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Diablo 4 tried to repackage Diablo 2's grind for the modern era, but series overseer Rod Fergusson says the "consumptive nature of a live service" made it unfeasible in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Na... Honestly

Baldurs gate and bgII had an open world where you could go anywhere. Go to certain places early game, you'd get hard fucked up. Go there later, you could make progress.

I loved the feeling of getting more powerful and that was what unlocked more of the game.

One of the most controversial FPS games (Postal 3), rejected by Valve, suddenly reappears on Steam in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

But but but... Muh carncer kooltoor

Valve doesn't sell ad space on Steam so it can make room for surprise hits: 'We don't think Steam should be pay-to-win' in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Going public would mean gaben has sold out. Which would make sense for him at some point. If he's still working there he'll be stuck with the worst of both worlds.

Whoever comes in under him will want to make their pie and ready it too.

Still better than windows. in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Ironically I work in Linux and use Windows and the os to do it. I deploy lots of container Linux from a work provided windows laptop.

And I use Linux at home playing windows games through wine/proton.