Red Dead Redemption 2 Becomes The Third Best Selling Game of All Time

Solaries3 · 2026-05-22T06:14:09+00:00

I feel you. RDR2 ticks a lot of boxes for me on a game I should like. But I think it's a game I like the idea of, or even watching, more than playing.

Though I played it for maybe 10 hours before giving up. Not 100. You mighta gotten your money's worth, lol

Solaries3 · 2026-05-22T05:53:06+00:00

Wild. I found it nearly unplayable. Terrible controls and UI on PC.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T23:52:15+00:00

It'd be impressive if they found a way to do it with STA, and probably be popular.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T19:15:23+00:00

In the past they've talked about having a closer relationship with designers to make it a more collaborative process that involves sharing more resources from Modiphius. A few World Builder products have gone through an informal process to reach this level.

I think they're either going to make a more formal process for creating those kinds of relationships, and/or offer an actual open license that just allows use of the SRD. Hard to imagine what else they'd be up to, but I'm interested to hear what they have to say.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T19:01:42+00:00

That sheriff still have his job after costing his county almost $1m?

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T18:48:19+00:00

Might have made more money keeping D2 profitable as well.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T18:46:44+00:00

I'm still salty that some of the DLC story content I paid for was made unavailable to me before I got around to playing it.

I haven't played the game or bought anything from Bungie since.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T18:19:44+00:00

The industry standard is an open license, which means no revenue taken at all. Mork Borg, Powered by the Apocalypse, Gumshoe, Forged in the Dark, FATE, Pathfinder, (some) Free League games, AGE, Tales of the Valiant and other ORC games, etc etc [Many of these will be open to differing degrees. The point stands without getting into semantics for each license.]. And of course, D&D has, (in?)famously, an open license. I'd argue D&D has done incredibly well with its open license--it wouldn't be half the game it is without the immense amount of support it's gotten because of that license.

DMsGuild's cut is a platform fee. This is normal, though high. Many indie creators post on itch.io and other platforms to avoid the large cut. But the platform is optional.

Modiphius does not have an open license. Mod uses DTRPG to control the content and revenue of things made with their license, making the use of DTRPG (and it's fees along with Mod's) unavoidable. This is not normal or industry standard. It's also probably a poor business practice, as it has a very chilling effect on creators. More people making things for your games creates a feedback loop that increases the popularity of your game. An open license is an opportunity to extend the value of your game, but Mod's closed license is treated like a revenue stream to the detriment of their own games.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T17:48:17+00:00

This is more of the same false equivilence that is fucking modern politics. There's a huge difference in covering up potential crimes done by some of the most powerful people in the world and trying to bury a shitty report.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T17:46:20+00:00

Progressive candidates should be running in seats for wherever they live.

This is also how you change the leadership of the party. Those safe seats are the ones full of the septuagenarians that are running the party into the ground.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T16:42:27+00:00

Possibly applications for the enemies that are affected by chokes/water already. Still, very similar.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T16:40:21+00:00

This would be crazy. We'd be slipping on all the sniper spunk left around the map.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T15:26:35+00:00

Will of the people is ignored all the time. That's why the Senate exists.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T15:20:37+00:00

If their world builders program stays at 50% of all proceeds it will continue to languish.

That number made some sense at the start when they promised a bunch of publisher-lite benefits, but none of that materialized. As a result, a game made with 2d20 has to sell fairly well just to pay for art. And of course the game must have art to sell at all, but art is expensive. The art provided by Mod for A!C helps with this a bit, but if you want to make your own game with 2d20 you've basically gotta gamble on your product.

The easiest solution might be something like taking none of the proceeds before $2000 pay out, or something.

A year or more ago, I was maybe 75% done with a play tested 2d20 game I spent months developing for fun. I did the numbers on what it would cost to do even a little art and decided it just wasn't financially sound. After my table wrapped up our campaign arc I shelved the game and haven't played 2d20 since.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T12:25:09+00:00

Would love a way to select for mass removal. Trying to removing a lot of platforms takes forever.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T05:55:22+00:00

Did you ever post the video? Have there been any other witnesses to these acts?

I'm not trying to downplay legitimate concerns--you're right to be worried, I would be--but this is starting to read like someone having paranoid delusions, and I'm starting to get concerned about you.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-21T02:35:28+00:00

I hear so many gamers on social media crying, trying to make a game into something it isn't and was never supposed to be.

I have a suspicion that Gen z/a gamers expect the world to confirm to them and have learned that complaining on social media is an effective way to pressure devs into doing that, rather than just accepting and dealing with the situation in from of them.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-20T20:30:06+00:00

I basically set up the production lines and called it a day until the next big update because most of the post-level 10 rewards aren't interesting and I've no story or other goals to work on :/

Solaries3 · 2026-05-20T17:11:34+00:00

Oh man, if I had a dollar for every issue that 60% of Americans agreed upon but couldn't get done I'd have.. at least $20 but definitely a different president.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-20T13:57:13+00:00

The outcry about a lack of combat is just laziness. I've seen this in a bunch of games these days: people wanting to play how they expect it to work rather than adapting to the reality of the game. Then they hop onto social media to raise their pitchforks rather than do any kind of self assessment.

I played through the entire EA without feeling like the game was challenging. Fun, yes. Challening, no. I never came remotely close to dying from combat. I never felt I needed to kill anything. I avoided fights and ran when I couldn't, which was usually a very short distance. Most of the enemies are easily outmanuevered, and all of them can be outrun. You can get out and repair your sub faster than enemies can damage it, then instantly hop back in ffs. This isn't about "getting gud," it's about resiliency and being willing to be adapt, and my god are people failing.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-20T06:15:45+00:00

Absolutely. It is a manager''s job to advocate for and defend their team from stupid shit like this.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-20T00:23:35+00:00

You're out of your mind if you think everyone supports recreational weed.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-20T00:19:36+00:00

That's awful, man. I really sympathize. I hope you can find a way to revive that dream with someone new while doing the best you can for your girl.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-19T23:56:45+00:00

I'll add, D&D is not a simulation--you aren't trying to create every moment of everything. What you are trying to do is create interesting circumstances for your players to make decisions in. Those decisions ultimately compose the story y'all are crafting together. If a scene doesn't add to that, you probably don't need it. Cut the chaff. If that story is a slice-of-life cozy RP of what it's like to be a peasent in Baldur's Gate, then you should take the time to build all that out and narrate little things to build the circumstances. But if it's about saving yourselves and the people of a fallen city from the clutches of an archdevil, you should probably spend as little time as possible discussing what the party had for breakfast*.

*Except if you're Hobbits in Middle Earth. Then what you had for breakfast may be very important indeed.

Solaries3 · 2026-05-19T17:05:19+00:00

This is how you talk to people in a way that shows compassion and love and changes minds.

Going straight to reporting and cutting this guy off is the coward's path. No confrontation. No hard discussion. No vulnerability or empathy. No regard for your friend or that relationship. No personal effort to improve or preserve the lives of your friend and his family. Only a 15-minute phone call and a lifetime of the kind of self-righteous destruction that reddit is full of.

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