absquatulate

@absquatulate@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 8 could be a proper early access game - "never say never", comment Firaxis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the major changes with Civilization VI was that Firaxis had access to lot more player telemetry, compared to Civilisation V, rather than monitoring the feedback on Reddit and fansites like CivFanatics. Amongst other things, they discovered that most players don’t finish a single game, which is part of the reason for Civ 7’s more broken-up, modular historical progression.

  So they used all that user data to change the future game to appeal to the lowest common denominator, as it were. And it resulted in the most controversial civ of recent years. And their plan for the future? Continue like this, of course - only now they’re considering formalizing this approach with an official EA label. God I hate the gaming landscape these days

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine price leak suggests it will cost as much as an iPhone⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this Valve’s way of gauging the market? Cause it sure feels like it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I really get the feeling that Planet Centauri is cursed", says dev of a game that's now been Steamrolled by Valve twice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of this game but it looks like a near identical Starbound clone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For children’s safety, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As literally everything gets more and more expensive, Everspace 2's devs say screw it, let's make our upcoming DLC cheaper⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, I’m getting this. Everspace 2 was a great game and in my mind a true spiritual succesor to Freelancer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As literally everything gets more and more expensive, Everspace 2's devs say screw it, let's make our upcoming DLC cheaper⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I’m sure they’re the first and this is totally not a paid article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thunderbird e-mail client will soon stop supporting older Windows and macOS releases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a bit of reading between the lines

  the Thunderbird team has decided to take a different approach

  and

  The MZLA team is working to essentially rebuild the software from scratch, featuring a new interface and support for modern email capabilities.

  I may be over-reading though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thunderbird e-mail client will soon stop supporting older Windows and macOS releases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god. They’re gonna stuff it with AI aren’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia’s AI NPCs will debut in a multiplayer mech battle game next year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If they really wanted to emphasize its talking ability one would think they’d use a dialog-heavy RPG or smth, not a multiplayer battle game where existing AI can already bark 2-3 word orders at you pretty coherently. I doubt this will be particularly revolutionary.