erwan

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Profil ze zdalnego serwera może być niekompletny. Zobacz więcej na oryginalnej instancji.

erwan,

Well that guy is the monetization director, so his job is literally to insert micro transactions into everything.

erwan,

XBOX must have 100% of games available on Playstation. Otherwise nobody will ever switch.

erwan,

If a game doesn’t run on Linux I can’t even try it. No risk of it becoming my favorite game!

erwan,

The title is wrong. It’s not about proving that the owner is dead (which is easy, you get a death certificate when a relative dies).

It’s about proving that the person requesting access of the dead person account is actually the person legally receiving the dead person’s possessions (or GOG account specifically).

erwan,

The hardware in an arcade cabinet is either a raspberry pi or a regular desktop PC.

erwan,

You don’t inherit debt but they’re paid on the estate before inheritance.

So you can’t get just debt as inheritance, but debt are only lost for the creditor if the person who died had a negative net worth.

erwan,

In France there is a limit, about 30k every 15 years. It’s not messed up, it’s necessary if we want inheritance taxes to have any weight.

erwan,

It’s from Valve, they’ll make sure it works on the Steam Deck.

erwan,

I’d say it’s just the latest innovation in procedural generation. But it’s still just that.

erwan,

It’s neither. The French “U” sound doesn’t exist in English so I can’t really give an example from an English word.

That said, being a global company they’re probably fine with the default English pronunciation that would be “you be soft”.

erwan,

The discount cycle is on purpose. First you bank with the impatient whales who will buy not even the full version at $70 but the deluxe version with useless cosmetics at $100+.

Then after some times has passed, you do a sale at $45 so people who are willing to pay just this price buy it.

Then lower again, and again until all potential customers have bought the game at the maximum they’re willing to.

erwan,

That’s precisely because they made a business around it that they got attacked.

erwan,

Survival of the fittest. As is, the type of game that makes the more money.

erwan,

The Game gear and GBA played games that were nothing like the home console games of their time.

This is what the Switch brought to the table. Breadth of the Wild was a great home console title, and you could play it handheld on the go.

erwan,

The problem is that the Steam Deck plays PC games, that were designed for a big screen. You can’t make the screen much smaller than the current Deck while keeping it legible.

erwan,

What’s wrong, only that it breaks mods or does it break even for regular usage?

erwan,

That’s the thing, Valve is in this position because they have the Steam cash cow. Other video games company can’t do the same.

erwan,

Yeah they tried handhelds, barely made a dent to Nintendo market share then gave up.

erwan,

Forget about gaming chairs, they’re overpriced for the sake of looking like a racecar seat.

Look at office chairs. For example www.autonomous.ai have good chairs at reasonable prices.

erwan,

People are not equal with sleep.

Some people don’t need as much sleep as others.

erwan,

Yes, landing is difficult.

There is delaying to release a higher quality product and delaying while having features creep… Not the same thing.

erwan,

Still better than if they released the same game earlier. Unless of course they kept adding features or content.

erwan,

If he is then I guess nobody ever put Half Life 3 on their Christmas list

erwan,

Private companies owned by institutional investors are no better.

The real difference is the the founder still own the company.

erwan,

You just need to open it once to strip a screw

erwan,

I met their standards, it’s just that they realized those standards were too low after the backlash.

erwan,

Because the “default path” is different, a free trial would have way less conversion than the current system.

With a free trial you have to take an action to buy it. With a refund you have to take an action to be refunded.

Or they could do it like SaaS, where you’re automatically charged at the end of the trial unless you decide to cancel before… But that’s a bit convoluted and it wouldn’t bring much compared to the current system.

Personally unless it’s a dirt cheap game I do enough research before buying and I rarely have to refund. But I definitely refund if the game is not at the level of quality that I expected.

erwan,

Yes it’s PC for me too. Steam Deck with GeForce Now for the most demanding titles.

erwan,

Yeah, sometimes it’s weird - for example when a king gives you a sword that has been in his family for generations, you go to the merchant and it’s not worth more than something you looted on a bandit.

Seen that in Witcher 3.

erwan,

I wasn’t creeped out by character faces from my Amstrad either.

When you get to the level of realism of Starfield you have to pay attention to the details. If you can’t, just pick a different graphical style.

erwan,

Yeah, considering it’s built like a DLC to BOTW it makes sense to stop here.

erwan,

Also you’re limited in weight but holding 5 heavy armors and 7 two handed swords in fine.

Picking up that silver spoon can tip you over the limit however.

erwan,

In the days of zero days patches and DRM requiring a check to the servers, a disc doesn’t guarantee that at all.

If anything, disc just became dongles to prove ownership and download the full game.

erwan,

Including a mock like this to illustrate an article is really dishonest

erwan,

I would count “choosing the non buggy path without knowing about the bug” as luck.

erwan,

I think it’s part of the RPG appeal to see your character get stronger.

If you scale the enemies too much, and ennemies are still as hard to beat, you don’t feel that power levelling.

Steam Deck VS rivals

I was interested in buying a Steam Deck… Until I discovered all the (apparently) better alternatives. Asus Rog Ally, OneXPlayer, Aya Neo etc… I like the idea of an handheld console and obviously I would like to have a device that can run almost everything, so the Windows based handhelds seem better than the Steam Deck. Is it...

erwan,

I’m wondering how PC gaming will look like if Windows fades into irrelevance.

Are developers going to keep releasing Windows build as it’s the easiest way to get your game working on all Linux distributions?

Is Windows going to be reduced to an API to write games on Linux?

erwan,

Yes, battery and heat meaning you’ll hear the fans and feel your device get hot.

erwan,

The movies industry is no better, they too try to get as much money as possible and they do for example with product placement.

If they could find a way to make you pay a few bucks more to see the protagonist on a unicorn instead of a horse you can bet they would.

erwan,

They need to be less lazy on the ports and add the option to quit to desktop on the PC version even if it doesn’t exist on the console version.

Some games do, however I hate when I have to go to the menu before being able to quit to Desktop.

erwan,

I’d be glad to see better competition to the Steam Deck but currently they’re all very far.

They all run Windows and lack touchpads.

erwan,

PC gaming is not cheaper than console gaming.

If you bought a state of the art PC during the PS4 era, it was more expensive than the PS4.

Then when the PS5 was released, if you wanted to upgrade your PC to be on par with the PS5 it costed more than the PS5.

I love PC gaming, but except for the cheaper games, it’s absolutely not cheaper than consoles.

erwan,

I agree that PC gaming has a lot of benefits, and it’s also my preference, but if you want to keep a rig that plays current games at their best its not cheaper.

Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games (gamerant.com) angielski

In a response to a post from the AntiDRM Twitter account, Ubisoft Support has clarified that users who don’t sign in to their account can potentially lose access to Ubisoft games they’ve purchased. The initial post from AntiDRM featured a snippet of an e-mail sent to a user from Ubisoft notifying them that their account had...

erwan,

Some companies decide to delete user content not because it’s necessary for GDPR, but because it’s the simplest way for them to deal with GDPR.

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