Honestly all of the mysims games I played were the shit when I was a child. Don’t know what I would thing about them today though but

Yeah if you play ssf you sidestep these problems entirely and then the only problem you might have is simply just inventory management (which also only comes up in the lategame)

You can easily get through PoE1’s main campaign without paying a dime

Someone also posted a video of them essentially getting through the “midgame” of path of exile in 24 hours without paying as well https://youtu.be/JeIDCxQhZM4

However, during that midgame he shows that he really starts having trouble with the lack of stash tabs for trading. It’s doable, but that’s kind of where you start hitting your limits

All in all, if you play for the main campaign it’s essentially just a free game, and if you play without trading the game is still designed to be somewhat doable. Really the only thing you miss out on is trading

I think that when it comes to functional programming with effect systems, unison is currently the closest to showing how it is actually done. Koka and languages like Effekt are of course very nice, but they don’t show much going for them besides the example nondeterminism and exception effect. Verse, that language that was going to be used as Fortnite’s scripting language, also plans on adding these effect systems a la Koka.

Overall, I think one of 2 things will happen:

• unison will slowly gain more and more adoption and grow out to become a formidable niche language
• Verse will blow unison out of the water and everyone who once even considered unison will be moving to Verse instead

Whatever metric they use to track installs has to prevent abuse like this

I would be eagerly awaiting a follow-up response from unity from this, because as it stands right now, consensus among gamedev circles is that unity won’t prevent abuse at all, which is just awful for multiple groups of people.

• someone paying for your game and then re-downloading it every hour would cost you $144 a month
• someone paying for your game and then re-downloading it every 5 minutes would cost you $1728 a month
• web games exist, and if the Unity Runtime Download metric is used there, well, that is going to be an expensive bill for anyone putting any sense of monetization in their web game

Yes but actually not by much, !technology@lemmy.world has 37.7k subscribers, which is their biggest community

I used to play burnout paradise vanity pack. Haven’t gotten into it but it seems to be on a revival since players found an older unreleased (and unfinished) version of Big Surf Island

I’m pretty sure the title implies this will be the first STRAND TWO type game

Meh, I think the people that are interested in the spacebattles thread will have found it through other means like HN. As for discussing the events as they unfold I think that’s best left to the forum itself, rather than discuss it at a proxy on Lemmy

For anyone interested, there is a forum thread which is the closest thing we have to a live blog, along with the thread author’s opinions on how veritable the claims of each party currently known to try and replicate the study are.