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slaacaa, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
W3dd1e, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

Is this because Embracer sold Borderlands to Take-Two last year?

zecg,
@zecg@lemmy.world avatar

It’s because Take Two came out with a fuck-you-in-the-ass EULA for all their games. I actually look forward to boycotting someone, there’s too much free and discounted shit everywhere

supersquirrel, do gaming w I hate how CoD is all microscopic maps now thanks to Shipment 24/7

looks over from flying helicopter in operation harsh doorstop

AGREED

PaupersSerenade, do gaming w I hate how CoD is all microscopic maps now thanks to Shipment 24/7
@PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works avatar

I just played again for a long while today, but only Zombies with my bud. I will say I unironically love shipment because I just don’t feel like winning is a skill thing and that takes the pressure off. I just throw out my traps and go around full ape-shit with a shotgun. Totally recognize that’s not what actually good pvp’ers would want, but it works for my casual ass ¯_(ツ)_/¯

P00ptart, do gaming w I hate how CoD is all microscopic maps now thanks to Shipment 24/7

Why do people still play that game? I quit after black ops 2? I think. Got MW2 with my ps5 played a few times and the game is just so far from the game I loved 15-20 years ago. Why do so many people complain so hard about it and keep playing? I bought the outer worlds and assassin’s Creed Ragnarok recently for less than some call of duty skins lol. Just stop playing. I’m sorry but I don’t understand the mindset of complaining about the black eyes you get when you punch yourself.

SalamenceFury,
@SalamenceFury@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, don’t get me wrong. I actually like the game, otherwise I would be playing something else. I just dislike the way the community has dragged it into a dumb direction because of the devs actively choosing to put Shipment on every game since MW2019. Most players now literally have an aneurysm if they don’t fight someone within 5 seconds of spawning.

chemical_cutthroat,
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world avatar

I just stopped playing PvP games in general and I’m quickly giving up on co-op with randoms. All that shit is too toxic. FFXIV has been a bastion of good community vibes, and recently, to my surprise, Night Reign, but probably only because there isn’t voice chat.

P00ptart,

Same, single player for me.

BmeBenji, do gaming w If you hear Latin, you're in trouble.

I reject your reality and substitute my own: when you’re a demon and you hear “KARR EN TUK” coming from over the hill

DrGrout, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Owns Rockstar Games, Zynga and 2K. So if that’s all their games, it includes at least these: Bioshock series, Borderlands series, Civilization series, Grand Theft Auto series, Mafia series, Max Payne series, NBA 2K series, PGA Tour 2K series, Red Dead series, WWE 2K series and XCOM series.

Amazing stuff!

damdy,

That’s just a list of games that used to be good and now suck.

Godwins_Law,

I object to that for XCOM

overload, do games w The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!

I’ve been wrapping up endgame dungeons in Clair Obscur this week, having played through the story last week. I was a big PS1 final fantasy fan as a kid that later got into dark souls/Sekiro, so this game hit so hard for me. I can’t recommend it strongly enough if you’ve been a fan of these genres.

macaw_dean_settle, do gaming w If you hear Latin, you're in trouble.

If he/she is a boss, where are their employees? Not a boss, no employees.

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

Hey buddy, you used a microaggression. You shouldn’t say “he/she”, you should say “they” instead.

cepelinas,

They used the grammatically correct version, they is plural and while I am not against it your point is still wrong.

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

My favourite dictionary is Merriam-Webster, what’s yours?

merriam-webster.com/…/singular-nonbinary-they

cepelinas,

In English class they is a plural pronoun he, she, it are singular and how is using a traditionally singular pronoun microaggression I am not against trans people but wth?

Pipster,

Singular they is not a new concept designed to appeal to the “woke crowd”. I was very much taught in school to use singular they, it was always something used when the gender of the subject was unknown and often even if it is known but unimportant. It has been part of the English language for a long time.

cepelinas,

I am sorry that my comment appeared trans phobic but I still do not get how is a person using he/she instead of they is micro aggression.

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

Some video game bosses aren’t hes or shes. Some are theys and some are its.

Empricorn,

Yet somehow not as aggressive as your comment.

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

UwU fuckmuffin, u used a micwoaggweshun! U shudnt use he/she, u shud use dey insted OwO!

Better?

RickyRigatoni, do gaming w If you hear Latin, you're in trouble.
@RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com avatar
JackbyDev, do games w The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!

BLUE PRINCE! IT IS SO GOOD!

It’s a puzzle game like Myst, and a puzzle game like a board game sort of. So it has short term and long term puzzles. It’s so good! I’m obsessed.

overload,

Blue Prince was incredible. Any game where you need to keep a physical notepad next to you gets points in my book. If you’ve not played Return of the Obra Dinn I’d rec that for that same experience.

JackbyDev,

I did play Obra Dinn! I loved it.

Ledericas, do gaming w If you hear Latin, you're in trouble.

singing liberi fatalis, or fighting fate.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Day 323 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing

Galactic Genocide never looked so juicy before…

No seriously, you might want to get on that. End game lag is atrocious with more survivng civs.

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Already starting to experience it lol. I was going to lower my resolution from 2k to see if it helps but i was holding off

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w The new Helldivers 2 "Force of Law" war bond is dropping on June 12th.

