A vast majority of the public didn’t do this or know how to do this.

It failed because the PS2 was dominating at the time, and Sega didn’t know how to launch a console, even if they had a gun pointed at their head.

I love my network pork! Tastes like bacon!

No, the imagery was supposed to invoke the rave culture at the time. Lots of men, women, boys, and girls doing X, and the pills usually were white like that.

Bottom line is it FUCKING worked. The PS2 sold like toilet paper.

You really didn’t need the ads. PS2 absolutely dominated because they were the ones with the all of the huge publishers. Sega, Nintendo, and Microsoft couldn’t hold a candle to the sheer amount of great exclusives. It was only when Xbox 360 and later the Wii came out did the console wars start to shift.

This is just a description of a standard business model. Most percentage-based revenue or sales systems have lower prices for higher quantities.

It’s called the “bulk discount” for a reason.

I wish it would combine comments for crossposts. It doesn’t have to break per-server instance bans or anything like that. Just combine the comments for servers that are friendly with each other.

Right, but when companies go after pirated games, they are going after them because of copyright, not patents or trademarks. The way copyrights are enforced and the way the law works is a lot different than how it works with patents and trademarks.

There is no “use it or lose it” clause for copyrights. If somebody is breaking copyright, you still have the right to enforce it for a long as the copyright is still valid, and don’t have to vigorously defend it to keep it.

American IP law

IP and copyright are two entirely different things.

This thread never stops being relevant…

That’s WB in a nutshell.

They just put out a Smash Bros competitor with a ton of characters, voice acting, looked like it had a lot of promise.

…and it’s free-to-play. Which means it’s loaded with microtransactions.

Imagine being one of those guys who puts in all of this effort for a game that is doomed to fail.

Gonna wait until it comes out before I play or look at any of this stuff.

Whoa… I’ve had this on my wishlist for years. I was half afraid that it was just in development limbo. Didn’t realize the dev finally put out a demo.

This is the same guy that did Gunpoint and Heat Signature. Heat Signature especially was super inventive in its core gameplay loop. I’d expect no less from a tactical game like this one.

The animated screenshots remind me of some of the mechanics of Fights in Tight Places.

I basically did the exact opposite. I never press the upvote/downvote button, but I almost always leave a comment on the page whenever I have something interesting to say. I even reply to the replies I get. I have carried this behavior forward to Lemmy.

This is just natural. You want to comment on threads to conversate, even if you don’t really agree or disagree with the article. If you like/dislike the article enough, you’ll up/downvote it and comment on it.

No. That’s called Star Citizen, and it’s a scam at this point.

Like Fabio? Pretty much any depiction of a barbarian is some muscular dude wearing only a loincloth and his broadsword.

You can also see plenty of misogyny, non stop verbal abuse, etc.

Lemmy is basically a playground for 13 year olds with development difficulties.

I’m just going to highlight these two sentences, and ask you think really really hard about why this comment has more downvotes than upvotes.

Yeah, the format is that she repeats the second panel on the fourth panel, with more question marks and concern. This version is almost like explaining the joke here.