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Quoting: JesTechMaybe we'll be lucky and they'll just be under paradox arc as a little indie entity and not forced to the paradox dlc policies.

I loved TF2, but if they go the quarterly dlc route i'm just not interested.

Paradox Arc isn't guarantee of being DLC-free. Just look at what happened to [Across the Obelisk](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1385380/Across_the_Obelisk/)

Nowadays when I see anything Paradox-related, I put it in my ignore list.

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Quoting: TangoBakerWow, I think it was Galactic Empire. In my mind, it was always associated with Battlestar Galactica and I see on the Wiki page that the homeworld was named "Galactica" I've been looking for it on and off for years. Thanks. Now I've got to find a copy and see that really is it.

. . . And try to make it run.

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Considering how poorly the original Steam Controller was received, I don't blame Valve for underestimating demand. The difference now is that the success of the Steam Deck has made people more accepting of what is still a radical departure from traditional controller design.

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This was how they handled the Steam Deck, so the system existed already. I guess they really didn't expect to sell out so quickly.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThis is a great idea, and it blows my mind that they didn't do this in the first place! Also, I love the fact that you've taken the time to convert the price to local pricing... It's always nice when somebody remembers that America isn't actually the Center of the Known Universe.

Hopefully they do something like this with the Steam Frame and Steam Machine, because the hardware is already borderline outdated and if people are missing out due to a low effort release, it's going to be outdated by the time a user finally gets their hands on the hardware!

Hope they do similar for the GabeCube

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This is a great idea, and it blows my mind that they didn't do this in the first place! Also, I love the fact that you've taken the time to convert the price to local pricing... It's always nice when somebody remembers that America isn't actually the Center of the Known Universe.

Hopefully they do something like this with the Steam Frame and Steam Machine, because the hardware is already borderline outdated and if people are missing out due to a low effort release, it's going to be outdated by the time a user finally gets their hands on the hardware!

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No crap they had to do this lmao, supply<demand at the moment, so why shouldn't they?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere is a cynical side of me that says the buzz surrounding "Gizmo sales crash site, gizmo sells out in hours" is bigger than the buzz surrounding "gizmo sells this many units out of a large stockpile" even if the second number is bigger. So, what's the motivation to fix it?

Larger Gizmo sales numbers mean larger income and thus happy investors.
Costs pr value, gains hard cash value.

Yeah, but the point is, the initial sales are not all the sales. If you can get big buzz at the beginning, get more notice, that's a ton of free publicity which will help maximize sales in the only slightly longer term. Sorry, I thought that was implied by my commment.

True, but that makes it a balancing act depending on the total percentage you expect initial sales to be of your year 1 sales.
In this case the truth of your hypothesis should become pretty apparent in a short while.
If Valve catches up with demand fast(~<6months) it was calculated in otherwise it wasn't, because scaling up hardware production requires time.

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Quoting: TangoBaker

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: TangoBakerWizardry on an Apple II was pretty much my first PC game. That and the original flight simulator.

I remember some other game about a space fleet moving around a galaxy and assaulting planets where you had to decide how many resources you had to allocate for air battles and then for the ground assault, but that may just have been something someone wrote.

I think the game you're refering to is X-Com: UFO defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown.

Also I'm gonna be a frustrating nitpick.
The original flight simulator and Wizardry were also something someone wrote.

Yes, technically true, which we all know is the best kind of true. I actually meant someone in the same computer lab or who shared the same system on a regular basis. Before PCs, you would occasionally find something on the mainframe, have no idea where it came from and find it was someone's pet project.

And this was long before X-Com. It would have been '82 or '83, and was mostly text based. The disposition of your forces was presented in boxes around the screen and you could recruit from the worlds you had conquered to replace losses. Aside from that, the only other thing I remember is that there was a planet named "Alhambra" or something similar. I've searched for it for years and never found anything about it but there was a lot of stuff from back then that is essentially lost.

Wild times.
I'm way too young to have experienced that.

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Maybe we'll be lucky and they'll just be under paradox arc as a little indie entity and not forced to the paradox dlc policies.

I loved TF2, but if they go the quarterly dlc route i'm just not interested.

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Quoting: JesTechThey could have also tied serials of these controllers to steam families for the first year too, so that scalping resulted in a brick if sold.

