umami_wasbi

umami_wasbi, 2 miesiące temu

Why the “Flag” get removed?

umami_wasbi, 3 miesiące temu

Anyone knows what happen to operators and skins already owned?

umami_wasbi, 3 miesiące temu

Nope. When was your last time bought physical game disk for your PC? In fact, do your PC still have an ODD? Physical disk mush not be the reason why PC gaming is growing and consoles are strinking. That’s a wrong attribution.

umami_wasbi, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

Great to hear you still have an ODD installed, but that game disc you bought 20 years ago won’t contribute to today’s growing PC market. Even then, I don’t think the “it” in the line refers to remasters but “new” or “first party” in the eyes of the publishers.

I would understand that original as, “But the publishers don’t want you to resell games. They want to have you buy games from their first party sales channel over and over again until the end of time.”

Maybe I misinterpret?

umami_wasbi, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

I disagree. DRM breaks “forward compatibility” especially with online auth, and Steam dominates PC game sales. Not to mention some publishers avoid releasing on Steam but on their own platforms. PC gamers lost the ability to resell games long before the console gamers did. Still, I digress.

None of your poins help nor prove PC gaming market grows and cause console’s to shrink.

umami_wasbi, 5 miesięcy temu

Whisper from OpenAI is pretty solid for speech recognition (at least English), and it is small enough to deploy on mobile devices. If I recall correctly, both PS and Xbox controllers have mics built-in, so input device is covered.

umami_wasbi, 7 miesięcy temu

It’s using EAC which supports Linux.

umami_wasbi, 7 miesięcy temu

Ain’t the modern hardware already got the trusted hardware, namely TEE?

umami_wasbi, 8 miesięcy temu

Personally, I hate unskippable cutscenes, but I won’t call it crap and not buy from it.

umami_wasbi, 8 miesięcy temu

The physical disc on Xbox is as low as $5 at Gamestop

Except one still needs to be extroted monthly by PS+ or Xbox Gold to play online.

umami_wasbi, 9 miesięcy temu

Still, the effects benefits the consumer, so I would consider this a good thing.

Also, I wonder if we can do the same to other companies and let them revert course.

umami_wasbi, 9 miesięcy temu

Oh. Steam tried to rip gamers off so hard that they removed forced arbitration clauses and class action waivers from their terms of service.

Steam is a monopoly no doubt, but it’s not a result of major anti-competitive behavior, but simply because others can’t match it.

umami_wasbi, 9 miesięcy temu

But the outcome is good for me at least and I’m satisfied.

umami_wasbi, 11 miesięcy temu

Until they ditch the “live service” model, this will continues. How many big title games today are really sold in a complete no BS state where DLC actually means extra contents? No much I guess.

That stems from the revenue model, and not by gamers.

umami_wasbi, 11 miesięcy temu

Depends. Like Satisfactory, I’m extremely satisfied by their pace of development.

umami_wasbi, rok temu

And more SJW shits

umami_wasbi, rok temu (edited rok temu)

If that 50% refund is infaltion adjusted, I’m totally fine.

And must be announced like advertising to reach maximum players, not some blog post or press release that no one reads.

umami_wasbi, rok temu (edited rok temu)

There’s one issuse: Not everybody has the capacity to interpret the lengthy legal document. While being reasonable, when was your last time sit down and have a good read of the EULA and other related documents? These documents are designed to be difficult to read, and often intertwined with legal concepts that most don’t understand. That’s why lawyers exist.

Then the next question is: should a product a consumer bought (not lease) be completely dysfunctional after a undefined period of time? Is the petition asking for the servers operate indefinitely regardless of revenue? No. The petition is asking to not make the game completely unusable after a server shut down because of an always online DRM or something alike. The online part can go away and we can all enjoy the offline campaign like 10 years down the road. I don’t think this is a request unreasonable to make.

Your interpretation of such action’s legality is valid, but legal is just the minimum bar of ethical, and seems like there is a need to raise the bar.

umami_wasbi, rok temu (edited rok temu)

Consumers do have protection currently, just a very publisher biased protection in terms of games.