That's in "3d print your own because the market (outside of China) won't manufacture and support such a niche unit" territory.

(Or the "just use your damn phone" which would probably be said by some tone deaf ppl)

Unfortunately, he followed the logical impact of your decision (even at a micro level). You would do well to think about it.

Silly :3

Isn't Don't Starve Shipwrecked (and by distant extension, Don't Starve Together's Return of Them update) their RAFT-esque takes already?

"Guys, the jewels, go get them."

"I don't know much about rocks, but I know what I like, and that is rocks that sell."

• Bain (Payday 2)

"It's a funny fuckin' world we live in, eh?"

• Hoxton (Payday 2)

3d printers? Pipes, nails, and cordite/fulminates?

Factory built firearms I can believe, but I don't believe that the populace would be incapable of constructing their own, nor would be unwilling to if push came to shove.

It is a modern phenomenon, but there is no effective way to fully disarm a population without vetting and restricting the imports and purchases within the entire economy (including the internet/communications infrastructure), which I'd imagine the UK doesn't want to do.

I've re-bought games on GOG before just to have that backup DRM free copy for piece of mind, and to use for machines that will never connect to the internet :)

It's a bit of the shopping cart paradigm: no one is stopping you, but it's a bit of a dick move since GOG literally allows you to keep perpetual copies for yourself forever.

Also, because of that exact scenario, many high profile steam game publishers are wary of being sold on GOG - and I suspect this exact instinct in the community is exactly why they are going to avoid the platform as long as possible. Even if it's a repack, it's a lot more work to find that release than to just use a GOG installer, and that ease of piracy scares them.

The finals =/= Arc Raiders (The finals has been released since 2023 and has been actively updated to the present day).

They are developed by the same studio (embark), but Nexon is their parent company now. The reason I left the future ambiguous is because I don't have access to their internal planning.

With that being said, none of the updates or available purchases within The Finals have had P2W or predatory elements for 2 years, so I'm inclined to believe they will stay on the right track.

You can check the FAQ on Nexon's or Embark's websites (official site ran by Embark) about Arc Raiders if you want to see their plans in writing:

Nexon site

Official Embark site (Check bottom of page)

From my experience playing the Finals, it seems the developers have quite a good grip on creative freedom and how they monetize (the only exception is the cosmetic battlepass "upgrade" for additional superfluous cosmetics), and there haven't been any elements of P2W that I witnessed.

The developer behind this game (Embark Studios) is trying to push the genre forward with new gamemodes and approaches to combat design.

Like the Finals has it's own unique gamemode (Cashout) that doesn't really exist anywhere else, and is a ton of fun with the amount of unique encounters you can have throughout the game (with the fully destructible environments with physics allowing you to completely up-end the map layout). There's no "one answer" to solve a problem, and while mechanical aim and good listening for the enemy players will obviously help you, you'll need to change your mindset from the shooter status quo because the objectives and combat can flow quite differently.

Arc Raiders is still in testing, but it's designed to be an entirely 3rd person extraction shooter with an emphasis on sound design and careful maneuvering and movement (make too much noise, you attract a robot or a human's attention. Move too slowly, you may be leaving loot behind or losing out on a good position like the high ground). It even features Uncharted style mantling and climbing, which I absolutely adore.

There is a lot of shooter slop these days, I agree. But these guys are definitely trying to change that.

Wait why does he look like Linus Torvalds