AwesomeLowlander

There’s like 2 FAQs linked by OP, you could have looked at them…

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq

Hoo boy. Day 1 (of EARLY ACCESS!) and it’s already MTX galore.

Right. I see there’s no logical discussion to be had here. Have a good day.

My question was very simple and limited in scope:

Would the impact have been any different if they had used photoshop?

I did not make any sweeping comments, and I would appreciate if you stopped trying to claim things on my behalf.

Fuck knows. It’s not like I made any such claim, you just decided to put up a strawman argument.

Since when could someone do this … with a couple of clicks and zero training, for free and on any device?

You know, somebody probably said the exact same thing about Photoshop when it first came out? Back when cutting up photos and pasting them together was a thing. Then again, somebody probably said the same thing about the advent of photography too, during the days of woodcuts and oil paintings.

Would the impact have been any different if they had used photoshop?

The game is released, for a certain amount of money. If people don’t like what they get for their money, they simply should not buy it.

The problem does not lie with gamers. It lies with ‘AAA’ developers who publish unplayable cashgrabs that need years of bugfixing before reaching a playable state, thus leading to expectations of ongoing development. Not that Early Access has helped in that regard.

It’s never been on sale, but the price HAS gone up multiple times since it was first launched in alpha.

There isn’t even any risk, considering the amount of detail they’ve covered in the dev blogs.

The warnings are self-serving, not the AI

If it helps, I agreed with your 1st 2 points. You may die with your dignity half intact.

“Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity”

The full quote is “UNLIKE self-serving warnings from Sam Altman or Elon Musk about the “existential risk” artificial general intelligence poses to humanity”. In other words, they’re actively denigrating Musk and Altman, and you’ve taken the quote entirely out of context, in direct opposite to the original meaning.

What article did you read, seeing as there’s nothing from Musk in there?

The execs are certainly living up to the crazy portion of the name

Why btd 5 over btd 6?

Just picked up Bloons 6, (~$1, 90% off) for those who like tower defense games. Lots of unlockable content and metaprogression, if that’s your jam.

I meant their app store, as per this article

Ooh, ooh, do the nintendo switch next!

There’s a lot of irony here considering how so many Japanese companies have a track record of pulling this kind of shit themselves.

Problem is how much it costs after the DLC