Yeah I love nano. I can use vim a little, enough to make a change and save the output. I can even exit vim!
But 9 times out of 10 if I need to edit a text file in a terminal window, I'm just making a quick config change - I need the terminal equivalent to notepad, not the terminal equivalent to an IDE.
Nano is exactly what I need, nothing more and nothing less.
I understand where you're coming from, but you'd have to really go out of your way to ignore a lot of stuff in the game to just get the gameplay without any of the dialogue or text that is absolutely dripping with satire.
You make money by both selling more and spending less.
Think about it, you can have none money left over at the end of the month by working extra hours at your job or by spending less money on something - but what if you can't work extra hours because there's none available? And what if you need that extra cash at the end of the month? The only thing you can do is spend less.
Phil is kind of saying the same thing you're saying here, but it's not easy to just "sell more", not when everyone else is struggling to have that extra cash to spend.
The games industry right now, as a whole, isn't growing. That means companies are selling less. Phil end everyone else would love to sell more, by all means if you've got some solid ideas on how to do that then every games industry veteran out there will happily listen to you, but the sad and shitty reality is that sales are down and when you're a business, if you can't increase sales you've got to cut costs.
And that means job losses. It fucking sucks and we can have debates all day long about the merits of capitalism and all that, but that's the reality of today. That's the game. Phil is being honest and up front here, it's a shitty game but he's playing it and if he wasn't playing it, someone else would.
I think the argument about "for accessibility" is missing the point a little bit and a common mistake most developers make.
You should endeavour to make your interface accessible by default. You shouldn't be thinking in terms of "okay here's the design and here's the design that's accessible", you should be considering accessibility in all of your designs.
Now that's usually a bit harder with games because you have styles and themes that you don't want to detract from, but if your interface causes accessibility issues, it's generally going to be bad for people that don't have accessibility needs as well.
....I don't mean to be rude, but you shouldn't speak to things you do not understand or know about. Cloud hosting costs for a large e-commerce site are rather large, definitely variable and not cheap.
Cost of developing software is also not fixed over any meaningful period.
Essentially, the Devs were writing articles and posting messages about games working before they were officially released. As in, before people have legal means to purchase them.
You might argue that it's not uncommon for people to get pre orders early, sure, but this is clearly pushing it.
Games have got a lot more expensive to make these days. It's never laziness, it's money. Everything is money. And it costs money to hold up a game release, but you had to back in the day because you had no choice. Now you do have a choice, because you can keep working on a game long after you send it for mastering and certification.
Sure, you can argue that publishers should spend more money on testing and stop being "lazy" but that extra cost is getting passed on to you. It's already obscene how expensive some games are to produce.
There's no stigma with the terminal, the terminal isn't bad, I love the terminal.
However, it's not grandma friendly. It never will be. You need to think less about your preferences and more about a truly novice user. Most people don't want to tinker with their machines, they just want it to work.
Yeah I love nano. I can use vim a little, enough to make a change and save the output. I can even exit vim!
But 9 times out of 10 if I need to edit a text file in a terminal window, I'm just making a quick config change - I need the terminal equivalent to notepad, not the terminal equivalent to an IDE.
Nano is exactly what I need, nothing more and nothing less.