^ I mean, with all the fuckery going on left and right nowadays, this is so low on the scale. I would say this is actually the work of normal market forces ... in that nobody has optical drives / players anymore. There just isn't demand for them. For my 85 yr old father who just upgraded his home theater I asked him if he wanted a blu ray player for his new tv and he just said "no thanks, youtube tv for locals, and the other normal streaming apps are all we need, we don't know how to control our blu ray machine anyway"

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check ebay. HOLY SHITBALLS. used lcd models going for almost $600 usd, used oleds going for nearly $900 usd.

W. T. FFFFFFFF.......................... 😡🤬

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oh man, those are some spicy topics. Could be some good discussions! I'll give it a listen this week :)

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shit, I just checked the US store, and every single model is gone. All sold out. Nothing avail.

WTF I hate AI SOOOOO much. Moreso I hate that the corrupt markets are being corrupted even more by the billionaire class. This is not normal market stuff happening here.

WD said it's entire 2026 stock of hdd's is all gone already. We're 6 weeks in out of 52. I was going to build a new home media plex server next year with a steam machine and rack mounted array with new WD Reds, but if this keeps going, I doubt I'll be able to afford to. WD Reds will be the cost of a new car by then. All I can do is randomly go whisper into my current machine with the old reds in it: "please don't die"

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huh this seems perfect for me. The time commitment is pretty much the only reason I don't play more of these. Well, and the insanely steep learning curve. But if the time commitment is softer on this one, could be awesome.

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Quoting: suchPiranha failed to adapt - they just kept going as if the market wasn't ever going to change, and as if fans of their games pleaded undying loyalty to the studio itself regardless of whether the games that studio developed were any good. Sad to see them go, but after Gothic 2 there was a sharp decline in quality. At best, their output was uneven, and that's putting it very kindly. Riding out that Gothic 1-2 "fame" could've only taken them so far. I'm amazed they lasted that long, frankly.

I mostly agree. Elex 1 was awesome, I really loved it, but then Elex 2 came out and it was kinda just average. It was like they didn't learn from any of the elex 1 mistakes, and had a lot of the same clunkiness that absolutely should have been ironed out. It was like they just coasted from one game to another.

There was still the Piranha magic there, you could feel it, but by that time, I agree with you: that wasn't enough anymore. Still (and I agree again lol) sad to see them go.

I hope that new game you linked to with the demo can take the feedback and make some positive changes!

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The first game was awesome, really loved it! So I'll for sure check this out ... the shift to idle-ish is interesting.

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^ agree. Absolutely loved them as a studio. Was a sad day when the closure announcement came along 😫

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LOL ... also with links to Palantir, the company which uses social media profiles to murder innocent civilians.

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So I gave it another go: completely broken it appears for me. Oh well, uninstalled, will try it again some other time. I'm having this same bug here which renders it unplayable as you can't even past the tutorial.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2643390/discussions/0/694250999466995939/#c725776831304760120 [External Link]

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