Well the E stands for emulation, so no.

CachyOS installer these are all things outside at all related to the game and back to the game and back to the game and back to the game

Pretty accurate really.

Another lemmy echo chamber... It's pointless to show another kind of opinion.

Sounds like you maybe just have a habit of entering conversations on topics you don't know much about (and in this case self-admittedly don't even care about), so you get a lot of people who are more informed and do care expressing their disagreement with you?

Have you considered just not doing that?

Why would anyone even play a Star Wars game at this point knowing you're just getting whatever slop some mega publisher paid top dollar to Disney for to fuck you in the ass with.

Yep, just because a game takes 8 years to make doesn't mean it was necessarily spent making a game that looks or plays anything like the one that eventually came out.

What is sketchy about downloading a torrent that it could save you from? Wouldn't it be executing whatever you downloaded on another machine that would be the risky part?

Absolutely hard disagree with this. Removing active items would be dumbing it down too much.

I've been playing dota since 2012 and I haven't played a single game of it since I got invited to Deadlock months ago.

How would a thinking emoji make it clear your question isn't serious? Also, things have been available for a limited time long before phishing attempts were a thing, and will continue to exist for legitimate purposes long after. You can't expect the entire rest of the world to stop doing something innocuous just because it's also used as a tactic to fool a small subset of inattentive people.

I doubt it, especially considering this is actually the fourth game in the series.

Ok, then what does it mean to you? Were you confused why Baldur's Gate 3 was made too? It's an even older gameplay concept and did less to change it.

Edit: I'm also struggling to see how I was being "dishonest" by sharing an opinion.

If the way you choose to value a game is based on how "old" or "new" it seems to you then you should be prepared for people to question that because it's meaningless.

If anything a game feeling "older" to me is a good thing considering the nickel-and-diming design by committee garbage that has taken over.