yeah the 10/30/45/45s delay is not actually a queue, in fact might actually be extra burden to the connection/login system where given enough player "waiting" they are triggering themselves with massive amount of login requests.
there are already PC utility the generate self invites without modify the game or inject.
I hope it works fine as last night was really smooth, however weekend is not guaranteed for sure.
Hate to say this but what a big blob of BS because the ownership class find out pretty early that if no one else is making money to buy the shits they make, they can't make more money. (We will skip the pre 1900 slavery scenario, as they can just force you to work and just keep you alive is enough as slaves are "production equipment" like cows/horses. )
People generate value if they do or make something other people want, currency invented to cover that value gap so supply, demand, skill and rarity, efficiency and many different quality of your work/product/service decides how many $ you get when people want your service. At least, that's how it all should be in equal footing. But since money == power when the scale goes up, since ancient time successful merchants holds a lot influence in politics and cause unbalance in wealth distribution. They can only push it so far until they get hunting down and stuff taken, but usually by other influential political/business figures that does the raids.
Having said the above, a lot of small and medium scale business owners values their employees a lot, especially those that truly have the skill set that compliments their business. And, do I need to remind you to do a bit of study of history, the invention of machines, tele-communication and then the boom of computers(especially general purpose ones), yet global population keeps going up and up instead of all starved to death cause the jobs these past things replaced?
And, just to do a quick review of how much people hates the automated phone support menu system transition from traditional to modern voice recognition ones. Or how many internet goer hates the auto generated useless pages plague our search result and provide nothing useful, waste our time click and read just to serve some ads? Yeah, like many worried before, what if computer replaced our jobs? Well, they need people to make the computer work. AI isn't going to be fully automated and self improve, we are pretty far from that. many successful model needs guided training, and usually prevents additional feedback into the system to avoid degrading the performance.
Capcom is testing it and see if it would work, and if you find the website that describes the tech it's basically a encryption container + virtual machine(for whatever code module you decide to put into that, don't know how much customization is that.) probably works in a way to prevent current straight de-compilation tools because it's inside a sign/hash checked vm. I wouldn't doubt that it works well for some word processor applications, but for games it's gonna be very pita, I don't even know how they are gonna profile their shipping build properly.
I hope Capcom have some senior engineer get the numbers and then tell the dumdum that said this is good idea to eat his words or maybe just avoid this shady looking product. (use a container tab)
https://www.enigmaprotector.com/
It looks exactly like those spamming computer protection, optimization, virus removal, shady softwares.
vs the infamous Denuvo
I honestly don't know why any one would have approved this "trial" run.
take a very big fistful of salt when reading those data mining firms. They might have paid access to dbs from steamspy or steamdb but as we all know they are not accurate reflection of actual sales etc, only steam and the developers has those data from their analytics.
They are trying to sell you charts and predictions, they are not there to provide accurate information if you read the charts or * carefully.
LOL, most followed in a prediction chart, they don't even know you can buy follow/wishlist as marketing strategy.
cause you would then have to dispatch a 3rd party audit to make sure Gabe isn't reading from a teleprompter that his lawyers prep to answer any questions on the fly. You can prep your script "before" but not during, once you are on the stand you are on your own, subject to the court rules, etc.
Yeah, I don't get it, the 2nd one is also kinda meh compare to what other contemporary games were already doing at the time. (tech/style/game mechanics). Like yeah you don't have to follow the trend, but it still feels like a quake era game in the Assassin's Creed era(don't know what other games to better show the 2010s open world trend).
lol, exactly why I wouldn't renew end of year.
I wonder how many are actually in union to gain that bargain power?
Look how Justine Bieber dropped off the radar over the years you know even the teenagers will come to their senses after grown up. The current gen teens all witness how China treated HongKong(almost 10 years) and how they deal with covid(<5 years), then more recently how they deal with the flood. They probably have to bank on future teenagers, like no fuck up or political attacks against Taiwanese for another 10 years then they can try again.
Honestly economical assimilation/control might be a easier way.
yep, I've know player that dumped like a couple hundreds on 1 said he is not going to pay a dime on 2. (well he had said that thing following some balance patch in 1 as well but still keep playing, only 2 cemented his claim. now I don't need to hear him complain. :D)
Yeah, decentralized is the default state of internet, you can always be disconnected from the WAN like some countries decided to do for their citizens. It wasn't this connected in the first place, it was very volatile as servers can go down for whatever reason, that's exactly why early servers have all those mirror options.(so you bookmark several address and visit another if the main one is down.)
And finding good community was a hassle but worth it. It's the same for fediverse but now we have good protocols and search function/engine.
I got AC:Odyssey during one of the sale cause I dig Greek mythology, had to get cheat engine and spare me the grind for upgrading gears and ship. Like sure you can just keep picking up randomly dropped Epic/Rare and replacement them when you leveling up(there are even player quest that put in specific spot to give you resource for those upgrades, just so other players can farm it) But I ain't get any time for that, I just cheat engine in max out resource and upgrade my Legendary gears I found through out the game. And you know what? By the end of the game(and I didn't find every Legendary, like maybe 60~70% of them) it would take me setting the resource to max twice to fully upgrade all my legendary + epic(with perks I like) gears. It would take probably months of my gaming time should I got it on console and can not use cheat engine.
No, upgrade gear is not required to finish the game. But after this experience I decides to never get another Ubisoft AC game nor any RPG on console or with always online feature(which means all transaction are done and authenticated to prevent cheating. ) I've done plenty open world, RPG, Monster Hunters without having to cheat. But the recent single player grinding + selling time saver booster pack make me whip out the cheat engine again. And I only cheat those stupid resource gating game that are designed to pad hours in to your play through.