Ugh the constant attempt to monetize mods is exhausting. Not everything has to be commoditized and commercialized!
But to Bethesda, it’s a dream: the community creates content for their game, and Bethesda gets to collect 30-50% of the proceeds of their labour!
The tech may remain sound but what studio would trust them after the stunt they pulled this year? They could change the terms of service at any time and you’d watch your projected revenue go up in smoke when they decide they deserve 10% of your annual revenue.
The fact that these can be made by a single person is no less impressive though, and farming views is maybe a motive but more importantly this person is showcasing their skill at manipulating the UE editor.
But yeah there’s no “game” here.
Textures are an important part of modernizing old games like this, but animations play significant role and those are very difficult to touch up. So you can have an 8K texture pack on top of a game with animations from 2008, and the immersion going to break immediately upon your character taking any action other than just walking.
I think the way Epic sees it, young players probably just push Play: they don’t browse around the launcher. Now maybe that’s because there’s nothing worth browsing TO, unlike Steam where you have a community hub, a discussion board, sometimes a Workshop, and then the store link, plus you have the news updates and little discussion pieces.
Epic just like Valve probably track mouse movements and mouse clicks with the app and know what we interact with and for how long. So they probably know that when I’m scrolling FF7R community hub photos/art, my scrolling slows on particularly thirsty images…
Given that then, maybe Epic isn’t bothering adding some of Steam’s features because they already know what users are interacting with on EGS.
FWIW I would buy games on EGS if: the price was much better than Steam; it incorporated Steam Input or equivalent; it had Big Picture Mode; they had a Linux native app.
You can run most non-steam games through Steam, and if it’s a game that’s also on steam, you should be able to use the Steam app ID to find game specific mappings (though I haven’t personally done this).
This works, either the app id or entering the exact Steam game name as the shortcut name. Then you can view official and community bindings, apply them, or save them locally.
Agreed, but its Ubisoft’s tent pole franchise, they’ll milk it like disney milks star wars.
Kingpin was thoroughly mediocre all those years ago. I don’t understand the appeal of remastering this game… how about Starsiege: Tribes remaster? I’d be all over that one
They’ll offer $90USD for a 3-fan Gigabyte RTX2060 6gb. Vancouver has some Gigabyte 2060 cards listed for >$200 CDN, so Newegg is undervaluing my card by 50%. I guess the trade off here is I don’t have to barter but… I’d sooner list it myself and get the cash.
My wife and I stopped playing due to the aggressive playerbase, tho actually my greater beef is with those players who act nice at first and then sink your ship, spawn camp, and steal your loot.
We got at least 150 hours of play together, so we did last quite a while. I’d like to play a cozier game though, so this will be nice once available.
Same lousy physics engine though.