Works fine on PC with an ad blocker and at least there you aren’t relying on YouTube keep any promises.

On the other hand exclusives really just make everyone else who isn’t so easy to manipulate hate your platform.

“easily”, I guess console players are used to the pain.

Maybe but I don’t see that as an argument that will be compelling to many of the less involved parents. Most people don’t even see how their own data can be used to harm them, much less data on how their kids behave in games.

Let me be the first to send a “thank you” in return to the people who always advocate for Matrix and similar open source alternatives on here without acknowledging that performance, UI and on-boarding with those are just absolutely awful compared to Discord, and that is not because performance and UI on Discord are great.

Yeah, tried Matrix a few time and it is honestly just unusable, even for myself, never mind convincing other people to join it.

And if it was about being the most recognizable I might agree but the influence on other games or even media in general was relatively limited.

Minecraft might be a good contender in terms of spawning the survival genre and also having so many mods used to pioneer entirely new game modes and even having a major part in machinima and Let’s Plays and such things on Youtube.

Apart from a few rather mediocre movies and a few orchestras playing the theme tune what did you have in mind there?

But Palworld is still literally one of maybe half a dozen other games remotely like Pokemon.

But it barely influenced any other games. The genre of creature collector games in this style is quite small.

The point isn’t to say America doesn’t have smart and educated people but that America would need additional smart and educated people to do all the things Europe is doing currently and America is not. The same problem would be exactly identical in reverse if you wanted to reduce a world where Europe imported half (lets simplify a bit and ignore everyone else’s contributions from other parts of the world) of the high skill products from the US and produced half domestically and now suddenly wanted to switch to doing it 100% domestically.

Where would the US in the current anti-immigration (and anti-education for that matter) political climate get high skill and high education people who can have their pick of any country in the world if they want to uproot their life at home at all? Not to mention in numbers that replace essentially every high skill and high education job in Europe?

And no, it doesn’t really help that you only need to produce for the domestic market because you can’t half write a piece of software or half invent a drug if you only need it for half the people.

You mean into the racist shit hole that is extremely anti-immigration the US is becoming?

Honestly, the US doesn’t have the high skill workers to copy all the stuff actually worth patenting from Europe.

Not even just art, they are also just stupid for the most mundane types of software problems too, the kind that everyone would do the same because there is just an obvious solution to a simple problem if it wasn’t for idiots patenting the obvious solution.

Who liquefies all those things that leak in recent years anyway?

Which of the hundreds of launches Skyrim had at this point do they mean exactly?

At this point you couldn’t pay me to use VR. It has had many years to prove that it is just objectively a gimmick without any sensible way to use it for the majority of games and where you can technically use it the UI just sucks. Meanwhile many other games have proven that you just don’t need VR for immersion, its main claim to usefulness.

But not for leaked copies before official release.

Which presumably means whatever last minute critical bug they discovered is not fixed in those physical copies and likely some others aren’t fixed either.