Quoting: gileriI was surprised to not see Liberapay in the donation options, and sure enough, your account seems disabled there.

Is there a reason for not accepting donations there anymore ? Fees are lower, also there is no VAT. I'd love to be able to support GoL though Liberapay if that's an option for you.

Suspect Liam will remember more clearly than I, but I think the problem was that LibrePay was largely anonymous, so there no way to assign attribution. So people were paying, but it was impossible to offer benefits like the "Supporter" tag here on the website, or on the Discord.

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Quoting: M@GOidFingers crossed it will come too late to be included in Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. I had nothing against new things, but in my past experience, big new versions of KDE are to buggy to be used on a production system, and the last thing a LTS release needs is bleeding edge software.

Conversely, if they don't put Plasma 6 into the LTS, the "desirability" of that LTS decreases significantly outside of hard production environments. Also, the older environment becomes a chain around the Kubuntu team's neck as they're still putting out fires on Plasma 5 five years after everyone has jumped onto Plasma 6 (or seven, by the end of that LTS's life).

I'm on the Kubuntu right now and if there isn't a simple way to get Plasma 6 on there, I'll be jumping distro. Again. Argh!!

Outside of hard production environments there is not much reason to use fixed release distributions anyway. LTS are made specifically for long term productions. If you want new stuff, hop on a rolling distribution.

I use LTS, with PPAs for updates because I don't want to update my OS every 8 months. Works pretty well. Rolling distos are pretty cool for new stuff, but you get reams of updates every day which is a bit tedious. Also, when large upgrades happen, such as the move from one version of python to another, you often get breakage which is a pain to handle in rolling distros.

Honestly, I haven't found the "perfect" model yet.

Manjaro gets updates every few weeks, which is totally not tedious.

You know, as I replied earlier, I actually thought of Manjaro. But the dev team behind that distro has faced a few controversies in the past. Then, on the two occasions I tried it anyway, I ran into heaps of little issues. It was death by papercut. It obviously works for a heap of folk, given that it's the third-most popular distro on the GOL stats. But it's not for me.

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Quoting: M@GOidFingers crossed it will come too late to be included in Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. I had nothing against new things, but in my past experience, big new versions of KDE are to buggy to be used on a production system, and the last thing a LTS release needs is bleeding edge software.

Conversely, if they don't put Plasma 6 into the LTS, the "desirability" of that LTS decreases significantly outside of hard production environments. Also, the older environment becomes a chain around the Kubuntu team's neck as they're still putting out fires on Plasma 5 five years after everyone has jumped onto Plasma 6 (or seven, by the end of that LTS's life).

I'm on the Kubuntu right now and if there isn't a simple way to get Plasma 6 on there, I'll be jumping distro. Again. Argh!!

Outside of hard production environments there is not much reason to use fixed release distributions anyway. LTS are made specifically for long term productions. If you want new stuff, hop on a rolling distribution.

I use LTS, with PPAs for updates because I don't want to update my OS every 8 months. Works pretty well. Rolling distos are pretty cool for new stuff, but you get reams of updates every day which is a bit tedious. Also, when large upgrades happen, such as the move from one version of python to another, you often get breakage which is a pain to handle in rolling distros.

Honestly, I haven't found the "perfect" model yet.

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Quoting: soulsourceOh, come on...
They are releasing new DLC faster than I can finish my playthroughs.

(That said: Wishlisted.)

Pfff, that's because a typical playthrough is about 6-8 months!

Genuinely, I spent 40 hours in Stellaris, one game. And the end wasn't even in sight. I was at war with two factions, but strong enough to defend my "borders", was diplomatically aligned with one medium sized alien race, and was still expanding into unknown space at the bottom of my map.

One game. I played one single game of Stellaris.

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Quoting: JarmerI guess I call it scam because you're paying full price for a game that is not complete.

This wasn't additional content developed later on and released because of fan popularity or extending the game etc...

If I pay full price for a brand new car, I expect to show up and be able to drive off. I don't expect that it'll only have 3 wheels and I will be extorted for a 4th wheel for extra money. (maybe the car dealership thing is a bad example here because theyre infamous for all kinds of scummy behavior lol - but you get my point!)

I get your point but don't agree with it. Your car analogy in this case is buying a car that doesn't have all the extras - you'll pay more for a heated steering wheel, alloys, etc. The word "scam" implies dishonesty, but there's nothing dishonest about paying for a better product. That's just capitalism.

