Feydaikin

I’m not what one would call a “user” by any means. I was just tired of Microsoft and their practices.

And I’ve had very little need for any kind of customization as the people behind my distro have pretty much seen to everything a “dumb dumb” like me need it for.

Plus, I like that I can find solutions for most of the small problems I might find with a quick internet search. And if that fails, there’s multiple forums where I can ask for help.

It’s been a most welcome change.

So thank you, Linux Wizards.

Yeah, I know it was unrelated. And I’m sorry for high-jacking your comment.

Just thought I’d add my own little “funny” when it came to writing. :)

my writing is so cryptic i am the only one that could ever understand it.

That sounds like my handwriting. And If written in a hurry, even I struggle to make sense of the mix of runes, hieroglyphics and child’s drawings I call my “cursive”.

Future headlines right there.

Poor Treebeard…

Isn’t the entire point of the newer versions of Windows just to force the engagement with applications you normally wouldn’t use?

If your company is successful, that’s gonna happen anyway.

If they took the first step and worked towards, or remained, independent and selfpublished, that would make it a bit easier.

But Bethesda, Obsidian, InXile and even Blizzard couldn’t sell their asses to Microsoft fast enough once the offer was on the table.

I get you want to support the Devs, but they kinda made their choice. They had independence, some quite successfully, but they sold it.

Maybe it’s time to look for new studios to support and help up to contest with the old buggers?

Probably because Valve doesn’t make games anymore. Not on any serious level anyway.

Most of their games are old as hell, and most of them where in the “proof of concept” relm. They only really made games to push the technology they were working with.

It’d be a poor argument to bring up their old catalog of games from 20 years ago as something that made them a worse company today.

It’s about more than just taking a 30% cut of sales. Everyone agrees that it’s a high price. So what else might the potential competition do that make them stand out as worse than Valve?

Also, overworked and underpaid Devs are a different matter. You have look at their Publishers about that. I believe Valves Devs are quite well paid and far from overburdened.

I think that, regardless of brand, most users just want the most basic (almost blank slate) OS that can run the programs they choose to install.

And that is close to, if not completely, impossible to get if you don’t have a mind for Linux.

I, for one, welcome Japanese George Washington, Indian Hitler and Inuit Ghandi to our historical database.

Nah, there doesn’t seem to be a problem simply writing nasty comments. Personally I’d prefer getting downvoted to hell than a ‘pile-on’ in the comments spewing bile.

Can’t we do both?

I miss the old pirated XP. Stripped and streamlined for your convenience.

You can’t tell me what to do! You’re not my real mom!

It’s possible they might bundle up all the expansions and make the entire thing “free” with gamepass. They’re all bought and payed for as it is.

It’d make it seem attractive and it costs MS $0. And they get to keep the monetization model that’s already in place.

Having their cake and eating it too.

The only ones eating the check, so to speak, would be everyone that already purchased all the dlc.

It seems like a appropriate mega-corp thing to do.

I am uncertain as to the cost/benefit projections for doing that.

Yes, they get to bump subscriptions a bit. But the game would effectively go f2p in the process. And anyone that already pays for both, will not add to any numbers.

I don’t know the current player count for WoW. Only MS can estimate as to it’s potential benefit.

My money is on them just migrating everything to their storefronts to begin with and then waiting to see what effect it’ll have.

I doubt it.

WoW is too old and there’s more profit in keeping the subscriptions separate. You might get a couple more expansions though. Whatever is in the works currently.

More likely they’ll be trying to bank on D4 and Overwatch to start with. Then, maybe, move on to something else.

Either way they’ll try to milk whatever newest franchises are out for as much as they can before doing anything. But current WoW isn’t likely to be a flagship for anything.

Activision has a ton of old unused IP’s under their name. Could be a treasure trove if handled correctly.

But have no doubt, Blizzard is part of the prize. It’s just a matter if MS can turn the current “climate” around somehow.