Have I got good news for you. On 1 oct, those surcharges become illegal again.

Are people just forgetting it has a displayport also? Just ignore HDMI, they got greedy, onto the rubbish pile they go.

But it hasn't launched? It's only in early access (IE pay us to beta test our game).

Just use orcaslicer anyway. It's better in every way.

If they want market differentiation, make an electric car that's not spyware on wheels. Quality basic functionality while letting the user turn off all the telemetry and extra bells and whistles they don't want.

I mean... I'll eventually play it, but when it's on sale for like less than $20aud and all the bugs are fixed and the rest of the content is added.

The current approach to releasing half complete games at high prices, and then just trickle updates, means gamers are incentivised to just wait a year or two after a games releases before giving it a go.

I think that's the idea. "Experience the biggest game of the year, only on [insert exclusive rent-to-play cloud based platform]".

Capitalism: You will own nothing and be happy about it, or else...

Why is this being announced as a "release"? It's only early access (beta). Games release when they're finished, not when they put out a pay-to-test beta.

UBI fundamentally doesn't work unless you have controls in place against inflation (read: profiteering). Give everyone an additional paycheck? Welp, I guess prices of everything just rose to compensate this sudden new "cash".

What do you mean? Yes they can. The coalition has been running for years.

I'm prepared to be disappointed, but would like to be pleasantly surprised. HOMM3 with updated QoL sounds great.

Headline is misleading. It's not launching, they just doing early access.

We call em Spanish Onions round these parts

Australia

Giving everyone a "basic income" does nothing to shift wealth from rich to poor. You are thinking of just standard redistributive welfare, which is a great policy to achieve that, if implemented correctly and fairly. UBI is something very different from this, for a very different purpose. Read up on political economics to learn more about it.

Adjusting redistributive tax rates and UBI are two different things. You can achieve UBI through redistributive tax means, or you can do it through other means.

We can argue about how long inflation takes to eat up any gains, but the reality is it will eventually happen. Will it take 6 months? 12 months? 36 months? Doesn't really matter. The very fact that UBI is flat based (i.e everyone gets the same, regardless of means) is the reason it has this problem.

UBI is not a solution to anything. At best, it's temporary bump in standard of living. At worst, it's an excuse to remove other more effective wealth redistribution methods and just contributes to worsening inequality. Don't fall for the trap. Economic models already exist to solve these problems, and UBI is not one of them.

That's not what I said. I said inflation will just eat up any standard of living gains you think you will make.

The problem of poverty isn't solved by more "money" - it's solved by moving beyond the economic/systemic model which creates poverty and inequality in the first place.