kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 5 days ago:
Yeah the problem with boycotts and “vote with your wallet” is that one whale can offset the boycott of thousands of low-spending players 😐
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 5 days ago:
Are boycotts really the best solution to stop this epidemic in gaming?
Boycotts very very rarely work. I’ve never heard of a single successful video game boycott.
How can we best prevent these gambling grey markets and the gaming to gambling addiction pipeline?
Lobby for appropriate legislation with your government representatives. We could have legislation that forces companies to transparently show the chance of specific rewards, and even show the money you have to spend on average to get XY specific item. (I think there is already a law like this in the works in the EU?)
One of the major psychological tricks gambling games (including lootbox and gacha) employ is to obscure the true costs behind premium currencies. Once they are forced to remove this, and you are shown that yes, guaranteed acquisition of a single Genshin character will cost you ~300 USD, it might make you do a double-take before you pull out your bank card. (There are many more psychological dark patterns these developers employ, so it wouldn’t be a single miracle solution, unless of course legislation altogether bans random chance rewards buyable with cash.)
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
No, all the current versions are reported various levels of broken :/ Generally they can’t install, so you have to copy an installation from Windows, then there are some that don’t load at all, some only load to splash screen, some do work after you patch their broken UI and manually copy some Windows DLL-s. So idk, you might get lucky with the specific program/version/feature combo you need, but it just sounds like a pain to me.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
O&O Shutup10++ (theoretically works on 11 too)
Not sure what it can do on Home/Pro editions, I’ve only ever tried it on Enterprise.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
“bought” is an interesting word choice when they used massgrave :D
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Thanks for this link, neat to see that Uncharted Waters Online apparently runs on Linux despite it’s ridiculously strict anti-cheat. (To this day it’s the only game I’ve tried that had an issue with Process Explorer running in the background 🤦♂️)
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
Not OP, but for another data point: recently I did quite a bit of Linux-related research on the three Adobe apps I use (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, in this order of prominence), and they are all reported as some level of broken via Wine and their Linux alternatives are missing important features and/or a pain in the arse to use :/
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
My Steam profile is apparently 30% platinum, 21% gold, 10% varying levels of broken, 39% unrated.
But Genshin Impact, one of my main games, doesn’t even appear on ProtonDB, and as far as I heard you need a custom Linux launcher for it, that results in occasional banwaves, which I will not risk :/
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 week ago:
I’ll upgrade to 11 Enterprise via massgrave.
Sadly with Adobe and some of my online games not supporting Linux, I have to stick with Windows :/ I’ll just try to rip out all the telemetry, etc. via O&O and group policies.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 week ago:
no, but it’s oh my wishlist :)
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 1 week ago:
Turned off the aggro on the patrolling demons in Murdered: Soul Suspect, because an otherwise peaceful detective adventure - where you play as a ghost investigating your own murder - really didn’t need the random stressful action sequences 🤷♂️
- Comment on Ubisoft announces studio closure as it lays off 185 staff 2 months ago:
Yea, but the whole notion that Steam just lets developers do this, sometimes repeatedly…
- Comment on Ubisoft announces studio closure as it lays off 185 staff 2 months ago:
It happens every few years when a publisher gets petty:
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 3 months ago:
I “love” how they very carefully avoid making any apology whatsoever.
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 4 months ago:
There is a difference between passively allowing bad stuff to happen, and actively doing bad stuff.
I don’t see that much difference. They are half-arsed about store and community moderation to such a degree that it feels like deliberate neglect. They chose the responsibility of running a platform, so need to do the job properly. If they need to hire more staff to do it, perhaps they could afford it from their 9 billion USD profits (as of last year).
- Comment on What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen? 4 months ago:
My most recent such games were Her Story and Return of the Obra Dinn.
During Her Story I ended up with an A5 sheet full of keyword ideas I wanted to search the recordings for.
Obra Dinn had me draw multiple iterations of a ship deck while trying to figure out who was likely to sleep in which hammock :D
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 4 months ago:
For the top dog PC game store, Valve could behave much much worse.
But also much much better. They are really hands off with scummy dev practices, such as paid review farms. Sentinels of the Store covered them here. After it blew up, Steam removed some of the most obvious cases, but afaik others remain.
Steam has also been hosting numerous outright neo-Nazi groups for many years (PDF) and never really stepped up effectively against them. User reports and media attention has limited effect.
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 4 months ago:
I wish I could erase all my memories of Obra Dinn, just so I could experience it again for the first time 🥺 Also that soundtrack slaps!
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 4 months ago:
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 months ago:
Guild Wars 2, so far I put 4,800+ hours into it.
I like that it has so many kinds of solo and group content that I can just do whatever I’m in the mood for that day.
- Comment on What happened to NSFL? 1 year ago:
I still see it, albeit rarely, on some subreddits, eg. NatureIsMetal