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  • Pika@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldSteam Reviews
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    29 days ago

    Its a rust x Cohen Exiles baby with a Dune theme.

    The actual game is decent tbh, but like it’s not at all what was advertised. It lacks common MMO mechanics to the point where the studio even said they were dropping the MMO theme then they used that same excuse “it’s an MMO” of why they couldn’t use self hosted servers and why it was forced private rented servers(which ended up being more like private homes) instead of allowing self hosting.

    The game is also very vastly empty, and combat will not be at it’s best until easily hours into the game and there is a lot of walking and copy pasting of designs. Plus it’s a forced PVP env, they can call it all they want, but required resources are locked to PVP only areas and end game is strictly PVP as well.


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    29 days ago

    Rebutting criticism in my opinion is fine… if its not reflecting the OP’s(OP as in the reviewer) opinion but something the OP is doing wrong game wise. Like mentioning the lack of an ability that would be super helpful (such as fast travel) but the person had missed how to actually activate it. That would be a proper response to say “Oh it is in the game you need to do X”

    Telling someone that the game isn’t that hard, or just a skill issue, doesn’t help anything. Same with the comments about gametime before refunding. Especially with drawn out games where it can easily take hours to actually realize the game, and by that point you have an 80$ game that you don’t like.


  • Pika@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldSteam Reviews
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    I usually keep my comments on my reviews disabled exclusively because of the trolls. I used to keep them on because I liked hearing everyone’s opinion and debates. I have zero interest in personal attacks instead of discussions of the flaws of the review.

    Dune Awakening was absolutely horrible for that almost every popular bad review is a bunch of trolls foaming at the mouth that someone dared leave a negative review of their beloved IP.





  • Pika@sh.itjust.workstoComic Strips@lemmy.worldSmall business
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    further more, it seems from the translated article it’s exclusive to large items and refusal due to price difference. It says nothing about refusal for sale due to other means. I was skeptical of it as well because shops should be allowed to refuse sale if they choose to (with exceptions ofc)

    Like what shop is going to authorize someone coming in and wiping the shelf clean of all of an item listed, it’s bad buisness because others will see it’s empty and say “well I guess I won’t shop here for that”

    We ran into that issue with resellers during the pandemic so had to impose buying restrictions.


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    Yeah, this mechanic is pretty common in any decent RPG. I’ve always found it weird when I run into a RPG that doesn’t put a limit on how much you can sell. It removes a lot of the immersion when you can just dump 10k into a shop (or give the clear grocery merchant armor and swords lol)


  • Yeah, DVD players and Blu-ray players are going the way of the VHS player. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find one that isn’t super locked down by some form of DRM and just works.

    And if you’re trying to find one for computers, forget about it. You spend an arm and a leg trying to find anything that isn’t just your typical DVD only, no Blu-ray or 4K. Blu-ray is a little more pricey, but any type of actual 4K player for computers, you’re spending $$$ unless you’re willing to try to patch it with a custom firmware.



  • For real, an HP nowadays is even worse at that. They have a setting now called true black that instead of just using the Black Ink that comes with a printer it uses the black ink and a little bit of every color to make it so it’s a darker shade. The result is a darker tone however it blows through your ink even faster because it’s also using your color at the same time.


  • Everyone keeps raving about ink tank but I feel I need to specify, don’t buy this style if you don’t print at least once every few weeks, the lines will clog and it’s a royal pain in the ass trying to remove a clog on these styles!

    They look amazing if you do a lot of artists stuff and you use it frequently but if you’re the college student or someone that may have to print out a report every other month or something like that, you are far better off going with a laser Printer. Less headache for similar pricing

    note: this isn’t a diss on the person I’m replying to, I acknowledge that tank printers are amazing at what they’re good at, I’ve just had so many people bring me their ink tanks because they’re clogged because they only use them maybe once every other month stating that the reason they went with the printer in the first place because it was supposed to not have the penalties that standard inkjets had, so I feel the need to clarify



  • This didn’t used to be the case, starter cartridges used to be the same size if not a little bigger than standard cartridges because the expectation was they wanted you to buy the printer be impressed with how efficient it was and buy more ink.

    The problem with that was, printers were too reliable, people weren’t buying new printers anymore they were only buying the ink so what they did in return was lowered the price of the printers to try to incentivize buying a new printer.

    But then people realized well the ink is so expensive that I can just buy a whole new printer which would be the upgraded form and not have to worry about buying ink, which meant no one was buying their ink anymore

    So as such they made it so starter cartridges have Jack crap for ink to try to disincentivize the same thing that they incentivized in the first place.

    Then of course like every good thing in the world, some executive realize that they could just lower the reliability of the printer and make it a piece of junk, which will accomplish the same effects. But by that time the consumers were used to having nothing for ink and printers anyway so why would they go out of their way to add more ink in the starter cartridges when people were buying it with little to no ink in the starter cartridges, which is how we got to where we are today. Thankfully the laser printer company is while our starting to go in that direction haven’t quite become as bad.

    TLDR? ; inkjet companies are greedy cash hogs, and was willing to lose a little bit of face in order to make some money. Buy a laser printer, the base cost is quite a bit more, but the toner cartridges last forever and they are significantly more reliable