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- Comment on Hi-Fi Rush Gets Final Patch To Fix Minor Issues, Reconfirms Limited Physical Edition 1 hour ago:
It looks pretty cool, but I don’t buy Denuvo games. I wonder if they’ll publish a version without it.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 3 days ago:
I just started it and am having a similar experience, right down to getting hit by cars. At least, I assume they were all cars. Last time I was suddenly knocked off my feet was on the sidewalk, and when I finally regained control of my character, there was no vehicle driving away from me. It could have been a goat fitted with optical camo for all I know.
- Comment on The Divinity: Original Sin board game took 6 years to make because Larian was determined to do right by the series 2 weeks ago:
Making things with quality often takes more time, but almost always pays off in the long run. It’s important to me in my own work. Companies that do it earn my respect, and my business.
- Comment on How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) 2 weeks ago:
they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages.
A machine that avoids that can be called labor-saving, in the sense that it saves the employer from having to pay for skilled labor. I get the distinction you’re making, and thanks for the article, but it really doesn’t invalidate the use of the phrase. Still a good clarification, though. :)
- Comment on How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for specifying that the collection of data is the problem, not just how it’s handled once collected.
Unfortunately, disabling the SIM or wireless module in the car isn’t enough, since collected data could still be downloaded at a shop during warranty repair, or smog check, or (if you’re unlucky) post-accident inspection.
- Comment on How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) 2 weeks ago:
Luddite…
Avoiding spyware doesn’t mean you’re opposed to technology, much like avoiding tasers doesn’t mean you’re opposed to electricity. :)
- Comment on LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms 3 weeks ago:
I mean whatever is needed for the community to replace/maintain the servers, just as I said.
That would obviously include the network protocols, but might also include data structures, API contracts, map data, timetables, and any number of other things.
I wrote in general terms deliberately, since it would mean different things for different games, and to allow for the possibility of releasing source code instead of detailed specs. (And no, source code is not the only way to do it. If that were the case, the community-developed game servers that have been made through reverse engineering could never have existed.)
- Comment on Tales of the Shire - Official Announcement Trailer - PEGI 3 weeks ago:
I think I would find it hard to get immersed in a Middle Earth where the characters move like robots. I hope they get that worked out.
- Comment on Tales of the Shire - Official Announcement Trailer - PEGI 3 weeks ago:
That stood out to me as well. (It wouldn’t be a typo, but it could be a misunderstanding of the word.)
- Comment on LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms 3 weeks ago:
This is not enough, the code is old with vulnerabilities
You have misunderstood. I am not talking about continuing to run the old server binaries.
- Comment on LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms 3 weeks ago:
Not quite as important as the right to repair, but similar in spirit: I would love to see a legal requirement that shut-down online games are either refunded or have their server specs released so that the community can revive/maintain them.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress - Adventure Mode Beta Out Now 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t played it, but here’s a write-up from someone else:
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Got a Switch today, need some recommendations. 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps for some people. In my case, I went back and played BotW again, and enjoyed the replay all the way through.
- Comment on Got a Switch today, need some recommendations. 4 weeks ago:
Also, I think the question of which game is better is pretty subjective. I loved BotW, but got bored of TotK less than halfway through.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 53 comments
- Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Monthswww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 112 comments
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 - Reveal Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Made with the Godot engine, according to this article:
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Open world games, need recommendations 5 weeks ago:
similar open world games with good combat systems,
This might be a tall order. Most of the “open world” games I’ve found either fall down in the open world department (lots of restricted areas or nothing varied/interesting enough to make exploring fun) or fall down in the combat department (awkward, unresponsive, or annoying in some other way.) Some high profile games even managed to suffer from both those problems (I’m looking at you, Geralt).
I hoped for quite a while that the next Elder Scrolls game would keep the good parts of Skyrim (beautiful environments and soundscapes full of unique things to discover) and add good combat, but recent showings from Bethesda make me less than optimistic.
I hope you get some good answers in this thread.
- Comment on "Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives 5 weeks ago:
Depending on the field, perhaps, at least at first.
But the more organizations that switch, the more demand there is for support, which is how we eventually get it.
- Comment on "Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives 5 weeks ago:
“Good thing there are other app vendors.”
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
I have my criticisms of Steam, but I see no sign of it marching toward some kind of big anti-customer explosion as suggested in this article. Unlike most others, it’s a privately owned company, so it doesn’t have investors pressuring toward enshittification. We can see the result by looking back at the past decade or so: Steam has been operating more or less the same.
Meanwhile, the author offers for contrast Epic Games, a major source of platform exclusives and surveillance software (file-snooping store app, client-side anti-cheat, Epic Online Services “telemetry”), all of which are very much anti-customer.
AFAIK, only one of the other stores listed is actually better for customers in any significant way: GOG. (And for the record, I mostly like GOG.) But it was mentioned so briefly that it feels like the author only did so in hopes of influencing GOG fans.
Overall, this post looks a lot like astroturfing. I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out to be sponsored by Epic or Microsoft.
- Comment on Citizen Lab: "Not only the Chinese government, but also US-based firms, are complicit in the political and religious censoring of content on China-accessible platforms" 1 month ago:
It’s important that we build incentives for companies to avoid harming people, and hold them accountable when they do it anyway. Profit is not a valid excuse.
- Comment on Citizen Lab: "Not only the Chinese government, but also US-based firms, are complicit in the political and religious censoring of content on China-accessible platforms" 1 month ago:
Related event (perhaps even a direct example) from a few years ago: the Blitzchung incident.
- Comment on Report: A Marvel 6v6 Overwatch-Style Shooter Is Coming 1 month ago:
Tangentially related: Gigantic is coming back, so those of us who missed it might finally get to play it.
- Comment on Bethesda Celebrates 30th Anniversary of The Elder Scrolls, Provides Small Development Update on The Elder Scrolls VI 1 month ago:
no gamebryo means modding is likely gone with it
Mod support as good as (or better than) Gamebryo’s is always possible, assuming the developers are willing and competent.
Bethesda surely understand how much they have benefited from modding over the years. Skyrim’s Anniversary Edition content is built mostly of mods, after all. So it’s reasonable to think they would at least consider making it a priority in a new engine.
- Comment on Bethesda Celebrates 30th Anniversary of The Elder Scrolls, Provides Small Development Update on The Elder Scrolls VI 1 month ago:
Things I would like to see:
- Finally digging themselves out of the Gamebryo hole in favor of a modern engine.
- Bringing in inspired talent to replace their long-stale game design and direction.
- Character art that doesn’t look like Bethesda hates humans. (To be fair, they might have addressed this in Starfield. Humanoids in past Elder Scrolls games look ugly as hell, though.)
- Comment on Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate 1 month ago:
EFF’s articles about this bill:
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@beehaw.org | 4 comments