Not in Europe at least.

I guess they still aren't over the fact that they failed to materialize any profit on Dota. It was just the most popular map for warcraft 3 and lo and behold, 2 other games spun off from it. And what do you know, those 2 games each is more popular than all Blizzard title's combined. That's some hard to swallow pill right there. For corporate Acti/Blizz that's probably a loss of billions of dollars.

That's just XML vs JSON. Eclipse generates XML maps to keep knowledge of your sources and what goes where. On a small project it's cool. On large project it's freaking pain. VSCode works with JSON. So does Sublime Text, which is arguably the fastest graphical text editor out there.

Perfect summary. Just didn't get the 3 minutes remark about the state. You wut there mate?

If it doesn't have expandable/upgradeable options, I'm not buying it. The OP suggests that we upgrade our computers every 4-6 years, which is, granted, true. However, I keep my old machines around. Upgrade them here and there. My i5-2500k machine recently had an SSD upgrade and its flying. So I gifted it to my girlfriend. Previous PC went to my mom. Then one before it went to my brother. So, yeah. Having upgrade options is pretty fucking important to me to the point where it makes it or breaks it for me. As a software developer myself it's the A reason I'm not going into the Apple ecosystem. Unupgradeable MacBooks are just a huge no-no for me.

In your terms that means a petrol car is like electric car but with few more pipes, lol. The electric car motors are not like the ones you know. It's super hard to get them right. Battery packs are whole another science altogether. It's a science that lacks real research.

"It can be run on 10-year-old hardware, yes. Easily?" Yes, it can. Just plug an SATA SSD and it'll fly like new. Trust me I know. Currently working on a 10 year old laptop. It felt like dying before the SSD. After the SSD it works better than newer cheaper laptops that my colleagues have. Sure it's not slim, not one bit. But it does the job.

I'm sure they'll move it to Netflix even if they don't fail. Few years too late though. It's pathetic being on Netflix. Last week I got an email that season 3 of Flash is finally out on Netflix and im like ... bitch I forgot how many years ago I watched season 3 of flash ..

Not really. Steam has virtual wallet, which is literally locked to their platform. You can't chargeback on the vWallet. You can only purchase stuff from the steam platform. Thus, once you sink your 60$, you enter a closed loop. If someone sells YOUR games, it is not impossible to track all transactions and revert them back and track all the money back and ban the offenders. Also I don't see how any of this would affect their Steam sales? Even now you can only own a single copy of a game and every other copy is stored as a gift on the platform that you send to your friends. If anything this could bump up Steam's numbers since more copies would be sold at a sale. This will effectively kill G2A and the likes... And I don't know what you mean about WoW account selling. WoW is not advertised as goods but rather as a subscription, which is what Steam's lawyers tried to make out steam to be but the judges seem to be smarter than that and figured out that steam does, infact, sells goods and not services. Which brings other implications. When you buy goods in the EU, the maker cannot take them back. So I don't know how legal bans are after that :D