colonial

@colonial@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most desturbing thing when you look up your username in SteamDB?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  $0.26/hour is pretty good!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo switch 2 akin to PS4/XBO power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  After seeing the various forms of black magic Nintendo devs have pulled off with what is essentially decade-old tablet hardware… yeah, fine by me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In before one of them starts stripping or firewalling the phone-home code. What’s Unity gonna do? Valve hasn’t signed any contracts with them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But an extra fee will be charged if a user installs a game on a second device, say a Steam Deck after installing a game on a PC.

  Actually asinine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if distributors could get away with doing that automatically. My gut instinct tells me that Unity isn’t stupid enough for that to be feasible long term, but… like you say, the C-suite bozos clearly aren’t listening to the engineers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Every other engine is smelling blood in the water it seems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t decide if they’ll get away with this or if they’re committing corporate suicide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on how they generate a hardware fingerprint, generating random ones every check is a single LD_PRELOAD (or equivalent) away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a reason Hello Games wrote their own engine for NMS. We all know that it was pretty bad gameplay-wise at launch, but under the hood NMS was (and still is) something of a technical marvel. No loading screens except for a disguised one when jumping between systems is quite impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call of Duty will get a new AI-powered voice chat moderation system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure that any flagged snippets will be submitted to a human for final review. They definitely won’t just auto-ban-hammer innocent people because the AI misinterpreted something they said!

  Sigh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost any game will work under Proton. If you want to be sure, check ProtonDB before you buy.

  The main exceptions are competitive multiplayer games (like Valorant) that use rootkit anticheat software, but that’s probably for the best.