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Can we get this ported over to RL?

That's a coold mod though. Unique case mods are always interesting.

Good games on super deep discount—$2 or less—because their replayability is nonexistent. Like, you can replay them to re-experience the atmosphere, but you have no in-game incentive to do so. Even the secrets are easy to find, and at most will net you a second playthrough.

This is what's keeping me afloat while America tanks its own economy

Well, it requires one because the producer said so, not because the game can't function otherwise. That's what makes it half-correct. Having the "server" locally hosted on your device would fix it, but they just let it die without allowing those who purchased the game to be capable of playing it. That's the big push behind this movement, not online only multiplayer games. Everyone knows those die eventually.

This. I'd be fine with the new price points if they weren't so antagonistic to their customers (myself included). Steam deck wins me over the switch 2. can play literally any previous game? Sign me up!

Not a new low, it's an old low applied in new ways.

This one's gonna get pitchforky.

SWOTL.EXE

Can this business model survive a recession?

IIRC Witcher 2 used eON which is also some sort of translation mechanism. But yeah, native port is not a guarantee of stability. Wine/Proton is a guarantee that you’ll be losing performance on overhead due to those being a reverse engineered reimplementation of Windows libraries. It can be mitigated due to Linux being more performant and/or less bloated with adware. Regardless of all of this, we should be making comparisons to as-is performance because that’s what ultimately matters to end consumer.

Unfortunately, I'm ineligible to sign. But yeah, it's incredibly dumb that you have to claim you're a Steam Deck to be able to play if your internet drops or whatever.

Also the free cupholder era.

I mean, any person that tries to learn history from video games or movies alone is pretty dumb. In order for it to be entertaining, artistic liberties often need to be taken which usuaally means the final product is not historically accurate. The thing with Assassin's Creed games is that where history was involved, in the past they tried to be as accurate to real life as possible. The layouts of cities, the appearance and roles of real historic characters, etc. In more recent years they have tossed that out the window, but historic accuracy on elements not related to the assassin storyline was something Assassin's Creed prided itself on. Even still, most only have a single text screen at the very beginning that just says "this is a work of fiction." I don't know that I would call that emphasis, but it is present. I also haven't tried this mod myself, but I don't see that it would be portraying itself as real events unless it says "this is based on real events." I have always assumed that video games are a work of fiction, even if they are based on real events. If I wanted to learn more about the real events, I would do research on my own. I suppose at the end of the day more context is needed. Did Valve contact the mod author prior to takedown to request a change in the mod description to add a "work of fiction" tag and the author refused? If Valve just straight up removed it without even contacting the author, I think that is not good. I am concerned that censorship might become greater with this action. What other governments will say to Valve "remove X or Y game/mod because it is offensive or portrays real life characters or events improperly?" Ideally none, but still. I don't exactly agree with the context of this mod and entirely understand why it would be offensive, but at the same time I think that a mod author or game developer should be free to create whatever they want, without fear of censorship removing their work.

The magic word is *prorated.* If getting 99% of the way to something comes out to 0% of the payoff, that's fraud waiting to happen. A promise unfulfilled.

Pretty much - they're lying it would introduce huge production costs, because *most people who'd repeat this argument wouldn't know they're being lied to.*