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I’m not a developer. Just explaining why projects keep within their scope and don’t bloat their software with features, which in turn take more effort to maintain.

They have their scope. It’s a video transcoder. Programs are better suited to doing their job well rather than stretching themselves thin with loads of features.

Halo 2 Anniversary should have kept the old sounds. A lot of the art was done in the shitty Halo 4 style too instead of the original Halo style. Blur absolutely smashed the cutscenes though.

I am fine with remasters, but most end up as remakes and are insults to the originals.

Absolutely and yeah Nintendo are the worst for games, ridiculous how they release old games at the same price as the new ones.

You are correct there, but I felt the PC community was a lot more patient and less willing to pay large amounts for games. They did however spend in their own games, MMO subscriptions, DLCs etc. It’s more the initial cost of games that we were more likely to object, but MTX has always been a problem since it’s introduction. League is selling a $500 dollar skin, the fact people don’t quit over things like that existing just shows how much we have succumbed.

I feel console generally buys whatever latest thing is marketed to them and they play that. PC generally tries the new thing then slowly they return to their comfort games they have been playing for 10 years.

The PC community has slowly shifted towards buying/preordering ‘full price’ games and succumbing to micro(macro)transactions in the same way console markets do. But I don’t think buying a whole other device is on the menu for most.

Likes and the like should be public, then there’s no tampering and people who like the insane shit can’t hide that fact. Dunno why people are still using that platform regardless.

Not that big of a deal to me personally, the app is still brilliant and open to the community. But given the community this is posted in I understand the concern and alternatives like Organic Maps are great for that.

I see, that’s very useful for lower end devices then. If I ever need voice, I’ll stick to OSMAnd then for now.

I like OSMAnd’s visuals, very simple and configurable. OM seems to just be material design. Subjective of course!

What are some reasons as to why I would want to use this over, say, OSMAnd?

The world is great to explore. Lots of hidden goofs to uncover, but yeah, you play New Vegas for story.

The one before the ‘next gen’ update.

Still haven’t updated to the new update. You just have to swap an app manifest file, takes 5 seconds.

I’m not sure why people with modded setups updated, I guess they had yet to learn that lesson.

That says more about the core gameplay than the community feature.

You are right, it does provide something. I just personally don’t value it over a more typical online co-op setup. I just wish options weren’t scary and implemented more.

I present to you: Helldivers 1.

Its just an arbitrary mechanic added to justify an always online requirement. Helldivers had an offline option. There’s still a game there without the need for “community involvement”, the missions etc could be completely random or seeded for people who dont want to connect to a server.

Its always sad to see potential great games ruined by greed.

The game should be offline co-op anyway (and P2P). So many co-op games just made ‘always online’ for the sake of MTX.

Also has a con, “advanced access” is just another dogshit way for publishers to farm money from people with their “deluxe” editions. By having people be able to refund could discourage this practice.