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- Comment on Team Cherry - Hollow Knight: Silksong will be $20 USD 5 hours ago:
My point is less about me giving more money (I’m not that crazy about giving more money). My point was more about being curious about the reasons and decision of going this low. It’s more of a curiosity how much they could ask, before its too high. They don’t need spend money on advertisement, that’s for sure. Maybe this whole waiting saga is part of their “self advertising strategy” (just made up this terminology).
- Comment on Steam users in the UK will need a credit card to access “mature content” games 15 hours ago:
How do you expect Steam to work against this? This is not a decision that Valve has any word on, its a decision by government. The only thing that Valve could do here is, remove those games for that country. But that is not a solution. If anything, the citizens of the UK should do something, if possible.
- Comment on Team Cherry - Hollow Knight: Silksong will be $20 USD 16 hours ago:
That’s the price of a little micro transaction in some other games. It will be worth, but I also feel kind of bad for the devs (or publisher). After so much time and work to produce (hopefully) a high quality game and then this cheap. Not complaining, but wondering if a higher price wouldn’t be too bad. I think 29,99 or 24,99 (the price of Factorio) would be totally acceptable in a time like this where AAA games come out at 79,99.
- Comment on "There will be a Stardew Valley 1.7 update": Creator ConcernedApe confirms another update to the immortal life sim hot off a new Haunted Chocolatier tease 1 day ago:
Why not a separate update cross reference update between both games? I can imagine something Haunted Chocolatier related content (not the entire game) to be added into Stardew Valley that acts as a sort of “advertisement”, to get people familiar with the new IP. Or not. Just an idea.
- Comment on "There will be a Stardew Valley 1.7 update": Creator ConcernedApe confirms another update to the immortal life sim hot off a new Haunted Chocolatier tease 1 day ago:
Not adding a nonbinary does not make him a transphobe. Not every game, movie or story need a trans sexual character. It’s fair to ask for an addition in a “roleplaying” game (which it is here to be fair), but its not fair to call someone transphobe if he or she does not do it.
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 1 day ago:
We live in a console generation with prices going up, instead down. It’s unprecedented. So waiting one generation might work, but then its all about playing old games. Wait too long and the price of the games might go up, or the stores close…
- Comment on Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off 2 days ago:
Actually most people can do that; they just don’t know it. Well to be fair, most people probably don’t know how to do that either, so let’s say “most people could do that in theory”.
- Comment on Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off 2 days ago:
To ask people to dispense with whatsapp, instagram or facebook is to ask them to abandon their ability to be part of communities that matter to them. It’s sort of an intractable problem as it requires whole communities to abandon ship together, which is difficult to do.
This is the core problem of getting rid from these social networks. I stopped using Facebook a long time ago and Whatsapp shortly after Facebook acquired them. As I was the only one in my family and friends circle doing this, I was also the most lonely one. Suddenly I could not be part of the discussions when or what to do next or other fun talks. I was the outside who communicated with one or few over email, just to tell me where to meet next in example. (Also not using Twitter or most other social networks…)
It’s an organizational problem off course but this showed me why social media once got foothold in the mass, is hard to abandon individually. For a person like me, its not a big deal. But getting rid of Facebook and Whatsapp at the same time, without everyone switching to an alternative is a big deal for most.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong will be playable at Gamescom, Xbox confirms | VGC 5 weeks ago:
I believe it, if I see it with my own eyes.
- Comment on Microsoft lifts Windows 11 update block for Easy Anti-Cheat users 5 weeks ago:
Shows why Kernel level anti cheat is a bad idea. No Anti cheat software should have this much power over your system.
- Comment on Following rough launch, Splitgate 2 is going back to beta as studio announces layoffs 5 weeks ago:
Unlaunch button pressed.
- Comment on Amazon cuts hundreds of AWS cloud jobs after strategic review, says AI wasn’t the main factor 1 month ago:
says AI wasn’t the main factor
That’s exactly what an Ai would say.
- Comment on Meta Takes Hard Line Against Europe's AI Rules 1 month ago:
Would be so nice if Meta will be seen as hostile and blocked Europe wide. The problem is, this can be interpreted as blocking Free Speech. But is it really Free Speech to misuse peoples rights and steal their privacy, that is against the law?
- Comment on Meta Takes Hard Line Against Europe's AI Rules 1 month ago:
In the 60s it was the atom bomb regulation they had to sign. A “few hours later” in 2025 it’s the Ai regulation. My prediction 60 years from now, there will be a regulation of who an what you can do on Mars. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
- Comment on FromSoftware reportedly has another unannounced game that ‘could release next year’ | VGC 1 month ago:
Another maybe is they might outsource some work heavy stuff.
