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jayandp, 8 miesięcy temu

Denuvo doesn’t prevent games working on Steam Deck, but depending on how it’s implemented it can cause other problems like preventing a game from launching if it hasn’t been able to connect online in a while, or weird performance issues. It varies from game to game.

jayandp, 8 miesięcy temu

You can disable that feature, and some people do because they get tired of the constant downloads and shaders taking up space for games they haven’t even played yet.

jayandp, 8 miesięcy temu

Pretty much the only way to make Fandom wikis legible.

jayandp, 8 miesięcy temu

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/81de63ff-3e54-4159-b26b-a1d96ac0f4b0.gif

jayandp, 8 miesięcy temu

That’s what confused me the most. When your customers are consumers, screwing them over might be no big deal. But when your customers are businesses, how were you planning to get away with something like this where anything involving fees in the 6 to 9 figures is game changing. That’s, “Cheaper to move my business elsewhere” levels of money.

jayandp, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s called Libby now, but still great advice.

jayandp, 9 miesięcy temu

It’s the complete unpredictability that devs and businesses hate. 2% of every purchase they can plan for, but with install fees they could get randomly billed for copies that were already sold, and that is unacceptable. This isn’t a one time fee, whenever somebody installs the game on a new device, the dev gets charged. Not to mention the fact that some people might have multiple devices, but randomly in 3 years they could get a new PC and suddenly the dev gets charged again, all the while the dev didn’t make anymore money from that copy. Who the heck would agree to a system like that?

Not to mention that if a game gets added to a service like GamePass, then the service gets the bill. No way Microsoft would say yes to that, which means the Dev misses out on deals that could’ve made them a bunch of money.

jayandp, 9 miesięcy temu

That’s assuming pirates would go through the trouble of removing said functionality. Pirates hate trackers, so they might do it, but not necessarily, as often the priority is just to get the game working.

jayandp, 9 miesięcy temu

There are IRC/XDCC search engines. I don’t know their exact method of scraping IRC servers, but they kinda work.

Also, if you know the right servers and channels, most have some kind of search index or bot.

jayandp, 9 miesięcy temu

I really hope somebody saves IdolNinja’s work on SR2.

jayandp, 9 miesięcy temu

It seems Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is also selling well. Indie scene seems to be thriving despite the onslaught of AAA games.

jayandp, 9 miesięcy temu

Roblox is a sandbox game sort of like Minecraft, but with way more power given to third-party developers and users to develop and distribute content in it. What you’d consider mods for other games are the whole point of Roblox, and MTX can be implemented by those third-party developers using “Robux” as a currency. The MTX can be your usual MTX fare of skins and power-ups, but also often abused for less ethical purposes, like gambling mechanics. The fact that Robux can be cashed out for real money via official and unofficial methods mean that’s it’s ripe for abuse.

Update: Also, I wasn’t aware of this before the article, but apparently gambling sites have figured out a method to link a Roblox account to their external sites, and then use the user’s Robux wallet as currency in their illegal online casinos.

jayandp, 10 miesięcy temu

Seriously, who holds Uncharted as Tom’s defining role? 😅

jayandp, 10 miesięcy temu

That error message says that TPB’s servers are down.

jayandp, 10 miesięcy temu

What a relief. He must’ve dipped as soon as he saw where things were headed in Russia. I wonder where he got asylum? But at the same time I hope I never find out, for his sake.

jayandp, 10 miesięcy temu

Story of my life.