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ampersandrew, do games w Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support
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What this means is that now you can play GOG games that previously required the (non-Linux native) GOG Galaxy client!

…for multiplayer.

And I’m not sure why these developers forgot how to add LAN and direct IP connections to their games, but it sure does muddy the experience of buying “DRM-free” games.

ampersandrew, do games w Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware
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The answer is to allow people to host it themselves. If you’ve got a Discord server and people who want to experience a game with you, you could get 40 people together to do a WoW raid long after it stopped being profitable for Blizzard. In a case like Pokemon Go, either that stuff is determined algorithmically or there’s a game master with their finger on the button to trigger the event; users could run that too.

ampersandrew, do games w Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware
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Removing the game from sale is not disabling the game for existing owners. These are two very different problems.

ampersandrew, do games w Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware
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What the petition says is what it’s asking for. What we want may be different. What European parliament drafts, if we’re so lucky, will be what’s actually the law. The concerns in the petition are quite clearly about how this applies to EU consumer protections, and many of us are interested in that plus the bonus that this will grant to preservation by proxy.

ampersandrew, do games w Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware
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A few things. People use MMOs as an example of a thing that cannot be run by users, and the FAQ calls out that this is demonstrably false. Second, there’s the idea of a good and a service, and games have been happy to blur this line over the past decade and change. When you pay a monthly subscription fee, there’s no question that you’re paying for a service; your service ends when that month is up. The problem comes from selling you things as though they’re goods but then revoking access to them at some unknown time in the future as though it were a service or lease that you had no idea when it would expire. So this campaign also demands that if you’re selling microtransactions like a cosmetic mount in an MMO, you need to be able to use that mount after the servers are no longer supported, and as we’ve already proven, it is definitely actually possible for ordinary people to run MMO servers, even if they’re hosting them for a few hundred or a few thousand people rather than hundreds of thousands or millions.

ampersandrew, do games w Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware
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I don’t think there’s any language in this petition that says it must be hosted on a laptop. The server binary, with a reasonable expectation that someone with documentation, the hardware, and the know-how to use it, would be enough.

ampersandrew, do games w Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware
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You sold someone some code that you then rendered inoperable by actions beyond their control; that’s what you’d get in trouble for. Delete your own code all you like.

ampersandrew, do games w Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware
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Well, it wouldn’t be retroactive. As a consumer, I don’t think it’s ridiculous to know what I’m buying. If anything, this petition is way softer than my stance. As per this petition, you could get around doing the honest thing of providing the customers the ability to host the servers themselves by just clearly informing the customer at the point of sale how long services will be up for, if you truly want to try to convince people that it’s a service and not a product that they just made worse for business reasons. But they don’t want to do that, because then they can’t sucker people into buying something that isn’t long for this world.

ampersandrew, do games w Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware
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To clarify, your position is it’s ridiculous, or you’re stating that his position is that it’s ridiculous?

ampersandrew, do games w Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware
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Boy, it was frustrating to see Thor completely misrepresent the position of the campaign. It wasn’t “vague enough to also include live service games”; it purposely includes them.

ampersandrew, do games w New Darksiders game teased by THQ Nordic
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They’ve had their hands in plenty of other games, good and bad, including the previous Darksiders.

ampersandrew, do games w Titan Quest II | Showcase 2024 Trailer
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I just played through the first game earlier this year with a friend of mine. It’s fun but dated in a lot of ways, so it will be cool to play a modernized version of that, especially when it comes to designing for controllers from the outset. The ability mod system looks really cool and reminds me of that game Superfuse that isn’t going over well right now in early access.

ampersandrew, do games w Microsoft and Activision have formed a new team within Blizzard to work on smaller 'AA' games based on existing IP
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I know. I was being facetious. What this headline actually gives me hope for is a new Metal Arms, but I need to temper my expectations.

ampersandrew, do games w Game Informer shuts down after 33 years
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Times change, but this magazine was great for a long time.

ampersandrew, do games w Xbox Console Sales Continue To Crater With Massive 42% Revenue Drop - Slashdot
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They don’t run the same executables that Steam does though, and I think that’s what’s about to change.

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