Chailles

Seeing as the studio hasn't said anything, it's not looking good for them. In this situation, you really don't want to be the last one to say anything.

I don't think I understand why it even needed to be mentioned. The type of person who is going to dismiss a game purely because it doesn't live up to another game isn't the kind of person who is going to take this advice to heart.

And no matter the costs to make a game, it's not going to stop people from trying to make a game like Baldur's Gate 3 anyways. Just look at any game that tried to copy Skyrim. It's a very highly specialized game in a very well known franchise and takes several years to make, often longer than most development periods for other studios.

Activision owns the Prototype IP, don't they?

What you described isn't FOMO, that's just curiosity. Just checking out a new popular app and then just not using it due to a lack of engagement.

Not always. They might have a limited download, whether in amount or in time.

I mean, it's less about the coins and more about something that has an equivalent monetary value being wiped without any compensation whatsoever.

The Free-to-Play is done well when you reach a point where you just leave multiple completed weapons/warframes in the foundry. Until that point, it's kinda of a miserable experience waiting for them to finish.

Yeah, I had a similar experience. I got my phone directly from Samsung, so it's also likely it might have just been the Carrier that did this.

You really can't believe you can put it in a microwave while holding it , but it is genuinely great. A bit long to heat up, but I can't complain when you get a nice toasted sandwich in exchange.

Oh. For a second there I thought it was going to be like "Tofu only refers to a specific kind of compressed soybean and you've got other variants like 'Sofu', 'Kofu', and 'Tafu'".

Surely, I can't be the only one where that came to mind?

Didn't Starbound get rid of their procgen creatures? Actually, I just looked it up, I guess they're still there but the not-procgen creatures are just everywhere and they were heavily reduced compared to the original versions of procedurally generated creatures.

If the formulas were so successful, everyone would be doing the same thing. I'd argue that Golden Age of Video Games is more so now than the far past. It's an Age where anyone can make a video game and be recognized as being among the greatest games of all times.

Also, companies definitely take risks. They take a lot of risks, it's just that a lot of those risks don't necessarily play out and we never really hear about it. If you only focus on the largest companies putting their entire company on the line, then that company wouldn't have been so successful in the past anyways. Risk doesn't make a game good and honestly, with stuff like Game Pass these days, developers are way more likely to make riskier games when they don't need to make a return on that game to actually keep going. For instance, Pentiment by Obsidian, in their own words, would have never been a thing if things were as they were in the early 2010s.