Last two weeks I have been playing a lot of Euro Truck Simulator 2, very relaxing game just driving trough the new maps (It looks so much better compared to when I bought it years ago). This weekend I also started playing Core Keeper, just a few hours in so far, but it seems like a fun underground survival game.
The game definitely has a lot of things to do yea. I’m looking forward to trying out the Dungeoneering rework they will release today.
Yup YouTube makes it very easy to receive money from adds and people that have YouTube premium. Having a YouTube premium subscription means that you are at least supporting the creator of every video that you watch a little bit (from what I can find 55% of what you pay is going to the creators). Yes YouTube takes quite a large cut, but video hosting in high quality costs a lot of money.
I think it will be very hard to do this on a decentralised platform. People don’t trust just anyone with their money, so it could lead to people abandoning smaller servers and you can be sure that bad actors would pop up and try to abuse the system. And even if you do this the right way, you would have to build this system entirely before you can convince creators to move to this platform.
It will also be really hard to offer the same quality and reliability that YouTube offers, without taking a larger cut than the 45% that YouTube takes. Hosting a large video platform is expensive, and many of the Fediverse users are anti-adds and will run an add-blocker and maybe even sponsor-blocker.
Honestly the whole “change civ every age” change didn’t feel that bad. However to me, every time they release a new civ game it feels like it is lacking civs. This time it was really bad with Hawaii being there on release and countries like the UK and the Ottomans only coming later in a a DLC. I might pick it up once I feel like I can play the countries I want to play.
*Of course I do understand they want to represent every region of the world, but it is just strange not to have some of the countries there that directed the world history for centuries. And even though we can now play as Great Britain, it does require you to buy an additional DLC for 5 euro’s.