Sadly, microtransactions are how you make money these days. Remedy made 40million with this latest one and calling it their greatest success, but it’s a fraction of the 24 billion that went into mtx only on pc this past year. Remedy is also much smaller then EA/Ubi and iirc privately owned, so the secret sauce may instead be good game + small overhead + no shareholders demanding infinite money.
Edit: i stand corrected, Remedy is publicly listed.
The disk is likely more cost-effective ( if only they’d continue to manufacture them ). Flash memory also degrades a lot faster than disk, especially if not read periodically.
Not sure what the fuss is with this story. Nvidia is no longer in the business of producing gaming gpus and hasn’t been since they hid away the division’s revenues. Do these people want to hear a confession, or what? They won’t get one because nvidia still needs to pretend to shareholders that not all their eggs are in one basket.
Fucking finally! Now let them fight.
Mfs do you think this is a game ?
But seriously, he’s not entirely wrong. Steam is an established monopoly and while now it’s fine as a platform it will inevitably enshittify and at that point it will be hard for customers to drop steam for a better alternative (if one will even pop up at all).