Earlier I was thinking it's maybe comparable to paying for Netflix vs torrenting and running Plex or something. For the majority of normal, mainstream users I feel like most would just pay for the thing that is already setup and ready for them. There'll still be all the more techy or determined types who will do it themselves, I just wonder what the percentages of both groups will be.
It sounds like you either didn't play enough or you are missing the new mechanics that get added over time. There's definitely more to it than just regular snake.
This reminds me of the 2021 Secret Sky online music festival put on by Porter Robinson. The 2020 one was similar but the 2021 version had little human-like avatars. Some other people and me were messing around with the browser console to do things like change our accent colours or change the location text above our heads to whatever else we wanted.
FYI this website sets off a bunch of Bitdefender alerts as being a suspicious web page. I assume probably false positives or something but still something you might want to look into.
"The page https://ppo.gradexp.xyz/ has been detected with suspicious activity. It is not recommended to continue browsing this website."
This is sortof like how Only Connect switched from using Greek letters to Egyptian hieroglyphs. I'm not sure if it was a joke or not but it was said that viewers complained that the Greek letters were "too pretentious" and obviously the hieroglyphs weren't.
I tried 22 old game EXEs I have and none of them worked. They would import and show the icon and some would open, but nothing would work and most wouldn't even close. They would either show various error messages when trying to open or just open in a broken/unusable state.
Sora means sky in Japanese, their reasoning is akin to "the sky's the limit".
> The team behind the technology, including the researchers Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles, chose the name because it “evokes the idea of limitless creative potential.”