Damien

Live service games are a good way to circumvent Canada's copyright protections which, in my experience, are quite favourable to the consumer. We do not make it quite as criminal here as they tend to on this continent. But since torrenting is effectively decriminalized so u can have backups of games out there, live service means the company can cut off the service. Tho in a lot of cases, community projects arise to fill in the gaps. An example is the community projects that let u play command and conquer generals and red alert 3 online. I tend to steer away from games that kinda hang in the middle, half wanting to be live service games but not committing to the content and quality people expect when u get paid to develop a game for half or more of a decade. I find that avoiding the big studios--many of which are ultimately from the US--tends to increase the value I get from my games. Now if only the Canadian dollar had a bit more independent value on the international market.

There's this game called Rimworld. It's a lot like a lot of other games, but officially it's a "story generator."

I'm just a hobbyist, but I know enough to build my own system. IMO ur processor, not just the processor itself but what's available for the socket, LGA 1200. U may be able to get a post-10th gen processor but lately intel has been quite unreliable as far as consumer CPUs go. I preferred intel for ages ever since my family's first 233mhz pentium 1. But my last upgrade I went for AMD instead and I'm glad I did. Upgrading ur socket means upgrading ur motherboard. I presume most of ur other components would transfer to a motherboard with a new socket and processor. NVMe is one of the newest and fastest connection standards for storage. There are crazy good graphics processors out there, and urs is not what I'd call current gen (like mine), but the gains are mostly for GTA 6 and people doing crypto..... business. With a good X3D AMD cpu and a good motherboard u could really be screaming and ready for the next upgrade. X3D is really good for it's "3D cache" but any AMD that ends is X can be overclocked, which is what I prefer. Even with "just" air cooling, u can get a lot out of the overclock.