I'm curious how video game sales will be affected by COVID-19. Anecdotally, I've noticed all my friends who were never previously interested are now messaging me about setting up group matches in Age of Empire, Fortnite, Civilization.
Self-isolation is feeding my Warhammer addiction
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#12The Emperor protects.
But it is simply amazing to see the amount of work being output by The Gaming Workshop in this Universe.
The amount of audio books and novels and depth of world building is simply mind boggling and here I thought Lord of the Rings/Wheel Of Time was huge.
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#13https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/03/04/primarch
Woah! Had no idea that PA is still around :) Two decades and still going strong!
Check out PAX and Child's Play if you haven't heard of them :)
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#14I'm curious how video game sales will be affected by COVID-19. Anecdotally, I've noticed all my friends who were never previously interested are now messaging me about setting up group matches in Age of Empire, Fortnite, Civilization.
CS: GO just broke an all time record [0] for the concurrent players recently.
Gaming industry is doing well.
[0] https://invisioncommunity.co.uk/csgo-breaks-a-record-with-ov...
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#15I'm curious how video game sales will be affected by COVID-19. Anecdotally, I've noticed all my friends who were never previously interested are now messaging me about setting up group matches in Age of Empire, Fortnite, Civilization.
I know there's several sales going on right now (GOG even has a nice selection of games discounted to free to get started). https://www.gog.com/partner/stay_at_home Anecdotally my twitter feed seems to have more people gaming now than normal. Empirically, steam stats show a marked increase in logged in users and those playing games: https://steamdb.info/graph/
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#16Why the shame? Self-deprecation I hope. Because there should be no shame in having a productive and creative hobby. I wish I had the patience to paint such tiny figures but whenever I've tried my hands start itching, I even feel itching behind my eyes, in my brain, and I just scream and throw things on the ground.
When I was at secondary school I was in a group that was big into warhammer. We spent more time war gaming than we did in higher education, but we never spoke about it at school! At that age it was hard to imagine any girls would even speak to us if they knew how dorky we were.
Part of our concealment of this extremely uncool hobby was the method we used to enter the games workshop stores, which we dubbed "the nonchalant walk". It involved walking "past" the shop entrance, pointedly not looking its way, then making an abrupt ninety-degree turn when we'd reached the shortest distance to it.
It must have looked very odd to anyone who did glimpse it.
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#17Well, isn't that nostalgic...
I haven't touched my paints and brushes for... let me see, since 2011, when I graduated and started working. Nine years. Huh. There was a time, after I got bitten by the warhammer bug that I would apply paint on just about everything that would take it.
Only the other week I was moving some stuff about the house and found some of my GW stuff and a bunch of my 1/72 historical minis.
Here's my little 1/72 Italeri Indian Warrior:
https://i.imgur.com/EPe38S4.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/FMRCP3h.jpg
I think I started by painting some Zulu Warriors in Goblin Green (a GW colour). They made nice Orks. Then I thought I'd paint some Conquistadores for the Empire and perhaps Romans for Elves, Vikings for Dwarfs etc. At some point I felt the historical models (well, _some_ of them) were so pretty they deserved a better fate, so I started painting them in more realistic colours. I still have boxes of the gorgeous 1/72 historical models from Zvezda. See these guys for instance:
Greek Infantry
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=335
Or the Samurai infantry:
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=448
Or the War Elephants:
http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=349
Oh god. I am _never_ going to find the time to paint all of those minis... :(
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#18I'm curious how video game sales will be affected by COVID-19. Anecdotally, I've noticed all my friends who were never previously interested are now messaging me about setting up group matches in Age of Empire, Fortnite, Civilization.
What about the implications on bandwidth as well? Internet will be pushed to its limits in streaming and teleconferencing, among other things.
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#19I'm curious how video game sales will be affected by COVID-19. Anecdotally, I've noticed all my friends who were never previously interested are now messaging me about setting up group matches in Age of Empire, Fortnite, Civilization.
What about the implications on bandwidth as well? Internet will be pushed to its limits in streaming and teleconferencing, among other things.
At least for streaming, most big, non-realtime, streaming platforms like YouTube or Netflix have caching inside ISP networks, to limit the requirements on the global network.
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