- Comment on FromSoftware reportedly has another unannounced game that ‘could release next year’ | VGC 1 month ago:
I just hope they don’t get burned out and there is no crunch. The only other company that did so much in short time I can think of is Insomniac Games. It’s actually how it was used to be with how frequent we got games from single studios. But since they are so big and expensive nowadays, it seems a bit unreal for how fast some companies are able to pump out so many high quality games in relatively short time.
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- Comment on Meta shareholders vs Mark Zuckerberg in $8 billion lawsuit 1 month ago:
Why is every sentence in its own paragraph??
- Comment on Nintendo’s Zelda movie has found its princess and hero of time [Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan] 1 month ago:
One should not make the mistake to just judge a single photograph, for a role in a film. Its also important how they move and talk, and what the perception of the person based on existing films is. I’m not in the position to judge about any of these castings or your suggestion, just wanted bring in this point into the discussion.
- Comment on How much should a game cost? 1 month ago:
I buy and play games on sales most of the time. So its not the newest hot shit I get. Especially cool with Steam sales. There are even “blockbuster” titles I would never buy for fullprice as a 75% sale in example. Suddenly those titles come in range of an indie price and that’s affordable to me. And yes I buy and play indie games too. They do not have an issue with pricing usually and often they are even self contained games without micro transactions, at least most of them.
- Comment on How much should a game cost? 1 month ago:
It should cost “enough”. What do I mean by that? It depends. Literally. Also the (money-) cost of after purchasing a game is important too, with DLCs and micro transactions as well. And if you just “rent” a game as service (multi player only in example) or if its a single player game that you can keep and is not dependent on servers. Besides downloading the game off course.
That’s why I don’t like generalizations at all. This is a bit more complex to answer than it seems. I genuinely think there are games or may come out in the future, which might be worse the 80 Dollars or Euros. Others not so much. A game should cost as much as it is worth it. And that upper limit is only defined by the game itself (and whats available otherwise too off course, that is not simple).
- Comment on Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode? 1 month ago:
That’s not entirely true. Because even if you buy a strong PC, you have to make choices, depending on the game. It’s just the fps and settings we are talking about are higher floor. In example on PC people can enable RayTracing, which tanks the fps a lot. Do you go for 120 fps or 60 or maybe lower fps with higher fidelity and RayTracing in example.
So the question to answer is still the same, its just on PC we have a bit more individual choices to make.
- Comment on Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode? 1 month ago:
I think this question also applies to PC. Why? Because we are limited too. I try to reach 120 fps and consider it performance mode when dialing back quality settings, and enabling upscaling to reach that. If not, 90 fps is also pretty good. For certain games, 60 fps feels like what you describe of 30, but that does not apply to all games. There are single player rpgs played with a gamepad, that I would even consider playing at 30 fps if there is no other option. The problem is, games are not designed to be played with that low fps, as the input latency increases.
I’ll compare this to the Switch, playing Zelda (emulated with Yuzu). Breath of the Wild on original Switch is designed to be played at 30 fps. Playing it on my PC like that felt like a slideshow, but one can get used to it. If I didn’t had the 60 fps patch, it would still be fine at 30. The next game in the series, Tiers of the Kingdom, was not stable at 60, so I was “forced” to play at 30. And after some time playing it felt pretty good and not upsetting like in the first few minutes.
What I mean by that is, performance mode if possible, I would sacrifice quality. But not too much, because at some point the image looks really bad.
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 1 month ago:
Nintendoesn’t
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- Comment on Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ 2 months ago:
This is how you challenge actual pirates and grow your real enemy, while you punish innocent civilians. Pirates will pirate, regardless of what Nintendo says, wants or does. The real losers are loyal customers who pay lot of money.
- Comment on Another reason to love Linux 2 months ago:
What negotiation? I have a hard time to follow what you mean. Which operating system does turn off when shutting down? If it does not, then either its configured to do so (or not to) or there is an issue that needs to be handled and resolved. You don’t want your PC turn off immediately, so it can do stuff that is needed (such as wait for all drives to write the data) or remove temporary files and unmount drives and so on. Otherwise an instant turn off is equivalent to a crash (including all background services and running applications, losing data, corrupting drives…).
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 2 months ago:
Your data in the cloud should be at best being another backup, in addition to your local backup you do regularly. And even that is a stretch, because those companies can analyze your data on the cloud too. Man, people have so much trust in companies like Microsoft.
- Comment on Google’s nightmare: How a search spinoff could remake the web 2 months ago:
10 years from now, we get retrospective documentary on other video platforms about the downfall of Google.
- Comment on First usermode exploit and more: Nintendo Switch 2 had a busy (hacking) week for its launch 2 months ago:
Its only one day, not even a week. But otherwise, yeah, this is pretty much a typical console release day. :D