What would the hurdles be for normal, non-mod users? Once you sign up for an instance, isn’t serving content from all and letting users subscribe to communities pretty much the same flow? I don’t see why the fact that these “subs” are on different servers couldn’t be transparent to the client.
The client I use – Relay – doesn’t even have a sign up flow, and I suspect could transparently serve Lemmy content with a good translation API.
The game is pretty stable at this point. I personally loved it, but it helps to set your expectations. It’s a story-driven game with diamond-style story branching ala the Witcher 3, with a heavy focus on narrative. The world is an awesome backdrop, but it is more backdrop than simulation. It’s not GTA.
Given how massive this overhaul looks, I would honestly wait for the 2.0 patch. It looks like it’s going to address a lot of the shortcomings of the mechanics.
They’re doing a big tour across a bunch of countries to show the game off to the public soon, so we won’t have to take their word for long.
My guess is that are doing it specifically because they know there is very little trust. I think it’s probably a good sign for the state of the expansion as well.
I’ve never had a bad experience on release with any of the Bethesda games I’ve played. Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, and Fallout 4.
I didn’t play 76, and like – fair game.
But for the games I’ve played it’s never been more than visual / physics bugs, or script events not triggering and doing a quick load to fix it.
Most importantly, I’ve always had a blast, even with the rough edges. As long as it seems like the devs gave it an honest go, are fixing bugs the players trigger, and the company didn’t lie about the state of the game, it’s just a much better experience to have a little grace around the launch of an ambitious game.
Relay also has excellent UI. I tried pretty much every Reddit app available on Android and kept coming back to Relay.
Yeah, I understand the underlying reason for doing this. I just think they’re killing the chicken to get the eggs. Rather than make a little less money on me (but still make money) they are going to lose a user completely who regularly comments and posts
That’s hilarious. What a cluster. If they want more performant API calls than maybe they should expose something like a graphql endpoint. Otherwise there’s only so much you can optimise through a REST interface.
The thing is I don’t even use Relay for Reddit to avoid the monitization. I use it because it’s the best Reddit experience out of all the apps I’ve tried, especially compared to the official offering.
If they wanted to make money off of me, they could just add a charge to use the API at the user level. I would pay $5/month to Reddit in order to use the API, including through third-party apps. Like, I get it, go have to keep the lights on and I get a lot of value out of the site.
They’re just going about it all wrong, and users like me are going to end up not using the site anymore.
God I hope so. No knock against the developers, because it’s a young app and they are improving it almost every day, but Jerboa is really hard to use coming from Relay.
u/DBrady just has excellent UX/UI design sense.