And if we were all smart people we would have far less laws. Sometimes laws protect us from ourselves. Anyone who has experience with addiction knows how hard it is to just stop. Instead of blaming people for their inability to stop we should emphatize and understand that this needs an intervention. If these predatory practices were illegal those people wouldn't need to stop themselves because they wouldn't be put in that situation in the first place.
You forgot the most important point. Saying "thank you".
From what I've read it's not actually made by Bethesda, it isn't using the creation engine and there are gameplay changes.
That information turned me from not caring to checking out what people will say when it releases.
It looks the same because you are more or less doing the same thing (looting and shooting) but the core motivation to do those things are very different. Battle royales are all about combat, everyone goes in with the sole purpose of winning (with some exceptions) and you win by beating the other teams. Extraction shooters "in theory" are about survival. You take your crap with you into a raid so you could find better crap to increase your chances of surviving a raid. But if you die you lose the crap you took in. Because the goal is survival extraction shooters don't have a sole focus on combat, but rather combat is a means to an end.
Off topic but I genuinely can't understand why people like to throw battle royales and extraction shooters into the same pot. The fact that battle royales have been immensely successful (PUBG, Fortnite, Apex) while the only extraction shooter with relative success is Escape From Tarkov (I won't get into the details but pretty much everyone hates to play) should be indication that any similarities between the two genres are entirely superficial.
They cater to very different audiences.
It's not a battle-royale. It's an extraction shooter which IMO makes the outlook even worse because extraction shooters are probably the most hardcore subgenre of shooters you could have. The game is either going to pivot hard within months after launch or it's going to flop.
On the Steam Deck? Possible. On Steam? I guess technically possible if you add a third party game. But actually on Steam? Nintendo can't even give a tech demo out for free, I can't imagine what would have to happen for Nintendo to put their games on Steam.
You can also play Minecraft on the Steam Deck and technically you can also play Apex Legends on the Deck (if you install Windows and play through that), but all of it depends on the user being a tinkerer. But the casual gamer is not a tinkerer which means those possibilities have next to no impact on the wider market.
Absolutely. Nintendo has huge fanbase with most of them not caring about Nintendo ripping them off and Nintendo has some of the most highly regarded and iconic gaming IPs in the world and Nintendo has insane marketing budget behind the Switch 2 and the switch doubles as a home console.
I love the Deck but it's not going to outsell the Switch and I think Valve isn't interested in pulling people away from the Switch. Valve made the Deck primarily for Steam users and that's who they're targeting.
If it teaches gambling
By having literally no gambling?
and has slot machine makeup,
In what way? Slot machines have a very distinct look and at best I could the small blind, big blind and boss blind columns indicating the 3 columns in a slot machine, but if that's the thing then any game with 3 column separate 3 choices has a slot machine makeup? If you meant the game somehow uses slot machine iconography I don't, I really don't know what to say then. It would be completely delusional.
Anonymous Dev created a casino experience
Clearly not completely anonymous as he has no trouble presenting himself through his public name. And a casino experience according to you.
with poker at the core
Actually the core was Big Two, which makes far more sense than Poker as you're not limited to 2 cards and can play multiple hands.
This same Dev is promoting several other games such as “slot machine deck builder” and “blackjack deck builder”.
That's just bullshit. In fact it's so bullshit the dev has publicly opposed gambling.
Please look at this from higher up. Something slimy is afoot.
Higher up view says you're just peddling stupid conspiracy that has little to no basis in reality.
GTA 6 is coming out this year and it started development after RDR2. That's 6-7 years. Cyberpunk 2077 started main production after Blood and Wine, which means development time was 4-5 years. Baldur's Gate 3 development most likely started after DoS2, which means it was in development for 6-7 years. In fact most AAA games finish development in less than 7 years and anything going beyond 7 usually has some kind of a development hell (and usually ends up being bad).
Star Citizen has been in development for 12 years. If it released today it will be the third or fourth longest game development time, except it's not releasing today and considering the state of the game it can easily get the top spot of the longest time in development game. It is nowhere near the standard development time of a modern AAA title. You could say SQ42 is in the modern AAA development time (if you're being generous with the start date of the development), but even there you're not getting the full game as the release will be episodic. Who knows how long it will take for all the episodes of SQ42 to release.
I think it's also worth remembering that this remaster isn't being made by Bethesda. Virtuos are the ones remastering/remaking the game and their portfolio is pretty much exclusively ports, remasters and remakes. I don't know the details of how much they're using Unreal Engine (the leaks state that the game will be running on UE), but I think that pretty much rules out Bethesda's involvement beyond IP consultancy because they don't have UE experience.
I'm all for being critical of the shit Bethesda puts out, but I'm not going to dismiss someone' work simply because the name Bethesda is attached to it.