Not to mention the amount of money they literally burn through EGS. If I remember correctly, the plan was that it wouldn't be profitable for another 3/4 years (by 2027).
Most devs never would have made their own proprietary engines. With ready availability of engines to use, the number of developers skyrocketed as it lowered the bar of who can make a game.
As neat as it would be, I don't think they could do it justice. Is the Thief IP really that valuable that a person couldn't just make a generic dark fantasy game about being a thief?
I'm fairly certain it's been the same number of hoops to get there. Same with actually trying to buy it specifically.
But yeah, its so sequestered away that honestly, I'd probably just outright pirate it if it wasn't for the fact that it's readily available on release and I'm familiar with the methodology of it.
I believe it's just a depiction of it. Looking around some other similar pictures, there were some images where it showed all "space debris" larger than 1cm as like a white dot. So, it's not quite the level of fields of metal floating around out there.
Amazon's Music service, while it takes some hoops to jump through, actually does let you download music. Though I don't know if that's a general policy or on a per music/per artist basis.
Governments aren't exactly known for efficiency. A corporation is less likely to bogged down by just the mere fallacy that "other entities can't figure it out, why should they do it?"
I don’t think that you can make a person into a pedophile, any more than you can make a person gay.
If you really think about it, we've seen arguments like that before. That pornography creates rapists. That violent video games creates murderers. And that's just strictly on the consumption of media.
I'm just gonna take a different approach here. That's not a definition. That's just a statement. You actually have to give a description of the criteria for what constitutes as "Assault" to make a definition. Why isn't it assault?
"Walked right into that UC ambush, same as us and that thief over there."
"That's Solomon Freestar! The true High King of Skyrim!"
And the dragons are just space ships and the souls you absorb are just... uh... radiation I guess from damaging the reactor. Or the magic space civilization from Starfield originated from here, so that's why everyone has magic.
I'm not backing down from the space ship dragons though, that part is just brilliant.
It's literally described in the very first sentence:
A Baldur’s Gate 3 player joked that their fiancée may have found the rarest possible ending for the game when Wild Magic turned everyone into dogs and cats for the final cutscenes.
Or you can look at it as for what it is rather than some ulterior motive behind it, the emails may have just not been getting to the right person regardless of fault. They're only replying now because it's only just now they heard that something was wrong.
Now on the other hand, I generally find it hard to believe that for a business as large as Epic, nobody would follow up on money that's just been sitting around for over 2 years.
A bad clicker game that you could pay money into to make your clicks worth more, might I add. And I believe that the words "will change your life" was used to describe the prize. And that part of the prize was to play Godus early and they got bored pretty quickly of it.
Not to mention the amount of money they literally burn through EGS. If I remember correctly, the plan was that it wouldn't be profitable for another 3/4 years (by 2027).