Quoting: GuestActually, "Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially."

Translation: Making AAA games costs money.

Google must have been really shocked to find out. It was such a well-kept secret that making AAA games costs money!

And...I dunno. EA and Ubisoft seem to be quite successful making AAA games and Google is 100 times (or 1000?) richer than these two companies combined. *shrug*

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Quoting: TheRiddickand also have more local server access points

*cough*

I have a really super local access point for my games. It's called a SSD. The latency is absolutely fantastic, I tell you!

*cough*

Ahem. Anyway... I really also fail to see how Google basically burying what Stadia was meant to be would somehow be good news for fans of cloud gaming, but they seem to argue as if it somehow would be. Denial mode much? The simple truth is more likely that Stadia is dead in the water and Google is cutting their losses. Games tailored for cloud computing would have been the ONE selling point for cloud gaming. Like Super Massive MMOs with photo-realistic graphics. Stuff that just won't run on your own PC, ever. Otherwise there is like -zero- point in cloud gaming. Who wants to play World of Warcraft on a smartphone anyway, or why would I hog my bandwidth if I can install the same game locally and for the same price? People are going to continue having gaming rigs at home, so really, what's the point? Cloud gaming is more likely to become the next VR: A big hype touted as the future of all things, that ends up sitting in a very small niche.

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Quoting: hardpenguinIf it wasn't for Unity being the current industry standard, I would love to spend some time with Defold and Godot as well 😢

If we go by marketshare Windows is the standard of consumer operating systems yet here we all are using Linux. You should use what you want to use regardless of what the lemmings are telling you to use.

I would interpret the original quote more in the direction of "If I am looking to work at a studio, they're more likely to want Unity experience than Godot or Defold". Which is probably true.
If you're a one-(wo)man studio you're obviously right. I looked at Unity and couldn't wrap my head around how art-centric its processes are. Godot is much more up my alley (and I don't have to read a novel-length Terms of Usage document either), so that's what I am using.

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Just to clarify, it's free to play until the devs deem Covid to be "under control", but then you have to purchase it to continue playing? Or is it free as in you-get-to-keep-it?

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Quoting: Dribbleondo....aaaaand here come the conspiracy theorists...

Don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to be against market concentration. Having a clue about economics is enough.

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It's kinda sad when thinking that Valve and Paradox are the last two major publishers still supporting Linux natively...

For me personally it's even more sad, because while I do a lot of business with Valve, I never cared about their own games much. I am just not into shooters (or really anything First Person) and I wouldn't touch that toxic hellhole that's the MOBA community with a ten foot pole, either. And VR is out of the question for me and my motion sickness, too. So unless they're coming up with something dramatically different from what they've done in the past, I am likely not going to care much.

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Quoting: KimyrielleFINALLY they're going to add MP3 support. About time, really. MP3 has been a free format since about 2014 and like it or not, is still used about 99% of the time for compressing audio files. There was never really a point in NOT supporting it.

I don't get it.
MP3 is dead! Or, I was told so [External Link]. Do you imply I was lied to? :shock:

There are far better codecs around than MP3, but MP3 remains the most widely used, by a ridiculous margin. And if your project is using free/licensed 3rd party music assets (like mine does), chances that these will be MP3s are very, very high. It doesn't help me that OGG is better, and more efficient, and perceived as "more free" by open source proponents, when not supporting MP3 will regularly force me to convert one lossy format (MP3) into another lossy format (OGG), which is what Godot was doing until now by not supporting MP3. When there was no sound (haha, pun!) reason to since at least 2017, and arguably longer.

Anyway, glad that it's a thing of the past now! :D

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the challenge was tough and that's what put a fair amount of people off.

This is really something I never quite understood about the gaming industry. Why limit your potential revenue by catering to only one type of audience, when all it takes to be more inclusive and thus more profitable, is adding a difficulty slider?
I belong to that group that enjoys difficulty in small doses, so when I hear a game more or less bragging about how hard it is, I stop reading right there. And often enough these are games I'd otherwise enjoy. Their loss more than mine, I suppose. But still strange.

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FINALLY they're going to add MP3 support. About time, really. MP3 has been a free format since about 2014 and like it or not, is still used about 99% of the time for compressing audio files. There was never really a point in NOT supporting it.

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Quoting: DorritI have few doubts that soon, this year probably, we'll have a financial/economic crisis of epic proportions; something to make the Great Depression feel like an appetizer. It'll be interesting to see how it affects the software landscape.

Off-topic, but I wonder why you think that would happen, when there isn't the slightest indicator of a collapsing major economy anywhere on Earth. Despite almost a year of pandemic and lockdowns, the US unemployment rate is hovering below 7%. Yes, we have seen massive shifts in employment away from restaurants and entertainment sectors towards...well...Amazon and food delivery services, really. New jobs have been created while others got lost. Yes, some people still got hit hard, and I don't want to sugarcoat that. But many countries in Europe and elsewhere would be happy to have JUST 7% unemployment even WITHOUT a pandemic going on, so there is that.
And while governments racked up huge deficits in 2020, at the same time, interest rates are so dirt cheap right now, that it matters very little. With near zero interest rates, chances of state bankruptcy of any major economy are a good approximation to zero.
Even the housing market is super healthy. The pandemic made many people re-think the appeal of density (I guess it must suck being ordered to stay home in a tiny apartment that's designed to be just a place to sleep). And the lack of opportunity to waste money on bars, restaurants and related activities has left people at the higher income brackets with MORE money to spend because of the pandemic, not less. So there is a significant demand for better and larger housing, again contributing to a robust housing sector.

TL/DR: Not going to happen.

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