I'm not really sure what you think is gained by treating the hard work of talented coders as "weak" or "a side project". Small teams *dream* of making something like HK. These are hall-of-fame level devs that will be remembered for ages. They deserve more respect than that.

Are you suggesting that's not part of game development?

My new hobby will be talking about factual things as if they are uncertain.

Didn't you hear? Artists have been obsoleted by AI, so we don't have to treat them as humans anymore.

Not that obvious. I didn't know what Silksong was until around 80 minutes ago.

From what I hear, that applies equally to coders.

Publishers would still have to distribute authentication keys directly, no? That would cause the same problem here.

I didn't say it was obvious, only that it was factual. There was no doubt what the term was referring to once you learn the context.

Isnt that part of making a game, not of developing a game?

Bought it. Found no easy mode for a dumbass like me. Refunded. Not Team Cherry's fault. Looked like a great game, but unfortunately not for me. I really wished they added some easy mode, but it's their decision.

"Easy mode" aka "game journalist mode"

Another win for GOG? DRM free and their servers didn't crash. Although it is sad to see that people don't buy enough from GOG for them to crash.. I guess people like their DRM.

Same price as steam for me so it does have regional pricing, but maybe not in every country

Isn't that part of being a jackass online, not using your brain?

Development is more than writing code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development

I thought software development and developing meant different things

Technicallly, they only need 177(countries w/internet) 3(triangulation) × (≈531) superseeders to kickstart the main files, and deliver decryption keys between the 3 triangulators.

Wtf is the difference between making and developing a game???

do you play every game in easy mode? No judging you, just curious. I do not play every game in hardest difficulty, but I do play above normal difficulty

If the services weren't preparing for absurd traffic for this game, they were downright negligent.