Already bought it myself, but waiting for a few bugfixes before I dive in.

Some of the old pity shops need a rebalance though (eg Citrine)

Fair. To each their own.

IMO, that method is valid, but it is HIGHLY dependent on the gameplay loop and the game company.

Take Warframe for example, one of the grindiest games in existence:

1. The game is mainly PvE (and the PVP stuff has near to no impact on the raw skill needed), so someone buying their way to power doesn’t feel so bad.

2. The ingame premium currency (Platinum) is fully tradable by all players. Getting extras of stuff is also common. Grinds often reach the ‘unfun’ level. So EVERYONE is encouraged to skip grind once it gets too much.

TLDR: Microtransactions are encouraged and available for free for ALL players, once you’ve reached your grind tolerance level.

Fun fact, this game is part of the school curriculum in Poland.

https://11bitstudios.com/this-war-of-mine-is-set-to-be-added-to-the-core-curriculum-of-polish-schools/

This is the mantra of the family I married to. Sometimes a little too much.

Still love them though:)

The bowing is a Easter Egg of sorts. There should have been a large sculpture set nearby. If you Bow to the frog one, you get covered in hopping green frogs (purely cosmetic, goes away after a bit). There are multiple such frog (and other animal) statues.

Fair ppint. Never that humid here though, except during cool rains, so I didn’t even realise.

Whrere I live, temps go in the 40-50°C range in the summer (and 60+ in some inland areas). Here is what we do to stay cool.

1. Cool(er) air ventilation Windows open at night, closed past morning, with blinds down when sunlight starts hitting the windows. Ensure that air can circulate through (otherwise, you might actually get heatstroke from how hot the house gets). In cass the heat makes you feel like you cannot breathe, blinds down and windows open (better than suffocating) Also, no joke, get greenhouse green screens, and set them up inverse outside your windows. Instead of trapping heat in, they throw heat out instead. Surprisingly cooling.

2. WATER AND COOLING FOOD! Water is a must, and there are foods that cool you down instead of warming you up. (avoid the later wherever possible!) Examples of cool foods: frozen desserts, lassi (yoghurt water drink, makes you sleepy) etc

3. Fans. Fans everywhere. Doesn’t matter if hot enough that it feels like a hair dryer instead. Evaporation + air is your friend (bonus tip: if you live in a dry zone, get an air cooler. It’s an enclosed fan behind a self contained waterfall. Humid air is particularly cooling. Beware metal cabinets in the same room though. They rust, bad).

4. Baths. Baths are especially cooling. Take at least 2 a day. My cousins, who live inland at 60+ temps, bathes at least 4-5 times a day. Also, their bathrooms all have massive fans :)

5. Clothes. In summer, we wear our thinnest, oldest cotton clothes possible (aka, almost seethrough). We never go out in them, but they sure make the house bearable.

6. Naps and talcum powder. Human body temps naturally decrease when napping. Talcum powder, spread on the hottest parts of the body, absorbs heat and cools you too. The powder gets soaked in sweat and is useless pretty quickly, but combine bath + fan + powder + nap (and probably no undergarments/naked) makes noon bearable to go through. Talcum powder in particular stops rashes from too much sweating, if you have trouble bathing more than twice a day like I do.

Thats about it from me. Hope it helps!

I would call it stradling between F2P and Subscription.

Got 6 months worth of free playtime before I got a sub, at which point I felt more guilty not to.

Speaking as a South Asian and former school teacher (a middle-class person here, so to speak), our average salary goes anywhere from ~100$ to ~250$ a month. I could afford about 10=20$ worth of games every year, inflation dependant.

Note that this is in a culture where Piracy is the norm and actually buying games is practically unthinkable. If it weren’t for Steam sales, wanting to support indie devs and not wanting to deal with bugs/cracks and updates for once, I wouldn’t have ever ‘bought’ a game at all.

TLDR: Many South Asians cannot afford, much less think, of buying games. The lower prices mean some sales, instead of none.

Sorry, I literally have no clue beyond the letter.

Beyond that, another commenter found it! Kena, Bridge of Spirits.

Thank you for the link though, Ill check there next time.

Its Kena.

Thank you so much!

Same. I could only reddit through Boost.

Typing this from Boost for Lemmy :)

Bottles only recently had a small update to make it less janky. Their team is working on a complete overhaul, Bottles Next.

To be honest, I’ve yet to find a program that doesn’t have a flatpack equivalent (eg OnlyOffice for Microsoft Word) or flatpack version (eg Firefox). But just in case, I have WineCharm installed (Wine GUI)

No Man’s Sky. They recently released a new update where we’re garbage collectors. The sub reddit 50/50 either loved or hated it. Got me interested enough to get back to it.

Exa tly what I was thinking!

Huh, sounds interesting. Will deff look into it.

Thanks OP!

Cute Kitty!

Also, cant tell what’s more impressive; the bat=cat, or the steel foot.

Honestly, it depends on you, what matters to you more.

For their stance on DRM free and game preservation, Id buy from/support GOG every day of the damn week.

Problem is, that I’m from a third world country, with recent and very high inflation. Dollar is way too expensive here. (With a gov tax on converting the local currency to dollar on top of that 🤮)

So the above + regional pricing means I’m stuck to Steam + piracy.

If budget is tight, I’d say, stick to Steam. Otherwise, go GOG