Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Sure, but that was sort of the era where everyone was just trying to make another Call of Duty, and that wasn't really where Rainbow Six shines. Have you played the campaigns in some of the old games?

Rainbow Six 3 was still fantastic.

What was it that interested you about that demo? Because it seemed even less Rainbow Six than what this is today. For the console generation they were building it for, it probably would have been devoid of tactical options or choices.

I *loved* The Outer Worlds. If you're going to pay people for positive press, why would you only get a 7/10 out of IGN?

Because even when it's supported, the people who tend to circumvent it find ways to do so on Linux, because it's less secure. They choose instead to just not deal with it rather than trying to hire or build up that expertise, which would come at a high cost for little benefit. Personally, my problems with this type of game go beyond its anti cheat support, so enabling Linux support for their anti cheat still wouldn't earn my sale anyway.

What part of it baffles you? I don't like it either, but in order for them to get the same level of security on Linux that they do on Windows, they'd have to do all kinds of work embedding their anti cheat in the kernel. I don't know if the license of the kernel even allows for that, but good luck getting Linux users to agree to knowingly installing a rootkit to play a video game.

If you like what they're putting out, I can see that, but when there's less variety coming out, some of the types of games they used to make aren't getting made, so there are going to be people with itches that aren't getting scratched like they used to.

The longer development cycle of AAA games does mean we're getting fewer of them than we used to, so the author is right that that *is* different this time around.

> Monthly active users - the amount of people playing games on the console - are up considerably, 129m to 90m, on the equivalent period of the previous console. I'm not convinced that number is the number of people playing games on the consoles but rather the number of people signed into PSN. I haven't played a game on PS4 in 5 years (and we don't have a PS5), but we use it daily to stream video services.

They lock up games under exclusivity contracts that others do not, which means you're stuck with their launcher and all of its problems or lack of features. In this case, they're the publisher, so it's a bit murkier. They've also got strong ties to Tencent, so some people are cautious of the influence of the Chinese government. For me personally, it's that they don't support Linux at all, and unlike GOG, I can't guarantee that they'll never push an update that breaks that compatibility. Seeing as my platform is unsupported, I'm not entitled to any kind of make-good, so I'm just not going to spend any money with them. I'll only play it at this point if it leaves Epic or if it's one of their free giveaways.

Thanks. My backlog is quite deep at this point, with some very long games filling it, so I don't know when I'll ever get around to this one, but that sounds good to me. I've never played anything 3rd edition before either, and I'm guessing that's where most of Pillars of Eternity's systems came from.

I understand that NWN1 really only let you control one character. Does NWN2 give you a full party to control? And is it a continuation of the story in NWN1 with the same characters, or is it just set in the same setting?