That sounds great tbh

The game had a really rough launch, I’m not surprised you got that impression if you played it back then.

I’d give it another shot, everything from gameplay to graphics has been overhauled since.

I see, I’m definitely biased towards micro services after years of dealing with horribly made monoliths but I see what you mean.

At the end of the day I think both approaches have pros and cons.

Micro services are a lot easier to scale out since they behave independently from each other, you can have different levels of replication and concurrency based on the traffic that each part of your system receives.

Something that I think is pretty huge is that, done right, you end up with a bunch of smaller databases, meaning you can save a lot of money by having different levels of security and replication depending on how sensitive the data is.

This last part also helps with data residency issues, which is becoming a pretty big deal for the EU.

I somewhat agree but I find that the added complexity is segmented, you shouldn’t need to care about anything but the contracts themselves when working within a micro service.

That means less code to take into account, less spaghetti and an easier time with local testing.

Micro services also have a ton of advantages at the infrastructure level.

Exactly! Monoliths can work in theory but, in practice, end up becoming bloated messes since it’s just easier to do so.

Not at all, LoL’s lore gets retconned so often that Arcane is basically it’s own thing but with borrowed ideas.

It’s really not, you’ll be thankful you have it once the system grows too big.

I mean, RTS is never going to be that kind of mainstream again, it’s too complicated and can’t be monetized in the way that something like a shooter can.

Are we going to pretend Age of Empires 4 doesn’t exist? The last expansion outsold every single one from AoE2.

Yeah, you end up with a game where everything dies in one hit, including yourself.

One of their best studios just gone while 343 fails for over a decade straight.

That’s just false, you’ll end up with Payday 2 where everything is so broken that enemies need to nearly insta kill you from any range to have an actual challenge.

He took one for democracy

The launch was awful but they never had DLCs or loot boxes. The biggest controversy was the subscription service.

That’s absurd.

Fallout is one giant US critique so it makes sense, there’s no need to leave when there is so much that could still be told within it.

That would do the opposite

Don’t be an elitist, taste is subjective.

Apu’s wedding, right? When he still wants to cancel it but actually meets his future wife and changes his mind.