Yep, can't wait for this one. Still sad about Inkbound being wrapped up, but will insta-buy this based on both MT1 and Inkbound. These Devs are superb.

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UBI have been falling off a cliff since early 2021 - 4 years of continual decline. They're now trading at well below pre-2016 boom levels. I don't see how this cash injection is meant to create a 4x situation though. Particularly since they're only focusing on three well-established and done-to-death IPs (AssCreed, Clancy and Far Cry). Weird.

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I really enjoyed my time in this game, but sadly, it's never really recovered from being released too early. The 15K players dropped to 1K within 3 months and it's been hovering around the 500-1000 mark ever since.

I had 25 or so very enjoyable hours though, late last year, so it's still alive-enough. Just not teeming with players the way it probably should be.

I really hope they add the polish it needs to properly shine and steal some players back.

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If one good thing comes from the probable "enshittification" of Discord. Please let it be that IRC makes a strong comeback for chat.

Never gonna happen. Discord became popular because IRC is baffling and archaic to most people. I'd love to see the rise of a truly open-source voice alternative though that isn't also baffling to set up. I tried Teamspeak about 10 years ago and holy shit the options... and despite everything, I only ever got terrible voice quality. Discord was a revelation when it launched. It's just a shame that it's neither open-source, or improved in any meaningful way since its launch. IPO may well kill it, tbh.

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It's MS, so a name change should be expected around every 3 months or so. IAM is Purview, Azure Security Centre is Defender for Cloud Apps (not to be confused with Defender for Cloud, because who could possibly get that mixed up...), Yammer is Viva Engage, Privacy is Priva, Data Service is Dataverse (barf), ATP is Defender for O365, Flow is Automate, AzureAD is Entra... the list is endless.

Genuinely endless. In another 3 months, we'll have another 15 product name changes to remember. Or ignore. People at my work still use the old names for an insane number of their products. It's just easier, since they'll change again over time.

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Man, folk really love a 5x5 hero shooter, huh? I played a lot of the original Overwatch, and I have to say, I'm done with this genre now, but it's just keeping on going.

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When the experience of pirating a game is better than buying it legitimately, publishers have failed their customers by treating them like criminals.

It's baffling to me that publishers still think, today, that spending hundreds of thousands on Denuvo is a better or safer option than treating their customers like people and not scum.

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After all the Embracer crap last year, this is some fine news.

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Super cool. Love this.

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Absolutely magic interview - thanks for that! Game looks great too, so on the wishlist it goes for a suitable gap in my currently frenzied deck-building addiction (Die in the Dungeon, Fights in Tight Spaces and Diceomancer). Although considering it's only around £4, I'll probably pick it up anyway for later.

And for the record, since that first article you reference, the genre has always been "horde-survival" for me!

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