There's loads of options to stamp out the rampant scalping, but I think companies know it's in their best interest to have their stuff be scarce for the first year if they want to make money, and this controller is priced to make money unlike some past hardware releases.

Serial number DRM and remote bricking?
HELL no. Can't imagine you were hoping for anything but outrage posting that on a Linux site, but it's certainly outrageous and needs to be condemned outright, it should be as socially unacceptable as age verification, etc.

Also, scalping doesn't make manufacturers money, unless the company is doing something VERY illegal that would be discovered very quickly.

Scalping should make manufacturers money. The shortage creates news (like this) which is a free advertisement, which plays on people's psychology... and scarcity also is a play on psychology. If you think something is rare and hard to get, you might pick it up just because you might not have a chance to later.

You did kind of miss the point of locking down the devices for a period though. I wasn't trying to say they would remotely brick the devices at all, only that unless activated on the proper steam account on a device by a user it wouldn't work, and they could remove the restriction after some amount of time, maybe 6 months to a year or something. Really not that hard to consider feasible technical options to restrict the transferability of a device like this for a short period of time until stocks are at a level where anyone can freely pick one up without scalpers ruining it like they always do with electronics releases. Instead you just don't get one for now, enjoy I guess? Can't worry about DRM if you can't even get your hands on one lol.

My hate for scalpers outweighs my desire for absolute freedom. Like most things, i'm just looking for a middleground and I can think of many technical options to do that. Scalping should be illegal imo.

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I've said that AI people have more to learn from game developers than game developers have to learn from AI people. Sounds like the relationship is at least in the correct direction.

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Quoting: KimyrielleThat "feature" was a dealbreaker for me, so I am glad to see it made optional. Not sure if I buy the game, still. I always suspected that said feature was invented only to have an excuse for making Civ VII in the first place. Without it, is it really that much different from VI?

According to Sid Meier, every Civ game is "one-third old, one-third improved, and one-third new", so if that was the "new" part, then probably not much.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere is a cynical side of me that says the buzz surrounding "Gizmo sales crash site, gizmo sells out in hours" is bigger than the buzz surrounding "gizmo sells this many units out of a large stockpile" even if the second number is bigger. So, what's the motivation to fix it?

Larger Gizmo sales numbers mean larger income and thus happy investors.
Costs pr value, gains hard cash value.

Yeah, but the point is, the initial sales are not all the sales. If you can get big buzz at the beginning, get more notice, that's a ton of free publicity which will help maximize sales in the only slightly longer term. Sorry, I thought that was implied by my commment.

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Quoting: CaldathrasSeems to me that somebody's lawyers didn't make sure that all the i's were dotted and all the t's were crossed. It will be interesting to learn the final outcome of this little drama.

Is the owner Drecom or Atari? Please keep us updated.

Drecom owns the IP and holds tbe trademark for the brand and Wizardry 6 onwards and future games.

1-5 has been entangled in legal dispute for years and Japanese buyers where more attracted to the newer games thats why the classic games (1-5) had different owners then 6-8 and the trademark/ip rights.

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In my case this d7vk still running (some titles like dark forces II crash in my case at begins but seems a wine issue)



😀

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Quoting: ocean_breezeIt's crazy to me that this wasn't how the game was structured on launch.

I would rather a developer try something new and fail than play it safe and just make the same game over and over. That said, I strongly disagree with those the think that Civ VII failed.

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Using a game sandbox as an AI study space makes a surprising amount of sense.

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Seems to me that somebody's lawyers didn't make sure that all the i's were dotted and all the t's were crossed. It will be interesting to learn the final outcome of this little drama.

Is the owner Drecom or Atari? Please keep us updated.

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Quoting: tohur

Quoting: eggroleWhen these things happen (I suspect it is only a matter of time) IMHO the only valid response is to boycott the companies restricting access. Petitions and voting new "leaders" in doesn't seem to work. Violence is always an option, but a terrible one.

