Yet two of the most played games out there in 2025 are RTSes, Dota and League. The genre just progressed forward.
WC3 was peak design with the mod support (maps) where Dota originates from and and it was also the bane of the company. They couldn't monetize it and IceFrog choose Valve instead of them. No wonder that later Blizz games has 0 community support.
Dota and League are not RTS games. They are Moba. These are completely different genres. Dota happened to utilise Warcraft engine and assets back in the days, but that doesn't make it RTS.
Icefrog went to blizzard first if i remember correctly. Blizzard kinda told him to make a restricted game, maybe within the sc2 engine, almost for free. Valve saw the value and invested more.
do you mean something like running a full blown and expensive GPU or relying to have your prompts parsed into a server that often times is draining the water, as well causing power shortages of nearby places (sometimes residential areas) trained on copyright violated data to do something like: "hey chat cd my Downloads folder" instead of "cd Downloads"? or any alias for $often used $stuff?
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There was a talk from someone from Yahoo back in 2013 on the Fedora Flock conference in Prague about how they can re-provision baremetal machines in less than one minute.
They used the regular Anaconda installer (used for Feodra, RHEL and related distros) to install the rootfs from a tarball, even doing a live demo - tha machine was doingn something - the reybooted it into the installer, which wiped the storage, unpacked the tarball and configured the system. After reboot the new system was up, ready to do something else - all in less than 60 seconds, including 2 reboots, back in 2013.
>#58037 Photoshop CS 2 installation never completes
Hah so I'm not the only who is still using CS2
I downloaded everything CS2 when Adobe "accidentally" made them available (the activation servers were shutdown). The Mac versions don't work anymore (PowerPC) but the Windows versions are more than good still today.
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