Dunno what the sales for the new one are like, but the 2020 ms flight sim had a lot more mass appeal than any older flight sims, but maybe a lot of xbox players were put off by the pre download requirements?
Also when it’s on game pass the barrier to entry is a lot lower, as a lot of people might install it with the intention of only playing it for like 5 minutes to see if they can see thier house or something, which they probably wouldn’t pay full price on steam to do 😅
They probably mean cheat trainers, as opposed to chat codes(extra software that alters the games memory while it’s running), which can often include other malware.
You don’t have to buy it from steam, might’ve been more users from gamepass and xbox than steam?
Maybe instead of updating the public rules could use a checklist system to help reduce the cognitive load of moderating: like checking if the url is a reputable source such as the verge, and check for keywords like “valve” for if it’s relevant to gaming.
Surely the trial and execution part isn’t a life goal, but more just accepting the inevitable.
I think you’d be more likely to know if you didn’t read books lol
Probably also in case the shipping container leaks or has some termites or something?
The worse the UI is, the more often users will have to click/tap stuff, which boosts the “engagement” stats.
It’s kind of a dark comedy at times 😅
There’s a good video about this from Wisecrack_2 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/294qm3oV60s
It wouldn’t just be unpolished if they rushed it that much. Thier development cycles are still about the same length as other companies, even despite the lack of polish.
Or somehow get Obsidian Entertainment to do another one.
Fascists 😜
“bUt i VoTeD iNdEpEnDaNt”
I think a lot of comedians fill that role already, also some professors, teachers and priests.
It might take a while for thier customers to notice that the data is garbage, or they might develop a way to figure out what data is garbage and still sell other data gathered from the OS/sensors etc from users trying to poison the data.
Not to mention that downloading that flow app will help them boost thier numbers, I doubt they’d care if men are using it as long as they can sell the data…
TLDR?
But yeah it definitely sounds like thier test for 200k players probably had bigger instances provisioned than what they ended up using in the production release 😅
You’d think they’d be able to do some sort of auto scaling when demand goes up though… 😅