They would be, by the virtue of the fact no other modern multiplayer shooter works like that. Who cares if the stock heroes are lame and game modes are lacking? You can just mod in better ones! (It would be very nice if devs shipped the game with cool heroes and tons of modes in the first place, but, at least you have the option.)
Also nobody trusts them. Why spend money on Highguard when there is no guarantee the game will still exist next year? They already layed off some important people.
If Highguard targeted low end hardware, included mod support and bundled in the server so that players can host and moderate their matches themselves and had no monetization beyond the initial price tag people would be all over it. But for some reason nobody does that anymore.
You can still play Quake III today, if it was doable then it’s more than doable now. But multiplayer game devs seemingly left behind that player first approach for good.
TF2 was unplayable for many months because of a bot epidemic Valve didn’t feel like dealing with at the time. TF2 also introduced many monetization methods that made people hate this kind of game in the first place. It’s not exactly a role model for how a liveservice multiplayer FPS should be run.
I was planing to open a room an a public instance but discovered Matrix network had a big moderation problem in regards to illegal content, so I changed my mind. I don’t know if selfhosting is viable the us right now.
We are running a small comicbook server, so it’s primarily going to be a discussion platform. We don’t need federation, but it would be very nice. It came t’t my attention that matrix has an ongoing illegal content problem and we don’t have the means to host an island server. So for now something like xmpp will have to do.
I wanted to move a small Discord server, but I changed my mind. I’ll explore other platforms.
No it definitely wasn’t Motorola, I don’t even know that one came out in my place. It was most likely Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom. I don’t know if it was DSLR but it had a professional looking camera, looking back it was way ahead of it’s time.
Didn’t LG or Samsung make one way back in the day? It may have been someone else but I remember such a phone existing.
We already know it went to shit, I’m sure everyone here and on Reddit already moved over to another launcher or stuck to the last good release for the time being. I think that’s enough Nova Launcher news.
I don’t even see what it’s appeal is, it looks like any other launcher. Why do y’all care so much?
I don’t agree with that definition of “oversaturated”. Yes, hero shooters demand way too much time investment from the player but at the end of the day there are seven of them at most.
And that leads to a problem I forgot to mention in the main post: Even if a hero shooter starts out as a good game, it can still be ruined down the line. Combine that with a lack of alternatives and you are effectively stuck with the game you have picked years ago. You don’t like what Overwatch turned into? Too bad, take it or leave it.
Also the insane commitment demand isn’t fundemental to the genre, it’s a consequence of the blockbuster approach developers insist upon taking with this type of game.
Isn’t getapps depricated anyway? It’s one of the first things I’ve removed from my phone.
Does anyone want this?
I hope their Android store offers a good experience and succeeds since Play Store just sucks. But Valve pretty much made Linux gaming, if you saw what it looked like before they got involved you would understand. And they are the only big video game company that still does some good stuff in addition to the bad stuff.
Epic burned 95% of their good will among gamers, if not all of it. They allowed play 2 earn and other crypto shit just to be contrarians, delisted and ended support for old Unreal games and are pretty much just The Fortnite Studio at this point, which itself is seen as an amalgamation of everything wrong with gaming by some, they struck exclusivity for highly anticipated games so that people have to buy it from them, stories of crunch and Tim defending and supporting every new technology gold rush including Grok producing fucking CSAM.
It’s not hard to see why people have so much animosity towards them.
Did it run better?
Nope, we will run some unix-like exclusively through the cli on the cheapest possible single board computer if it comes down to it.
Yes, but it’s even more of a hassle than I remembered and offers basically no benefit, it’s really not worth it.
Also you can build a LineageOS image that let’s you re-lock the bootloader if you really want that functionality.
It looks like a real hassle but it is possible.
Yeah, I remember that. They also treat their players like absolute shit in general. But at least Rockstar makes games people enjoy and provides shareholder value. Ubisoft sucks so much they are actively harmful to everyone involved.
Some of those picks are questionable (like Ball x Pit, Kirby Air Riders, Deadlock and maybe The Drifter too), but there is some stuff in there I don’t recognize.
True, if multiplayer shooter developers want to be takes seriously they have to move away from the games as a service model. Quake III wasn’t some forever game, it was complete product. If the players wanted more they had to make mods, it wasn’t Id’s problem.
There will always be less demand for multiplayer games since they are supposed to be played indefinitely, but deliveservicification of multiplayer FPS will allow for niche games with small but dedicated playerbases and restore game ownership to the multiplayer community.