William

To add to that last point, I worked for a company (at retail) that claimed to know that keeping customers was cheaper than getting new ones, and corporate even implemented a policy where the clerks on the floor had up to $100 to keep a customer happy. I never once saw that $100 used, and the one time I tried to keep a customer (who had just spent $3000) happy, management refused to let him return a crap $100 printer because he didn’t have the manual in the box. He had left it at home, and was glad to bring it in next time he was in. Nope. And that incident was within a week of implementing that system.

So even when a company understands that point, it’s still really hard to make good on it at the levels that it can matter.

Well, I’ll give it a shot.

Part of it is that they can’t know the point that someone is willing to stay vs leave, and they’re always optimizing for that point. Saving money is always the goal for expenses in a company.

Part of it is that they have a budget that they can’t exceed. Sometimes a person is overqualified for the job, and the job simply can’t afford them. Sometimes that person will stay far longer than they should, when they could get paid much better elsewhere, and sometimes they choose to move when they’re only slightly underpaid for their skills.

Part of it is that there is more to a job than money. Being comfortable, un-stressed, and generally happy is more important at some point than more money. The company tries to balance these things, as it’s often cheaper to relieve or prevent stress than pay someone to put up with it.

In the end, it’s super complicated, but all about money, on both sides.

I think this happened to me as well. I had something pop my FEP film, and I replaced it, and tried a couple prints, but really didn’t like the whole resin experience, so I sold my printer.

When the buyer got it home, he told me the screen was cracked. We weren’t sure whether it happened in transit or not, and I’d given him a pretty great price on the thing with a washing machine and a ton of resin, so he decided he didn’t want any money back.

After learning more about resin printers since then, I now think it was my fault and I feel bad about it. Either way, I’ve definitely learned to check the major components before buying or selling something.

I think it’s mainly trolls that post “dead game” on games that are essentially (or wholly) single player. If you’ve got a live service game that people are saying “dead game”, then you should worry. Otherwise, ignore the trolls.

I have the game and a real powerwasher. The game is a lot more enjoyable, though less productive.

People have been trying to make Blender have some basic CAD functionality, but it’s just not there yet.

I admit I haven’t tried https://www.cadsketcher.com/ with it yet, though.

IMO, you didn’t get unlucky with the K1M or lucky with the P1S. That’s the normal state of printers. Most printers are hard to dial in well, and the Bambu printers work like a dream out of the box. Luck is involved for anyone that didn’t start in those states.

It gives out free Steam items that you can sell to other suckers. Sometimes it gives a valuable one. It isn’t a game, it’s a money-maker.

You can never get to “fully 3d printed” unless you can print metal, and even then the tolerances just aren’t there yet.

But if you want a 3d printer that’s as 3d printed as it can get, why not look at things that were designed for it, like Rook or Mulbot or The 100?

A torrent link won’t either? In either situation, the site needs to seed their own data, at a minimum.

And “100 developers working on it” doesn’t mean much when they’re unpaid and there’s no lower limit on how much they have to actually contribute.

That was highly specific language. There was no miscommunication. They were inappropriate. They were not misleading. They said exactly what they meant.

Also, "All terms will go live only when both parties have discussed and have agreed.” ? Hah. The vast majority agreed last time! It was only a vocal few who didn’t agree, and there will always be some who don’t agree. That’s such a nothing statement that I can’t even believe they said it.

Play and completed it on PC GP. It was short, but fun. I only ran into 1 game-stopping physics/control glitch. Quitting and loading again fixed it.

What I’ve heard from gamedevs is that Linux games are their lowest sales and their highest bug reports. Some of that may be from working on a system they aren’t used to, but it just reinforces the idea that they aren’t going to make money there yet.

Is it a “review bomb” for complaining about a legit problem with the game that stops you from playing?

I agree! Which is partly why so many people were surprised and excited that Bethesda took this challenge on. They failed at it.

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. They clearly skimped on the content for all those planets and handwaved it away as perfectly normal and expected, when it clearly wasn’t good. Why? To add breadth without adding time to the development. To “increase their output” without adding more input.

It clearly didn’t work there, but it could have worked with some decent mechanics and a little more thought into the content. It worked for No Man’s Sky.

Luckily for Bethesda, AI has suddenly gotten a lot better, and they’ll be able to use it to generate a ton of content that feels better than standard old procedurally generated content. That is, of course, if they can manage to work it into their tooling for their ancient engine.

As a wannabe game developer, I plan to use UE5 and take advantage of the deals that Epic offers for selling on their store, but not the exclusivity. I would actually like to launch there, so that my first sales get me as much money as possible, instead of some storefront, but it’s basically game-suicide to do that.

I wish Epic would smarten up about all the complaints about their stores and exclusivity practices and realize that gamers would use their store if it just had the features it needs. They aren’t as entrenched in Steam’s store as Epic believes. Especially after all the free games that Epic has given away already.

As for “Alan Wake 2 dev”… Wake up! Trying to frame this as a “woe is me” situation is ridiculous. That game had a ton of hype before it was even announced, and failing to capitalize on that is the dev’s and publisher’s fault, not the consumer. A Kickstarter would have been nuts if money was what was needed.

I started playing 76 for the first time. I got it for free at some point.

At first, I was inundated with ads for the monthly fee thing. When I got into the game, it took me through a tutorial and then asked if I wanted to be level 2 or level 20 w/ pre-set perks selected from a few sets. I took the latter.

I was initially fairly impressed. It felt very much like Fallout 3/4/New Vegas, except that VATS didn’t pause time, IIRC. Which sucks, obviously.

I got through a few more tutorials and was setting out from my C.A.M.P. (which you place wherever you want in the shared world) and was about a mile down the road and the server disconnected. I found myself back where my CAMP was placed… But no CAMP! Someone in another instance had put their CAMP too close to that spot, so mine couldn’t go there any more and was back in my inventory.

But back up a step. I was a mile down the road, and a server blip put me back at CAMP, losing my progress.

I exited the game and uninstalled. I’m playing 4 again.

You know he’s on Youtube as “Fully Ramblomatic” on “Second Wind” channel now, right?