Aside from bad chat experience with players that I don't believe I had any control over, the mechanics and graphics of the game are really good.

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I only played through Kingdoms & Castles one time from what I remember, but I definitely liked it. This new game looks like it'll be good as well.

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I'm skeptical of the Linux experience due to the unreliability of the Master Chief Collection when trying to play the campaign with friends. It works like 20% of the time, which is enough to make you believe it's possible, but 80% of the time you are just getting frustrated, wasting your time, and wishing you could get it back.

As to the game itself, yeah, I'd love to play it.

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What is the only universal definition of a leader? Someone who has followers.

A bad leader is better than chaos, so I hope the vision of "collaboration" this group has understands how to make decisions when not 100% of people involved agree with everything all the time. And, pure democratic (popular vote) decisions are unfair to minority opinions. All these things need to be handled somehow. Why does someone stick around when their ideas aren't included? It's because they know they were listened to and considered. It's because there was enough discussion that they can understand the reasoning behind the decision they didn't choose. It's because they have hope future ideas will be treated with the same consideration. You can't always attach that feeling to a whole group of collaborators. In my anecdotal experience, you can get that feeling from a final decision-maker leader or from a small group, but not really from a large (more than 5 'core' people) group.

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I wish I could play this one. :cry:

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I would play the latest Battlefield if I could, but I can't. The end result is I haven't played EA games in years.

I'm interested in what happens due to this, but I don't fear losing anything not already lost.

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They need the extra CPU speeds for the spyware.

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Once the first goofy charge comes to my bank account, then there are going to be some serious barriers put in place.

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Aww, no multiplayer is a bummer. It's so charming. I'd maybe still pick it up if racing against AI felt more rewarding.

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This is purely about AI, a bubble I wish would just hurry up and burst already. There will be no focus on desktop builds, only data centre. Any benefits to desktop will be incidental. If Valve use an Intel/Nvidia SOC in their next SteamDeck I doubt I'd buy one. I really do hate AI that much, and I just don't have any enthusiasm for supporting NVidia, a company dedicated to burning the planet for the benefit of AI - going so far this week to announce that green energy can't support their ambition and fossil fuel reactors and nuclear power are the only option. I don't even consider myself particularly green, but that's a new low.

Cool; someone already said what I wanted to add -- AI is not as capable as business marketers say. Is it a tech revolution? I'd compare it to the scale of VMWare's virtualization of servers, Google's original web search engine, or maybe Docker's implementation of container workloads... really big, yes. Vital or even helpful for everything? Nope.

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