I never understood why Steam didn’t just make a variant of the original Steam controller that just had the classical button layout without touchpads. I liked the touchpad version for some games but it’s really clunky to use for stuff I’m otherwise used to have sticks for. I really like the Steam controller’s grip.
I would’ve loved the same controller with an Xbox layout or something or even interchangeable parts/layouts. Although that would probably drive up the price a ton.
Nah it’s a long way from dying, I doubt it will ever go under in the foreseeable future anyway.
People are constantly announcing their departures from X and make a whole show about it. Only to come back after a couple of days or weeks.
Yeah I was looking at Twitch numbers too, but honestly it’d still be a wild guess why it’s that much higher. Could also be that they do something with Twitch drops, it essentially doesn’t say much about player count itself.
I know previously it was because of world-first races, but I’m not sure if that’s still the case.
Hm last I checked it said WoW had a lot more, I think mostly due to the new expansion at the time. But I think different sources are stating different things, they’re pretty unclear where they get the numbers from anyway, there’s little consistency with other statistics online.
Maybe, but they’re not MMO games.
Most definitely.
It’s seen better days and current expansion is kinda meh, but it’s still leading the amount of active players by a lot over all other MMO games.
Depends what “side” you’re on and what content you choose to engage with I guess.
Because features wise it’s better than ever I’d say, I’m not even sure what stuff they added or removed that would’ve made the platform worse.
These kind of articles always remind me whenever a new MMORPG launched, and then people claimed it would be the World of Warcraft killer.
I do think alternatives got traction, but I don’t think any of them are anywhere near actually competing with X though. Perhaps it’s the beginning of becoming a true competitor, but it’s a long ride still.
Yeah but I mean I’ve often seen people claim they leave X for something else, only for them to return a couple of weeks or months later again. This seems to happen with every new similar platform that pops up. It’s just like Lemmy being a Reddit alternative, but it seems to forever struggle to take off, and it never quite feels like the amount of engagement you get on Reddit, just because everyone is staying there or returning there anyway.
I think it’s mostly due to alternatives trying to copy the originals, instead of doing something new that could keep people interested longer to build up a bigger community.
People been saying this for years since he took over and nothing changes.
I would just love to see Lucas back at the helm. Or at least let that man build his world and general story. Just needs someone to occasionally slap his hands and say no, like in the OT.
For all the shit people gave him, he’s also the one that set up everything before corporate Disney took over. Some might not enjoy 100% of his stuff, but at least he didn’t focus so excessively on the unnecessary parts of the franchise.
Reminds me of Rian Johnson’s supposed trilogy deal, but I don’t think that’ll ever happen though, was kinda curious to see how he’d handle a trilogy on his own.
It looks like a really fun adventure series to me, what I had given to get shows like these back when I was like 10.
Absolutely love the Huttese Major Tom cover, takes me back to hearing the Highway Star Belter cover in the Expanse.
Wonder when they’re gonna do that for Adobe products in Europe. Has to be one of the most scummiest subscription services present day. If you cancel too early you have to pay up a “cancellation” fee for remaining time of the month, or sometimes even more I believe. If you do it too late you’ll have to pay for a whole new subscription, and pay for the cancellation fee. I don’t even know why they’re allowed to pull that shit on consumers.
Guess who’s not bothering with subscriptions.
Well I meant that in the 70s-80s there were 3 movies, and then in the 90s-00s we got 3 movies, so like every 20-30 year gap.
But we got 5 movies in recent times. I don’t know if Kenobi and Book of Boba Fett were supposed to be movies though, I never heard anything other than them being shows. I initially thought that Book of Boba Fett would’ve been part of the Mandalorian show too, which frankly would’ve made more sense. I do prefer the shows though, it gives so much more world and character building and things don’t feel as rushed, although not every show has been good with it.
I do know about a few planned upcoming movies that were put on hold, and I’m not sure if Rian Johnson’s movies are still happening, I was really looking forward to see what he could do with an own dedicated trilogy.
I feel like there’s never going to be a complete universal agreement about what the canon should be like. Whatever they write, there will be some group of people that won’t like it, and they’ll make it their crusade to let it be heard as loud as possible regardless of what it is.
There’s a reason why people joke that nobody hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans.
Quite the clickbait article. There has never been so much Star Wars compared to before Disney took over, more movies, more tv-shows.
I am not surprised they’re putting future projects on ice though, especially with the ridiculous amount of criticism a lot of their work gets.
Same could be said for lots of other party controllers that are essentially the same.
Like I have a 8Bitdo Ultimate BT controller, it’s essentially an Xbox controller, but it comes with a charging dock and is also compatible with the Switch. It also has hall effect sticks and motion control (for Switch). I preferred the Steam controller’s grip over the Xbox controller, on top of the Steam controller having back pedal buttons as well. Plus it comes with a dongle, which has to be bought seperately for the Xbox controller unless you use Bluetooth.
So there are plenty of things that could be done different, ranging from different features to better build quality.