hoshikarakitaridia

hoshikarakitaridia, wczoraj

Why is Pirate Software a fraud?

I appreciated his take on it. Don’t trust politicians to come up with a good solution, always present the issue when you have a good solution ready. And the solution proposed by that petition was weak at best and outright dangerous for the industry at worst.

If you want to force specificity on buying v getting limited time access, that’s fine, but that’s not what the petition focused on.

If you wanna force devs to plan ahead with huge infrastructure cost to make sure servers will be online for a specific time, this might result in online games being unjustifiable for smaller studios.

If you want to shield independent people hosting unofficial servers to games, now that’s a different conversation that we first need to have to figure it out, before proposing an exact solution through a petition. Mind you this is a more complicated topic, as this gets into licensing and IP law.

And I really don’t think stop killing games is clear on those, and that makes this endeavor a lottery with the entire multiplayer games industry in limbo.

Give me another more precise initiative and I’ll join, but until then I’ll definitely not sign anything. If we change things, we should change them for the better, so let’s do our due diligence first.

hoshikarakitaridia, 2 dni temu

I’m pretty sure putting Warframe in D tier is a war crime.

hoshikarakitaridia, 5 dni temu

From the trailers it even looks like the story is gonna be super linear and boring. At that point they’d need to rewrite the whole thing. Even the most ambitious studio is gonna have a hard time committing to that.

hoshikarakitaridia, 5 dni temu

Yeah Mario Galaxy is one of those creative masterpieces imo

hoshikarakitaridia, 10 dni temu

I mean considering the last mainstream headline I remember about WotC is them sending the Pinkertons to chase after a random streamer because they fucked up and sent him unrevealed cards for MtG, I think they are a really bad company and I pray for their downfall, so someone else picks up the IP and runs with it.

I mean the layoffs are bad as well but there’s a non-exhaustive list of reasons to not like WotC and to not be associated with them.

hoshikarakitaridia, 18 dni temu

Interesting

hoshikarakitaridia, 20 dni temu

That’s a hard no from me

hoshikarakitaridia, 24 dni temu

Yeah same. I did not know this game exist and this gives me more time to check it out…

hoshikarakitaridia, miesiąc temu

I agree.

Although I have to say:

1. Everyone agrees live service and Singleplayer games are distinct and marketing should be very specific about those
2. I disagree with Thor about archiving. The game files and server files should be given to a national archive after servers are shutdown and the game in it’s core function becomes unplayable.
3. I think there is value in protecting private servers from getting sued if the official servers are shut down. That way, no one has to just eat the cost if there’s no interest in the game and fans will not get sued into oblivion.
4. I know this is only a petition, but: giving this to politicians who have no clue about games will be akin to rolling a d20 and hoping for a 19 or 20. We need to be specific about what we want and only then should we introduce it to ppl who have the power to change it. And if it stays outlined as is, I can not support it.

hoshikarakitaridia, 2 miesiące temu

There’s exactly two purposes: auto updates for drivers and a user interface to quickly install and uninstall drivers.

The cons include that there’s annoying banners everywhere, the drivers itself are the same that you’ll find on their website, you need to create an account for Nvidia, and they will harvest you data (most likely).

Pick your poison xd

hoshikarakitaridia, 3 miesiące temu

So many assumptions here.

Let me refute them through educated guesses.

• most people don’t have anything other than stereo
• most people don’t want anything other than stereo
• not everyone has the money to even get a decent TV, let alone 5.1 or God forbid 7.1
• Kirby does not focus an people with high end playback devices. It’s traditionally a kids game.
• 2secs Everytime you open the game can add up and be really annoying. Especially for kids, which are the core audience.

hoshikarakitaridia, 3 miesiące temu

Great game.

hoshikarakitaridia, 4 miesiące temu

Right. It makes sense right up until the point where they only act on negative reviews.

Non disclosures / non disparagement are industry standard, but this is bonkers. Non-disclosure but only for the stuff we don’t like? The fuck

hoshikarakitaridia, 5 miesięcy temu

Always easy to say this in hindsight.

IRC is considered unsafe too to a certain degree with pirating folks.

Also let me emphasize this: for every discord server shut down like this, there are 100+ servers with almost the same purpose that still exist and will continue to for at least the next 3y.

If you are doing development as a hobby, you just don’t have the time to use a different system, get used to that system, and then critically convince everyone else to go there too. Just look at Lemmy, I want it to be great as well but we have to accept that a few tiny steps more in the day to say usability of a system can be the difference between Twitter and Mastodon. And before ppl are saying “well Twitter was there longer”, sure but that doesn’t mean we cannot see the trend for growth that does or doesn’t exist.