I wish they didn’t feel this pressure to push forward the industry with EP3. Full Half Life 3, maybe, but I would have preferred a closing chapter with the tech and features available.

What is there to persuade? If I were Biden I’d take the leash off Ukraine now, dust off my hands and let trump deal with the clean up.

What reason remains to not let them go full in? It’s now or never.

“Look now, things fall off of trucks all the time”

TIL. Beep on, little guy.

Breaks trophies too, unless Sony disables them when it’s used.

I didn’t make it the full two minutes with the beeping. Someone rip that speaker out of the shit box please.

Maybe cooking isn’t for me.

Embracer Group is definitely widely known for their generous treatment of staff.

Shit take. Not everyone can be Eric Barone or Daisuke Amaya.

What does matter though is that if we as Linux gamers want them to care, they need to see that Linux users are generating revenue. They’re greedy corpos and revenue is all they give a shit about.

I appreciate you mentioning this, I agree. If linux made a blip on a chart, executives would prioritize figuring out a solution.

I’m not sure what your point is? Perhaps I incorrectly assumed this was obvious but yes - if players do not financially support a game, even “free to play” games, those games disappear. There is not a single company on the planet that is going to continue investing in a negative revenue project for funsies. The teams working on the game are relocated to other projects or laid off, and the game shuts down.

If you believe I’m in the wrong for supporting a game that, until this point, was friendly to linux - then so be it.

Counterpoint - Devs need to eat. Especially devs that are thoughtful enough to enable their anti-cheat to work on Linux. So yeah, they had my attention, my support, and my money. In return I got to play a fun game and rock some cool skins and accessories - it certainly seemed like a win-win. Now they’ve retroactively backed out of their support, and I’d like to back out mine as well.

Uh, I’m losing access to everything I bought with apex coins though…

I’d really like Valve to take an official policy on post-release changes that break games, but for what it’s worth they have not given me any hassle with refunds in these scenarios.

Unstoppable force meeting an immovable object, visualized.

“Any man who must say, ‘I am a gamer’ is no true gamer.” - George GAMR.R. Martin

“seething hilter pie” got me good

I bet that’s some bomb pasta. Ya gotta carry it through the hills of Italy to really get the flavor.

Haha yeah. MapQuest. That’s old school, you silly geezers. Let’s get ya to bed.

Slowly folds up his road atlas hoping no one notices

It’s easy to bullshit engagement, it’s tougher to bullshit click-through rates and sale conversion metrics. It will take time to identify patterns, but inevitably the data will begin to reflect the truth, that’s when advertisers will break and move their money to more successful (organic) platforms.

At least this is what happens in a sane world, as for our reality who knows.