And that's why devs should have ZERO choice in whether or not EAC is enabled on all platforms.

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Good riddance. Yet another dead product that (almost) nobody asked for, and that got hyped as the future of all things when it clearly wasn't.

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To be fair, as awesome as the game otherwise might be, I expect to be able to play -any- PC game at least reasonably well with mouse/KB. I wouldn't have appreciated having bought the game only to find out I can't really play it. While I bought a Steam Controller for giggles back then, I am still utterly not used to this kind of device and couldn't seriously play with one.

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Quotebecause EA are apparently terribly at naming.

Looking at Origin, they are terrible at coding too. Knowing EA, that stuff won't even run properly on Windows...

Personally, it won't affect me too much, as I have no interest in EA's games other than the Sims, which really has no need for anti-cheat. But I don't like the trend to apply band-aid solutions to cheating issues instead of designing the game to be cheat-resistant from the get-go. Particularly not when said band-aid solutions behave just like malware....

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Let's see where this goes, but I am not too worried. If the worst case happens and that company gets taken over by big-evil-business, I am very confident that Godot will get forked by a new dev team and live happily ever after. It happened after OpenOffice got taken over by big-evil-business, too. The good thing about open source is that it's fairly immune against hostile takeovers.

In the best case, this could be a positive game-changer for Godot. While not everything the team will be working on will get upstreamed to Godot, I am sure that a lot of it will.

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Launchers are one of the biggest diseases to plague gaming next to lootboxes and NFTs. I have never, ever understood their purpose and never will. All they do is adding another unnecessary screen people have to click through and another source of potential problems. Other than that they do exactly nothing the game application couldn't do just as well from inside, while it's running.

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Great to hear that they're still updating this game. I really hope they will one day give it a performance overhaul, though. The game gets really laggy when a city grows, even without a lot of user-made content installed.
The other thing I am still hoping for is American-style roads/signs. Our roads look fairly different from the European style used in the game, and it would be nice being able to build cities that actually resemble the ones I am used to. There have been mods doing that in the past, but the devs had a knack for breaking them time and again, so official support for that would be great.

Other than that, yes, support for pedestrian zones is great. I am going to buy that DLC, for sure.

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It's generally a disturbing development when a handful of super-large corporations unilaterally decide what we can see, post or access on the internet. These people are deciding on content rules in some conference rooms that affect us all, without having any democratic legitimization to do that. Deciding what content or service is illegal is the elected government's job, not Google's, Meta's or Apple's. It's about high-time to pass legislation that services cannot deny or limit user access to any information or service that's legal in the user's jurisdiction.

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Quoting: EikeThe preview image is chosen so well... :D

A Ferenghi would have been even more fitting, though.

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Quoting: ValckEDITed after jumping over to read the actual FAQ:

QuoteThroughout the development of our products we will be open sourcing as much as we can, including additions to Godot that strengthen the engine.

And there you have it... "as much as we can", as opposed to "everything because we have to". Marketing speech and business as usual.

Well, if they work on proprietary stuff to allow games to run on consoles, they simply CAN'T upstream -everything- just...as much as they can?

Not sure if you read evil intent into their words when there isn't any? At least I don't think they are going to last in this business for very long if they build a reputation for exploiting the open source engine their business is based on, without giving back.

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