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I honestly thought it was Java again, but it's a really smooth game, a great boon for Godot!

I hope they don't overhire and struggle to finance it privately.

It's not free to play because they are being generous. It's because it enables the most exposure to the most predatory model.

Would they have made the same amount of money with a paid game? Probably not, most free to play games know they arent interesting enough to sell like that.

Selling the game after the fact is just gross, not them being nice. The trend that needs to start is any online games just being playable offline from the start, or for free in the end.

Or we wait for legislation to hopefully force this, without any extra purchases needed.

Unless you are buying DRM-free, ownership isn't implied for any game. They don't need the money to make the game playable offline, that work has already been done, charging for it is just trying to get one last cashout.

Hey that game you've been playing all this time, them purchases you've made, well if you want to keep playing, you have to pay us!

Silly question. They haven't made a game for free.

Live service games exist to extract as much as they can from people through the form of MTX. They should use that money to plan for the eventual shutdown of their game, not then ask people to pay for it. Just make it paid to begin with and scrap the in game purchases.

No. They can't prey on people with "micro"-transactions and then ask for money to get a game that should have been playable offline anyway. That's abusing the live service, free-to-play model for as long as it benefits them and then also asking for the price of a game afterwards. Let's not let them set a precedent here.

The nice thing about Pixelfed is that there are no "big names". It's like old Instagram.

I honestly dont want the fediverse suddenly overrun by the masses, I think it's better as it is.

I wish they would enable matchmaking again. CS2 was such a downgrade.

Same, I could map everywhere I have visited more than once (real life or virtually), not just where I have lived!

GrapheneOS so far have been very particular about what they want. I dont see that changing unless they got a lot of money under the table.