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This is a non-issue to me and I've got zero sympathy to almost anyone pitching a bitch about it. You're a damn fool if you thought a fucking PlayStation game on PC wasn't gonna require a PSN account at some point (especially an online only game). The only people that I've got any form of sympathy for are folks that are in countries that don't have official PSN service. Though as someone with 5 (count 'em 5) PSN accounts from various regions. It's not that hard to make one that's most relevant to you if your country doesn't have its own PSN service. PSN accounts are free too. So WTFever, and just get on with playing and having fun.

Don't give me that fear mongering about "next is gonna be an additional launcher too" bullshit either. You're playing a "live service" game. You've got no room to bitch cause of that fact alone.

Sorry if this comes off as harsh, but there's way more pressing issues in gaming than crying about something like this. Like Valve still not actually fixing the Steam client like they should be doing.

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Quoting: Mountain ManWhenever I hear people talk about "game preservation", it always sounds suspiciously like, "I want free games."

A one size fits all "judgement" about "people" comes off as arrogant in this context, and white knighting for a billion dollar enterprise against peasant coders isn't a good look.

But to give the benefit of the doubt -- how many decades have you been a gamer for?

People here who have been since the 80s, 90s have seen dozens to hundreds of beloved video game companies go out of business in their lifetime. The community validates that reality as a realistic argument and scenario. Google Stadia, Sega Channel, 7th Level Games, Looking Glass Studios, Rareware, Acclaim Entertainment, Sierra Entertainment...

Conflating tools with crimes is nonsense, it's a slippery slope to think that all kitchen knives "could" be used in a crime so therefore they must be disallowed. This modern "Safetyism" revolution is a scam.

Where does the scam end? Cars need to be illegal because they "could" or "are" an accessory to manslaugher in "some" instances.

Perhaps your comments were vague and directed at a more specific group or person though.

Everyone wants to be "on the side of the big battalions", but this "safetyism" and billionaires beating up on peasants is bullshit.

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As Tchey said, Siralim Ultimate is an amazing game to create crazy builds in a creature-collector kind of game. Do investigate what you are getting yourself into.

Lunacid is also great, a kings-field-like game but generally modernized, to me it's basically flawless. Devil Spire looks similar but is much smaller and a rogue-like, not bad, not great, it's fun for a few afternoons.

I haven't played the others.

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Quoting: Mountain ManLike I said, if increasing profits was as easy as handing out raises like candy, then everybody would be doing it.

Funny nobody told the CEO that. How are you managing to not see that your argument is utterly inconsistent?

Look, there's two basic kinds of bosses of a company. There's the kind that people who wish our system worked as advertised think about: People like my son-in-law, who started from nothing or not very much and built up a business from nothing and who know it inside and out. They do exist, there are even quite a few of them, although they tend to be the bosses of small companies. And then there's the kind that was born either rich or well-to-do, went to a prestigious university and got an MBA. They know how to schmooze with other rich, connected people and how to maximize stock price next quarter so they can make a bunch of money from their stock options. They know a bit about how to move money around in companies. They know nothing about the specifics of any given company or how its business actually works, because they have been taught that money and people are completely universal and exchangeable and the specifics of the business don't matter if you know how to move money. They tend to move from company to company, often in quite different kinds of businesses because they think the specifics don't matter. And when they lay people off, it is usually because although in the long run those people probably contribute to the bottom line, in the short term dumping them will goose the stock price because most of the investors are ignorant and they only see (reduction in expenses == bigger dividends next quarter, or money plowed into share buybacks). And that second kind, is the kind that give themselves $26 million-a-year raises. And they are the kind that are most influential in the economy.

Also the kind that gives you situations like Boeing, where the product goes to shit because of all those years getting stratospheric stock prices from the visionary cost-cutting. Of course by that time a few people have made a stack of money--all the layoffs and outsourcing and elimination of quality control did create that result, so in that sense it wasn't stupid. But it wasn't good for the company, or the workers, or the customers, or the people who got killed in the planes, or the murdered whistleblowers.

You are generalizing to a ridiculous degree.
CEOs of large corporations are not all clueless rich kids just as small business owners are not all virtuous. Furthermore, you don't know anything about why the layoffs happened in this specific case, but that's not going to stop you from accusing the CEO of being evil. I doubt it was an arbitrary decision. Most likely he had other managers and company accountants advising him and answering questions -- How long have they been working on this game? How much money has it cost us so far? How much longer until it's ready for release, and how much more will it cost? What are the projected sales? What is the expected profit? -- and then he made the best decision for the company based on that information.

