Oh.

Welp, my opinion still stands, even if this isn’t the right context for it.

Hmmm, that does seem weird that they wouldnt be putting in DRM. I guess I’m on board with it. They do make super solid games. I hope this showcases what can be achieved by games that do t include DRM at their core.

Anti-cheat in single player games never made sense to me. Maybe if it includes microtransactions, then i guess i could see a use case, but like, if I want to cheat at your single player game, what use would there be in stopping me?

I really like your way of explaining that.

It still feels dirty, but when is war and geopolitics ever actually clean? I feel a lot more heartened that this was the right choice after reading your response.

I understand the sanctions part and wanting to head off any potential state interference with projects like this, but “infosec reasons” feels very hand wavy.

I think I’d be a lot more comfortable if we had seen malicious/bad faith actions/communications or maybe some more specific and tangible reasons to suspect them being compromised on the part of the Russian maintainers before they were just removed.

Like, I don’t want to sound like a corporate shill, but Valve has been the most consumer friendly corporation I’ve ever seen. Even if they do meet the criteria for a monopoly, they are the model of what a company that finds itself as The Monopoly should be, in my opinion.

I have no intent to sign up for this “lawsuit”, even though I stand to gain some $500 from it. I hope Steam lives long and prospers.

Haven’t played Origins, but I’ve spent a lot of time with Odyssey which has my highest recommendation.

From a friend who’s opinion I trust, I’ve been told Origins is the less fleshed out version of Odyssey. He says that Origins started Assassin’s Creed on a new RPG focused track that really just worked for Origins and Odyssey (he claims they biffed Valhalla).

Just blew 2 hours of my life on this game.

Can confirm, its solid.

Obligatory Shattered Pixel Dungeon recommendation.

You can get it on the F-Droid store, but there’s also a bunch of other versions (some easier some harder) in the main google store.

Medieval setting plus the similar sounds of “Bannerlord” and “Manor Lord”.

I realize that was a total mistake to assumed that now.

Good to know!

Good to know, thanks for the feedback!

Is this just a Mount and Blade: Banner Lord ripoff? Kinda sounds that way?

I’ve wasted too many hours on Shatter Pixel Dungeon.

You can get the source for OG Pixel Dungeon off GitHub, but there’s a maintened version on the F-Droid store (Shatter Pixel Dungeon). There’s some other free versions floating around too, not sure if they’re on the F-Droid store too, but I know they’re on the play store.