“Grand Juror” paid armor an obvious “Judge Dredd at home”

Lemjukes, do games w What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
@Lemjukes@lemm.ee avatar
  • Did the EULA change? ✅
  • Were all Take Two games automatically updated in secret and now hijack your machine with root access to spy on everything you do? ❌
  • Do Take Two games contain code to report telemetry and user information(including application/system activity) to a home server? ✅
  • Is this EULA change extraordinary and particularly egregious in comparison to others that most people have probably already agreed to? ❌(IMO)
  • Are people riled up because e a YouTube video went a little viral and now they’re all playing telephone to the point where it’s now gotten to the point of random dumdums are review booming a 13 year old game claiming it’s turned into literal spyware? ✅(again, IMO)
  • Should you be surprised by any of this if you’ve been even remotely paying attention for any period of the last 30-40 years? ❌
Mustakrakish,
BlindFrog,

Precise location information? Wtf for?

Lemjukes,
@Lemjukes@lemm.ee avatar

Hyper Localized Advertising. Welcome back o the future :(

Couldbealeotard,
@Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world avatar

I just saw an advertisement for a custom T-shirt:
“That’s right, I’m a December dad, who lives at 62a, with size 10 feet and prescription glasses…”

/S

BlindFrog,

“By scrolling past, you agree to sharing with us (and our affiliates) the following collected data types: …”

outhouseperilous,

Oh honey, what’s any of it for?

NIB,

They use the same terms of service for mobile games and they just dont bother to change it for pc games.

BlindFrog,

This mistake makes sense to make as a mistake. But also, that’s fuckin asinine

QuoVadisHomines,

It isn’t a mistake. Writing different EULA for each game costs more money than writing an overly aggressive one that covers most cases.

Lemjukes,
@Lemjukes@lemm.ee avatar

A bit more than what, not really sure what your point here is? All of those bullet points are similar if not identical to terms in other EULAs half the people in this thread have already clicked thru.

I’ll say it again, if you think this is anything new you haven’t been paying attention. I’m all for calling this fuckery out and pushing for something better. But like where yall been?

MummysLittleBloodSlut,

Let’s ride the wave. Turn this into a huge controversy known industry-wide. Then, next game that comes out with EULA like this, we say “THIS GAME HAS A BORDERLANDS-STYLE EULA”. Pretend it’s new to exploit the shock value and get the gamers riled up. Then, the industry gets better.

Tell the frog that the pot wasn’t always this hot.

emeralddawn45,

What point are you trying to make? You say you’re “all for calling this kind of fuckery out” but then you’re criticizing people for calling it out? And who cares what other EULAs might say? The point is that the license agreement for this game and others owned by this company didn’t say this shit before, and now they do. The company is actively making their user agreement more hostile to the users which is what people are pissed about.

Don_alForno,

Some people will always find an excuse to change nothing.

It doesn’t matter how many similar EULA’s people have already accepted. The best moment to not eat it anymore would have been the first time it happened, the second best time is right now.

Also, retroactively amending an EULA is a different quality, since people have already paid for the game and would be locked out after the fact if they didn’t accept.

Semjaza,

If more folks are waking up and shaking a stick at it or doing something but blindly click through (thus legally unenforceable) EULAs I’m all for it.

Better late than never.

Vespair,

I see this kind of comment before and I will never understand it - “other companies do it so just bend over and let us do it to you too!”

People say this all the time about Denuvo too: “Other games already have Denuvo, why are you crying about it here when you’re playing other games?”

And see, that’s the problem - we aren’t playing those other Denuvo games. And same thing applies here, guess what, a lot of us aren’t buying games from gross companies like EA with these shit terms. So when a company we are doing business with suddenly changes their terms to be shit, that’s a valid complaint. Some of us have already been boycotting bad business practices in the industry, so the idea of company changing terms towards the boycott after we’ve already invested in the game feels like a betrayal because it is.

So maybe stop focusing on what you assume the rest of audience is doing and instead go back to focusing on what the people at the goddamn podium are trying to pull?

LainTrain,

I don’t click thru any EULAs. I see bad EULA - I pirate. Then if it makes any network traffic i just block that shit.

JasonDJ,

So…if Steam is running in a Flatpak, and Borderlands is launched from Steam, how much can they even see…really?

RetroGoblet79,

They know I use Linux and that means they know too much

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Not a lot. Even when it isn’t a flatpak windows software running on linux won’t be able to interact with the system anywhere near as much as on windows.

They’ll be able to tell it’s linux, though.

Squizzy,

New to linux…are flatpaks like sandboxed?

iknowitwheniseeit,

Sort of. They can be, but are not always.

Nilz,

They are somewhat isolated but not sandboxed.

domi,
@domi@lemmy.secnd.me avatar

You can install an application like Flatseal (flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal) to inspect the permissions for a flatpak.

How locked down a flatpak is depends entirely on the developer and what permissions they request. By default, they can’t really see much. For example, they can’t even see the processes running on your host or your user and system files.

Flatpak does not do anything about network access though, it can only do no access or full access, no in between. The data they can collect on Linux in a Flatpak is very limited but it does not prevent them from calling home.

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