They renamed themselves to atari after buying atari

This is a large part of it. But there is also other people who have put the minimum amount or no money into it and just want a cool space game and also want the developers to not be pressured into rushing updates out (they were once and it was unplayable for a month). I am not defending the sketchy stuff cig have done, they really need to look at how they manage this game and their business, I would have gladly put more than the bare minimum into the game if they didn’t charge so much for everything beyond the first purchase (about £35) but they do too much wrong for me to support it any more than I have

Can’t say right now, the factory must grow.

This definitely, vr is a lot of fun, especially with friends (in the game or sharing a headset while we all sit in the same room). But it isn’t worth setting it all up (especially if it is pcvr) when I could just play one of the 100s of pancake games I have collected over the years.

Today they announced that it was cut down to 5 and they will slowly work their way back up to 100 after launch (whenever that is)

5 years later: Ooh, preorders for episode 2 are open!!

Fun fact: If you take the year, add two, you’ll get the current planned release date for sq42

This isn’t dependent on the current year

I’ve got some bad news…

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I don’t think it’s a scam but I agree with some of these points, cig can’t be trusted with a deadline, you are setting yourself up for a disappointment if you think something is being released on time.

They have some obvious cash grabs, like the atls, which takes the tedium out of the newly tedious cargo update. But that purchase isn’t necessary and was made possible to buy (for very cheap) with in game money in the patch that released yesterday.

I have spent £40 on this game. That is £30 cheaper than some AAA games, about as buggy, and a lot more fun.

I was playing the game/tech demo yesterday. It seems to be there and I was having a lot of fun.

Looks like your good. It doesn’t say a Microsoft account is required like it does on other store pages like forza horizon’s

(This may just be because the store page is incomplete)

I haven’t played rise of nations but from your description, you might like the core paradox games (crusader kings -> europa universallis-> victoria -> hearts of iron) despite their shitty dlc model. Currently, eu4 is on sale with all its dlc for ~£40, dlc isn’t very necessary for the other games. They are more grand strategy than 4x. You can use mods to convert saves and carry your campaign through the games. All together, they can cover all of human history (European, North African and West Asian medieval history and then the rest of the world from 1444 onwards). If what you like about rts is the unit micromanagement, you might want to go with victoria 2 rather than victoria 3, you will need victoria 2 dlc and it is a lot older.

If you want a 4x rts, stellaris is very good, but it isn’t based on human history.

Tldr: They’ve been going through this cycle of consecutive huge successes and consecutive flops for decades but this is the worst series of flops in the company’s history

My guess is because of shareholder pressure

I don’t usually defend ea but maybe fifa shouldn’t have tried to charge 4 years of profit for ea to use their name

Use reader mode

Isn’t it obvious? Number go up!!! In this case, the number going up is the amount countries that can’t play sony games.

I think 76 is main series

Their design process is 1/3 old stuff, 1/3 reworked stuff and 1/3 new stuff. The idea is that why should release a new game if it’s just the same as the last one. This is actually a problem so often that there is a recurring meme within civ communities every new release