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

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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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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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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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and to utter freely according to conscience, above
all other liberties. ~John Milton
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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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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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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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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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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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On Sat, 4 Jul 2026 12:10:12 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:

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.

*--

I think there are only checkpoint saves too. And every time I booted
it up, I had to deal with pushing the guy off the balcony. Not sure I
got much farther. Wait, I seem to remember being inside an office or
something crazy.

Oh well, just uninstalled it. It was still installed.

Thanks!

-pw
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