Uh, its more like a new publisher bought the IP, functionally fired almost all of the original dev team, and then hired a bunch of other people who had no idea how their insanely modified version of Unity worked...

And then the idiot in charge just started spamming out extremely grand and difficult to implement new core functionalities... with a team of mostly newbies who had no idea how anything worked.

So, basically, they started out where KSP started out... and would very obviously thus need years and years and years to get it out of Early Access / Alpha state... but it needed to make money NOW, and it didn't, so everyone got laid off (other than the idiot in charge), and the game was functionally abandoned, but not totally abandoned, because MY IP MINE NO YOU CANT HAVE IT!!!

Or... maybe not? With regard to the IP rights?

Nobody seems to know who actually owns the KSP IP at this point.

https://techdriveplay.com/2025/01/03/kerbal-space-program-2-a-tale-of-corporate-neglect-and-failure/

Makes sense, wasn’t untrue and I wasn't criticizing, just wanted to make sure everyone remembers that the problem goes up the chain due to capitalism.

Various companies/games were mentioned in the comments, but I think a good example is Hello Games. Clearly fumbled their game launch and were over ambitious with No Man’s Sky.

But it’s gotten an incredible amount of things that were promised, and many things that weren’t, all as free updates. Sure, they’re still making money, that’s the point, but instead of Micro-transactions, overpriced DLC, fucking over the devs, shutting things down, they just keep rolling. I’m sure they’ve gotten offers of acquisition that were probably very lucrative, but they didn’t take them, and have continued their slow roll of making gamers happy.

It's a really good game and still holds it's own to this day. Highly recommend it.

If you got vr is best played that way. Best horror game on vr.

If you are going to compete with AAA games it's going to require a big budget, which not all Devs have access to.

A high quality AA game would probably do great, but would be unlikely to outsell a AAA with hundreds of millions of dollars for budget.

Obsidian made a fantastic game with Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire but it was considered a 'failure' sales wise (at least at launch), despite being well received.

Obsidian sold to Micro$oft despite making very high quality games and their crowdfunding campaigns consistently earning more money than they were asking for. The stated reason was they found it hard to keep their employees paid consistently and they didn't want to lay people off. Also that they thought they could do just as good as other big players in the industry if they had access to larger budgets.

I think it was a bad move. They managed to survive the massive round of 9,000 jobs cuts to Microsoft's gaming division (this time), but you just know that Microsoft would cut them in a heartbeat if they thought it would save them a dime in the future. That being said I think it's understandable to want to see your employees paid, and it's just a sad fact that AAA games require huge budgets nowadays, so I can kind of understand why they sold, even if I don't agree with it.

Source?

Pretty much every popular indie game has a publisher. Publishers are great because they provide relatively low cost marketing, the trick is to be careful when signing a contract that you don't sign away too much while still getting value from them.

Shat about after it releases?

Sure, but maybe not in public?

I didn't realize how truely frustrated I was with windows until I switched a few months ago. I realize now that most of my recent windows troubleshooting was trying to make windows stop doing things I didn't want it to. Now most of my Linux troubleshooting is just learning how to get Linux to do things I actually want it to do, which is actually quite satisfying.

Anything works really. Mint, Gentoo, Fedora, Arch all work - usually just need to install Steam and done, possibly install drivers using your package manager if it doesn't come pre-installed. Hell, you can even do SteamOS or something like Bazzite or Nobara if i remember correctly.

For gaming, try bazzite, cachyOS, or nobara. Mint is also good, but might not have latest and greatest drivers or kernel etc, even then it is very popular. I switched to mint and then to nobara early last year and love it. I tested a few on VMware in windows before taking the leap. 3 months ago I wiped my windows partition coz I hadn't used it in yonks. Good luck!

Almost any is fine, but if you want a distro optimized for gaming, Garuda has been treating me quite well.

SourceForge sucks ass. I'll use pen and paper to manage my repos before SourceForge.

Forgejo is the best git forge hands down. It's FOSS, snappy & clean web interface, much lighter than Gitlab to self-host, integrates with a bunch of CI platforms, and instance federation is in the works. It's like GitHub, but better in pretty much every way.

The most popular instance is Codeberg