No, they definitely don't.
Even with how bad most video game writing is, current LLMs are laughably short of useful for the purpose you're implying and a game that replaced human writing with an LLM in real time would be a lock to be the worst written game ever made.
Why would you crowdfund for a device that's either the same or worse than anyone else makes, depending on your preferences?
Seems like a pretty serious downgrade to me. I have no interest in separately charging it when it works perfectly well as is.
If people need to make an account, I'd bet your engagement drops at least 90%. That's the friction they mean.
What the hell is the point of that?
Of course we won't. It's too late.
The day they stole games that already had a steam page and had sold steam copies to be Epic exclusive, there was no path to any Epic exclusive for any reason ever being forgivable again.
I liked the 5 million MBC variations. Unlike most of the memed to absolute death stuff, there were still new and creative spins on it.
Ereader, steam deck
IDK about sci-fi specifically, but I have scribd and use it extremely heavily, mostly for audiobooks, but they usually have both if they have an audiobook.
Discoverability isn't great, and the catalogue is not comprehensive, but it's reasonably large, especially compared to Kindle Unlimited, and I can often listen to complete series (I mostly read mysteries, personally). Sometimes, if you read several books of a series in a month, it makes you wait until the next month to start a new book in that series or by that author, but I read a lot of books and don't hit that that often. I can give a link to a 60 day trial (you can use PayPal and immediately cancel the renewal through the PayPal interface to avoid a charge) if you want it.
I also use Libby and Hoopla through my library. They have different models and different libraries, but there is a lot you can read for free legally.
Yeah, it's fine to have it, but it's really about less material for them.
It's not actually "better" in any meaningful way, just smaller. No one ever cared.
Yes, AMD is. They intercepted CS's code and changed it. This is universally not permissible in competitive games, and by definition cannot be legitimate software. It doesn't matter who shipped it. It was an insane decision by AMD.
Cheaters being refunded is a giant "fuck you" to every other player who's ever touched the game. I don't even sort of give a shit about the company's money. Cheaters deserve to be punished for their cheating. If companies were allowed to fine them many times the price of the game, too, gaming would be a far better place.
What a douche move lol.
It would be less disrespectful just to leave the steamdeck version equally fucked than to openly slap people in the face with "it's arbitrary, but fuck you".