echodot

echodot, 5 dni temu

The reason that they can be a lawsuit is you can sue for anything in the US, doesn’t mean that it has any merit to it, or the case will ever even be heard.

echodot, 4 dni temu

Somebody was showing off an AI technique to de-interlace old videos. This is a problem that is notoriously difficult to solve algorithmically you either end up with blurs or you end up with crossfade.

This will revolutionize the old VCR porn market

echodot, 4 dni temu

I was in a meeting yesterday where one of our corporate managers admitted he doesn’t actually know what his job is supposed to be.

But realistically is that his fault, or the companies?

echodot, 4 dni temu

I do not understand why anyone bought Destiny 2, The first game was so uneven and hard to define, was it a MMO or a loot shooter or what, and then they came out with another game without fixing the first one, why would you expect it to be any better?

echodot, 4 dni temu

I keep thinking people are going to make my dream game and then they make it too big and then it doesn’t work.

I just want a space game set in a single solar system planets with multiple locations that I can fly around do stuff in. Basically just make the Expanse into game.

But they are always trying to make it the whole sodding universe, and then inevitably say you have FTL, because otherwise it would be boring, and then it turns out that it’s just a bunch of cutscenes playing between various levels and it isn’t a whole cohesive environment at all.

Even Elite Dangerous is guilty of this, although they are much better at hiding it.

echodot, 11 dni temu

Why can’t they just do anti-cheat the way it’s always being done, which is to identify cheaters and then stick them in a lobby with each other? I appreciate it means we might have to put up with some cheaters for 5 minutes, but realistically it’s hardly a high stakes situation.

echodot, 12 dni temu

He’s just bored at this point. I would love to know whose idea that was.

echodot, 13 dni temu

I’m so confused about what fortnite even is now. It used to be a game where you fought zombies, now I have no idea

echodot, 13 dni temu

Not that that was a very useful comparison because I don’t think any car can survive being shot with a 50 cal that’s kind of the point of them. They kill vehicles.

echodot, 13 dni temu

So it’s CoD but with building mechanics

echodot, 17 dni temu

Did they try having some games I might be interested in? I don’t feel like they need marketing I feel like everyone knows about Xbox, then the fact that they exist. The big problem is that I have no reason to buy one.

At some point have they tried possibly making a decent halo game? Because the recent installments have not been good.

echodot, 25 dni temu

It helps to make games people actually want. I know that seems obvious, but so many game studios just make games that are fine, but are not exactly inspired.

echodot, 22 dni temu

What I mean is don’t make 48 Assassin Creed games. They’re fine of course but when was the last time you were actually excited by one?

echodot, miesiąc temu

As with most games I’ll wait until about 3 months after it releases before I consider whether I’m going to buy it. It’s not like it’s going to run of copy’s out is it?

echodot, miesiąc temu

My copy looked a bit different.

echodot, miesiąc temu

Sunk cost, they pre-ordered it, and they are darn well going to play it, even if they don’t enjoy doing so.

Don’t pull the video games especially when they’re digitally distributed. It’s not like they can run out.

echodot, miesiąc temu

Starfield’s big problem is it’s a huge universe built on an engine that really can’t support massive worlds like that. The reason you can’t fly around on the surface of a planet is because their crappy engine can’t cope with that much space existing, and it can’t load more environment when you get to the edges like every other game does because their engine doesn’t support proper level streaming.

If you mod the game to force the issue it gets glitchy very very quickly.

echodot, miesiąc temu

I have no problem with people liking it. But I know for a fact that a lot of people really are just obsessed with it because they got bamboozled into pre-ordering, because Bethesda, and they don’t want to admit they made a mistake.

echodot, miesiąc temu

The thing is when people put games on Steam they account for the fee that they take. So in a sort of way the lawsuit is right, Valve are effectively causing players to get overcharged for games.

But if I put the same game on both Steam and GoG And make the gog one 20% cheaper, I still get more sales on the Steam page. If I only have it on GOG people actually complain even when you point out that it’s cheaper that way.

So Valve are causing players to get overcharged but players are forcing publishers to put their games on Steam. So players are causing players to get overcharged, so what can you do?

echodot, miesiąc temu

I swear they’ve already done this at least once.

echodot, miesiąc temu

Well if they include multiplayer then it will definitely require that.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

Paradox seems to be having some problems at the moment. No idea what is going on.

I think it is just an issue that management is greenlit to many projects simultaneously and now there aren’t enough resources to go around (shockingly), so they have to suspend some stuff so they can focus on other stuff.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

Honestly it’s cute that you think that the British government give a damn what you think. They are incompetent and corrupt, why would you possibly think that they would have the mental capacity to effectively respond to this petition?

The Conservatives only care about profit, what you’re asking them to do is legislate against businesses. They do not do that. They are not going to implement any pro-consumer laws because that just gets in the way of making large sums of money at the expense of everything else.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

Banging your head against the wall is not a solution if banging your head against the wall has no possible hope of having an effect.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

Yeah because I said that didn’t I.

Jesus Christ doing pointless stuff is pointless. I’m all for action that is effective but petitions on the government website have literally never achieved anything in the entire history of the system existing.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

But the petition isn’t going to work so you’ve also done nothing.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

Yeah whereas you’re doing loads

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

Realistically that is actually the only option.

