Man, one time I ended up volunteering at a weekend youth event, and this other leader they put me in a room with was friends with my wife on Facebook, from college or something, but I'd never met him. Weirdest conversation of my life:
"So, how was your honeymoon in city?" "Oh, really nice. What was your name again?"
I imagine that's what this horror house would feel like. Was a nice guy, honestly. I've since forgotten his name again.
Still wish they'd just... let this one die and let Arkane move on. Hopefully this can be the final update.
Honestly, I like this idea, just because it means I could block your instance in my app and instantly filter out that kind of content, just like how someone can block lemmynsfw to get rid of almost all porn.
Yeah, nothing but respect for Lego here. Tried it, proved it wasn't viable, chose not to do it just for the PR, and set back out to continue looking for something that actually works.
You're in the F1 community? What did you expect to happen here?
This seems amazing! As someone with an overflowing shelf, and a lust for some of those insane 500$+ Star Wars sets they've been putting out, I'd go crazy for this.
Hopefully this does very well, and we can have a similar concept in Canada one day.
Seems like a sensible overhaul, hitting the major issues with the fee, but still going ahead with a version of it. Big points for me:
Still not sure I love charging per install as a concept, and they've already overplayed their hand and burnt many bridges, but at least this implementation isn't insanely hostile. Guess we'll see how this plays out from here.
Not much of an addition, but you're absolutely right, in most systems that are expected to be highly available, there's standard maintenance times, an agreement in place, and no critical use of the system is permitted to be scheduled in that regular time period. Any deployments are limited to that window, in case a rollback is necessary, data sync, etc.
All of that is in addition to the type of high availability stuff you're describing.
Yeah, that's what burns the business relationship. Because now it's not just "oh, Unity might screw me, and I'm investing in learning what could become a dead platform", it's "even if Unity doesn't screw me now, they could randomly decide to screw me 10 years from now and retroactively charge me a king's ransom". That's the stuff that has a permanent chilling effect on the whole platform.
I think maybe you're out of the loop here. This is part of a trend to screw over bots that automatically steal art and sell it on random sites. That's why others are commenting stuff like "I'd buy this on a t-shirt!".
The tactic has already been proven to work several times, when people post stuff like this, and then report the shops that steal it to Disney's legal team. It's a clever way to leverage Disney's lawyers to protect regular artists who couldn't afford to sue all these random websites.
Don't think RB cared about points here. They risked it all to continue their first place streak with a reckless moonshot strategy, and it didn't happen. This was the most likely outcome, and they knew that.
WDC and Constructors are still easily theirs.
I suspect this is the end for now. MS won't be able to quell anticompetitive fears on another large buy for at least 5-10 years, IMO, and with the economy down overall, few companies will be looking to spend big money. Embracer not getting their payout is another scare for the industry too.
That said... it's likely only a matter of time, and this consolidation will likely continue eventually. Hopefully small indie studios continue to thrive to fill the niche.