Yeah, the consoles corpos might fight over who can make a more widely adopted locked down and limited handheld than Nintendo with none of the multiplayer features.

Preferably with underbuilt sticks that can’t handle more than a few months of use.

0.18% votes per capita is nothing, gamers literally don’t even mind having a few of their games deleted. The numbers speak for themselves, we’re choosing to have an insane market.

Left the house without a phone?

What?

You’re probably seeing mostly grapes, tomatoes, cotton and cannabis, as well as grains that aren’t corn?

Wasn’t this the game developed under siege for a while, then the studio fled to set up in another country?

Guess again, if you don’t get there by deduction, maybe you’ll arrive by sheer volume and determination.

The one that counts, not the one about clothes and voice training.

I’d heard China was gay as santorum but fuck that’s a wild ratio.

Oh, it’s a threat from the left. I was more worried about one from the right.

What the left says can be completely ignored right now.

We don’t really get scolded for bad behavior anymore, we just have people go “Okay, bye” for the last time. Especially progressives do this.

Those 15 years of experience didn’t do paid video game rant writer Ian Walker any good it seems.

But I’m not surprised a man who writes slop craves slop.

The rats of Mordheim looked great. Made me want to play Vermintide. Still haven’t, though.

Let’s just write it out: Cover your body up with a look that is on the fashionable end of normal, but have a fit body underneath to reveal.

They should consider doing obscure 2D games instead.

They really did. Even got some Doralingus & Associates vibes from some of these.

I think they literally replaced the game people owned prior, and removed features.

I definitely remember that they made legal language for it so if anyone made anything like DoTA out of it again, they’d own it.

Of course, the game was rejected by the community.

Edit:

…but was plagued by bugs, a lack of features and poor design choices such as the “massive” user interface. German magazine GameStar opined that the remaster was still a good game in regards to its single-player, despite it not including the promised changes and additions, but its multiplayer features were now either worse than before or non-existent.

Player response was overwhelmingly negative. On release, the game was review-bombed by users on Metacritic, temporarily becoming the lowest score ever for a Blizzard game, before being surpassed by 2022’s Diablo Immortal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft_III:_Reforged#Reception

Well, to put it succinctly:

Iirc it’s decidedly uncool, with how gimped the remastered version of Warcraft 3 is.

And like other time-limited services outside entertainment, the duration should be made clear. I’d personally like something as clear and blunt as:

"We guarantee access for at least X months/years after paying the license.

After service is suspended we will release all information and code necessary to set up a private server or otherwise restore function."

And for the worst kind:

"We make no guarantees of access duration, and can revoke your access immediately after paying the license.

After service is suspended we will not release information or code necessary to set up a private server or otherwise restore function."

Ideally the last type dies out completely, or becomes exceedingly rare.

These always online, server-dependent, licence-limited games are very unlike what we used to deal with; Books, DVDs, CDs, and other games on disk/cartridge or with a simple download that you can keep and use for as long as you live as long as they’re still stored and in readable condition.

They’re very different, and should be treated like it.

There should be a very clear visual difference when looking at the box or store page of a game that is made to simply last as long as you keep the code stored, and a game that won’t. A consistent warning design. Maybe two color codes.

Hook horrors.