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auzy, do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

People use steam because it’s good service, and a good product.

In fact, they also gave Linux a boost

They also have things like cloud saving

Developers use them because apparently they have some awesome features too for things like multiplayer and such and a great API

lapislazuli,

I like steam as a user but it’s still proprietary software and I’m slightly concerned about what is going to happen when Gabe Newell steps down as president and ceo of Valve.

SouravSatvaya, do games w Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam
@SouravSatvaya@lemmy.world avatar

Doesn’t matter if the game is on Steam or on Epic if it’s a shit game.

SaltySalamander,

Ubi actually makes some great games. Give Anno 1800 a shot.

drunkpostdisaster,

Well, I bought FC5 for 10. It was still a rip off, but put that shit on sale and make something back.

avater, (edited ) do gaming w Tarkov studio claims it actually doesn't have the server capacity for everyone who bought the game for $150 to play its upcoming PvE mode, still wants players to pay extra
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

They are a Russian Developer with contacts to military units who support the war in Ukraine and also mocked Ukrainian with screenshots in their game…so why expect you no shitty behavior from them?

Stop supporting them and let their game fail.

Sources:

babel.ua/…/80120-escape-from-tarkov-and-war-thund…

ain.capital/…/escape-from-tarkovs-developers-show…

reddit.com/…/escape_from_tarkov_is_full_of_vatnik…

Phegan,

Source? I would love to confirm this. If it’s true I will stop playing instantly

ILikeBoobies,

From what I found they have made no comment other than “they will not leave any markets due to war”

As for being Russian

"We have a mix of talent, some veteran developers, some new to game development. But everyone loves guns and FPS games. One of the studio leads is actually a former Spetsnaz officer, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Special Forces."

Phegan, (edited )

I am aware they are Russian, and I don’t expect them to actively condemn the invasion, as it would be dangerous for them. If there is proof they were actively supporting the war or mocking Ukraine, that’s a different story.

avater,
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

I am aware they aren’t Russian

they are a Russian developer, they moved their office to london but still maintain their office in St. Petersburg

Phegan,

Sorry typo.

avater,
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

They moved their office to London (wonder why…) but part of the team still works from their origin in Russian St. Petersburg. And here is what I’ve found:

babel.ua/…/80120-escape-from-tarkov-and-war-thund…

Phegan,

Thank you

avater, (edited )
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

And this happened more than once, so that is a long-term partnership. Buyanov recorded joint videos with Dmitry “Goblin” Puchkov, a Russian translator and blogger known for his anti-Ukrainian stance. And Puchkov himself was a guest at the Battlestate Games studio.

Nikita Buyanov and his company actively partnered with companies in the Russian military-industrial complex. This group actively funds and supplies separatists, they ask for donations to supply their members who are going to fight in Ukraine, they participate in podcasts from occupied cities and Tarkov’s developers prop up their platform by including them (in no small capacity) in their game.

One of the new traders they are planning to add into the game is named “Khokhol” which is an anti-Ukrainian ethnic slur used by russians. There is also a feature in the game where you can become a character called a “Scav” when you become one you are assigned a random russian name, sometimes they are memes like “garandthumb” or “robokop” but in their depravity, there is a chance that your character can be named “Hohol” which you see when you die, or other players see when you kill them.

The developers of Escape from Tarkov, the Russian studio Battlestate Games, have published several new screenshots of the game. As Artem Lys noticed, on one of them the character shows the middle finger to the player in pixel uniform and with yellow tape on his hand, which clearly symbolizes the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

babel.ua/…/80120-escape-from-tarkov-and-war-thund…

ain.capital/…/escape-from-tarkovs-developers-show…

reddit.com/…/escape_from_tarkov_is_full_of_vatnik…

daniskarma, do gaming w Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is

If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

The problem is this game can’t even be pirated due to how it’s architected.

Landsharkgun, do games w Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers'

" A moderator on the game’s Discord server, for instance, said “watching u all cry, amuses me so much,” while another said on Reddit that complaints about weapon nerfs were perhaps in reality a question of “skill issue.” "

Are you kidding? That’s fucking hilarious. Learn to use a different weapon than the railgun you absolute chuffs.

Chriszz,

I was expecting hate speech or something… but this sounds almost like friendly banter

tuxtey,

The crying comment comes off as more of a dick thing to say, but the skill issue bit is pretty funny.

vertis, do gaming w The makers of Palworld are desperate to hire more developers: 'We are overwhelmingly short of people'

There is this exercise you can do for Agile/Lean estimation where you run a multi stage beer store by passing only order quantity notes up and down a chain.

