“open them up”? make them open source or what? thats ridicolous

I don’t understand this bullshit, if developers/publishers drop their games, just stop investing time into their games or buying from them. How could you force private companies to invest into something which gives zero return?

Paid content, best content.

facepalm I truly mixed that in my brain. But Valve also has this Dota Chess Game, right? Not sure if you would count that as a success though, have totally lost track of it.

Artifact, Heroes of the Storm etc. those are not success stories of recent Valve.

This is taking way too long.

Just play guild wars 2 if you don’t wanna rely on other players.

Why play the old iterations? Is there a reason? I think the newer ones are more “beginner friendly”? With training modes and such.

But I never do? :(

I mean I don’t totally disagree with your statements, but how much playtime do you have in NMS? I have 85 hours and I am totally satisfied aka not thinking of returning regarding new patches with new “content”. Does that make it a bad game? I don’t think so. Is it the best spacesim ever, I don’t think so either. But it gets some features really nicely done:

• like the feeling of and endless universe where you can travel wherever you want,
• the exploration part where you are looking for your favourite planet ecosystem (it NEEDS dinosaurs!)
• the crafting part, although I no clue how it changed to some years ago
• starting and landing on planets (hi Shitfield)

But I agree the core gameplay loop is quite shallow, I see it more as a “light” sandbox game.

One of the most interesting games shown, besides Wilds.

I doubt that, I mean show me a proper working anti cheat which isn’t deeply rooted into the system as this Valorant bullshit? Don’t even know how good that one is actually working. I just think there should be more focus from players and general attention that cheaters are bad for sales, because people don’t want to spend money on games where cheaters are free to prevail.

I also think with CS2 Valve has a big motivating factor to make this classic one which is cheater free. Also why aren’t third party games able to use VAC?

I really like the community driven moderation of playerbase is a good suggestion. For games like Hunt: Showdown and any other game with just lobbies, its not working though.

Bots can be updated to, its the same game with hacks and exploits, it just depends on the resources available at each side.

server admins are now able to share the identities of players who have been caught cheating, banning them on every server, regardless of who is running them, by the hosts simply opting into the global ban system.

By which information? I have no clue what Northstar is, but if you ban by IP or MAC, its pointless.

Distinguishing between a good player and a bot probably won’t be that hard. A simple aimbot would probably fire exactly at a target’s (0, 0) coordinate,

bots are way more elaborate than that, even 20 years ago there were randomization patterns.

I mean AI sounds like a legit idea. In the past e.g. battle.net from Blizzard was also just looking for “patterns”. And AI could be much better at that. The question is, how do you get the required information without having any clientside info? To distinguish between a good player and a bot would be very very time consuming to train an AI on that level.

What is your playtime? Mine is pretty low on CS2 but the biggest critics on the game online are the amount of cheaters.

Oh did I mix up those two? I was actually referring to VAC, need to check who is responsible for EAC.

Edit: Apparently its Epic, I will correct the beginning post.

How do you propose to hinder aimbots and the like from working with server-side changes?

Yea my brain can’t comprehend any other game, please enlighten me Mr. Right. Sheesh, get off your high horse.

Since when have sandbox games stories?

Link to evidence, thank you. Also Gaben might no saint, but its still a lesser evil compared to 99% of other corps.

Don’t play games then, they are only being made to get your money. Screw those!

I mean I played the game for 383 hours (amazingly). But I stopped following until they introduced the… I don’t even know how to call it, the update with the hoverboard and the planet. I started doing a little bit of hunting for the big guys on that one plain, but never quite figured out how to do it properly.

So now the question would be, what should I check out? Is there maybe a guide with overview with all the different game “activities”?

I also follow this game remotely, but didn’t play for at least two years. The multitude of systems is so confusing, I wouldn’t even know where to start.

“just don’t buy it” sounds different, but I understand that you are just trying to stir some shit and don’t really care. :)

Still the best action-rpg. :D

I think you don’t understand unions or what they are fighting for. Your presumed freedom in working hours is exactly what the unison stated. If you need freetime to fix chores you should reduce your working hours and not work throughout the night.

Lack real problems to solve? Wtf. Also your experience with unions seem very biased.

you are not alone, some Bethesda bot not using chatgpt properly.

I resent the fact that there’s no loot vacuum

Can you elaborate?

Uhm the game is free?

I didn’t play PoE1.

My first thought as well, have 0 expectations from starfield/bethesda…but pickpocketing in space is a new low.

I rather play Hunt:Showndown, Squad or BattleBit. OW is outdated

2023 -Street Fighter 6 -being able to play Hunt: Showdown on Linux -Cyberpunk '77: Phantom Liberty -Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure -BattleBit -games I haven’t played yet, but looking forward: Zelda Totk(?)

I bought it, tried it for about 30 minutes. And got motion sickness…didn’t ever again. :/