Brickardo

Slightly unrelated but the quality of the screen capture is crisp wtf

Reading this feels like reading those famous math textbooks, which are for people who are already well-versed in the field yet kept being shoved into undergraduate courses.

Not only that, live service titles are absolutely tone deaf when it comes to respecting the effort of their players.

It doesn’t stop Steve from being right with his statement, though, but his understanding of what a live service game’s monetization model should be has shown to be two or three parallel universes ahead of what the “triple A” projects usually do.

Hell, paying real money can only skip you through the first dozens of hours of the tutorial. After that, paying effectively only allows you to get cosmetic options.

I’d argue that if you exactly call the model you refer to by their actual name, you’ll get much different reactions. For instance, expert systems have been around for a long while.

It’s closed source, so no way in hell

Pink Floyd is the most mediocre group in the prog rock scene (also works if you remove everything after ‘group’)