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Quoting: M@GOidFingers crossed it will come too late to be included in Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. I had nothing against new things, but in my past experience, big new versions of KDE are to buggy to be used on a production system, and the last thing a LTS release needs is bleeding edge software.

Conversely, if they don't put Plasma 6 into the LTS, the "desirability" of that LTS decreases significantly outside of hard production environments. Also, the older environment becomes a chain around the Kubuntu team's neck as they're still putting out fires on Plasma 5 five years after everyone has jumped onto Plasma 6 (or seven, by the end of that LTS's life).

I'm on the Kubuntu right now and if there isn't a simple way to get Plasma 6 on there, I'll be jumping distro. Again. Argh!!

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Watching Josh's talk there makes me realise just how little I know about the magic that makes the pretty images appear in my games. <sigh>

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Quoting: JarmerSorry, but nope: day 1 dlc included a $8 in-game character. Which of course means it was developed as part of the game pre-release and then they chopped it out and tried charging extra for it on day 1. That's predatory, and a blatant scam.

This is interesting, as it made me realise that I don't think of Paradox as owning Lamplighter. While I've been defending the Paradox DLC model, I despise day 1 DLC and yep, I agree it's both undesirable and pretty predatory, not a great look at all. It's not a scam - dunno what you makes you think that? Where's the scam in this?

The only defence for Paradox here, I think, is that this isn't normal for them as far as I know. When I'm defending their DLC model, it's because it extends a favoured franchise long after the initial launch, and does so in ways that you can choose which expansion is the best fit for you.

I think of it like buying the D&D ruleset (the base game), then buying campaign modules afterwards (the DLC). I love this model, as it gives the customer freedom to tailor what they get out of their initial purchase. I think most of the criticism about it derives from the mindset that you HAVE TO BUY ALL THE DLC. MUST... BUY... IT ALL! Obviously, that's not realistic or feasible (unless you're rich and/or have hundreds of hours to spend in the same game). I suppose Paradox would love it if all their customers did, but given that they typically release around 3 expansions a year, that's extremely unlikely.

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Quoting: anewsonI also find their DLC system a turnoff. In CK2, for example, you just don't feel you're playing the full game unless you buy a bunch of DLC. Charging 5$/month or a 280$ for access to the full version of your game is a bit rich for a single-player game.

Christ dude - CK2 is over a decade old. It's AMAZING that you can still pick and chose how to play the game today. It's ridiculous to think you need to pay £110+ to buy ALL the dlc for this now-free game. Yes, it would be nice if they wrapped a couple of these older items into the base game. Yes, it would be nice if Steam made DLC clearer when there's overlap (many of the "expansion" DLC for CK2 are now in bundles called "collections", but with such an old game and so many expansions, good luck figuring it all out).

But it must still be selling, I suppose, despite the success of CK3.

Honestly, some of the replies in this thread are really odd. Publisher and Developers need to make money. These comments give me the impression that they resent them for doing so! We shouldn't resent people making a living by giving us entertainment, except in those cases of predatory practices designed to take advantage of vulnerable or susceptible people - e.g. lootboxes, or in Blizzard's case, auction-places for "desirable" high-end gear.

Goddam, I'm so glad I'm not in this industry.

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Quoting: anewsonCompare CK2 or Stellaris with games that have seen constant content updates without paid DLC (Project Zomboid, Valheim, Caves of Qud, NMS, ...), constant content updates with much more gamer-friendly DLC releases (eg, Deep Rock Galactic, Don't Starve, ...), or, dare I say it, even F2P games like Apex or PoE which see constant content updates without locking gameplay mechanics behind paywalls, and make their money off of cosmetics

So you prefer microtransactions then. That's fine, I don't. I prefer, as I said earlier, well thought out DLC expansions.

There are some exceptions, such as Hello Games NMS, who just do free content, somehow. It's been suggested that they only do all those free updates because of the shit-show of a launch they had, but I don't believe that, at least not any more. It's been years and they're still releasing content for free, riding on the sales of the base game. Impressive.

So there are exceptions, definitely. But normally after release if you want continuity you have to accept either DLC, or microtransactions. Paradox do DLC, which is increasingly rare these days. Deep Rock Galactic, Apex, PoE, Diablo, and most other do mtx. They're both viable, but I definitely have my preferences.

Calling Paradox a cash-grab publisher for doing DLC? Insultingly petty and wholly disingenuous.

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