It’s that “if I can’t see it, it doesn’t exist” mentality. My cat acts like that, because she gets surprised every time something comes back into view and still exists.
JCVD (2008), definitely. Aside from that, no, most of the goodies are older IMHO. But some which are supposedly bad I actually really enjoyed, for example: The Quest and Legionnaire.
The devil will be in the details. They likely reduced hours to compensate, which they already do to avoid “pitfalls” like paying for healthcare.
Wal-Mart’s pockets are deep enough that they could have started paying living wages and made an example of it. Sales probably would have gone up, too. But they didn’t do that. Raising wages to a new poverty wage is helpful, but we shouldn’t confuse it with any real change in status quo.
I did love Aero. And Aero Snap was legit useful and remains so. macOS for whatever reason has had trouble implementing what I would now consider an essential feature: at least a basic ability to drag to the side of your screen for some basic tiling (yes… I know later versions have a “tiling” feature, but it is as if they looked at Aero Snap and said “wow, so complicated” and purposefully made it dumb).
It’s not actually about Early Access. It’s about Advanced Access – when you pre-purchase a game and get to play it before the official release as a perk.
Early Access games (=games where the dev knows it isn’t done and puts it in Early Access) already had the same refund limits as regular games.
Ah, sure. I never play online games so didn’t really consider that. Still, it means the player takes a chance with advanced access. That’s always the case, no? I know the industry treats it like a perk, but I’d argue that’s on the industry and not Valve’s policy.
Good way to kill my interest in anything, at the moment.
They claimed it was so we could have bigger worlds
All such claims remind me of SimCity shooting itself in the foot. Frankly I’m more surprised that the industry still hasn’t learned, but I guess it is to be expected since everything is now run by MBAs.
In spite of some of the comments to the contrary here, I really think this is fine. Early access is early access. 2 hours has been the ground truth for a while. It does seem like a loophole, and I’m fine with them filling it.
Edit: and it isn’t really about Early Access – it’s about Advanced Access, from pre-orders.
One of America’s biggest retail chains has announced it will stop selling DVD and Blu-ray discs in-store by 2025. Target, which sells everything from daily groceries to clothes and electronics, has confirmed rumours that it will sell DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K Blu-rays only at specified times of the year as well, as stocking...
I would love to see figures for this that factor out the general decline of brick and mortar sales. I do hope physical media continues to sell, but I think if it does, it will be a niche market that probably isn’t shopping at Target.
[Rumor] Deadlock. Next Valve game. Competitive third person hero-based shooter. 6 vs 6 battling on huge map with 4 lanes. Usable abilities and items. Tower defense mechanics... (twitter.com)
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Super Star Trek XIV Turbo HD Remix Anniversary Edition (lemmy.world)
Ok, jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org you wanted splits Jean-Claude Van Damme, you got him....
Google has an idea to prevent phone scams, but it'll mean allowing its AI to listen in on your calls (www.businessinsider.com)
Google promised to keep data from the phone calls private.
Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs, relocating majority of remote office staff (www.pymnts.com)
GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’ (www.nj.com)
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Windows 7 with Aero Glass, in my opinion, was the last version of windows that actually felt warm and comfortable to use. 8, 10 and 11 all feel so cold, sterile and boring. (i.redd.it)
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Steam Refund Policy Update (Playtime acquired during the Advanced Access period will now count towards the Steam refund period.) (steamcommunity.com)
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Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day (www.theverge.com)
Closing the early access loophole.
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Another hit to physical media as Target lays out plans to ditch in-store DVD and Blu-ray sales (www.whathifi.com)
One of America’s biggest retail chains has announced it will stop selling DVD and Blu-ray discs in-store by 2025. Target, which sells everything from daily groceries to clothes and electronics, has confirmed rumours that it will sell DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K Blu-rays only at specified times of the year as well, as stocking...