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How are they gone? The current servers are hosted by CIG, there’s no p2p or player hosted servers. How would that even work for an MMO?

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Where does it say it was a manual review?

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This makes sense coming from Suda51. I imagine other devs whose games have mostly cult followings would agree as well. Metacritic has the exact same problems as Rotten Tomatoes.

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If the client doesn’t support the codec or resolution of the media then it’ll need transcoding

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I’m sure there are a lot of people that wouldn’t consider just flying around, exploring, and doing the current missions a game, but you could say something similar about early Minecraft. In sure some didn’t see the point without more structure or features, but that didn’t stop them from enjoying what was there and looking forward to the future

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It’s a double edged sword. Everybody’s got a different line for when something descriptive inadvertently becomes prescriptive

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“Yoked to the max”

(Or just “yoked”)

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That sour electric aroma you can smell is the collective anxiety-stench of games journalists trying to decide whether it’s worth sitting through the full investor presentation in the hopes of discovering some proper context for these pitiful morsels - perhaps even a unique angle which none of those other hacks have discovered, the feckless layabouts.

So he’s taking his frustrations out on the reader by padding his article with sympathy-bait? I’ve come to really dislike Rock Paper Shotgun articles lately

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I don’t think I’ve experienced this with stationary objects like stations or rocks, but definitely with enemy ships. I imagine it’s due to some desync, but I’ll take it happily

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