Yeah, but their battle passes never expire, and you don’t have to spend real money to get one.

They never expected it to go viral, they budget to go at least a year of story driven campaign and they probably made enough to pay for that times 10 already.

They don’t need to nickel and dime the user base, if anything they can sell less premium shit.

So?

I hate how every game want to compete for current playtime.

I got way more than money’s worth out of this game, but I haven’t played in over a month. I hope that when I go back to it, there’s still a playerbase.

But like, the developers planned for at best to get 10% of what they did…

If they dropped that extra 90%, I don’t see why that should spell the end of the game. It’s the playerbase the game was designed for.

There’s just this weird “first or worst” mentality with a lot of studios. I hope this game is just given the room to stretch it legs over a decade or so. Something people might not always keep installed on their console, but still download once or twice a year to get some games in.

Games like that can be a success. Just because a lot of people burnt out doesn’t mean they’ll never play again.

It’s just games like that don’t maximize investor returns. They want to churn out hits that people play exclusively for 3 months then drop, only to buy the new one next year.

Wouldn’t they benefit from more people?

The wealthy win when there’s more workers than work.

Historically the greatest gains in workers rights and the times we make the most gains against wealth inequality is when there isn’t a surplus of workers.

When you’re being invaded.

I mean, they’d be pretty much like real chickens.

Chicken rules are just prison rules.

You pick the biggest one, and punt it across the yard. Then it attacks the second biggest one and you’re done.

If you let one of them attack you first, then the rest are going to want to see how they measure up.

It looks stupid but is insanely effective.

The bobs helps pick out movement, once they pick out prey, they have laser focus and stop bobbing.

If you don’t think they’re similar, watch a video of a chicken hunting a mouse. It could be a scene out of a very low budget Jurassic Park.

Edit:

Randomly came across a relevant video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfYV39SKIiM

That weird Jupiter movie where all the heroes were old and past their prime, but refusing to hand off to the next generation till they were dead?

I dunno, I watched it once and didn’t pay much attention.

You think that’s bad?

Food in most county lockups is so bad, be use of the way it’s funded.

The Sheriff gets paid like $10/day/prisoner, and then they pay for the food.

So there’s a direct financial incentive for them to keep the jail at capacity and provide the cheapest possible meals.

TLDR:

The dystopian hellscape set in the future isn’t as dystopian as current reality…

That Rockay City game scratches the itch and has decent bots and a rouglite you can play solo.

It was free on PlayStation and all the dlc may still be free too

No, there used to be legitimate built in locks back in the early 90s.

Like Windows 3.1 days back when Windows couldn’t boot itself and you had to open it with DOS commands.

So…

It’s almost a year old, people keep talking about 4chan, and the top posts of “all time” are homophobic and low-key racist…

https://tiblur.com/social/trending

Why would normal people go there instead of Lemmy? And why would homophobic racists go there instead of 4chan?

Starting my PC? absolutely want to turn a key to do that, too

Back in the 90s my family computer had a lock. I can’t remember what it did, but it wouldn’t boot up if it was in the off position. I think it just stopped the power button from working

They don’t even have to default.

Most of those aren’t 0% forever. After a year or two, it’s just a regular credit card, with regular shitty interest.

It’s not money, cuz everything being done with in a product blows.

It’s about money, because the people making the shit products want to make money, not good products.

Capitalism always leads to “how shitty of a product will people still buy”

They don’t have access to price paid tho…

So like, where are they getting the price? A game that was $60 on release 5 years ago might have been bought then or for $5 on a sale.

That’s not even getting into Humble Bundles from back in the day.

So it’s a region locking thing.

That sucks for everyone. I remember back in the day when vpns got new regions, and there was so much more available.

But physical media needs to be physically produced. It’s available in DVD and I think it came before Blu-ray even so you’re kind of asking a lot here

I mean, can you give an example or two?

There’s probably not a single answer for everything. Depending on what you consider “old” there’s a chance no one saved a copy.

It might be that contracts were better back then so the studio wouldn’t make much releasing it.

I don’t have a horse in this race, but man, let it drop

You replied to a day old comment telling me to drop it…

The movie is Hell and Back, and it is probably one of the most underrated movies ever.

The clip is just kind of filler tho, but the main story is equally as funny.

I can’t hear “welcome to hell” without immediately thinking of combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.