The intent is to trick the participants into a whiplash effect where the retail store has a one off jump and so orders bigger than normal, and the whole supply chain then gets excited and thinks this is the new normal rather than an anomaly.

The exercise ends and the excess beer in the chain is counted.

Staffing when hyped is similar.

Cavemanfreak,

You are not wrong, but remember that they only employ like 40-50 people. Even if the playerbase goes down to 10% of what it is that’s still not a lot of people.

bruhduh, do games w Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

I’m out of the loop, can someone reply what’s going on? I’ll leave this comment for those like me who curious what happened

spark947,

David Rosen of Wolfire Games (Receiver, Overgrowth, Lugaru) is alleging that steam reps have threatened to de-list his game if he lists it as less expensive on other platforms. Specifically not just steam keys but other distribution platforms.

A_Random_Idiot,

Which is hard to believe, considering how many times I’ve bought steam games on other (legitimate) platforms that were cheaper than on steam, that are still on steam today and werent removed for being cheaper on another platform.

sebinspace,

Not only that, but games you’ve actually heard of, too

Spedwell,

I believe it is in the Steam marketplace agreement, and applies to all games. Are you referring to sales on other platforms, or to the full listed price?

Blackmist,

All those Humble Bundles for a start.

Rose,

Sure, but Valve essentially reserve the right to no longer sell your game if it’s offered cheaper elsewhere. See the quotes on pages 54 through 56 of the complaint.

A_Random_Idiot,

Which is a dick move on valves part.

Remember folks, Valve isnt the peoples company.

All the good things it does, it does only because of regulation pressure or lost lawsuits.

theonyltruemupf,

They also make nice hardware, but they don’t do that out of the goodness of their hearts of course

notamechanic321,

Fyi I like valve but im in no way sworn to them.

I think the justification would probably be that if they continued listing the item:

  1. It maybe mislead consumers into paying more for the same thing
  2. The reason why people pay more in that scenario is for convenience (IE all games in the same place) but that would be exersizing valves monopoly, so it may be safer to just remove to reduce complaints to steam about the higher pricing because there will be operational cost to processing those support requests and complaints

I don’t feel like valve does everything because of lawsuits. Open sourcing proton wasn’t due to a lawsuit. Releasing Cs2 as a free upgrade to csgo wasn’t due to a lawsuit.

On the other hand and in response to your comment, I think the regulatory fix is that platforms must display their platform fee clearly and separately to the publishers price.

deafboy,
@deafboy@lemmy.world avatar

Open sourcing proton wasn’t due to a lawsuit.

Wine and dxvk was already opensource. They couldn’t have closed it even if they wanted to.

BURN,

Minor note about only a single point here

CS2 as an “upgrade” to CSGO has been less than well received from what I can tell. If they wanted it to be free it should have been a new game and left CS:GO in place. Removing a game many of us paid for in favor of a newer, different game isn’t something that should be praised, and should be called out as the anti-consumer move it was.

TWeaK,

It isn’t the peoples’ company, but nor is it a publicly traded company that is obligated to pursue profits above all else. It’s Gabe’s company, and he gets to run it as he sees fit.

Ultimately Wolfire’s argument falls apart not because Valve is setting the terms, but because their claims about Valve’s position in the industry and supposed abuse of power don’t hold much water.

deafboy,
@deafboy@lemmy.world avatar

TIL: valve is run by robots.

CosmicCleric,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

Remember folks, Valve isnt the peoples company.

No corporation is “the peoples corporation”, but some corporations treat their customers with a lot more respect and fairness in pricing/policies than others.

A_Random_Idiot,

Yes, but people have to be reminded of that with “sweetheart” companies like AMD and Valve, because they get too deep in the koolaid and forget it.

spark947,

That hasn’t been my experience, could be a regional pricing thing.

Jakeroxs,

HumbleBundle…

Mango,

Oh shit. I love David Rosen. I also live GabeN…

I should be the judge.

spark947,

Yeah, it sucks when mommy and daddy fight.

ech, do games w Peter Molyneux is ready to disappoint us again with his latest game, a blockchain-based business sim

Pete in June:

“I do think, though”, he concedes, “we have stumbled, and it feels like stumbling on a mechanic that has never been seen in a game before.”

“And a lot of this is very mystical because I’m trying to avoid to tell you what it’s like. But it’s going to be a lot more like a kind of Fable - Black and White - Dungeon Keeper kind of experience”

Of course it was blockchain bullshit.

