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  • Dispatch now available on Prime luna!

    From rms@rmsmoo@moomoo.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Jul 2 19:57:55 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    Dispatch is a newer and fairly popular release, now available to play: https://www.amazongamestudios.com/en-us/news/articles/luna-july-2026

    rms
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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Fri Jul 3 11:11:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On 7/2/2026 6:57 PM, rms wrote:
    Dispatch is a newer and fairly popular release, now available to play: https://www.amazongamestudios.com/en-us/news/articles/luna-july-2026


    Oh what?!?! Yeah this is high up on my wishlist!

    I thought Luna was going away too...
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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Jul 4 07:50:02 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On 7/3/2026 11:11 AM, Justisaur wrote:
    On 7/2/2026 6:57 PM, rms wrote:
    Dispatch is a newer and fairly popular release, now available to play:
    https://www.amazongamestudios.com/en-us/news/articles/luna-july-2026


    Oh what?!?! Yeah this is high up on my wishlist!

    I thought Luna was going away too...


    Well, I played it some last night, though I had to wait a really long
    time, like 45 minutes. "You are #23 in line..." and some this morning (I didn't have to wait this morning)

    I'm getting tired of it, and I'm about halfway through. The voice
    acting is weird/bad, or maybe it's the pacing. Also I'm getting tired
    of failing missions, It seems if you fail many the game puts you into a
    spiral where you fail more because you didn't get experience being able
    to up you heroes abilities, and your heroes are reduced in ability from
    being 'injured'. Maybe I'd be better off not trying to do all the
    missions and using the maximum # of heroes.

    I seem to have chosen poorly in who to get rid of, I have a braniac,
    only I found out he's only a brainac half the time, and he's nearly
    useless/ replicates the other heroes the rest of the time.

    Also having some lag issues, you wouldn't think so but the cut scenes
    are lagging and catching up frequently and I'm missing some bits of
    them, and the choices are timed where you have to read them and choose quickly, and the lag matters there.
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    -Justisaur

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  • From Zaghadka@zaghadka@hotmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Jul 4 10:10:56 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 19:57:55 -0600, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, rms
    wrote:

    Dispatch is a newer and fairly popular release, now available to play: >https://www.amazongamestudios.com/en-us/news/articles/luna-july-2026

    Yeah. Not touching cloud served AV, no matter how tempting they make it.

    Even if controller lag doesn't matter, I don't want to set the precedent.

    Though if RAM gets much more expensive, nobody will be able to afford
    decent local video any more. Probably all part of the plan.
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    Zag

    Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe,
    and to utter freely according to conscience, above
    all other liberties. ~John Milton
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  • From Zaghadka@zaghadka@hotmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Jul 4 10:12:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On Sat, 4 Jul 2026 07:50:02 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Justisaur wrote:

    You are #23 in line

    The hell? They don't have the capacity to stream to whoever comes by,
    whenever?

    No wonder Luna is going away. They won't even pay their AWS bill. And
    they literally *are* AWS.
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    Zag

    Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe,
    and to utter freely according to conscience, above
    all other liberties. ~John Milton
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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Jul 4 08:18:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On 7/4/2026 8:12 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
    On Sat, 4 Jul 2026 07:50:02 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Justisaur wrote:

    You are #23 in line

    The hell? They don't have the capacity to stream to whoever comes by, whenever?

    No wonder Luna is going away. They won't even pay their AWS bill. And
    they literally *are* AWS.


    Yeah, that makes no sense.
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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@spallshurgenson@gmail.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Jul 4 13:43:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 11:11:49 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
    said this thing:

    On 7/2/2026 6:57 PM, rms wrote:
    Dispatch is a newer and fairly popular release, now available to play:
    https://www.amazongamestudios.com/en-us/news/articles/luna-july-2026


    Oh what?!?! Yeah this is high up on my wishlist!

    I thought Luna was going away too...

    As I understand it:

    Luna as a launcher of games you own is going away. Luna as
    cloud-streaming service --mostly of casual-style games-- will continue
    to exist.

    So any games you purchased to run on Luna? The sort of games you
    download to your PC and then run? Those will be lost. You can't buy
    any new games to the service (either through Amazon directly, or via
    their 'Bring Your Own Library' service), and any games you used to own
    on the service will no longer be accessible.

    But Luna will remain as a subscription-only cloud-gaming service. So
    you may get access to Dispatch... but don't count on it staying
    available forever. Honestly, I don't really know how Luna handles its
    cloud streaming games; whether all games on its subscription service
    are streamed or some can be run locally. And if there is an option, I
    don't know on which side Dispatch sits. But the whole thing makes me
    wary enough that I don't even want to try and find out.

    Especially since it's likely that --if I wait long enough-- the game
    will probably be made available free elsewhere.


    TL;DR:
    Luna continues to exist as a product: just not any product I'm
    interested in using.


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  • From PW@noneused@noneused.net to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Jul 4 12:23:31 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 19:57:55 -0600, "rms" <rmsmoo@moomoo.net> wrote:

    Dispatch is a newer and fairly popular release, now available to play: >https://www.amazongamestudios.com/en-us/news/articles/luna-july-2026

    rms

    *---

    Bought it a while ago. Stopped playing it. It was a little sleezy,
    and it took forever to get started. I don't think I got very far. No
    time for games that take forever to get to the point.
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  • From Justisaur@justisaur@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Sat Jul 4 12:10:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On 7/4/2026 11:23 AM, PW wrote:
    On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 19:57:55 -0600, "rms" <rmsmoo@moomoo.net> wrote:

    Dispatch is a newer and fairly popular release, now available to play:
    https://www.amazongamestudios.com/en-us/news/articles/luna-july-2026

    rms

    *---

    Bought it a while ago. Stopped playing it. It was a little sleezy,

    True, they show Toxic's dick in the into sequence. And there's a lot of disgusting jokes (which I don't care for.)

    and it took forever to get started. I don't think I got very far. No
    time for games that take forever to get to the point.

    Yeah the intro sequence is exceedingly long, even though they do have quicktime events during it.

    There's almost as much story as there is game in it, it feels a bit like
    an adult Teltale game.
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