I think Sims 1 was physical only.

As a digital product EA halted distribution of the Sims 2 with very little notice:

On July 16, 2014, Electronic Arts announced the end of support for The Sims 2. As a response, The Sims 2: Ultimate Collection was released at the same time as a limited time offer. The game became available for free download from Origin exclusively following an announcement by EA that they would no longer be supporting the game. This offer ended at 10:00 PDT July 31, 2014.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sim_2

Oddly it looks like Mac got a version via another distributor not long after ?!

As i understand it emulator software is largely viewed as legal are long as they don’t ship other people’s IP (decryption keys, bios, etc).

I don’t think dolphin is doing that so they should be in the clear.

Steam’s own numbers show that it had a peak of 36,905,706 players today. Both of those numbers beat the previous record of 36,354,393 concurrent players, which was set in mid-March of 2024.

36905706 ÷ 36354393 = 1.015

This is 1.5% more than the previous record set 3½ months ago. I suppose its nice that the numbers haven’t declined but I’m not sure I would call today’s figure remarkable in any way.

The devil is in the details, remasters are often “two steps forward one step back”.

We don’t know until its in our hands if they have messed up something critical.

From a game accessibility perspective the important release was in 2016 when it was posted to Windows / PS4 / Xbox One. Before that it was only on Xbox 360 which made it much harder to get hold of.

I have that one in the alarm library on my phone.

Its not good as a daily driver - if you use it every day you will end up with the song stuck in your head. But its great as a sometimes tone, I think I have it set for Wednesdays at the moment.

The PSU article cites this:

https://gamebiz.jp/news/388317

Which my browser translates to:

Sega’s fiscal year ending March 2024 results show a 6.6 billion yen deficit due to European restructuring, and operating profit also falls 87% to 2.3 billion yen. “Yakuza 8” sells a million copies in the first week after its release.

[Emphasis mine]

So it looks like there is an off by 1000 error somewhere.

But which regions code are you referring to?

Yep

So you can shit on me

No, I’m genuinely curious about the different clients we, the Lemmy community, have available. Knowing their strengths and weaknesses helps people make informed choices.

OP couldn’t post a picture as a picture format?

GIF is a picture format. It may contain multiple frames or it may not but it is a perfectly standard pallet based image format that has been around for 37 years (for comparison its older than zip or PDF). This is not the same as linking to a 1 second YouTube video.

My current client (Boost) is also treating it as unzoomable, but that is clearly a defect in my client. Even if it was an animation I would want to be able to zoom. Its something to raise with the developer.

In the meantime I just opened the link in my browser:

https://yall.theatl.social/pictrs/image/eb5063df-4151-47d4-aeda-ac16b2f34f62.gif

It’s basically a universal format.

True, it even has “interchange” in the name!

CompuServe encouraged the adoption of GIF by providing downloadable conversion utilities for many computers. By December 1987, for example, an Apple IIGS user could view pictures created on an Atari ST or Commodore 64.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF

Which Lemmy client?

It was a thing back in the day. Its just that the day was 30 odd years ago.

Punk Punk is an umbrella term:

They varied considerably, but all have one of the following in common with cyberpunk:

• A world built around a particular technology that is pervasive and extrapolated to a highly sophisticated level.
• A gritty or transreal urban style.
• A cyberpunk-inspired approach to exploring social themes within a Speculative Fiction setting.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunkPunk

Bugs are a specific kind of fault, it could be that or they might think that any number of aspects (e.g. plot, ui, gameplay loop, animations, crafting tree, character progression, quest structure, world layout, etc, etc) are flawed in any number of ways.

As an example If someone says that modern ubisoft open world games “have a lot of faults” its unlikely they are complaining about bugs per se.

The more realistic these games look the less enjoyable they are.

I was going claim it was marketing not the terrible product… but the marketing is usually terrible too.

“It’ll tickle yore innards!”

Did they say “buggy”?

I love these games but the OG tank controls feel a little dated 30 years later.

I’m happy to see someone trying a revival.

The numbers on fuelwatch have rolled over for the new day now but when I was looking last night there was around 5-10% variation within each day but also a 15-20% price drop from Tuesday to Wednesday. By min-maxing across both days I could a min that was 25% lower than the max.

The range would be much less impressive if we only had access to a single days prices.