You mentioned your son is a business owner. Tell me, would he continue to pay a team of employees who are costing his company literally more than they're worth? Would he cut his own salary in order to keep them around? I suspect the answer to both questions is no.

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Quoting: MrowlThis is why we need all handheld PC's to do well, even the Windows ones, like the Ally, etc.

Why? Because smartphones don't receive the hardcore AAA games that handheld PC's and Nintendo handhelds do, thus smartphones don't pose as much of a threat to Nintendo.

But handheld PC's obviously do get those games and do pose a threat, and people are now in a situation where, if they want to play certain games portably, Nintedo isn't the only option anymore.

We need the handheld PC market to grow and put the fear of god in to Nintendo. It's currently still a very niche market, but it's also a very young one that's growing every year.

Very well-said.

Indeed, that's probably why, after years of just turning a blind eye to it, the current powers-that-be are now taking action in ways that they didn't before.

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Quoting: scaineI don't even think you need to "sign up" for a PSN account - you just link straight through via Steam.

You do - they provide a link for it in the announcement, and talk up how it's free.

EDIT: Ahh, now I see the problem. Until May 3rd, Sony's FAQ said that PSN account use for PC releases is optional.

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Quoting: Mountain ManLike I said, if increasing profits was as easy as handing out raises like candy, then everybody would be doing it.

Funny nobody told the CEO that. How are you managing to not see that your argument is utterly inconsistent?

Look, there's two basic kinds of bosses of a company. There's the kind that people who wish our system worked as advertised think about: People like my son-in-law, who started from nothing or not very much and built up a business from nothing and who know it inside and out. They do exist, there are even quite a few of them, although they tend to be the bosses of small companies. And then there's the kind that was born either rich or well-to-do, went to a prestigious university and got an MBA. They know how to schmooze with other rich, connected people and how to maximize stock price next quarter so they can make a bunch of money from their stock options. They know a bit about how to move money around in companies. They know nothing about the specifics of any given company or how its business actually works, because they have been taught that money and people are completely universal and exchangeable and the specifics of the business don't matter if you know how to move money. They tend to move from company to company, often in quite different kinds of businesses because they think the specifics don't matter. And when they lay people off, it is usually because although in the long run those people probably contribute to the bottom line, in the short term dumping them will goose the stock price because most of the investors are ignorant and they only see (reduction in expenses == bigger dividends next quarter, or money plowed into share buybacks). And that second kind, is the kind that give themselves $26 million-a-year raises. And they are the kind that are most influential in the economy.

Also the kind that gives you situations like Boeing, where the product goes to shit because of all those years getting stratospheric stock prices from the visionary cost-cutting. Of course by that time a few people have made a stack of money--all the layoffs and outsourcing and elimination of quality control did create that result, so in that sense it wasn't stupid. But it wasn't good for the company, or the workers, or the customers, or the people who got killed in the planes, or the murdered whistleblowers.

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They are also re-releasing a cart racing game:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2599800/Spanking_Runners/

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Quoting: Mountain ManWhenever I hear people talk about "game preservation", it always sounds suspiciously like, "I want free games."

Once you grow up and want to return to your childhood games but you no longer have a CD drive, or your disc has stopped working right & u got no way to buy digital ver. you got no choice but to use backups from piracy groups who figured out how to play the game without the need of a disc. Other than the company no longer getting money from purchases if you buy 2nd hand, they also don't really care about said product if they cant spend few days fixing it up for new PCs and releasing it on digital stores again.

There are also online-only games, games sold as a product that rely on company-owned central server that can go out at any time leaving you with bricked game and wasted money, in such cases you'd wish piracy groups could save you but the chance of that happening is sadly (and understandably) very rare.

So it's a bit more than "I want free games", the pirated version would feel inferior (no MP, achievements and pretty much everything Steam gives you, for example) to the customer so they'd buy the real game at some point, the legit ver is too bad due to DRM or MTX, or said customer wouldn't buy it whether or not there's pirated version available.

