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Geodad, 2 miesiące temu do gaming w Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program

I’m against the concept of intellectual property. Information should belong to the entirety of humanity.

Just don’t bother asking someone who obviously doesn’t care anymore.

Dave, 2 miesiące temu

So you post a selfie on Lemmy and the next thing you know, you’re the key subject in a new Facebook ad?

I think we need some level of IP laws, but current copyright periods are way too long.

SnotFlickerman, 2 miesiące temu

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=14361…

Rufus Pollock’s math agrees. I am so bummed he recently took this down from his personal website where it had been available for 15 years

Now it just resolves as a 404 not found:

rufuspollock.com/…/optimal_copyright_term.pdf

Dave, 2 miesiące temu

Ah that’s cool, 15 year copyright sounds good to me.

Tronn4, 2 miesiące temu do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm

Values: money grab

Jaysyn, 2 miesiące temu do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm

Well, that’s quite the bold-faced lie.

My 11+ year old boycott of EA is looking smarter & smarter every day.

Kolanaki, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu) do games w Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'

I said when they put the trailer out that it didn’t look any better than the Revision mod and I got shit for it.

Zarxrax, 2 miesiące temu do games w Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect

A ship sounds a lot less exciting than a city.

ms_lane, 2 miesiące temu

*Unless it’s a murder-mystery, but then Train > Ship

Gonzako, 2 miesiące temu do games w EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?

Damn, good use of their time! Not going after trillionaries, no.

BurgerBaron, 3 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu) do gaming w Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is richly authentic, intriguingly written, dripping with brooding atmosphere, and… not very fun to play, unfortunately

I checked Robin’s site profile to make sure she wasn’t one of the people who thought Dragon Age Veilguard had good writing first thing. Nope that was Lauren, my bad.

Still doubt it but I’m hopeful now. I play all the higher rated low budget Choose Your Own Adventure text adventures/VN Masquerade games on Steam.

That said, I’ll find it pretty funny if the combat is truly as bad as it was in the first Bloodline game. I like Redemption best, and if I can get through that gameplay steamer I can get through this…probably not at launch price.

Rose, 3 miesiące temu

I believe the developer has practically no experience with action games, so the combat being subpar wouldn’t be unexpected. I definitely wouldn’t be playing a WoD game for its combat though. I’d want a good story, characters, and the right aesthetics.

Dyskolos, 3 miesiące temu do games w Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK

Ugh. Cram your propaganda where the sun won’t shine. So glad to have not bought mirage yet. And now I surely won’t. Despite me liking the ubi games. Yeah I said it, now downvote me like hell for it 😁

TallonMetroid, 3 miesiące temu

If you’d like to don your eyepatch and tricorn, a dev build (ie Denuvo-less) of v1.0.6 got leaked last November.

missingno, 3 miesiące temu do games w 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'

I feel like we've long reached the point where the benefit of top-of-the-line hardware just isn't worth it. IMO, Switch 2 ought to be enough to target, and any game that can't fit on that can probably stand to be scaled back.

NuXCOM_90Percent, 3 miesiące temu do games w In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller

…

DID Blands 4 “dominate”? The only mention of it I saw was pitchford (and his magic flash drive) bragging that the servers wouldn’t get hugged over the weekend and… yeah.

WanderWisley, 3 miesiące temu do games w Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'

We are gonna get gta 8 before we get star citizen.

cronenthal, 3 miesiące temu do games w Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'

All I really wanted was SQ42 back when I supported it on Kickstarter. With my 20 bucks there’s no regret, but it’s quite funny where things have gone since then.

I install the latest alpha once every year and am both amazed and disappointed.

I don’t expect SQ42 to be released before 2030 and I do expect it to be a buggy, unoptimized mess when it finally arrives.

I’ve been thoroughly entertained all those years, though.

Hond, 3 miesiące temu do games w Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'

Since i saw that gameplay footage which was released like somewhere in the last 5 years its all i can think about when Sq42 is in the news again. Until that point i just hoped that maybe somehow someday an unpolished but interesting game will come out. But that footage looked so unfun and ass after ~10 years of development i lost all hope.

AngryCommieKender, 3 miesiące temu do games w After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0

I mean Terraria and Factorio both took years if not a decade to hit 1.0

saltesc, 3 miesiące temu do games w After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0

Genuinely forgot this game existed. I was over it before COVID lockdowns.