Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: BeamboomSo what genre is technically simpler? Text based adventures?

What's simpler, writing a fantasy story or a biography?
What's simpler, painting a still or a nude?
What's simpler, playing in a jazz band or a metal band?

Don't understand why this is being upvoted. It's blatantly obvious that certain genres of games are (on average anyway) much harder to create than others. MMORPGs often have $200m+ budgets and necessarily require massive teams to get them done within a reasonable timeframe (5-8 years), whereas visual novels can be made by one person on their free time and still be released within a couple years or sooner.
Your analogies relating this topic to traditional arts made no sense either, you framed that wrong. Painting a still or a nude does not make a difference in the amount of time or effort needed, you're right about that. However, compare the process of painting in hyperrealistic style vs. painting in a more symbolic african style. The former is obviously much harder to pull off. Same as performing Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture as opposed to a simple pop song crafted with synths.
Note that this doesn't mean the simpler products/works of art are inferior, they're just simpler. We can all think of a million examples where those are the better ones.

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Quoting: Lord_PhoenixI don't know, to be honest, this is barely a mobile game, so will anyone miss it if it won't make it to the platform?

That's one way to look at it. The way I see it, it's worrying that even some Visual Novels refuse to make Linux ports now. These are the simplest games you can make, in technical terms. And yet here we are. It seems our community is seen as so tiny and irrelevant that we're not deserving of even the slightest effort from the devs.

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I wonder if Microsoft would ban extensions for "hate speech" like Mozilla has in the past. Probably not.

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Quoting: slapinWell, there is very big difference between receiving negative comments and being banned - when people have a chance to talk out of the problem they eventually solve it or agree to disagree, but when one side is constantly banned for what they say you remove all the discussion and all chances for a problem to be resolved.

Oh, the problem is definitely resolved on their end. I call it the Genghis Khan method.

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Quoting: TMM

Quoting: Baemir"Don't be a jerk!" SHOULD suffice, if the mods/admins are reasonable when making their judgments. By adding a metric ton of specificity (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, I've even started seeing "sinophobia" lately which honestly just makes it sound like the community is owned by the CPC) you're not adding more "tools" IMO, but rather turning your sufficient and straightforward rules into a blatant, sprawling political statement.

In an ideal world everyone agrees on what 'being a jerk' means. In this world we probably would not need a Code of Conduct at all. However in the world we currently live in this is not the case. We have created a set of community rules that describes what kind of community we want to have. In our case it is one where racism, transphobia, homophobia etc. has no place.

There is of course the paradox of tolerance. If you are tolerant do you need to be tolerant of the intolerant? Our Code of Conduct neatly answers our community's point of view of this matter: You do not need to be tolerant of the intolerant.

It is just not possible to cover this with just saying 'don't be a jerk'. As we needed to define what we consider 'being a jerk' is.

I don't know if I can put this in clearer terms than Patola has, especially considering English is not my native tongue, but I felt I should say something. First off, the "paradox of tolerance" is not the end-all be-all of the entire field of Ethics. Real life is a little more complicated than that. Just because you choose to believe in a particular principle or axiom doesn't render the rest invalid, and it doesn't make your choice of principle any better than anyone else's. Secondly,

In an ideal world everyone agrees on what 'being a jerk' means.

I feel like people are just as likely to agree on what "being a jerk" means as they are to agree on what "racist" or "sexist" means. Is it racist if you make fun of white men or call them fragile, weak incels? You'd certainly think so, but a big chunk of internet denizens disagree. Is it sexist if you make sweeping generalizations about men supposedly having easier lives or all sorts of innate privileges? Again, I'd say it is, and a whole lot of twitter users would say it isn't. They would say it's just FACTS. REALITY. Much like the Opus Dei regarding the existence of the Lord.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: psyminI'm more concerned about non-contributors finding a contributor's Facebook page and using the contributor's personal opinions and personal habits as a reason to evict them from the community.

I am pretty sure if they start over-policing the CoC in places where it by no sane reason ever should reach, there will sufficient backlash by the community at large to make it stop. I do agree that it would have been better to define clear limits to where and what the CoC will apply, but I can understand that they wanted to give themselves a little leeway to be able to act when they feel it's needed.

Honestly, I wish "Don't be a jerk!" would be the only CoC humanity ever needed, but as we all know there is no much toxicity around that we need sufficient tools to snuff it out.

"Don't be a jerk!" SHOULD suffice, if the mods/admins are reasonable when making their judgments. By adding a metric ton of specificity (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, I've even started seeing "sinophobia" lately which honestly just makes it sound like the community is owned by the CPC) you're not adding more "tools" IMO, but rather turning your sufficient and straightforward rules into a blatant, sprawling political statement. Let's be frank with each other here - when you see those sorts of rules, do you expect anything but a group of far left, extremely biased people as mods and admins? It doesn't help that mods in online communities tend to be power-hungry douchebags to begin with, the political charge just makes things worse.

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Quoting: lectrodeI never got into this game as much as I would have liked. It took forever to figure out how to finally get a non-xbox controller to work with the game (workaround [External Link] may no longer be needed...haven't tested in quite a while). There were other small issues as well.

Looking forward to seeing what improvements and new content they add to the game.

With all due respect... why would you want to play a first person shooter with a controller?

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They really shot themselves in the foot by rewriting the DirectX rendering system. Had they avoided that, chances are the game would have been ported very easily, and possibly to more platforms too.

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These interviews are always so discouraging.

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X: Rebirth. Got it with both DLCs for $8 on GOG. Great graphics, performance is good too except for some hiccups when entering highways. But if this is supposed to be the most newbie friendly X game, I don't even want to know how the older titles play.

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