HammerDano
Survivor
where/who is our white rabbit?
4.0 A new threat update - Bandits?
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Blue mame
Refugee
I witnessed a massive argument. What was supposed to be a discussion about TFP didn't need to be taken so seriously. I don't have a serious prejudice against TFP. The heated discussion among influential players on the forum steered the discussion elsewhere. Vigorous rebuttals only lead to more intense conflict. Our discussion should be beneficial to TFP, not a pointless dispute. Even if it's being criticized, there's no need to make things so heated. As the saying goes, "the deeper the love, the deeper the hate." Do these intense voices dislike the game? No, it's precisely because they like it that they're so frequent and enthusiastic. Would refuting all the criticisms today really benefit the community? Frankly, I personally don't like it when people say my mods are bad. I felt misunderstood. I fiercely refuted them, and in the end, I found that these critical voices disappeared; they silently left my community. Then I fell into a long period of narcissism, my community dwindled, and I received no feedback. This is my true experience. I am still paying the price for my past recklessness. I wish those voices of criticism were still there, because they were the guiding lights that propelled me forward.
InfiniteWarrior
Hunter
That's just the worst version of "Games as a Service," imo. Might as well download Candy Crush Saga. "Build it and they will come" didn't work out too well for the industry, though, did it? Turns out trying to produce the next Fortnite by tasking every studio and its neighbor -- even single player studios with no experience whatsoever in producing multiplayer games -- to produce one is not a good idea, much less trying to have it both ways and charge full price for the game, then nickle and dime people to death with it besides.
The "acceptable" version, at least according to industry heads, is that we no longer own copies even of the complete single player games we've supposedly purchased from various distribution platforms over the years -- Xbox, Playstation, Steam, GOG, etc. -- and are just going to have to get "comfortable" with not owning the games we buy for subscription services to "take off." (It was an Ubisoft exec who said that, specifically.) Even the PC gaming community's darling, Steam, updated its TOS to "clarify" we don't own the copies of games we've bought over the years. Is anyone doing anything about it? No. It's been normalized. It's "standard practice" for all software now. (See: Adobe, et al.) And we're going to be signing onto it every time we "lease" a new game. That's why I don't think that when industry heads speak of "the problem of getting everyone on the Internet" they're concerned about the less fortunate among us, but only thinking about "demographics" they can't tap for profit because they're not on the Internet. I further think it's all unconscious. All anyone among the public can do, for the moment, is be aware of it, avoid it as much as possible and, maybe, fume about it because the foxes are guarding the hen house, so to speak, or are asleep on the job. I can't really tell which.
I guess just not for me. Those are symptoms of the dis-ease, afic. What lies beneath is the real bugbear, considering we were all born and conditioned in it. It's been changing since at least Voyager was turned around to take that iconic picture of the planet, imo, but you'd never know it to look only at the surface appearance of things.
Back to bandits....