High seas is still the best way to experience these games!

What incentivizes you to pay money for early access games? Wouldn’t you rather wait until it’s done and have a better experience?

Do I pay full price for games before they are available to play and are most likely not going to be finished upon release? No.

Preordering anything with no real or artificial scarcity doesn’t really make financial sense. It’s a predatory sales tactic to get people to part with their money sooner, in this case before customers have a chance to use software that is pretty much unreturnable. Gaming publishers love digital preorders because some customers end up paying full price for games they don’t even like and can’t even resell.

Sadly, for at least the last ten years or more, most non-online games are best played a few years after release date when they’ve had their bugs fixed or their ‘complete edition’ released.

The video is okay, but without knowing the resolution or graphical concessions made, we don’t really have a good idea of how it looks.

I really want it to look and run great! Let’s wait and see.

I think that was certainly true ten years ago. But now? I honestly don’t know what to make of Nintendo anymore. They have been so DMCA heavy against customers in recent years that I don’t trust them to do anything right. They feel customer hostile.

I guess I can’t discuss Taylor Swift’s 1989 album while playing Rivals.

Most countries in the world suffer from deeply entrenched misogyny.

This soft grip from Skull & Co. because it lets the deck stand up on its own.

https://skullnco.com/collections/steam-deck/products/gripcase-sd-for-steamdeck?variant=45605322948900

I think she means it will be unpopular, unknown, or not relevant. I am a gamer with a Steam Deck and I had no idea what the Index was or that it even existed until just now when you mentioned it here.

I completely agree with his view on this. The literal ‘shattered world’ is overdone and not usually the best way to convey a shattering mind.

To extend the topic in a slightly different direction: I am incredibly annoyed at pretty much all ‘floating islands’ in games where there is a chunk (or chunks) of land floating in front of a backdrop because the dev couldn’t be arsed to make the rest of the damn landscape. I call them “floating in space” games. There are tons of games at do this.

If your game has a good narrative reason for floating islands, or is a strategy or puzzle game that’s played on a board, that’s totally fine, but if there isn’t a good reason for the land to be lacking a completed landscape and is just floating there, I will skip over purchasing or playing those games.

Does the UK have anti-smoking or anti-vaping campaigns, or did they ever? That seems like a lot of people are vaping.

While this is slightly off topic, they do, and clothes made with recycled plastic contain even higher levels of BPA and BPS than clothes of virgin plastic. Some-to-most bisphenols are removed after washing (BPS more than BPA) but they still either go into the wastewater stream or get absorbed through the skin when wearing.

Between microplastic shedding, bisphenol leakage, and general cross-contamination, most recycled plastics are just more toxic versions of virgin plastics.

It looks great. It’s a shame that it’s free-to-start and full of microtransactions.