NetEase is controlled by the CCP. This could have to do with the political waters, but maybe not.

In October 2020, the Cyberspace Administration of China ordered NetEase to undergo rectification and temporarily suspend certain comment functions, after censors found inappropriate comments on the news app.

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@silvercode

Valve are a bunch of gamers who just want to do cool things and make the gaming ecosystem better. They use the Steam Store as a way to give people access to the stuff they are doing.

This has built up a lot of good will between gamers and Valve/Steam.

Amazon/Epic/Google et al are a bunch of corporate suites who want to milk gamers for as much money as possible, and are trying to set up stores to do so, and use those stores to push even more money grabbing ideas from the suites.

They have next to no good will with gamers. In fact, due to their other areas of business, they likely have negative good will, and people fully expect the rug to be pulled out from under them at any point no matter how many free games they give away. See: Amazon Kindle.

Nailed it right on the head! This is exactly right. Specifically the part about them having negative good will. It's true. I hate amazon/ms/google and will actively go out of my way never to use anything they make. Steam is the opposite.

So not only did this talking corpo swarm-of-rats-in-a-suit not even actually try, the rat swarm didn't even understand why the gaming community dislikes them.

I also find it hilarious this is a post on linkedin. LOL.

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Same here, this seems like a perfect fit for the deck, so I'll wait until they get it ready and then instabuy. I'm almost finished (well kinda finished, waiting on dlc) with Chained Echoes on the Deck, so it'll be a nice change of pace.

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One thing I wish for longevity's sake: An option to toggle "only charge to xx% total" like ios does. It'd help the lifespan of the battery so much. I never have my phone charge past 90% because I want this battery to last for as many years as possible.

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I think my favs are the next fests. Always discover some pretty cool stuff during those.

Also ... no RPG fest/sale?

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This game is so funny to me to read reviews / comments about. I suppose because of its multiple decades long history (some civ joke here I'm sure lol) ... some of the negative reviews actually sound like positives to me! People will be like "this is the worst civ ever, I don't have to micromanage my eleventy billion troops and resurrect my heroes manually anymore WTF GARBAGE RAAAAAAWWWWRRRRR" and I'm thinking "okay sounds great"

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... maybe ... but best pirate game ever is poe2!

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Omg yes. Just yes to everything- this looks amazing! Very much looking forward to this.

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@redje - as eldaking said, you should go ask Harebrained how great a studio paradox is. That was pretty much as toxic as it gets, and that's saying something in this industry.

Paradox may have been a decent outfit many many many many years ago, but that's not who they are now. I honestly consider them in the same lump as Embracer. They're that bad. I'll come back and revisit this post when Haemimont releases their next game and one week later the entire studio is closed / sold for ip / gutted.

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I absolutely LOVED Duskers, so yesssss, bring on more of it!!!

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