Boycotting a few companies into bankrupcy sends a clear message. And given how much hemming and hawing goes on about economics and GDP, I think it is the only language these people understand. Want to restrict the internet, suffer economic losses. All of a sudden the legislature becomes much more receptive and the companies themselves will start actually pushing back because it will now be existential.

people that think voting folks out doesn't work is why we have lazy a$$ people UNWILLING to hold their representatives accountable.. those fools get paid to be in office you threaten their livelihood they will listen when enough people are threatening them

You'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, as I am writing from a Canadian perspective, but there are a lot of countries whose politics are based off the British parliamentary system, just like Canada. At least for Canada, there is no recall option. In other words, the voters can only hold their representative accountable at election time. The politicians know that voters have short memories and tend to gamble quite confidently that the voters' anger will have cooled off by the time the election rolls around. It usually does.

Other issues come up, some politically manufactured, that distract the general voting population from the offense of an individual politician. Generally, the political parties are very careful not to stir up the voters' ire close to election time. So, it is not as simple as "lazy people being unwilling to hold their representatives accountable" -- although it does happen from time to time that a constituency's memory is longer than expected.

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🤔 paradox

Purchase the "full game" on release to unlock all content!!! It's going to be so great!!! "full game" is the opening menu, where you can click on things. DLC is optionally available to unlock actual playable portions of the game. To get into settings, we have a DLC available called TRANSPORT FEVER SETTINGS which will just be a reasonable $45. To get into a new game, you must download the DLC for "play game" button on the opening menu. That DLC is available for a reasonable $87. Once you've unlocked the "play game" button, you can click on play game!!! Difficulty options are all available as one time download DLCs for reasonable prices of $9 for easy mode, $18 for medium, and $99 for hard mode.

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That "feature" was a dealbreaker for me, so I am glad to see it made optional. Not sure if I buy the game, still. I always suspected that said feature was invented only to have an excuse for making Civ VII in the first place. Without it, is it really that much different from VI?

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"we are going solo again yay!"

also

"apparently someone told me any announcement has to have ai in it? So ......... uh .......... google hey whatcha got?"

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One of the original R.U.S.E. trailers is one of my favourite game trailers. To be clear, it's not a gameplay trailer, but mixes live action & CGI. I still want a table like what's shown.
[https://youtu.be/5ohNzHWL7FI?si=9hXDYIB3Dq8knVHU](https://youtu.be/5ohNzHWL7FI?si=9hXDYIB3Dq8knVHU)

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Dumb name change. Don't know why they felt the need to do that. Also, boo AI.

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From my experience, the best time to play a Civ game is when they finish it and release the next one. So I'm waiting for Civ8 to drop and then maybe I'll buy Civ7 Complete, hopefully well polished.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: TangoBakerWizardry on an Apple II was pretty much my first PC game. That and the original flight simulator.

I remember some other game about a space fleet moving around a galaxy and assaulting planets where you had to decide how many resources you had to allocate for air battles and then for the ground assault, but that may just have been something someone wrote.

I think the game you're refering to is X-Com: UFO defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown.

Also I'm gonna be a frustrating nitpick.
The original flight simulator and Wizardry were also something someone wrote.

Sounds more like Galactic Empire or perhaps Imperium.

Wow, I think it was Galactic Empire. In my mind, it was always associated with Battlestar Galactica and I see on the Wiki page that the homeworld was named "Galactica" I've been looking for it on and off for years. Thanks. Now I've got to find a copy and see that really is it.

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I don't think it'll change many reviews.

Age Transtions comes to mind.

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I really like this game, but I've been waiting for a few updates before jumping back in. This looks like a good one.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: TangoBakerWizardry on an Apple II was pretty much my first PC game. That and the original flight simulator.

I remember some other game about a space fleet moving around a galaxy and assaulting planets where you had to decide how many resources you had to allocate for air battles and then for the ground assault, but that may just have been something someone wrote.

I think the game you're refering to is X-Com: UFO defense/UFO: Enemy Unknown.

Also I'm gonna be a frustrating nitpick.
The original flight simulator and Wizardry were also something someone wrote.

Yes, technically true, which we all know is the best kind of true. I actually meant someone in the same computer lab or who shared the same system on a regular basis. Before PCs, you would occasionally find something on the mainframe, have no idea where it came from and find it was someone's pet project.

And this was long before X-Com. It would have been '82 or '83, and was mostly text based. The disposition of your forces was presented in boxes around the screen and you could recruit from the worlds you had conquered to replace losses. Aside from that, the only other thing I remember is that there was a planet named "Alhambra" or something similar. I've searched for it for years and never found anything about it but there was a lot of stuff from back then that is essentially lost.

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