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Interesting that they would bother making the game with that perspective on the financial side, but we can agree to disagree.

I’ll maintain cautious optimism but the video game industry has definitely let me down plenty of times, and companies have ruined their reputation for a mere pittance - does not mean anyone will do it on purpose, just that making video games is difficult.

That is comforting to hear about the studio, the Expanse Dragon’s tooth earned 1.4 million with 12k backers on kick starter, and that was in my opinion with little marketing, seems like enough for a cash grab to me!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/boom-studios/the-expanse-dragon-tooth-reveals-the-missing-years

I looked up Owlcat games, agree their previous projects seem to be liked, but this project looks VASTLY different from what they have made previously, I’ll keep my hopes up though.

Also, see their recent release “Rue Valley”…

I’m hyped because I love the source material, but worried this is just going to be a cash grab from loyal fans… Seeing as the comic books exceeded their funding threshold by a large margin, I could see other industries trying to cash in as well.

Hopefully this is a well thought out quality game, has anyone done any playtesting who wants to talk about it?

I was under the impression Canada included sales tax in their pricing since usually people from the US are mocked for not having tax on their prices, the more you know!

Oh I thought Canada would have it included, interesting!

State+local sales tax at around 7.5% (weighted average) takes it to 480 USD (sales tax in the US can be 0 in a couple states, but is usually much more), canada appears to be winning this competition!

Edit 1: Apparently Canada doesn’t include sales tax in their prices, so North America is just special in general, I wonder if we can get Mexico in this coalition.

Edit 2: Mexico has declined to join our coalition.

they got too greedy, why would I buy a system with games that expensive? Maybe once the library is full and there are people reselling their used copies for cheaper I’ll jump in, but for now I’m holding the line at 60.

it was actually 200,000 times slower!

I’ve got a fiver to throw in!!

Honestly I’m a little sad, and its stupid… But I wanted to share.

I have never once set… foot? inside the metaverse, but I always envisioned it ending up like the Oasis from Ready Player One (great book).

I think the concept of VR could have such crazy legs if they just get the treadmill/walking situation fully ironed out, and at a reasonable price point.

yeah that comment is kind of tone deaf, appealing to American’s who are clearly under strain and factually fighting a cyber and information civil war, while not even discussing any shared responsibility to create a back up or alternative… Thanks guys.

How about you guys show the receipts of how much you have personally donated to both? American here, I have donate to Wikipedia yearly (not much, but I always do).

I feel like this lack of shared responsibility is partially why we’re in this mess.

that is comforting to hear, I had not heard any further details about the deal. Curious how it turns out for everyone.

except it will contain lithium ion or other dangerous battery tech, albeit in a small amount, but its still a childrens toy.

that changes the math… a bit…

thanks for the update, glad its improving, hope we reach a tipping point for the hardware side cause the way things are going sucks for the general person.

Yeah I think a government sponsored program could actually draw a lot of votes, I know Ms. Harris briefly touched on this with her 20k for small business start ups, but its kind of off mark from what I was proposing.

lol five years

I have legos from 1994.

Kind of sad how low the bar is for our expectations these days…

I remember setting up Mindstorms to alert whenever a door was opened, so we could specifically stay up all night reading and know if our parents opened their bedroom door… Simpler times!

Mine definitely does, disables applications and will lock the screen on update demand if you go long enough. At the bottom of the tv says it LG.

Yeh I’m aware of employee owned and co-cooperatively owned companies, but in my experience those are often used as marketing buzzwords.

I think video game development could actually be a space where this could work, but with the saturation of indie and low effort games, a golden opportunity may have already passed.