TiDinzeo

I think there's two reasons why this forum has gone quiet. First was the the change in format, as Cryzeteur mentioned and the second was the community adoption of the Discord server. Of course the forum and the Discord do different things well. The discord is great for 'immediate' conversation with whoever's online whilst the forum is great for long term discussions where everyone gets to take part and can go back to the very beginning of the conversation if they want to. Personally I check here reasonably often, at least once per day. As for what it will take to make it more active again, I honestly don't know. That's probably why I'm only a mod rather than an admin.

From what I understand comments help the video get better ranking on youtube which means they're more likely to get noticed by new people.

You'll still have to buy from Epic if you want any games that they're putting out. As far as I can tell, GOG are doing this for the 'I want all of my games in one launcher' crowd so you'll somehow tell GOG Galaxy what games you have and where the executables are on your computer (It'll probably have an automatic search come to think of it) and it'll show you what games you have installed. That's my guess anyway. It's possible that it will somehow access your games library on other services, but you'll need to give Galaxy access to your accounts on the other platforms.

It kinda used to be before digital downloading became so prevalent. Whilst all stores would get the game, different stores would get different pre-order bonuses. Where do you think the console publishers got the idea from?

There's been a bit of an issue with the hosting on the server for the website. The folks who deal with these things are working on it and we hope to have functionality returned as soon as possible. Thanks for letting us know though.

Has anyone checked that it hasn't released already? Because that would be a surprise.

Honestly, at this stage I don't know. The features will all need to be tested to find which was causing the issue and that's not something I know anything about.

The forum was recently updated and there was problems with plugins and custom apps so they had to be disabled.

Steam doesn't have a close substitute though. Publisher's stores are only used for their games and people pretty much only buy on them if a game's not available on steam. GoG is the closest thing Steam has to competition but their range is, in general, older and much more limited meaning their market share, and visibility to the general game buying public is really small.

Which is most videos. And don't forget, right now people uploading their own original content are getting copyright strikes because the system's broken. https://twitter.com/itsDanBull/status/1073232348743917569

Nah, that would take far too much work and money on Youtube's art. They're more likely to stop anyone except trusted channels upload anything at all because Youtube don't want to be responsible if someone uploads something that someone else holds the copyright for. And because it's cheaper and easier for them to just have one system everywhere, they'll probably roll that out globally. Additionally, fair use doesn't work quite the same way in the EU as it does in the US so a lot of what could be defended with fair use in the US, can't be in the EU. This is probably the video I've seen that makes it easiest to understand it.

I have a FO4 playthrough where I'm trying to avoid the main quest as much as possible. I got the Quincy Survivors to Sanctuary and set them up there, took and finished the first 'X settlement needs your help' quest from Preston but didn't turn it in. And I've got the transmitter thingy from ArcJet for Danse and told him I'd think about his offer. Since then I've been going around exploring and doing as much as I can. Most of that is small, two or three part quests at most with little or no impact on the rest of the game. I know that with the BoS all I'll be able to do without advancing the main quest is the endless radiant quests from the scribe and squire and with the Minutemen will be clearing out the castle and then the radiant quests (which also doesn't change if you do play the main quest to be fair). I honestly don't know about the Railroad, I haven't contacted them at all in this playthrough and, obviously, the Institute is entirely locked behind the main quest. Of course, you could say that there's not much in the way of content in the parts I can't access without pretending I give a damn about a child forced on my character by Bethesda who most likely, as far as I know, is already dead and could even have died of old age whilst I was frozen giving me no reason at all to go out and find him. but when you actually look at the quests for the factions in Skyrim you could also say that their questlines aren't all that much in terms of content individually either as they're usually a handfull of fetch quests after which you're in charge. They're just better written, in that they have an actual, sensible (in world) story and there's more of them than in FO4. So to actually answer your question, no, you can't say that about FO4.

In Skyrim you can do pretty much everything else before you do most of the main quest as far as I can remember, the only real exception to that is Dawnguard where he won't let you join up unless you've defeated Alduin. If you progress the main quest up to the point of the Greybeards shout calling you to High Hrothgar (so after the first dragon fight) that is. And after that, you can ignore the main quest until you've done everything else and become a demi-god who also owns all the money in Skyrim. Sure, Fallout 4 might let you ignore the main quest sooner, but it still locks away large parts of the game.

And if you do that you can't do anything with the Brotherhood of steel or the Institute as they only unlock with story missions. There are large parts of the game gated behind the main quest. That's what he means by not being able to ignore it I believe.

It all saves on the servers. The same as an MMORPG You just sign in on your account and it's all there still. The only thing you might want to save that's actually on your computer is your keybindings.