I’m actually going assume they (ESA) meant the Minecraft DRM servers and not the hosting and playing with friends servers, because they refer to ‘counterfeiting and piracy’ lawsuits right afterwards. I mean its easy to say they don’t know the difference but I’d suspect this was a little more malicious.
Lumber. I was planning out a project with teak wood and noped out as soon as I saw the prices.
The article brings it up too, but I suspect this actually means streaming games. I can see it sort of making sense where you already own a digital library and via some subscription, can stream those games to specific devices.
I had a plastic card that fit in a wallet: it had various conversion numbers and measurements and a ruler on the side. Decently handy pre-mobile internet days.
They took it because it was thin enough to be “dangerous”, I guess?
It was weird and I didn’t care enough to say anything about it.
I suspect Hasbro went ahead and continued offering BG4 to studios until one of them took the bait.
I’ve been playing Idols of Ash and Echo Point Nova.
Both are pretty nifty, don’t usually see much conversation about either.
I think there’s actually a lot of games that fit all of those?
What genres do you play? Shooters, survival games, RPGs, sandboxish…? Might narrow down some ideas.
Women in video games.
I once got a burger from a cheap looking fast food place and my first bite was funky and cold.
Looked at the meat and it was basically still raw and partially frozen in the center.
It was a bad time.
I accidentally (almost) did this for a one-shot.
I gave the players a brief scenario summary and three of them choose secret-aligned-with-the-enemy or mercenaries working for the enemy. The last, unwitting player, chose to be a goody two shoes good guy.
Before it really got off the ground, the players were expected to step in and stop some bad guys from beating up a commoner. The ‘good guy’ did, and all the bad guys and bad players turned on him.
It was a little funny but a big sigh moment when they figured it out.
I’m not looking up numbers right now but didn’t all of those have strong first seasons, in terms of viewers?
As I recall, viewers typically go down as the show goes on. If its got a bad viewership, there’s not a great reason to keep pumping money into it when you can put that money into something new that might do much better.
Yeah but they’d probably find it a little funny too.
I presumed it was AI. Lacking too many pine trees to be Skyrim.
This is going to be a semi-spicy take, but World of Warcraft.
I had a lot of friends who were into it during Cataclysm but I had a hard time getting into it despite it being THE game everyone was obsessing over. It got to the point where I was struggling to get them to play anything else and it pretty much split our gaming group.
Even after all these years, some of them still play it and its still a big piece of their gaming sessions.
Texas Hold 'Em
I just saw a post about blahaj being down for a few hours to solve a security issue.
As I recall, Steam has a tool in their labs that let’s you specify games that released over 10 years ago, so you can get still get old and niche recommendations.
When you buy Minecraft, it associates a game license to your Microsoft ID. So when you sign in to the launcher, the DRM server is what it checks with to make sure you own and can play Minecraft before letting you in.