Maybe there's a middle ground, where instead of just letting a flood of people all download your game on day one, the publisher like pre-downloads it onto some sort of physical media, and then sell copies of that physical media. That way people could get into the game immediately when they receive their copy without having to wait on the same 6 hour download that a million other people are also waiting on, that download activity doesn't interfere with the bandwidth of people trying to play the game, and the physical availability puts a sort of temporary artificial limit on how many people can play at once.
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I totally get the irony of how Amazon's own MMO struggled with server capacity issues, but that probably has way more to do with how the game was actually written/implemented, and less to do with Amazon's scalability features.
Beans can absolutely be a treat if you cook them right. I'm sorry you've never been able to experience tasty beans.
At minimum they should provide copies of the software to anyone who paid a subscription, and then enterprising individuals would figure out how to get private servers running
I like how in the second step two, the toaster becomes wireless, and in the second step one, it transforms into a serving platter
Right, peer pressure is a helluva drug
What is it with people trying to turn the entirety of October, November, and December into Christmas?
It's one single night, it's not a season. Is this the Americans trying to push it on us to increase our capitalist consumption or something? I see it a LOT these past few years.
What's next, celebrating other holidays in the actual month that they fall in?
Can confirm, as someone who spent multiple study halls trying to program a top down shooter on his calculator
ChatGPT is famously bad at the things you'd use a calculator for though
Holy shit I forgot about Drakengard. That's the one with the giant sky babies right?
Thank you for reminding me about Enshrouded. I started playing that a few months ago, but a week into it my gamer friends wanted to start a new Valheim playthrough, and that was that. I should revisit it though
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Yeah that would be the logical thing to do, lol. In my time experiencing and working in the software development world though, rarely are high-level decisions like that made based on how logical they are. Usually they're made based on how much short-term cash flow they may generate.