To my eye, all of the moves Xbox has made lately is to package up something that someone else can afford to buy off of Microsoft’s hands, and that includes selling them a subscription service that brings in more money than it costs. That’s only conjecture, but it seems to fit.
I think they’re hoping to make a profit off of what they’re charging rather than loss leading.
Because this is more like a side benefit to Game Pass. Most people are playing locally, not cloud.
More like, “Of their Game Pass users, very few use the cloud gaming feature, and even fewer of them would exceed these limits.”
Why? That’s something only the market leader could hope to get away with, and they’re not the market leader in console or PC.
Best they can do for you is shitpost and build a ballroom.
Correct. Only cloud.
Of course not. It’s expensive. That’s why Stadia isn’t still around.
I edited the post to spell that out now. But it really only ever made financial sense for both parties if it was a value add on top of what you already get with Game Pass. We all know how OnLive and Stadia worked out.
Yeah, maybe that’s in the paywalled article that this one cites, but it was only via summaries I saw elsewhere that I realized EA might not own them.
Leveraged buyout. Any dev still on payroll is a liability, and it’s not like these guys make Ultimate Team. EA’s got a lot of debt to service.
EDIT:
Actually, they might not be wholly owned by EA. I’m uncertain of the relationship here. It could just be that the developer stretched their budget down to the last second, before they’re paid out.
Uncertainty around the TTRPG’s performance is to blame.
TTRPG does not apply here. They meant it’s a tactics game.
I’ve still got to peruse reviews to see if it’s for me, but it’s looking likely. If you want to put your money where your mouth is and show that there’s demand for DRM-free games, it’s also available day 1 on GOG.
Yeah, it’s on my to-do list for my domain registrar, but the above was in relation to OPNsense configuration, which I found a solution for.
It does sound exactly like this. However, I’m concerned about following these instructions when my external IP isn’t static. I still have yet to set up DDNS (I believe is the term, for automatically updating my domain’s DNS servers with whatever new IP address my ISP gave me), but this looks like it’s entirely IP driven.
EDIT: Actually, I just realized OPNsense has an alias for that, so I’m not sure why their own manual didn’t recommend it. I can just set the value to “WAN address”. It works! That’s step #1 down, and now I’m curious about step #2.
My local DNS only seems to set up IP address routing, so I’m not sure how to hit my reverse proxy with the subdomain I’m interested in and have it route accordingly; or even just skip the reverse proxy by having that URL internally route to an IP address and port, because there’s nowhere to put in a port.
The PC release will happen. It’s the largest platform for this type of game now.
This video demo was 25 minutes out of a game that’s going to be more than 30 hours, most likely. It seems strange to expect to be able to evaluate its satire off of such a small sample.
They parodied how strange our drug ad laws are and how much of a crutch we use drugs as. Then the fast food commercial started by showing a wide ecosystem of animals that were seemingly all killed for one sandwich, because no one can fit a sandwich that big in their mouth; then it labeled it as 30,000 calories, which is about 10-15x what most people will or should eat in a day. Jokes are rarely funnier when someone explains them to you, but you asked what the parody was.
It looks like another GTA, but I like GTA. I hope they lean more into the agency that comes along with heist setup missions rather than not, but even if they don’t, I’ll probably still enjoy it.
Oh my. If you didn’t sense the parody in those ads, I fear that satire is lost on you.
Did you miss the drug and fast food commercials?
Cloud play is one feature of Game Pass, but for most, I suspect the main draw is downloading a game and playing natively when it’s an option. It’s not a surprise to me that 96% of players are not playing more than 15 hours per month on cloud.