I would want at least a day between those two though. Multiple full days of meetings in a row would be awful.

There’s plenty of games that you could say the same about that didn’t get the traction. It’s still a hit based industry. It’s not a knock against the game, it’s a reality of the industry.

The starter edition bundle is 11.99 us and the ultimate is 104.80 in USD. There’s basically 2 different types of DLCs in the paradox model. The core expansion type that is released every year or so and adds or fleshes out an area of the game, these are generally must haves and reasonably priced if you have played the game for a year(s) to mix it up. The second is smaller focused packs that add a faction or some extra flavor to a more minor mechanic. These are relatively expensive for what they offer, but aren’t always intended for everyone to buy.

If you are a hardcore completionist this model is bad for you, but if you can live with not having everything then it’s not terrible.

I think the big studios lost reality with what the gaming market is. It’s a hit based business, you need a level of volume that they’ve been backing off on. It’s not that the expedition 33 devs were so much better, they just happened to be the lucky ones that put out a solid game that got traction.

Investing is great for retirement funds, over the 30 years or so it’s great for returns. It’s terrible to invest principle you need in scope of months or 1-2 years even.

If you have 20k and a 20k loan, putting that money in the stock market is stupid if you need that money to pay the loan. If you have 20k, a 20k loan, and income to cover loan payments in addition to living, it may be beneficial to invest that 20k, but it’s still relatively high risk.

It’s gone down moth over month many times though. If you are dependant on that principle month to month it’s insane to trust the market.

Having 20k plus the cash flow to pay a 20k loan is a totally different scenario than buying a car for cash. If you need that 20k to pay the 333/month, it’s stupid to trust the market isn’t going to go down, and simple savings would net you maybe $500.

EA is great for small and medium sized studios to get games out that might be a bit more ambitious than they could manage with traditional models. The point of AAA is that they have the money to do big impressive things. They can already do focus groups and closed betas to get community feedback. The thing that might attract AAA attention is you could make a good amount without actually releasing anything.

Early access is more about getting revenue during development and some limited QA potential. There shouldn’t be any surprises in the feedback, that would be a sign of major problems. EA also generally comes with a discount for the player which is anathema to the AAA crowd.

There’s plenty of constraints still, they aren’t technical though. It’s about making a game good despite the monetization requirements.

Pay cash for a car that runs. You aren’t getting a loan without income in the first place.

A car is absolutely doable without financing l. It’s a poverty trap to finance a car. What you can’t do is have a brand new car.

For the vast majority of people the only debt they should ever get is a house.

Timezones really suck because it only takes one person doing something wrong and it makes a giant mess.

Mostly no, but maybe yes. The problem would be licenses that are granted to anyone that hosts your content could allow them to use it for such things. If you completely self host or carefully select for services that don’t have terms that allow them to use your data, then maybe you have a legal claim you could make.

The second problem is going to be proving a company used your data to train on. You likely can’t prove they have a copy, if it’s been parsed into some sort of meta data, it may be permissable anyway.

The Batman Arkham games gradually add visible damage to you as you die and reload. It’s not exactly story relevant, but adds nice flavor.

There’s also resetti in animal crossing that is a bit of the opposite. He just shames you and wastes your time for save scumming.

eGPU support doesn’t make much sense for a hand held unless you want something like a switch that can be more powerful docked. You can probably get a rough idea of their performance based on comparing specs to more major brands.

Farmers aren’t selling at a loss to companies in 99% of circumstances.

I’m a fan of Morrowind as a memory. I don’t want to ever play it again, but it was extremely fun as a kid growing up.

This isn’t even the first lizard based medicine. There have been several different ones. Notably GLP-1s.