Physical releases cost a fair bit to make, from just printing the media and designing the package and so on. And then there’s storing and shipping the game around the world so people could actually buy it.

Shipping could be out sourced to the customer easily enough (some kind of direct to customer sales model), but the rest is still a good chunk of extra cost for the publisher. Manufacturing like this also typically has to be paid in advance, so harder for smaller publishers and Indies to get it done in the first place.

I don’t think we will see a comeback of physical releases for PC other than as a collector items, it just doesn’t make sense for normal releases at this point.

little soup guy got paws

I would have guessed the one on the right as Noki (soot in Finnish).

Nice to see them getting along well enough to share the chair.

Yeah the good old Hema. There’s now “adversary” version of it in the game that you can get in an hour or two. it’s significantly stronger than the original, but I believe the original Hema research has not changed. Warframe is full of silliness like that, and to some extent I think it’s fine. It creates stories and gives the player base something to bitch about together.

PoE is my highest recorded hours as well, 2308 hours on Steam, probably another couple thousand hours before I switched to the Steam version. I stopped playing sometime last year, but I’m sure it will grab me again at some point

Wikipedia doesn’t give “legal advice”, it has information about these laws, with the sources cited.

That is very different than asking LLM anything and it throws you random bullshit from unknown sources, with no easy way to verify where it is from or if it is at all accurate.

Nobody ever reads the manual, unless they have already ran into an issue and they have no other alternatives left.

Starting a little FAQ / common issues page might help, though eventually it also might start to count as manual and nobody once again reads it.

That’s fair. Silksong is harder and more importantly much meaner game than Hollow Knight. It is still a really good game, but it’s a bit of a love/hate relationship for me as well.

Interesting that they made it a choice. Typically the weapon or whatever is a reward for reaching X amount of donations. I respect it.