RitualClarity

Yea, it took a few minutes to find the video above you about this. It is crazy. Nothing has been done yet. Nobody seems concerned that EA can go bankrupt as other heavily leveraged companies do (people raid an company leverage it to the heavens promise the world and then default and the company goes belly up) They, many of the videos that I had to sort through, are panicking about the possible loss of their access and major changes to rules and or game play mechanics and possible future expansions. More so than the very real possibility that this company is toast. I wasn't aware of people attacking Paralives and zOI. then again I don't do much with the gaming news anymore. Anything important will pop up in a Discord chat or a site that I go to like here. Then I can check things out if I desire.

What? What in the purple hair is going on? April 15th? What. What in the plumbob are they all smoking?

https://pptr.dev/examples Interesting.

After fully watching the video I believe it might be sligtly, slightly more than Steam is reporting for linux. There are some like myself that haven't used Steam in Linux. They want the windows experience (being able to play windows game without any challenges no matter how small). I know and have met more people that use Linux for their main daily driver and fire up a gaming machine for gaming. So that might have raised the amount of linux users. It isn't scientific but it does make sense. Windows is pissing off people. There are many that will try Linux just to get away from that crappy OS. There are many more but they aren't sure and afraid of linux so they don't move over. Met these as well. Helped them out where I could without becoming a live in support person. lol. ( for those I suggest Fedora immutable OS's. Bazzite being one of them but Silver blue and others to choose from. These you can't really break. Not like you can with Linux and you can restore to the old image if you do. Need maybe 4~5 maybe 6 total commands at the max the rest is done by the OS and for most of those, you don't really even need that. ) Linux Mint for those that want to experience Linux and want to learn it. Get into it and understand it.

There was an article that stated that Linux A.I use was what pushed it over. Can't find the article now. It was suspected this happened but no real evidence. Also a side comment. Youtube is shit. Now I have to log in just to watch a video. Prompts to open up my history and everythiing else but actually showing me videos. What it was good at. What it became famous for. What it is built to do. Just when you think Google can't be any more shitty, they create new ways.

Dam. I still have the old Halo and it is great. Watching this is so different. I haven't played much if any of the Halo releases after the original. The game was great. It had much of if not all of the needed ingrediants to be successful back then and even more so now with all the culture wars. What makes this even more sad is Baulders Gate was released more than a year ago showing that get rid of the bullshit and you will be greatly successful.

He is a classic example of failing upwards.

Interesting follow up. I believed hositng is pretty cheap even at this level considering the pay back. I believe you are correct with the added cost for bug fixing and curation. I doubt much work goes in to the curation except perhaps a check to make sure it doesn't host maleware or something (software). As for bug fixing I'd imagine they make the creator fix the bugs. There is another "cost" as places state that they "support" the modders. However, how far that happens is anyone's guess unless someone comes forward and talks. Likley they have a NDA on their contracts with Bethesda. The added profit is there is new "DLCs" (lol) for customers to explore. Used as a stop gap to the extremely long time between releases might be a benifit. I've met some people that have no problem with Bethesda's Creation Club and use it and even like some of the products there. (Disclaimer, they are new to the franchise coming from the popularity of the Fallout Series on Prime and likely are used to microtransactions etc. )

27 million for work they essentially free money. What the bandwith and some hosting expenses. What else would this project cost them?

Personally, I view the remasters like warmed over dog . I believe if they "remaster" these games they need to truly go in and rebuild the game from the gound up. Update the graphics. Update the engine to the newest one used for the Elder Scrolls 6 or Starfield whatever. Update the tools. When remastering, they need to go back to the roots of the game. Restore cut content now that computers can run the assets. For example FNV split up New Vegas city. They can open it up, restore missing or cut side quest etc. Flesh it out a bit. That would be a remaster worth talking about. Not slapping some graphic over the top and calling it a day like they did for Oblivion. Hell, they even told the community not to mod it. Talk about stupid. Nobody is talking about the remasterd Oblivon anymore.