Even if it’s not an MMO, player count can be a very strong indicator of enjoyment/income at a given time. Even if it’s a single player game, player count can show how popular a game is on whole. If a 5yo game still has engagement numbers above newly released games, it’s strongly correlated with studio income/gamer trends.

They can base future decisions on what they did correctly/incorrectly, and develop their next game/dlc/etc with those lessons learned.

Release a game that has nobody playing after a month? Crapbasket. Release a game that has well into a million players despite the age? Fucking masterpiece.

Satisfactory. It’s been in early access for a few years now, 2019 I think? At the beginning of this year (2024) they announced the next update would be the 1.0 release. I’ve been playing it on/off for years, especially recently with all the strides they’ve made in development.

The game is like Factorio, but presented as an FPS. You get dropped onto a planet in a pod straight out of Halo: ODST by a space-future megacorp called Ficsit, with the goal of harvesting the planet’s resources for Ficsit off-planet divisions.

I have almost 1500hrs in Satisfactory since I got it, there’s no shortage of gameplay. Coffee Stain (devs) have been posting videos regularly, updating the community on new/discontinued features, revamped recipes and production rates, and even just being silly as much as being helpful, to the point where Coffee Stain is my go-to example of good devteam-community interaction.

Oh, and it also has a really good modding community, so if there’s anything that’s not in game, that you want in game, it’s probably already been made by one or two modders.

Even the non political .ml communities are full of power-tripping, ban-happy, thread-nuking tyrants in my experience.

I’ve been censored/shadowbanned in a couple .ml instances for calling out their overzealous comment-nuking mods. Not even political in nature, just seeing threads where 80-90% of the comments are ‘removed by moderator’ and commenting how suspicious it was.

Then they removed that comment, and after taking a screenshot of the new comment calling out that, I got shadowbanned and can’t even vote there anymore.

All good, she passed a few years ago. No longer mourning, just tugged my heartstrings a bit.

Your cat looks exactly like my first cat. Sweet girl lived 18 good years by my side and your picture has my eyes tearing up. 🥺😭

Eggman is his actual name though. When it was brought to America it was localized as ‘Robotnik’ without the creators consent.

As far as the creator/developers are concerned, Robotnik is the ‘stupid moniker,’ as you put it.

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Man I been hyped for this update! I never played Helldivers, but as an ST fan, I loved that it parodied ST. I still remember when Helldivers 2 came out and the servers shat the bed, so everyone came to check out Extermination, then the population died once Helldivers fixed the servers.

Hopefully this update brings people back, I grinded max level during those two weeks, and I can’t wait to saddle my SAW extended mag with me to other classes! Aaaaauuuugh patch had to come out on my cousins birthday didn’t it?!

To give two sides of answers to your question: I played the early MK games on the Sega Genesis, and I would say start where you want.

As others have said, the new canon for the series starts with the 2011 game. But honestly, the 2011 game is very similar to the OG games. If you only played the OG, then the new games will only be a better version of what you played up until that point.

If you only played the new ones, it gives prominent backstory to various characters, and the gameplay is almost identical. It’s a great starting point for newcomers.

Biggest difference is that the new games try to make everything one seamless story, the idea being comic book multiverse things, where in one universe, Ryu isn’t the God of Lightning, but a simple student at the temple. Stuff like that.

TL;DR: There’s no bad place to start in the Mortal Kombat games.

oh I don’t live there so it’s not my problem

First, they came for my friends, and when they asked for help I said, ‘it doesn’t affect me.’

Then, they came for my direct neighbors, and when they asked for help I said, ‘not my house not my problem.’

Then they came for me, and there was nobody to ask for help.

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Beautiful cat! Looks just like my first cat, Silver.

Ah makes sense, I never played the NG games, but when I would talk to my friend about the OG DMC games, he would tell me about NG, so I had assumed it was more like DMC (in the sense that getting hit twice wouldn’t kill you unless it was a boss).

No, although it looks like the combat is inspired by soulslike games. It’s made by the team that made the Devil May Cry reboot, which had pretty fun gameplay despite Capcom demanding that the story be an edge lord’s wet dream.

Somehow, some way, RDR2 was a finalist for Steam’s ‘Labor of Love’ award. I was shocked.

For anyone unaware, the Labor of Love award is for games that “came out a while back, but keep getting better through updates.” (ie No Man’s Sky, Cyberpunk, etc)

It stands for “Original Poster,” and from my understanding it’s situational. Like during a comment chain it would be the original comment. I could be wrong, but that’s how I’ve always interpreted it. /shrug

So what you’re saying is that, if given a choice between being barred/denied entry over pot use, people will instead just go to places that allow it?

Not sure I’m seeing the difference between your point and OPs comment.

His greatest political opponent just “went missing” (from the prison he was being held in) and “nobody knows where he is now.” Russians have been watching their population get ground into meat by what he originally called “a military exercise” that’s been going on over six times the time estimate that he set, and he’s actively making it so nobody can leave Russia without smuggling themselves out.

He wouldn’t still hold office if he was playing fairly, so yes, he is that weak domestically. Get fucked, Vladolf Putler.

It’s a repost/crosspost bot and the admins/mods don’t care to fix, disable, or ban it.

I haven’t blocked it yet but I’m thinking I should.