Hinterland Studio has released another free upgrade to their game The Long Dark, this time focusing on the survival mode. Lots of other plans have also been outlined for the game in 2022, including the studio setting up a team focused on modding.
Some bigger changes have been announced too, such as paid updates to the game to make the big updates more sustainable for their studio and there's talk of splitting the game up between story and survival. That doesn't mean they will sell them separately and the change might be invisible to players and more about how they structure the development of it.
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I put a couple hours into the story mode of this game but I found that the lack of resources, difficulty hunting and a few other things made it cross over from "challenging" to "not fun/tedious" for me. I normally love open world survival games like this and I want to like this one but...I just couldn't get excited about it once I actually started playing; I certainly went into it with a lot of excitement due mostly to their outstanding trailer. Maybe I should give Survival Mode a shot? Or is this one of those games where the whole point is it's brutal difficulty?
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Full kudo's to Hinterland here. They committed to maintaining the game at GOG, in spite of the fact that they no longer sell it on GOG. I got the V1.98 release from GOG today!
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I just found out about this dev's anti-consumer practices which made me lose all interest in this game
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I just found out about this dev's anti-consumer practices which made me lose all interest in this game
Are you referring to the fact that GeForce Now put Hinterland's game up on their platform without a written agreement? I guess, technically, you can say it's "anti-consumer". But Nvidia were in the wrong here, not Hinterland. This would be like Netflix just putting a Disney film on their service and then people getting mad at Disney when they pull it. Sure, get mad, I guess, but this is how consumerism works, obviously.
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I just found out about this dev's anti-consumer practices which made me lose all interest in this game
Are you referring to the fact that GeForce Now put Hinterland's game up on their platform without a written agreement? I guess, technically, you can say it's "anti-consumer". But Nvidia were in the wrong here, not Hinterland. This would be like Netflix just putting a Disney film on their service and then people getting mad at Disney when they pull it. Sure, get mad, I guess, but this is how consumerism works, obviously.
How were Nvidia in the wrong here, though?
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I just found out about this dev's anti-consumer practices which made me lose all interest in this game
Are you referring to the fact that GeForce Now put Hinterland's game up on their platform without a written agreement? I guess, technically, you can say it's "anti-consumer". But Nvidia were in the wrong here, not Hinterland. This would be like Netflix just putting a Disney film on their service and then people getting mad at Disney when they pull it. Sure, get mad, I guess, but this is how consumerism works, obviously.
How were Nvidia in the wrong here, though?
How weren't they? They didn't have permission.
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I just found out about this dev's anti-consumer practices which made me lose all interest in this game
Are you referring to the fact that GeForce Now put Hinterland's game up on their platform without a written agreement? I guess, technically, you can say it's "anti-consumer". But Nvidia were in the wrong here, not Hinterland. This would be like Netflix just putting a Disney film on their service and then people getting mad at Disney when they pull it. Sure, get mad, I guess, but this is how consumerism works, obviously.
How were Nvidia in the wrong here, though?
How weren't they? They didn't have permission.
Yeah, the grey area here is that GeForce Now don't sell you games. They link through to your Steam, GoG or Epic accounts and then you can play those games via their service. But the problem with this is that the experience is therefore linked to GeForce Now - if they offer a terrible experience, that reflects on the game being played, and since the developers didn't even know it was happening, you potentially get this weird situation where bugs are being reported for a platform that neither the developer, nor the player can affect.
It's utterly baffling that Nvidia didn't ask permission for this up front. Just... baffling.
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I just found out about this dev's anti-consumer practices which made me lose all interest in this game
Are you referring to the fact that GeForce Now put Hinterland's game up on their platform without a written agreement? I guess, technically, you can say it's "anti-consumer". But Nvidia were in the wrong here, not Hinterland. This would be like Netflix just putting a Disney film on their service and then people getting mad at Disney when they pull it. Sure, get mad, I guess, but this is how consumerism works, obviously.
How were Nvidia in the wrong here, though?
How weren't they? They didn't have permission.
Permission for what? It's none of the devs business where I play my game. I could launch it here on my desktop PC and stream it via Remote Play to my old Laptop.
It's the same exact thing with Geforce Now. I launch MY GAME from MY ACCOUNT, just on a remote PC.
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I just found out about this dev's anti-consumer practices which made me lose all interest in this game
Are you referring to the fact that GeForce Now put Hinterland's game up on their platform without a written agreement? I guess, technically, you can say it's "anti-consumer". But Nvidia were in the wrong here, not Hinterland. This would be like Netflix just putting a Disney film on their service and then people getting mad at Disney when they pull it. Sure, get mad, I guess, but this is how consumerism works, obviously.
How were Nvidia in the wrong here, though?
How weren't they? They didn't have permission.
Permission for what? It's none of the devs business where I play my game. I could launch it here on my desktop PC and stream it via Remote Play to my old Laptop.
It's the same exact thing with Geforce Now. I launch MY GAME from MY ACCOUNT, just on a remote PC.
A remote PC you own. Via a service (Steam) that the developer has granted rights to distribution for. Neither is true of GeForce Now.
If you can't see that, you're being obstinate. And I get it. I'm not arguing that the consumer loses out here. But if you truly can't see why Nvidia is in the wrong here, you're just not being realistic.
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I just found out about this dev's anti-consumer practices which made me lose all interest in this game
Are you referring to the fact that GeForce Now put Hinterland's game up on their platform without a written agreement? I guess, technically, you can say it's "anti-consumer". But Nvidia were in the wrong here, not Hinterland. This would be like Netflix just putting a Disney film on their service and then people getting mad at Disney when they pull it. Sure, get mad, I guess, but this is how consumerism works, obviously.
How were Nvidia in the wrong here, though?
How weren't they? They didn't have permission.
Permission for what? It's none of the devs business where I play my game. I could launch it here on my desktop PC and stream it via Remote Play to my old Laptop.
It's the same exact thing with Geforce Now. I launch MY GAME from MY ACCOUNT, just on a remote PC.
A remote PC you own. Via a service (Steam) that the developer has granted rights to distribution for. Neither is true of GeForce Now.
If you can't see that, you're being obstinate. And I get it. I'm not arguing that the consumer loses out here. But if you truly can't see why Nvidia is in the wrong here, you're just not being realistic.
What difference does it make? You're just telling me that I'm not being realistic without explaining what the difference is. What does it matter that I own the PC or not?
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I think I've explained the position pretty well here. As I say, if you can't understand this, you either don't understand the industry issues (such as redistribution rights, copyright, etc), or you're being deliberately obstinate because you feel your "rights" are being infringed, or some such.
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I think I've explained the position pretty well here. As I say, if you can't understand this, you either don't understand the industry issues (such as redistribution rights, copyright, etc), or you're being deliberately obstinate because you feel your "rights" are being infringed, or some such.
You compared it to
This would be like Netflix just putting a Disney film on their service and then people getting mad at Disney when they pull it. Sure, get mad, I guess, but this is how consumerism works, obviously.
Nvidia didn't redistribute anything. They didn't put anything on their "platform" (what platform?) and they didn't violate any copyright.
You can a PC, just like Shadow, and you run your own software on it.
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