OctopusKurwa,

“A kind of Fable - Black and White - Dungeon Keeper kind of experience”

Three remarkably different games there. Ol lyin Pete just wanted to mention the greatest hits to drum up interest in his nft nonsense.

smaug13,

I’m not really familiar with those games, only with the infamousness of molyneux, but wasn’t the player’s actions leaving behind a pretty clear effect on the world a common theme in those games? That may have been what he was referring too.

It may also be him naming those because those games were the heights that he wants to go back to. The games he had made when he was still relevant must be much more present in his mind than they are in ours.

ChaoticEntropy,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

He knows the buttons to push to sell his snake oil.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Narrator: It was more like a kind of Godus experience.

Sordid, (edited )
@Sordid@sh.itjust.works avatar

it’s going to be a lot more like a kind of Fable - Black and White - Dungeon Keeper kind of experience

Based on this description and given the only thing two of these games have in common, I can only conclude his latest project is a game focused on using your floating god hand to slap the shit out of your minion(s). I’m just not quite sure about the Fable connection…

gingerrich, do gaming w Elon Musk demanded a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 while wielding a 200 year old gun: "I was armed but not dangerous"

What an absolute cunt of a human being.

Maultasche, do gaming w Starfield NPCs keep getting bodied mid-sentence and it never isn't funny to me

This Fallout video is one of my favourite occurrences of this issue.

stopthatgirl7,
!deleted7120 avatar

That is amazing and I laughed so hard I had tears.

Everblue,

Holy shit my sides. That robot has 0 fucks to give, get slapped.

gregorum,

This is the first thing I’m reading today, and I think it’s going to set the entire tone for the day. 

Thank you, it’s amazing!

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The last one linked in the article was really good, too.

Farewell.

Maultasche,

May you rest in peace.

storksforlegs,
@storksforlegs@beehaw.org avatar

I’m pretty sure I woke up my neighbour laughing at that this morning… holy crap

Vaggumon, do games w The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam

How long till Nintendo files.

9point6,

I wonder if Steam would remove it from people’s libraries in that instance or just the Storefront

entwine413,

I’m not sure they can in this instance. The reason they could sue the Switch emulator team was because they were using a proprietary encryption key.

I don’t think the NES had that, and as long as you own the game, emulation is legal.

Also, this might be considered transformative use since the devs have to create the 3D profile by hand.

glitchdx,

Nintendo was able to sue palworld using a patent that didn’t exist before palworlds release. It’s not right, but they can do whatever they want regardless of what the law says.

entwine413,

That’s not the lawsuit that’s being discussed. It’s the Yuzu Switch emulator lawsuit.

glitchdx,

yeah, i know. Point is that Nintendo can do whatever they want with the flimsyest excuse.

pressedhams,

Exactly. They can file a lawsuit even knowing they might not win just to burden someone into crippling debt if they want to defend themselves

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

They were able to do that because Palworld is made by Japanese devs, and they used specifically Japanese patent law. Doesn’t apply here.

BlameTheAntifa,

Exhibit number 4,923,768 for why patents should not exist and need to be aggressively banished from civilization.

callouscomic,

as long as you own the game, emulation is legal.

People say this, but I believe it is mostly technically untrue. It’d be a relatively easy argument to say that a downloaded ROM that isn’t exactly the digital copy YOU purchased with a license would be seen as not legal.

However some people talk about literally ripping the game off the physical device themselves, hence copying their own copy of it. Now you are in grey territory of making copies of copyrighted materials, and in the case of more modern games like the last decade, they almost assuredly have language that specifies you don’t actually own the code and all that.

All I’m saying is be careful and probably refrain from repeating the fallacy that owning a game makes emulation of it legal, because that implies having the ROM is legal and that’s doubtful.

mycodesucks,
@mycodesucks@lemmy.world avatar

Copying your own game and materials for backup purposes is no grey area, and neither is development or use of emulators, and panicky, uninformed spewing of gut feelings are how public knowledge of your actual rights gets muddled into people with zero knowledge waxing poetic about how they THINK it works because they like games and think that makes their ramblings valuable.

PlasticExistence,

www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

In the USA, it is illegal to make a backup copy of any of your media when the original contains any form of DRM.

On any media where DRM wasn’t used, you’re okay to create a backup copy.

The law is different everywhere though.

Jeffool, (edited )
@Jeffool@lemmy.world avatar

/edit: I was WRONG. This is my memory failing me. I explain it further below, and apologize for wasting any time.

