dukemirage
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- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 6 days ago:
Even on Steam I‘ve never bought a game with always online DRM. Is that really still a thing?
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 6 days ago:
Of course, and many singleplayer games had multiplayer modes, that stuff wasn’t necessarily separated.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 1 week ago:
I really can’t bother.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 1 week ago:
I kinda miss the 90s
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 1 week ago:
GOG allows you to download an unprotected installer. I don’t think they will ever go beyond that in the name of fair use and big publishers are reluctant enough to release on GOG. You were about to use a 3rd party app anyway, Discord. Just use WeTransfer or another filehoster/cloud service to send the file.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 1 week ago:
And in principle I’m fine with an online store that only sells conventional, offline singleplayer games to not give a pickle about service games.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 1 week ago:
Every solution that doesn’t need an external proprietary app is a better solution.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 1 week ago:
I don’t think they have even one game in their catalogue that StopKillingGames is about.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 1 week ago:
all this stupid publicity makes me feel dirty for buying there
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 weeks ago:
But, don’t ever say that a lot of what you own can’t be repaired.
I‘m not saying that. I try to repair my shit. I‘m saying don’t be so condescending because self repair is not an option for most people if they‘ve full time jobs and kids, and need to learn a few things in the first place.
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 weeks ago:
Yes, most people who run a household can’t invest ressources in learning how to repair electronics (which can also be quite dangerous and insurance will not pay if you burn down your own home) and rarely can afford to go one or two weeks without a fridge or an oven or a washing machine. That’s not really on the people, though, so maybe don’t sound so snotty.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 3 weeks ago:
BloodborneNightmare Kart costs 0 - Comment on Resident evil 4 Remake: Capcom replaces Denuvo with Russian DRM Enigma 3 weeks ago:
I don’t care for DRM, but I care for Russian companies paying taxes with my money.
- Comment on Resident evil 4 Remake: Capcom replaces Denuvo with Russian DRM Enigma 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval 4 weeks ago:
It may be contrarian to this community, but here is the official summary and it sounds fair: …org.uk/…/16407724-vicki-shotbolt-class-represent…
Why should Valve prevent larger discounts on other stores? It’s shitty business.
- Comment on PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval 4 weeks ago:
Imposing Platform Parity Obligations (“PPOs”), that prohibit publishers from selling Products through other distribution channels on better terms than the same Products are available on Steam.
…org.uk/…/16407724-vicki-shotbolt-class-represent…
That’s fair actually.
- Comment on PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval 4 weeks ago:
It is speculation, yes. This is about consumer rights.
- Comment on PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval 4 weeks ago:
„PC Gamers“ are not a monolith. I buy games on Steam if they are not anywhere else. It’s not like I have an option, I‘d prefer a non-US, DRM-free alternative, like GOG. But most big publishers refuse to not exclusively release on Steam.
- Comment on PC gamers win the first battle against Valve Corporation as £656m competition claim receives judicial approval 4 weeks ago:
By whom?
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 4 weeks ago:
Hytale has incredible publicity for an indie release and caters to a target group that’s used to a separate launcher. Not comparable to the usual release.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what demographic is seeking this specific game out as a form of escapism?
CRPG and SciFi Fans? And it’s not like Tolkien-esque fantasy and Warhammer and the likes aren’t heavily influenced by Christian believes and mythology.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 director agrees with No Rest for the Wicked lead that Early Access is "a positive thing" for games like their two RPGs – when it works 4 weeks ago:
off the hook
What are they supposed to do in a free market? If the product is eventually good enough for a single customer, they will buy it.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 4 weeks ago:
If they don’t have the code anymore they could just fund OpenMW with 100k $ and take that.
- Comment on Genigods: Nezha Announced For PS5 And PC With Mythological Dual‑Stance Combat 4 weeks ago:
Chinese devs are a bit late to the singleplayer party and use 2000s PR babble: what’s mythic combat and relic fusion supposed to mean?!
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 weeks ago:
So I‘m dragging down GOG?
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 weeks ago:
I wasn’t talking about existing tools.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 weeks ago:
What‘s the good company in this context?
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 weeks ago:
Well I will not share a screencast where a local LLM helps with code completion on a private project. You talk like you’re a proficient developer, you can try that on your own. And where is the fallacy?
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 weeks ago:
Luddites didn’t fear technology, they feared for the commoditisation of manual labour and they were dead on right as pauperism followed.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 weeks ago:
If you think every LLM tool is a product of an over valued tech bro company then what’s that say about you?