Posting news articles is low effort and just perpetuates the propaganda game. I would be supportive of pushing news to their own communities, or even a toggle to hide all common 'news' site links, to help get back to dialogue about topics not defined by a newscycle.

Have I got good news for you. On 1 oct, those surcharges become illegal again.

Australia

We call em Spanish Onions round these parts

I think that's the idea. "Experience the biggest game of the year, only on [insert exclusive rent-to-play cloud based platform]".

Capitalism: You will own nothing and be happy about it, or else...

If they want market differentiation, make an electric car that's not spyware on wheels. Quality basic functionality while letting the user turn off all the telemetry and extra bells and whistles they don't want.

What do you mean? Yes they can. The coalition has been running for years.

Just use orcaslicer anyway. It's better in every way.

Why is this being announced as a "release"? It's only early access (beta). Games release when they're finished, not when they put out a pay-to-test beta.

I'm prepared to be disappointed, but would like to be pleasantly surprised. HOMM3 with updated QoL sounds great.

Headline is misleading. It's not launching, they just doing early access.

But it hasn't launched? It's only in early access (IE pay us to beta test our game).

I mean... I'll eventually play it, but when it's on sale for like less than $20aud and all the bugs are fixed and the rest of the content is added.

The current approach to releasing half complete games at high prices, and then just trickle updates, means gamers are incentivised to just wait a year or two after a games releases before giving it a go.