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2K can actually release a functional game though. The problem is they get greedy after the fact.

I mean I sort of agree, but I’ve both used custom engines and seen people trying use custom engines and you have this problem where the engine was designed for a game, rather than for any game. So if the original game didn’t have a particular feature the engine has no capacity to do that thing, so every time you want to make a new game in that engine, you basically have to rewrite the engine.

It works if you build an engine to be an engine, but as you say that’s extremely expensive and time consuming and you probably am not going to get any benefit out of it. You could try selling the engine, but you’re unlikely to make much progress unless there is a significant improvement over the other options already available.

I don’t understand how Sony would allow a game on their platform that doesn’t actually run. Like surely they will require to provide some kind of advanced copy for them to review?

If your engine is crap then you don’t get brownie points because it’s custom.

After all, Starfield is on a custom engine, and it had exactly the same problems as Borderlands 4.

Hang on I thought the complaint was that there was no content moderation, but thanks to the democrats there is content moderation. So what’s your complaint?

Presumably there were some native Americans in that part of the world by that point in time. I wonder what they were doing.

Yeah, if trumples is still around by the next election they will try for a 3rd term with all the fun times that will bring.

But if he’s dead/has been trundled off to a gar gar home (he’s 99.5% of the way there anyway), then I think they’ll have a hard time of it.

Yeah but I would have known thwy had released because they would have been advertising or something. I don’t feel like anyone’s spoken about Borderlands since that comment about how it should be $90 or whatever.

I thought steam banned those kind of games.

Well they do say that’s why betamax failed. I think in reality it’s fairly was a bit more complicated than that, but it can’t have helped.

Will probably have an actual galactic empire before this game releases. Assuming they never does release because I’m not convinced that the guy isn’t totally in on the idea that it’s a scam.

I have an issue with the idea that Borderlands is dominating gaming news. I didn’t even realise it had launched so I wouldn’t exactly call it popping off the shelf.

People need to be compensated for their work, that may end up being an awful lot and probably in excess of what they need, but that’s how it has to work. Any other system would just disincentivize people from putting in the effort, in fact it would force them not to because they would have to do something else in order to earn enough money to live. The precise opposite of your desired outcome would happen, the rich would produce endless amounts of content just to more money, and all the smaller artists would have to go and get a job in Costco or something.

The only way your idea would work is if we completely change the economic system and got rid of money. Which I’m all in favour of but I suspect is probably outside of the scope of copyright law.

That isn’t the problem.

Copyright law does run out after a while it’s not immediately upon the holders death but after their death there’s a grace period and then the copyright runs out.

The problem is the likes of Disney get special treatment. Their patents should have run out long before any of us were born and yet they didn’t.

The problem isn’t the system itself, the problem is the abuse of the system.

But ot does work with foliage though.

Maybe they think they can do a better job, but it definitely does work with plants. It didn’t used to, when it first came out it was limited to just static objects, and it didn’t work on terrain at first which I was thought was a weird restriction, but it works on pretty much everything now.

Well you can do that but then it isn’t going to run on a steam deck, whether or not you as a developer think that’s a problem depends on what hardware you are targeting.

But you’ve still got the problem of file size. I’ve noticed that if the asset is really big you actually run into streaming issues when loading it in. It looks fantastic, but you probably don’t want your rock to take 10 seconds to load in. If you go look at the matrix demo you’ll see they have a lot of asset reuse because of that.

Nanite isn’t magic it’s neither going to enable you to just throw in 16k resolution textures and just not worry about it there’s always going to be a trade-off. But it’s insane to say that it isn’t a useful feature or that you should never use it.

Just because it can load in high quality assets doesn’t mean that everything has to be 4 billion polygons. You use it sparingly for where it will make the most impact. That doesn’t mean that a mountain in the background that you’ll never get near has to be of the same quality.

I don’t think that’s really the engines fault.

Yep along with Fusion.

We’ve had years of this. Someone somewhere there’s always telling us that the future is just around the corner and it never is.

Most mobile browsers will let you force desktop mode. So if you want to you can do that.

McDonald’s mobile website is especially bad with folding phones (first world problems) so I have it constantly enabled for that site.

I’m pretty sure Firefox does that as well. It’s a pretty standard thing although it is annoying when you’re trying to test something and you actually want all the extra bits.