boat, I feel social media doesn’t offer me much that I value, and so I have been looking elsewhere.

Oof.

I thought this was kind of a myth? I recall it being something like the quarter pounder was just well marketed so beat out even bigger burgers.

Yeah the other reply noted the same thing. This would have been about ~2015 and she was in pre-k so someone must have named their kid based on the legend. I can’t recall if the girl was black or not but I don’t think she was.

There’s actually somewhat of a resurgence for retro-ish games even among new gamers.

General consumers are mostly keeping up with the latest releases or updates because that’s what their friends or streamers are talking about. High fidelity adds to that but I don’t know if that’s the big draw. Especially since things like Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite seem to be the juggernauts right now.

Its just harder to create new conversations around something like Ps2 games because all the talk around them has passed.

True, though people tend to replace laptops when they fall out of support or start having hardware issues, much less often to do an upgrade looking for more frames.

I still feel Microsoft has to bring something hot to really sway anyone over since they have a long history of competing in the mobile hardware space and fumbling it hard.

Well a Windows license is just that: Here is a code for the OS, have fun. They don’t care because most support will be from hardware vendors.

Microsoft hardware is a different beast. You need to have parts for replacement, its got to be compatible (and stay compatible) with whatever accessories are coming out, and its got to be better than its competitors on new game launches. That last part takes coordination and support with dev teams.

Don’t care isn’t a great option, unless Microsoft wants another Windows Phone or Zune or one of the many other failed hardware launches they’ve had.

So it’ll be the ROG Ally but ‘better’ because its less Windows than normal. Hmm.

The last part concerns me. Why am I buying into a platform that Microsoft couldn’t care less if it sells at all because they make their money from subscriptions?

People don’t want hardware that just gets abandoned when its not profitable enough, which Microsoft absolutely has a history of doing.

Seems like everyone was all over Avowed the week it was out, then I hardly heard it mentioned at all until now.

That being said, these seem like some nice QoL features but I don’t really see this persuading many people to hop in and buy it.

This feels weirdly too late. I can’t imagine that many people in 2027 who passed on a Switch 1/2, SteamDeck, supposed other upcoming handhelds, or the ROG Ally and are looking for a gaming handheld with money to burn.

Xbox has to really bring something hot to the table, and its certainly not whatever they’ve been doing with their hardware/games/IPs for the past 5 years.

For some reason it didn’t click to me until I saw the Steam page that this game is set in the same universe as Control.