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I’d say that it’s a bigger red flag when they start introducing cash shop fashion items that aren’t thematically appropriate, really. It happened with TERA shortly before it closed down.

Reason I say that is because I started playing FFXIV about a month ago, and it’s a fashion show early game xD They have released thematically inappropriate apparel, but they’re like… T-shirts that cost in-game money, I’m pretty sure TERA had a goddam little tikes car to drive around in.

Oh! And if it gets sold to Gamigo. That’s another massive red flag. Happens so gods damned much.

Fair point. I’ll need to figure out which stick it is, and if it’s the old one hope they’re still in business

By RPGMO, do you mean MMORPG?

No, RPG MO (forgot there was a space there) is an MMORPG. It’s also on Steam if you want to see videos/screenshots

Well, no, they’re not actually.That’d be basically AAA live service games.

I more meant as a genre. Everything gets more expensive when you get into the AAA world, but that’s more a matter of scale than genre. There are probably some single player games that have cost more than some MMOs have cost the devs over the life of the game :P

And also… I remember the early 00s. We had a bunch of fairly big, and also actually fairly novel and distinct kinds of MMOs coming out, fairly regularly.

Same! I kinda miss those days for MMOs. Some of those are still hanging around, but a lot of the ones I used to play are just shells of what they used to be. Perfect World, Conquer Online, FlyFF… Well, FlyFF was never that good. Damn lootboxes.

they’re allergic to MMOs, unless they make them insanely pay to win or gacha or something like that…

Yeah, it’s partly because most MMOs aren’t that profitable, at least without p2w/gacha mechanics. It’s due, at least in part, to the nature of MMOs.

Generally with theme park MMOs (Final Fantasy, Runescape, GW2, etc) there comes a point where the player runs out of content, or burns out. At that point they switch to doing something else, and stop paying you money, even if just for a while. Some will stick around, but most will move to another game, usually one with more money, and a larger dev team, that can release content faster. Through a few cycles of this, smaller studios are often choked out of resources, because while server costs go down during slow times, it’s not proportional to the amount of money lost. Each additional player is cheap, but the base dev+server costs aren’t, at least for a game that’s trying to compete with the big ones.

Yeah, the fact that so many things just automatically require 16gb of RAM is wild to me. Why does a web browser need 16gb of RAM??? Why did a calculator leak 32gb of RAM???

Yeah, at least one of my RAM sticks seems to be going out… Very not happy about it, but not much I can do about it rn

Yeah, MMOs are by far the most expensive type of game to develop, generally speaking, especially if you’re trying to do anything that resembles modern. It’s pretty cheap to do something like RPGMO, but something like the big names? You’re looking at amounts of money that most people will never see

I was actually kinda excited about this one from what I’d seen. Bummer.

Seems to be back up. If something’s down, I usually throw it into Down for Everyone or Just Me, or just wait for a day. Stuff goes down sometimes

I’ve only really run into it on f2p MMOs, and then Black Desert Online. But also I don’t really play competitive FPS games

Oh, there definitely are other UIs available. I’ve used a lot of them, and I do have a mastodon account. It just doesn’t have a lot of base features I like, plus Friendica let’s you do weird things like following RSS feeds, and posting from RSS feeds, natively, also I prefer the way replies are shown there, and I haven’t seen any mastodon clients that show them that way

Bsky is owned by a transphobe, and funded by venture capital. Also from what I’ve heard they have the ability to ban anyone on any instance of bsky, not just the flagship one, I might be wrong on that one though.

Mastodon has its problems, but there’s a scale to it. I personally don’t care for the Mastodon software much, my own non-lemmy fedi account is on Friendica, but still.

Could be a more recent change? I tried this about 6 months ago. I got around it using a temp email, though. Admittedly I don’t use that account for much, and should probably delete it xD

There are several that do, namely protonmail. You can get an email address without having a previous one, but if you sign up to any website using a free protonmail account they require you to either pay, or give them another email account to verify you. Doesn’t stop you from using disposable emails from what I remember though.

Just note: Using the duress pin after you know the cops are after you could open you up to evidence tampering charges.

It’s very wrong about my entire setup, but it’ll be because it can tell you didn’t download some things

Might be a marketing thing, since the big ones are all using some variant of Linux as an option on their handhelds now. I also only remember one using Windows as a positive part of their marketing, and haven’t seen anything from them in a good while

Yeah, I couldn’t get it to either. For collections there’s a way to copy the nxm links and paste them into downloads, for individual mods I just download them from the website to either. It’s one of those “It works, just not with all of the features it would have natively” kinda things for me, which I’m fine with for how I use it. I only really use it for skyrim collections xD

Weird, when I did it on steamdeck all I did was install it under the same prefix as skyrim and it worked? Wonder if there’s something in the background that Bazzite isn’t to make it work

Yeah. And while Vortex does work on deck/Linux, it’s a royal pain to do, and in my experience you need to install multiple instances of it. I’d love to see them have native support, and make it so I don’t need a different installation in every single wine prefix

I mean, I’m personally not spending a cent there until the CEO stops assuming everyone on Linux is cheating at their games, but y’know. Maybe if they slander an entire demographic of computers enough they’ll bump their numbers