Quoting: TheRiddickAlso it has a coin shop which I'd hope is only cosmetics but wouldn't be surprised if there is a pay2win element. Either way cheaters ruin games such as this where everyone expects to be playing on a more or less level playing field, but ultimately aren't due to ineffective anti-cheating methods.

The shop is purely cosmetics from what I've seen.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeIs this a lot of fun? I bought the base game when it came out, but never got around to playing it. But have been in the mood to play a Civilization type game, but haven't the patience to play Civ6...

Sounds like it's for you, it's a fair amount quicker than Civ games while scratching that itch and different enough for Civ fans to enjoy as well.

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Quoting: LinasWell, this is a clear-cut case of copyright infringement. Valve just did what any sane company would have done.

Indeed. Apex Legends was based on Source Engine. So let's dump it into s&box and see what happens yeah? Similar story. People just seem to think because s&box is originally based on Source 2, that they can use any Valve stuff and call it a "mod". This is not how the world works, and it's been a real shame to see some prominent industry names have no understanding of this at all.

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Thankfully it has been restored.

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Updated with AYANEO statement, it's HoloISO, not partnership with Valve.

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It always strikes me as odd whenever there’s a monster catcher, people immediately wonder about Nintendo. You can’t own the entire concept. This comes up every time. Unless they literally rip Pokemon directly, it’s just another game.

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Updated article to note the AYANEO OS previous plan, and that I've reached out to both AYANEO and Valve.

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Quoting: dubigrasuSo AYANEO OS...whatever was called, what happened with it?

They must have realised it's better to go with SteamOS, than fragment things further.

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Quoting: SalvatosWorking in translation, another worrisome trend I’ve noticed is content farms not just using AI to write articles, but to translate them, so we’re seeing tons of poorly translated content filling up search engine results in content farms with country-specific domains (e.g. "english-sounding-name.fr"). Logically, the AI is going to continue to get trained on junk content that it (or another AI) wrote or translated itself and perpetuate, if not amplify, the errors in it by seeing them as commonly used. A race to the bottom indeed.

Duolingo recently [External Link] did this. Translations now by AI, with only a few checking them over. Expect more of this sort of thing over time.

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Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: Liam DaweThey give a nice interface and a way to grab them, but they're still dependent on whatever packaging system they have linked in behind them

Just a small side note (and apologies for being a techgrammarnazi:tongue:):
Snap and flatpack are not just packaging mechanisms, but these are rather app containerization techs. And this makes them a bit different from rpm/deb/aur/whichever older packaging system. :wink:

Oh I am aware of how different they are, but this article wasn't a place to dive into the deep mechanics of them :P

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