After the DMCA passed there was a case of a judge finding it legal to bypass DRM to make backup copies, but illegal to distribute the software used to do so. I have no idea if there was ever further clarification or new law about this. That was like 20 years ago. It was part of a case going after the company who was making the software, but the name slips my mind. I’ll try to look it up if anyone cares enough and wants to look for something more than hearsay on a forum.

PlasticExistence,

I would be interested in that case if you find it. I spend a lot of time thinking about emulation and the surrounding stuff.

Jeffool,
@Jeffool@lemmy.world avatar

I get you! I was bigger into copyright some 20-30 years ago myself when we would’ve all been on Slashdot.

To that end, I was WRONG in my post, I think I was conflating two things, and for that, I’m sorry. I was certainly thinking in part about Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley (2001). That was the case that decided that the software DeCSS was illegal, and you could distribute the software. I was thinking that while the court did agree with Universal over the software, that it did not find that breaking DRM on a product you owned was inherently illegal. (I legit think this was a “take” at the time. Probably wouldn’t hold up in court these days, sadly.) And I did find that years later the Library of Congress offered exemptions for breaking DRM on some hardware (vehicles, medical devices,) but I believe even those were temporary and have since lapsed.

Sorry I spoke so surely about something I was wrong about.

PlasticExistence,

You’re okay by me!

mycodesucks, (edited )
@mycodesucks@lemmy.world avatar

Not to be a stickler, but this does not say making copies is illegal - it makes circumvention of drm methods illegal. You can make drm’d copies as you like as long as you don’t circumvent the drm method. If your game isn’t encrypted, and the emulator doesn’t implement the drm, you haven’t circumvented drm - you are playing your legal copy on a device that does not implement the drm. It’s distinct from removing the drm from a device that implements it.

I do get that most consoles encrypt their software these days, but let’s be clear - it’s not as simple as “DRM means you have no rights.”

PlasticExistence,

The law is all about those technicalities.

I don’t agree with any of that noise around the DMCA for the record. I feel like we effectively lost our right to archival copies.

On a PC, what you said about copying the DRM along with the data is largely true. It is possible sometimes to copy the DRM and reproduce the image with the DRM intact. It also might not be depending upon the copy protection mechanism. Commercial video DVDs used to employ tricks with the storage sector that made it almost impossible to properly copy by a standard computer disc drive. You could get around this with additional program like AnyDVD, but that was only available for sale outside the USA because of the fact that it allowed you to bypass DRM.

And like you said, the content can be encrypted. Decrypting it is, IIRC, considered bypassing DRM - at least in the USA.

Again, I don’t agree that this is how things should be, but the legality of emulation is complicated depending upon what we’re talking about emulating.

mycodesucks,
@mycodesucks@lemmy.world avatar

I also don’t like how things are legally speaking with DMCA, but the main takeaway is - the creation and distribution of an emulator, without DRM protections, is unequivocally protected and legal. ROM backup is certainly in most cases not, but if you are making your own copies for your own use, even while illegally breaking encryption, it would be difficult to prove and prosecute on an individual basis.

The right we must continually remind people is NOT even REMOTELY in question is the right to create and distribute emulators. This is by far the more important one, because people cannot reasonably develop their own emulators - it requires an open, collaborative community to ensure future preservation, and it’s a constant battle to keep people from actively trying to cede this right because they have nebulous loyalties to soulless companies that return no such feelings.

prole,

Bleem would like a word…

PlasticExistence,

The Bleem case is a separate issue from creating a backup copy protected by DRM

PlasticExistence,

The emulation itself is legal, assuming you’re not using any copyrighted code, BIOS, etc. to make work.

The backup copy of your game that you need can be made legally as well, but in the USA, if the source contains a form of DRM, then you cannot legally make a copy.

www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

WolfLink,

They were able to prevent Dolphin’s release on Steam

technomad, do games w 'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm
jewbacca117,

Bag of bobbish, thats 8… grapples!

samus12345,
BetaBlake, do games w Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers

Maybe they can start making good games again

garretble,
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

Nah man, I want the same tired design as we’ve had for the better part of twenty years!

5714,

I COULD EAT SWEETROLLS ALL MY LIFE

tetris11,
@tetris11@lemmy.ml avatar

Presses jump button for no reason

Presses interact button to vault over obstacle

“God do I love these game mechanics”

misk,
@misk@sopuli.xyz avatar

How are the decisions taken by the highier-ups related to workers unionizing?

Infynis, do games w Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers
@Infynis@midwest.social avatar

Hell yeah. Hopefully this will improve the quality of their games as well

Shayeta, do games w God of War Ragnarök will require a PSN account to play on PC

Not if I pirate it.

DarkDarkHouse,
@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Cheaper, better

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