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  • "Bomb" as in "not selling" ? That ship has sailed a long time ago, hasn't it ? They made hundreds of millions through that "crowdfunding" scheme of theirs already.

  • I'm on the fence about Arizona Sunshine 2. I understand it's quite short relative to its price. I might wait for a deeper discount.

  • That is not dead which can eternal lie.

  • Point-and-click movement has been a staple of "Diablo-like" action-rpgs since the 90s. However I recently found out that I enjoyed them more when playing with a controller like they were a top-down twin-stick shooter, starting with Lost Ark. I don't know about "more precise", but it feels more natural to handle the positioning with direct control instead of pointing towards the destination.

  • Je ne connais pas de communautés correspondant à ce que tu décris. Tu pourrais reposer ta question dans !forumlibre@jlai.lu par exemple et commencer à interagir en français et/ou anglais (le serveur francophone https://jlai.lu/ accepte les participations en anglais).

  • Sure he's an exec. He's also one of the devs who started Arrowhead 15 years ago to make Magicka. Given his track record, I would give his word more credence than those of the likes of Yves "quadruple-A" Guillemot or Bobby "packaged goods" Kotick. His comms when the servers were on fire felt genuine.

  • Just in case there is any misconception: this particular post does not emanate from anyone at Roblox. This is the Vinegar team closing shop and giving context. Vinegar was an open source project which made it easy to run Roblox on Linux.

    Roblox Corporation is the one telling a (likely very small) portion of their paying userbase to fuck off.

  • I do not know, but the Vinegar people give it straight:

    Also last time around Wine support was broken for like 6 months and no one found a workaround. It was Roblox devs who re-enabled it later.

  • This game is so good I can't stop playing, even through its server woes and annoying bugs.

  • I switched over to Livemarks which has provided an almost drop-in replacement. Looking at the low number of users of this extension, it makes sense they would stop supporting it to reduce maintenance cost.

  • Amazing game, but its servers are not keeping up with demand. Being too popular is a good problem to have, until it's not.

  • I mean... Nothing is stopping people from setting up ad-hoc PvP matches, is there ? I think Magicka PvP started as a grassroots thing back in the day, before there even were proper arenas in the game.

  • I have been using it for the last ~6 months and found it to be very useful and easy to use. Transferring stuff between Android phones, Windows 10 & 11 PCs and a Steam Deck (i.e. Linux PC) has been a breeze.

  • I've been an engineering manager myself for the last 10 years and one thing I have also found is that I still like doing hands on stuff. You have to manage your own motivation, not just that of your team(s), regardless of what the "ideal way" to spend your time looks like in your environment.

    Sure as a manager you have to plan, communicate, go to meetings, handle conflicts, prioritize tasks and so on. When all is said and done, keeping a slice of time doing what originally got you in the engineering business in the first place, might be just the thing that keeps you going.

  • Fuck me, that is some quadruple-A-level bullshit from our man Yves. I played the closed beta and I am sorry to say that this game is going to tank, hard. Its gameplay loop is waaaay too simplistic to be making those grandiose claims.

  • Still, it bears reiterating lest some start believing in the marketing they spin. No company or division of a company can be a friend to anyone. Even PC darling Valve isn't ! (and I say that having spent thousands of euros on Valve's products and services)

  • Fuck me, 20.4 GB in cache.

  • On the flip side, no more being "killed by the camera".