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Absolutely ridiculous and serves nothing but to make the CEOs feel better.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamesasaservice

"In the video game industry, games as a service (GaaS) represents providing video games or game content on a continuing revenue model, similar to software as a service.
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Games released under the GaaS model typically receive a long or indefinite stream of monetized new content over time to encourage players to continue paying to support the game. This often leads to games that work under a GaaS model to be called "living games", "live games", or "live service games" since they continually change with these updates."

GaaS monetization can't be achieved without a central online service. Even with Hitman 3 a lot of content is locked behind the online requirement.

You can bend the definition as much as you want but this is what most people mean by" live service games".

Live service = always online.

It means once the servers go down you will no longer be able to play the game.

A game doesn't need to be always online to be constantly updated. See: Project Zomboid, No Man's Sky, Minecraft etc.

I'm more in favor of Godot, but Unreal/UDK has been a thing for a long while, so it's not true that Unity was 'the only game in town' for a long time.

They only "don't have enough to pay us" insofar as they don't have enough to pay us without sacrificing record high profits or CEO salaries.

Godot 4 is, apparently, a big rewrite and doing 3D shouldn't be a problem now.

This is such an uneducated take I'm convinced it's just trolling.

Oh, Russia is winning this war? Is that why it didn't end in their estimated 3 days? Is that why Prigozhin marched on the Kremlin? Is that why they're asking North Korea for weapons now?

So much winning.

If it's a proxy war, that means that Russia attacked Ukraine to get back at the US, not the other way around. This means it's on Russia to stop the war, by giving back an innocent country's land that they stole.

What about what about what about...

No one is cheering for the war, no matter how many times you say it.

People may cheer for Ukrainian independence, or for their victories, but no one wants the war to continue. The war can end today, if only Russia decides to give back all the land they took by force, including Crimea.

You're building a strawman.

I believe the peace talks fell apart once they discovered evidence of all the rape and murder committed by the russians.

This is not politicalmemes.

How is this even a meme...?

What the hell is this both side-ism? Trying to discourage people from voting?

... And improve your reading comprehension. I don't feel like repeating myself.

And this was claimed where, exactly...?

Although the article is mostly about how the indian students (of which only 3.5k are currently in Ukraine, per the article) are afraid of bombing and complaining that they can't be transferred to another country, with about a paragraph about (admittedly not good) animosity from Ukrainians.

I counted at least 9 specifically about Ukraine in just the last 3 days, not counting cross-posts.

That's not at all "what we usually do". Most people don't have time to cherry pick articles and post them to "widen the picture", nor should they.

Context is important and so is being aware of bad actors trying to alter public perception.

You're trying to skew this into something that's wrong, but it's not.

Some things need more context than a single article. In this case, the context is several articles being posted by a person with an agenda. This knowledge may change some people's perception of the article.