JEMC said:
Factorio's expansion is setting record high player counts yet again so I'm expecting the world's IT infrastructure to collapse and innovation to stagnate any day now
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/factorios-expansion-is-setting-record-high-player-counts-yet-again-so-im-expecting-the-worlds-it-infrastructure-to-collapse-and-innovation-to-stagnate-any-day-now/
I'm here today to announce a dire portent. An issue that may or may not be disastrous for modern technological society. The Factorio: Space Age expansion is doing very, very well. After peaking at a record-setting 91,801 players on launch week, this weekend we've hit 118,674 players—more than triple the total we saw when Factorio launched its 1.0 release in 2020. This most illustrious of factory-building games is like catnip for engineers, coders, systems administrators, process designers, IT personnel, and also me.
Sure, it's the weekend now and that's responsible for the spike in peak player count... but what happens when their minds turn to The Factory, And How It Must Grow come Monday morning when they're supposed to be working? In a year already overrun with good factory games—surely hindering their productivity to date—we are seeing yet another monumenal release. I fear we shan't survive.
So, with a grain of salt, I'd recommend we all prepare for the full-scale collapse of technological civilization as we know it. Engineering tasks shall go un-gineered. Code shall be un-coded. Systems un-administered. Processes? Unprocessed. And there's no way the underpaid IT staff at the local government admin is showing up when they could be building factories that build rockets to send space factories to other planets, each of which has its own unique challenges, and then also build factories there to make yet more rockets.
>> We’re doomed! |
Factorio is definitely making some big money they managed to get this far by never putting the game on sale and actually have only ever increased the price since it's early access and now the new expansion is as much as the game currently costs.
JEMC said:
ColdRidge, the game about cowboys doing 4x-style exploration, hits release
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/coldridge-the-game-about-cowboys-doing-4x-style-exploration-hits-release/
French indie studio Frog Collective is set to drop their first game on October 28: ColdRidge, a wild west-set adventure that has your cowpoke adventuring out into the wilderness each spring in the hopes of scouting out resources that the guild needs—and making enough cash before winter comes to survive until you can work again. Otherwise, well, you're outside the walls when those world-scouring snowstorms come. |
Saw this game a few weeks ago and it looks pretty cool I think I might give the demo a try.
