I like to think of water utilities as a simpler example.

So you’ve got a water company, it provides everyone in the country all of their water, congrats, 100% market penetration. Production is mostly recycling, with the remainder falling from the sky.

So what now? Consistently make the same earnings every year, weighted for population changes?

Nope, graphs gotta go up, prices have to go up.

If this is isn’t already on steam for a couple of bucks, it should be.

I had no idea!

Wonder if any of that stuff will make it upstream and if not if there’s good reason?

What’s wrong with the old one?

Hyped for this.

Appreciate it’s not the same thing, but still feel like it will scratch the same itch that fallout does, without having to suffer that janky Bethesda engine (even its latest incarnation for starfield was annoying!).

Plus a nice looking colourful environment for a change instead of the standard post apocalyptic browngrey.

Haven’t played fifa but understand that loot boxes are basically gambling. Arguably worse than gambling because with gambling at least you might win something “real”.

Curious though - there was a screenshot in the article where you could preview a loot box before buying - does that not make it more like “buying” the players instead of “gambling” for them?

Very nice!

+1. People often don’t realise they can just try it on a usb stick (and often easily install alongside windows osx)!

Exactly! It’s more “Help me help you” than anything nefarious.

I have an intel device, not an ARM one.

Though I would love an M2!

What device are you intending to use, you mention you’re using macos so I’m guessing Apple hardware?

Just thought I’d share my experience with pop on my MacBook in case we can help each other 😂. Basically I was dead set on pop but couldn’t get it to install for the life of me - the installer showed my disk as being a fraction of the size it was, even exfat volumes created by the installer. So I had to shrink other os petitions like crazy so I could trick it into thinking there was enough space.

There was no option to encrypt the disk in the installer and it didn’t play nice when I created my own LUKS container.

After several hours of trying to beat it into submission I ended up using Ubuntu’s legacy installer and was up and running in 15 mins.

So yeah if you are using Apple hardware and get pop playing nice please share any tips :)