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

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I don't get the point with AI. What wants Google to achieve with this training/evaluation? How to create roboters that can explore real worlds later? Or do they want to create huge AI generated image worlds that are persistent? I do not understand these marketing speech quotes.

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I'm not entirely sure which version it was released in, but I'm excited for the recent improvements they made for older GPUs. More specifically, I have a Hawaii GPU, and there have been a lot of improvements for hangs, faults (both would manifest as stutter, latency), and reintroduce SPARSE support behind a RADV_PERFTEST flag. This will allow me to play Halo Infinite with my R9 Fury again :)

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Funnily enough, I'm tempted by this bundle - not especially for the headliners - but for the other titles.

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I hate when humble has non steam keys (or gog), but Diablo IV was too much to pass by. It was easy to get battlenet and game running, but OMG so many adds for expansions and cosmetics in both launcher and game.

Also I saw some PC Gamer articles putting Shin Megami Tensei above the persona series, and that for the bundle price that game makes it worth alone by itself. Which is interesting since I never had heard of it before.

Very interested in HoWII and very surprised to see Cubic Odyssey there already. The last one is one I fully enjoyed playing the demo two steam next fests ago: not quite No Man Sky, not quite Minecraft, but scratches the itch.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeDamn. It really feels like we're walking backward at neckbreaking speed. It was not too long ago that Europe was seen as a bastion of freedom against a handful of totalitarian countries, and now, we're full steam ahead toward the destruction of freedom of speech and access to public resources everywhere.

It's heartbreaking. If we let even a handful of countries finalize their implementation of all this mess, it'll only serve either as an incentive for other to follow tracks, or even worse, as a justification to do so.

Hopefully we can stop this. I can't do much for what's happening in the UK, but all this already made me more aware of the options we have as EU citizen, even if they're quite… limited. Petitions and all that jazz.

Still, it's very worrying.

The scary part is that you're wrong and Europe 's bastion of freedomness's only increasing.
Europe suffers from some democratic backsliding for certain, but partly thanks to people like you it's less fast and somewhat corrected compared to most other places, which are in general experiencing even worse democratic backsliding.

While the English are certainly suffering some grimm times, it's nothing compared that other self proclaimed bastion of freedom the USA.
Also the Polish are slowly working their way up from a broken rule of law.
The Hungarians at least have a chance, since the last election.
The Spanish are slowly weeding out corruption.
In Italy a constitutional power grab got stopped by referendum.

That having said not everything is hunky dorky on the continent:
The EU is propping up a Serbian dictator, because of a desire for silicon.
The dsa is being weaponized to force age verification although limited by the EU's own data minimization laws.
The Danish really want to install backdoors on everybody's phones. Luckily the Eu pushes them back.
Russia is running a tech crackdown.

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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.

Sounds more like Galactic Empire or perhaps Imperium.

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Eve Online. Why does it ache every single time? I was just over it an then... sigh.
Just a peek can´t hurt... just a single one. Installing...

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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.

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Wizardry 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.

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Quoting: elmapul

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

it might not do then extra money, but unless they are losing money to get marketshare on each unity sold (as consoles usually do) it will make then money, just not at scalped prices.

Ooh, this makes me think of a scalper scamming business model.
Overproduce your product in the premiere, don't publish stock numbers and enable scalping.
Maybe also add an every x items sold temporary "out of stock warning".
The scalpers will buy up unreasonably large shares of your stock and after that you will still either be competing with said scalpers or have sold more items than you could to your customers and the scalpers will have surplus stock.

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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.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI saw someone claim on X that Valve has 20,000 Steam Machines, considering they sold Millions of Steam Decks, that's going to sell out so fast, it'll be the Steam Controller all over again.

Valve also pays modern RAM prices.
I don't think they can sell equivalent numbers to the Steam Deck.

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Yippee... gone from day one purchase and getting sensible DLC or proper expansion on later date... to... now can sit in wish list for a while and observer how "partnership" develops over year or few.

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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

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