Good post, I would add be very mindful of your data, the trace you leave looking up topics about resistance or protesting and such, the purchases you make. Those can all be used as proof of "plotting" or whatever by current or future governments down the line. Don't communicate on big platforms that don't care about you. Don't ask how to make sensitive stuff to ChatGPT and such.
I mean if you liked the game and enjoyed the developper's work I feel like that's worth paying them a coffee unless you truly hated it 😅
Overall good article with some inaccuracies but the answer to the articles question is to me an easy no. The whole industry won't recover because its an industry. It follows the rules of capitalism and its a constant race to the worse and while good games by good people happen on the side, they happen in spite of the system. Everything else is working as expected and will continue until you pay per minute to stream games you rent with intermittent forced ads and paid level unlocks.
I'm still not over how they ruined Rocksmith. The first two were amazing games, they improved my skills so much and I had so much fun playing them. And I kept waiting word for a Rocksmith 3, because the team behind it is amazing so I was really hopeful. But then one day without ever hearing of it being announced I stumbled upon Rocksmith+ and that's when I realized this is where the license had gone to die, in a shitty closed Ubisoft online subscription, a shadow of its former shell. I hope one day we get a better spiritual successor that isn't in the hands of such a trash company.
This is actually quite a poetic picture I like it
He's also the piece of shit behind Jeepers Creepers which is why despite them being okay horror movies nobody brings them up anymore
And this isn't even to scale that's when it gets even sadder
Don't forget the programming socks trans girl programmer
That is such a shitty move. Forcing subreddits to go back up is one thing, but as a european this feels very wrong from a data ownership standpoint and I'm not sure it's ok in the GDPR rules?
No mention of alternatives being in the spotlight that's a bit too bad
Web 2 was when the buttons got gradients, Web 3 was when we removed them for flat again
This was a beautiful article I feel I won't be able to unsee the font now and the photos were great