It’s a surprise to no one that Square is disappointed in sales numbers. As the article says near the end they are infamous for being disappointed with not meeting very unrealistic targets. I don’t own a PS5 to play it on, they haven’t been in stock locally consistently. But from everything I’ve seen about the game, it’s a middling to good game. So middling to good sales numbers should make them happy. And from what I can tell the numbers say that it’s selling better than that.
I’d be willing to bet that the game will be available in a compressed format from a repack site with no content loss. At least 30% smaller. A recent example that I just checked, Forspoken, Original Size: 103.9 GB Repack Size: from 63.6 GB
Before I had an unlimited connection for monthly bandwidth usage I would frequently download an already purchased game from the repack site and then have steam “repair” it. Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War come to mind specifically. Saved so much of my limits at the time.
I picked all three of my names, the first was by looking at common names from the year I was born, I just browsed baby name books until I found one that I liked. The second is the name of one of my favorite book characters. The third is a derivation of words out of a conlang that means something special to me and sounds vaguely “foreign” to anyone else.
Back to the office here. A 50/50 time split was better and allowed for fewer office interruptions to get things done (and there is a legitimate need to be on site 20-50% of the time). But the powers that be don’t like not being able to micromanage badly in person, so here we are.
I don’t have a problem with admins having discussions with Meta. I have a problem with those discussions being off the record or under NDA. We thrive on transparency. The secrecy is the problem.
They aren’t going closed source though? Just not providing source to everyone. But everyone who gets binaries from them still gets access to the source code. Unless I’m missing something?
They don’t have to modify Activity Pub directly to cause chaos. The likely order of events that everyone is worried about it the 3E’s.
From wikipedia’s entry:
My two favorites are chili powder + sugar and curry powder.
Tinker Simulator. Comes with any and all DLC and complexity you could ever ask for.
Love what I’ve played so far. Struggling on the increased difficulties, still struggling to get my first Orange win.