I don’t mind console exclusivity if the console were unique in some way, and the exclusive games made use of that feature.

Nintendo games in the past did this quite well. Many games I’ve played on the DS just wouldn’t work or feel the same way with traditional input.

Ja, maar, Dan heeft Nederland ook wereld beroende kaas, toch?

“Jean-Luc Fromage”. That guy would know about cheese, for sure.

Please for the love of all the gods do not give studio execs this idea or they’ll be scrabbling for a remake.

Strange. AoEIIDE to me looks and feels how I remember AoEII being. But looking back at the old version is very jarring.

I hold up the Definitive Edition as something a remake should be. Very faithful to the original. Unlike, say, the Ocarina of Time remake.

Just the Definitive Edition. It’s pretty future-proofed too, and it’s essentially what I expected the “HD” version to be back when I got it.

But the issue isn’t with expecting another version of AoEII, but how Age of Empires as a whole will be managed from here on out. Activision is responsible for creating a lot of toxic online crap and is, responsible for outlining and coining the term “Live Service”.

With AoEIIDE, AoEIIIDE, AoMR, and AoEIV still getting support, updates, and DLC, I can absolutely imagine a very near future where Activision drags it all through shit and muck.

Well fuck, there goes Age of Empires…

Yeah, but those are a combination of cover based shooter and RPG. Not really in the same vein as your typical shooter.

I mean… Half Life and Half Life 2.

He became one with the Force.

The like 100+ new Blender3D plugins that are sprouting like mushrooms growing on shit.

Yeah, but it brings you past this commercial zone where a number of chains and franchises pay Google a lot of advertising money.

When I buy a copy of something I don’t expect to own the intellectual property and all of the themes and elements that make up the intellectual property. I expect to own that one copy that I bought. Just the copy. The medium.

Glad I never made a PSN account. Glad I stayed the fuck away from Helldivers 2 until they removed the stupid PSN requirement.

Where’s Spongebob caveman?

Then the Netherlands be like…

I’m not buying GTA6, and I wouldn’t care if R* burned to the ground. They’re union busting assholes, and all the money they’ll harvest from GTA6 will simply tell them they can continue being union busting assholes.

My friend has set up his Matrix server with Continuwuity (what a name…) and it required quite a bit of technical knowledge. With Fluxer you basically don’t need any technical knowledge.

For comparison, it took my friend about a day or two to set up his Matrix server with Sable as his client, and make sure everything was running smoothly. We managed to set up a Fluxer test server within 30 minutes.

Sable already offers most of the features of Discord, even ones otherwise locked behind the Nitro pay wall.

What’s more difficult is getting people to move. There’s always excuses, and nothing is EVER going to be the exact same as Discord. So the excuses become progressively more granular.

Check out Sable. Me and my friend were in the exact same boat, but then we found Sable.