HKayn

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

Is Steam competing with Microsoft’s “Netflix but with games” service?

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

Except you don’t own it forever, as ISOmorph already explained.

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

For anyone who prefers DRM-free, it’s also on GOG: www.gog.com/game/the_thaumaturge

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

Based on what evidence?

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

Why though? Why not just acknowledge that these services are ephemeral?

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

Why not just turn to services that actually value preservation, instead of sticking with those that don’t?

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

And it’s incentivized by the people buying into it. If people collectively woke up and started asking questions, this wouldn’t be an issue.

Instead, we buy into them and then try to force them to open up through legislation.

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

Okay, you’ve got a point there.

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

If you think it’s not a lost cause, then tell us what we can do!

How do we convince politicians to turn this into a law? The same politicians that don’t understand technology and still think that FPS games breed terrorists. Once it’s a law, how do we make sure it’s enforced worldwide?

Do not lump me in with the consumers that created this future. I am already preserving what I can. I am the weird kid in the corner who advocates for DRM-free games on GOG and gets called crazy for having a 16TB hard drive full of offline backup installers. I legally back up what I can, and obtain what I can’t. I play Warframe and other live service games knowing well that they’ll be gone one day, unless someone manages to hack together a private server. I can’t help but still enjoy some of them.

Being a hoarder and advocating for game preservation in front of average Joes is thankless and exhausting. I can’t help but stare reality in the face. You seem to know the situation a lot better than me, so tell me, what else should I be doing?

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

I’m differentiating between products like Pokemon and services like Nintendo running servers that let you trade Pokemon.

Both should ideally be preserved of course, but today’s reality is that it’s much less feasible with the aforementioned services.

How can we change that?

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

Then what do we do with these games? How do we discourage live service games?

Are you boycotting them?

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

More effort by whom? And how do we incentivize it?

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

You didn’t answer my first question, and misunderstood the second.

Who do you expect to do the preserving? And how will you get them to do it?

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

I can’t get to my point if you keep skirting around it.

How will you get profit-driven studios to care about preservation?

HKayn, 8 miesięcy temu

Well, you’re here seemingly not realizing why studios don’t give a shit about preservation. As we can observe in the real world, the branding opportunities and PR are not worth it to them 99% of the time.

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

I don’t think a built-in wiki should be a priority for Lemmy. The sysadmin of an instance.com instance can host a separate web app as a standalone wiki at wiki.instance.com.

For example, you could host an mdbook at this subdomain to serve as a docs-style wiki.

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

It should be noted that Weird Gloop purchased the minecraft.wiki domain, leading me to assume that they currently claim ownership of it.

I hope the wiki team will be able to keep the domain of things really do go south with Weird Gloop.

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

What’s the context? What does Ubisoft have to do with Microsoft-Activision?

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

I see, thanks!

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

You do know that stores other than Steam exist, right?

And no, I’m not talking about the EGS.

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

Which is why I buy as many games as I can from stores like GOG, that actually let me keep them no matter what.

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

A lot of games on Steam are DRM-free, but not (yet) on GOG. GOG isn’t an afterthought just because of their DRM-free policy, it’s also because they’re so small.

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

Isn’t that a bad thing?

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

People are still using Reddit and Twitter, and they will continue to do so unless something truly catastrophic happens.

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

Then which “product that isn’t using the site anymore” were you referring to?

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

Apparently customization oppresses.

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

The controller continues being a prime example of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

That’s on you for buying a licence to play the game and not the actual game.

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu

Why should a developer be forced to forfeit their source code just because they don’t want to sell their game any longer?

If people focused on DRM-free games instead, this wouldn’t be an issue in the first place.

HKayn, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Is there actual evidence for AMD blocking DLSS?

And no, AMD being a sponsor is not sufficient evidence.

HKayn, 10 miesięcy temu

I’m pretty sure the only reason those two games are mentioned in the headline is to boost the article’s SEO