Turning back time but just hoping that the EU implements something. Then we all get to benefit from the Brussels effect. There really isn’t anything that we can do.

The best we can hope for is we can vote for whoever is necessary in your constituency to get the Tories out, and hope that Labour care, but they probably won’t.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

No I am talking about this specific thing. My point is that people sign the petition and then get all smug and feel like they’ve done something, the government doesn’t care about it, as is evidenced by their response.

If you want to do something go and publicly protest it’s the only thing that gets their attention. Things might be different in whatever country you’re from but in the UK petitions are not worth the paper they’re not written on. Also this petition was stupid anyway because it’s too focused on video games, (as opposed to software in general, operating systems, critical business applications, and device drivers) which basically guaranteed the government were going to ignore it from the outset.

This petition could have been much more broad and it would have had much more marketable appeal. All I’m doing is pointing that out, and I’m getting hate from all sides from people who seem to think that the government should somehow care about video games as much as they do. Now, if somebody came up with an actual campaign that had any chance of victory I’d be all on it. The trouble is no one ever does. They just create petitions ad infinitum.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

It’s the EU’s fault and their stupid ill thought out law. Even they admit that it’s bad, and it’s only made things worse.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

Calling things in OverWatch style shooter is a bit like calling every first person shooter a Doom clone. Just call it a hero shooter I know what a hero shooter is. You don’t need to compare it to another game.

It’s bad enough that the term a “roguelike” exists, I can guarantee that hardly anyone who plays them has ever actually played rogue, and fair enough since it’s ancient, so they have no idea if the game they’re playing is like it or not.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

Yes it is. They completely failed to specify what would constitute compliance. They were warned repeatedly about this when the law first came out.

It has good intentions behind it but the law itself doesn’t work. They haven’t reduced privacy violations at all because everyone just clicks yes because it’s so frustrating, And it isn’t against the law to implement these dark patterns so what’s the point?

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

Even that doesn’t make sense though. How would people not have caught on when they were banning people but not telling them what for other than you violated some terms of service agreement?

The obvious next step would be to actually go look at the agreement.

So this outcome was 100% inevitable, and moreover 100% predictable. How else could it possibly have gone down.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

The content creator agrees not to make public comments that are detrimental to the reputation of the game

Sounds pretty clear-cut, if you say anything bad about the game regardless of if it’s true or not then you’re in violation of this contract. That’s ridiculous.

They’re are actually saying you can’t criticize the game. Now, you tell me who is the arbiter of what is and isn’t “criticism”, because it never says constructive criticism isn’t criticism so presumably is also not allowed.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

They are probably concerned because management has decided that the game should be shown off even though it’s probably not ready. This is that kind of clouged together solution.

As per usual it just seems to have blown up in their gormless faces.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

It’s already been decided in Europe. Terms of service have about as much legal weight as toilet paper. Usually what’s true in Europe is true in California as well so I assume something similar has happened over there.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

If it’s actually a closed beta then it shouldn’t be open to streamers at all. If are going to allow stream is to play it then it’s not really a closed beta. It’s a marketing gimmick.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

I might actually bother getting it now.

It’s kind of ridiculous nowadays that games are released, and then developed afterwards.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

Basically, there probably easily legal case to answer especially for supposedly single player games that have online components, but it would be up to individuals to actually go about suing the game companies, the government isn’t going to get involved.

I sent it at the time, petition was badly done, it really should have just focused on keeping software products in general around after support is dropped by the creating company. This isn’t just an issue that affects video games, and get and by using video games in the name it allows the government to kind of just dismiss it.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

Who’s that targeted at? I feel like you have a you problem there.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

In order to make it really work you have to, print off the comment, write NO COMMERCIAL LICENSE in green ink to 45° angle, then upload the picture of the comment with the sign on it.

Otherwise it doesn’t count.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

Well AI needs our data. It’s this or it starts sending robots back in time.

I prefer it to have my random anonymous comments.

echodot, 2 miesiące temu

And what defines that genre?

echodot, 3 miesiące temu

But the game isn’t even available on PlayStation so why am I creating an account? At the very least it’s pointless busy work. And apparently not even well thought out.

echodot, 3 miesiące temu

Did that actually break computers? I remember hearing about it at the time but I also don’t remember having a problem. I didn’t think I took any real precautions either, I just carried on as per and nothing ever happened.

echodot, 3 miesiące temu

Microsoft have sucked at naming things basically forever. Look at their windows versions. First they were numbered after the year release which made sense, they kind of break the trend with millennium edition but it’s still sort of worked because it came out in 2000. Was also a 2000 which confused things and then after that it just continued to go downhill.

95, 98, 2000 (presumably because they didn’t want to call it 00), XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (because nine is evil for some reason), 11

There’s a rumor the next version is going to be called X, I assume because they haven’t really advanced as a company since the '90s and they still think that’s cool.

echodot, 3 miesiące temu

The switch 2 it’s just an upgrade. You’re still going to be able to play all the same games

echodot, 3 miesiące temu

It was also different platform. Ps5 games are not compatible with PS4 consoles.