You can dig through This Week in Video Games episodes on SkillUp’s YouTube channel from back just before the game released. That’s where I got it from. Live service games are looking for the hockey stick shaped graph in order to take off, and it was quite clear that even when the game was free, it didn’t have the juice to make that happen. And even the lower bound of $200M is a tough bar to clear, but Concord was funded at a time when borrowing money was cheap and every asshole with a war chest thought they’d make a fortune by following the same formula; the problem with that is that everyone else thought they could do that too. And that’s not even to say Concord was the worst game ever made or anything. It was just a game that cost way more to make than it was ever, ever going to make back.

But after they revealed it? Yes. From their reveal to their beta test, it seemed clear the game was not going to find an audience; definitely not enough to recoup $200M-$400M.

Concord didn’t have any advertising because the data was showing them beyond a shadow of a doubt that it would have been throwing good money after bad.

I just watched 3 friends play it, and they were miserable.

Their concern isn’t that people are getting laid off but that they’ll be laid off here and replaced with people abroad; and the executives benefiting from the cost-cutting are no longer Americans in this case.

Nothing will come of this unless it also concerns Republicans, but it doesn’t, because the President’s son-in-law helped make this deal happen and personally benefited from it.

You can do all sorts of things with video games, even when sticking to realism, if it helps you achieve your goals.

If only more people had heeded her message, we wouldn’t have ended up with the “morality” system of Infamous, where it was such a hard choice to either save these people or harvest their energy for your own gain. Decisions, decisions.

One might argue that KOTOR semi-ruined a generation of video games with morality systems. I’m one. I would argue that.

I guess I don’t see either of those games as being massive open worlds but just a modern implementation of old-school RPGs like the original Fallouts.

It’s far better than the game dragging on longer than it has any business to, IMO.

Would I really be that cooked if I could technically afford to lose all of the data here? It all exists in other places. How likely is it that two drives will fail in the first place? I’ve never had a NAS before, so read/write operations will likely be under more strain, but I’ve had internal hard drives in every computer I’ve ever owned for more than 20 years, and I haven’t had one fail on me until long after the time that computer was the primary machine. The guides I’ve come across in my research all mention standard raid configurations, and I haven’t heard your alternatives come up before; is there a reason for that, like limited compatibility or something? Would it still be easy enough for me to follow a standard setup guide and swap the RAID 5 config for your recommendation if I was so inclined?

I think this thing with Tencent is the only buyout they’re going to get.

To be fair, that story involves time travel.

Thank you!

Why not?

Would you buy a game on EGS instead of Steam? And why?

They’ve been doing way more than employing 3 Linux devs.

He’s definitely not a communist, but there are other ways to choose a successor for a company.

Thanks! I feel pretty good about the power draw based on what you wrote, even though HDDs are going to add to that, and that’s good to hear about the mini PC running Jellyfin, which gives me some hope for the on-board server in a NAS like the one I’m eyeing. And even if that doesn’t work out, I’ve got my own mini PC that I should be able to leave in place most of the time.