You put “cannibalize” in quotes as though I said it. I did not. Please don’t invent an argument that I didn’t make.

I can’t help what you infer from what I said, but I didn’t say runaway. I said it’s been ceding ground over decades, which it has. For another thing that’s not captured in that broad graph, something like half of all playtime on consoles is only a few of the biggest live service games, which does skew things like dollars earned for those platforms while not reflecting the situation for the likes of companies that are putting out new video games every couple of years. No surprise that subscriptions haven’t affected playing Fortnite on PS5, because free to play games don’t require that subscription fee like Elden Ring does.

Even in that chart it does. In 2003 (Steam rolls out for the first time), the blue PC portion of the chart is clearly smaller than the green console portion. In 2020, at the end of that graph, PC is bigger than all consoles combined. That’s not shared equally, and there are outliers aplenty, like League of Legends probably making a disproportionate amount of money compared to the rest of PC for several years, but we’ve seen traditional console publishers like Ubisoft and Capcom show that PC is now more often than not the lead platform. In 2011, there had to be a petition to bring Dark Souls to PC when it wasn’t even considered before, and then about 10 years later, Elden Ring on PC outsold both PlayStation versions combined.

I don’t suppose your issue looks anything like my thread from this past weekend in this here community? And as a reminder, tagged ports face networking hardware, while untagged ports face end devices.

Oof, I feel you OP. I started down this road back in February, and I thought I’d be set up by now, but I’m still learning some of the pieces for a project that’s almost exactly the same as yours. If it’s any consolation, I have made a ton of progress. The hardest part can often be when you’ve chosen the pieces you want to use for your project, and then a kind stranger who means well adds extra complexity above and beyond what you want or need on top of their suggestion.

The games that they’ve said are going to be Xbox exclusive are still coming to PC.

I don’t get this mentality of deciding something isn’t as good before it’s even been created yet. I don’t even think New Vegas is Obsidian’s best RPG. I’d say that’s Pillars 2.

Hey, that’s forward progress! The first I’ve had since this thread! That command did in fact allow me to ping my desktop from my mini PC on the VLAN. It also allowed me to ping 8.8.8.8, which I was unable to do before. On reboot, that default gateway seems to be reset until I run the command again, which makes sense. So I guess my next question is: what does this mean, and how do I fix it? I take it to mean that of those three jobs DHCP is supposed to provide in your list, it’s only done the first one. The DHCP systems in particular are a major change from what OPNsense was just two years ago when the guides I’ve been following were made.

Smart money is that it’s built on the bones of The Outer Worlds 2, which was great. Failing that, a far dumber but still possible decision would be to build it on the bones of Fallout 76 or Starfield.

And people will talk themselves out of enjoying a game for that, too.

Someone with that skill set who wants to keep making games, looking for any port in a storm.

The console market has ceded market share to PC over the past few decades specifically because a growing portion of the market sees that it’s cheaper over time. Everyone knows about Steam sales being better than the equivalent on consoles, whether they know it’s because of increased market competition or not. More and more people have shown that they’re doing the math on subscriptions to play online and realizing that it’s not a good deal. When you cut out the physical market and its own methods of keeping purchase prices down, more people still will do the math and decide not to engage.

Somehow I’ll bet they ditch realism for a Lord of the Rings game, particularly on default difficulty, and keep the very clear Elder Scrolls trappings that inspired their systems design.

So what do you think might be the problem with it that I might check? As far as I know, if I’ve been assigned an IP address, DHCP is working.

I won’t be able to try this until at least tomorrow after work, more than 24 hours from now, but yes, this was what was in my tutorials as standard. But also agreed in those tutorials was that what I tried doing was even more permissive and ought to “just work”, at the risk of security and with no separation; I always try to do “Hello World” before I try to implement anything of value, and right now I’m barely seeing “Hello”.

They’re on different subnets, so I figured. I believe DHCP is set up properly, because it assigned an IP to that mini PC in my specified range.

Thanks, I’m going to have to go through this with a fine-toothed comb to see where I went wrong. If you read my other comments and have a hunch as to the problem in the meantime, I’m all ears, lol.

Starfield almost certainly made a boatload of money.

Warhorse is working on a Lord of the Rings game. That’s probably more of what we want out of a new Elder Scrolls than the actual next Elder Scrolls.

What rug pull? You pay a subscription and know exactly when they’re going to revoke your licenses.