WoW did set out to be massively popular with a gameplay style that encouraged daily play.
PUBG lucked into the popularity by getting the scale and pacing correct for a large audience.
Both also seemed to benefit from server issues causing an ‘exclusive’ thing that means people lined up to get in during peak hours. Popularity can breed popularity, especially when the games are fun.
Who watches the same movie every day without watching something else in between?
Game distributers set their expectations on the most successful games, so they want to beat World of Warcraft and PUBG on player counts.
Same for me, and I have had better luck with enjoying early access games than most full release games. Valheim is the stand out example for me, but there arena couple others with hundreds of hours of fun! It also helps that indie early access games tend to be less expensive.
Then there is the case of Multiversus, which was way more fun to play in prerelease than it is now. On top of that they cranked up the intrusive monetization, so getting to the less fun gameplay is a slog.
Then there is Tekken 8, which launched ok and then added a shitty shop and annoying seasons shortly after release. It also seems like the networking has gottenn worse.
But every early access game where I was clear on expectations has been fun and always feels worth the money.
Italians and their foot fetish!
It explains what it does, it does not confirm that it is what was intended.
The user is always right about what they are willing to spend money on. That doesn’t mean they know what they want, although a lot of people don’t want to change.
That doesn’t mean all change is good, and it isn’t like any UI will ever meet everyone’s preferences. For example, I hate adaptive design interfaces that are significantly different in confusing ways on different resolutions. Like I understand switching a static menu to an expandable menu, but not moving the relative location of certain buttons from the bottom of the screen to the top or vise versa. But that might make sense for some use case that isn’t how I interact with it.
For me zooming out changes it back to red.
At the size it is on my phone screen it looks very red. Zooming in makes it look like the red switches to white.
…half the wearer’s remaining health rounded down.
On average, being more attractive means being more successful. Being successful leads to more money. More money leads to being able to afford more food, less stress due to more economic stability, and more access to better healthcare.
Obviously not 100% guaranteed, but kind of obvious when looking st averages.
Nah, they just have a bunch of myths about the evil homo sapiens abducting their alien babies.
It is homo phobia.
There’s a difference that I just can’t put into words.
I think it is more about the fear of receiving harm from “others” outside their local group and placing the blame on those outsiders. Like blaming Gypsies/Travelers and other nomadic groups for things when they are around, or the antisemetic hatred based on myths of being society manipulated by Jews.
Pandemics remind people that there is a world out there that could affect them negatively and they want a group to be a part of and people outside that group to blame.
Obviously not universally true for all people, but a significant portion.
Is anything other than sexting referred to as inappropriate when a minor is involved?
Huh, I thought cats were a liquid.
Pretty busy at the moment, I’ll get back to this later when I have sone free time.
This kills the joke.
A coup is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors.
Tekken 8 didn’t have an early access that I am aware of, and I have given a Not Recommended review on steam because of the shop being added post release. The Tekken situation is not an early access problem, just a greed problem so I might have caused some confusion as an example of games having sketchy behavior even without early access.
Multiversus is free to play with predatory monitization. The beta was free, but you actually got stuff by playing a somewhat reasonable amount of time. During the beta they increased the amount of time and people complained, so it was kind of surprising that they did the opposite of the early access feedback on release.