Wait, what do you mean about the pity system? It’s identical for between Genshin, Star Rail, and Zenless.

I think it’s, what, like 90 for 5 star, 10 for 4 star. Standard and Limited banner tracks their own counter. Pulling on one doesn’t reset the other.

Armies in 5 and 6 are kind of underwhelming. Maybe a compromise of having terrain have unit capacities, with various units taking up more space.

They were also much simpler and smaller back then with often extremely limited specification variations. And DRM existed back then too, with some fairly egregious and infamous physical DRM checks.

One of the DLC is just a better version of the camp item that you can’t find in-game.

Wait a minute, hold up, this wasn’t in the game unless you have that?

Oblivion’s Horse Armor was probably the start of DLC though, maybe. At least with consoles?

The availability of the item in-game doesn’t matter. If anything it’s availability in-game being “not that big of a deal” just showcases further the scumminess of it all being that purchasable item exists only to scam people by tricking them into thinking any modicum of money is worth a one use item.

And even then, if nobody complains about it, then they’ll still continue on as they will. They’ll do so regardless, of course, but at least you can say that there was pushback of some kind.

There’s a mod right now that adds the item you need to change appearances to a vendor for like 10 gold, so I’m not really sure what cheats it’s preventing exactly.

The problem is that those two things look exactly the same without the added context that you can’t fit into an easy title and people won’t read the details anyways.

You don’t need that degree of anticheat for MTX.

It’s the same version, just different numbers. The update for Xbox should be out by now, I noticed there was an update for it a few hours ago.

And it doesn’t run as dogshit as ARK proper

Or even Pokemon proper.

Isn’t that practically the same as all games in general?

Not to mention that Steamworks DRM is practically non-existent anyways (and that it also wasn’t necessary to use, it’s rare, but some games just don’t protect their game with any DRM).

Or better yet, just don’t use Adobe products. Staying in their ecosystem is how they end up getting money anyways if that’s what you know how to use.

While true, that’s not exactly relevant when it’s a choice between losing a lot of money and not losing a lot of money.

I can’t really comment on the earlier consoles, but those are some pretty biased comparisons.

The GameCube is more powerful than the PS2, but then the Xbox was more powerful than the GameCube. Then you have the Wii. But then WiiU being more powerful than a console coming out 6 years prior? What kind of argument is that?

The argument for the Switch doesn’t prove anything when there’s very little investment in the handheld console market when the Switch came out. And also, who cares if the Switch’s successor can beat a decade old console? I swear, my phone probably can run a PS4 game based purely on its processing power.

Playing on the Steam Deck for a few weeks and then picking up a Nintendo Switch, it felt like I was holding air.

I was kinda sad that failed.

On the other hand though, say you’ve been writing a web novel that could be sliced up into 3 separate books or you just have 3 books that’s only now getting released. You could release them over time or you could choose to have all 3 go up at once. Not to mention as a first act of defense, it’s a reasonable action to make and is easily adjustable later on.

There’s probably other reasons why someone would release more than one book at once that’s completely understandable, especially when considering what technically counts as a “book” such as translations or a company publishing titles of multiple authors under one name,