It’s the same “innovativeness” as Starfield; it’s not pushing the boundaries of game design or anything but it’s a tried and tested strategy that clearly lots of people enjoy and it makes them a lot of money.

It’s not profitable? How? Rockstar is estimated to earn $8 billion from GTA VI… that seems lucrative to me?

Big Kotlin fan.

Similar reasons to the commenter that talked about using a world class runtime, but the JVM is tested and works.

And now I can use Kotlin to make cross platform applications, while still utilizing the Java knowledge that I unfortunately possess? Perfect!

Yo knees over toes guy slaps, I’m a huge fan and have been since the pandemic.

I definitely fell victim to the marketing but goddamn if his workouts haven’t helped my knee pain!

I’ve been using ktor in a personal project and it’s been a joy; all the familiarity of Spring but with Kotlin first.

Also, I know that Amazon has started to switch some projects to Kotlin, since they’re such a large Java shop: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/adopting-kotlin-at-prime-video-for-higher-developer-satisfaction-and-less-code/

Was OP trying to bait? They used the headline from the article and even wrote a summary that explained the article.

Perhaps it was in the video but not the blog post, because Dev Diary 1 doesn’t mention bike lanes:

Roads can be customized by adding bus lanes and tram tracks to them using the additional network building tools

https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/games/cities-skylines-ii/features/road-tools

Yeah seriously, they’ve been doing an excellent job of showing us what we wanted to see (save for bike lanes, I’m sure we’ll get them eventually).

Ahhhh now that’s insane, there’s no good reason for that to be wireless at all…

I don’t see the issue in using a controller, the US Navy does the same

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/18/17136808/us-navy-uss-colorado-xbox-controller

I do think it’s ironic that they used a Logitech controller instead of an Xbox controller, but the reasoning is probably similar to the US Navy’s