It is EXACTLY THE SAME when it comes to console emulation. PS1 and PS2 are my fav console and I got A LOT of games for them, I no longer want to play on said consoles due to how old they are and would rather play ISOs on emulators, same case with Yuzu/Suyu, I got a sw but I also got a Deck, why would I keep both around when I can play sw on my Deck with a better controller and even keep the sw due to memories. Yes emulation will be also used for piracy, but so are torrents and ISO files which are both great tech that's been often useful to me for many reasons (backing up discs, downloading distros and large files, etc...)

Nintendo themselves use emulators, you bet it's not something they've made themselves, i forgot the exact details but they either using FOS emulator or temporarily hired emu dev to port it.

PS: and it's not like I don't miss those consoles, for me emulation still can't replace my PS1,2 and SW, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. playing the 3 NES games Nintendo offer on their NSO subscription also feels far away from the real deal.

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This is why we need all handheld PC's to do well, even the Windows ones, like the Ally, etc.

Why? Because smartphones don't receive the hardcore AAA games that handheld PC's and Nintendo handhelds do, thus smartphones don't pose as much of a threat to Nintendo.

But handheld PC's obviously do get those games and do pose a threat, and people are now in a situation where, if they want to play certain games portably, Nintedo isn't the only option anymore.

We need the handheld PC market to grow and put the fear of god in to Nintendo. It's currently still a very niche market, but it's also a very young one that's growing every year.

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Quoting: bakgwailoWell, looks like my long running save is screwed now. Also had a bunch of visual glitches (and a segfault) after update, but, that might be from my old save. Given I had conquered about half of the map in Immortal Empires, I feel rather disincentived to play much more if my saves are trash after updates.

I am sorry that you lost your save, but at the same time amazed of what Creative Assembly can get away with, and yet the player base remains stable or growing...

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We are really spoiled for choice. Broken Arrow should be releasing also relatively soon-ish TM.

Quoting: LungDragoThe previous games (Men of War, Men of War Asasult Squad) have been stellar games superior in many ways to Company of Heroes (the more popular WWII RTS). So I have high expectactions for this one.

Came to say this, more or less. Can any of the critics present us with that great alternative, recent or upcoming game that is even better than MoW2? (Spoiler alert: we have already seen and played demos of MoW2 and Broken Arrow)

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Quoting: emphy

Quoting: Mountain ManWhenever I hear people talk about "game preservation", it always sounds suspiciously like, "I want free games."

Because, of course, no one ever spent anything on the re-releases on steam/gog or the evercade cartridges.

Except we're talking about emulators, which is something else entirely. More often than not, using emulators to "preserve" games is just a thinly veiled excuse to pirate software.

Erm, so am I. Quite a few of aforementioned releases come packaged with emulators. The evercade is an emulator box.

People who pirate for free games will pirate regardless of whether emulation is used or not.

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Quoting: emphy

Quoting: Mountain ManWhenever I hear people talk about "game preservation", it always sounds suspiciously like, "I want free games."

Because, of course, no one ever spent anything on the re-releases on steam/gog or the evercade cartridges.

Except we're talking about emulators, which is something else entirely. More often than not, using emulators to "preserve" games is just a thinly veiled excuse to pirate software.

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Quoting: Mountain ManWhenever I hear people talk about "game preservation", it always sounds suspiciously like, "I want free games."

Because, of course, no one ever spent anything on the re-releases on steam/gog or the evercade cartridges.

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Quoting: djibOne issue drives me crazy: my Steam Deck doesn’t register my external screen when I dock it using the official dock. I get a "no signal" error. A workaround is to unplug power from the dock, plug the Deck in the dock and wait for the screen to be registered, than re-plug the power. We seem to be quite a lot of people with that issue. It’s quite annoying.

I've been having more and more issues with external displays as time goes on, recently I tried and failed to replug my monitor and deck before giving up, but not the dock and not in that order... maybe that will work. My non-official dock with my TV works just fine.

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Quoting: Liam Dawebehave

Said in an Austin power voice!

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Quoting: TevurSo, does it run Stellaris?

As their stoned marketing manager in charge, I would surely ask Paradox for a colaboration.

That would end up with drivers for your laptop hardware in paid DLCs...

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Quoting: Mountain ManWhenever I hear people talk about "game preservation", it always sounds suspiciously like, "I want free games."

Does that apply to companies like take-two and rockstar games?

After all, they're selling games like Manhunt and Bully which include Razor cracks to bypass their own drm

And switch games aside.. legacy games that are rare, how is that stealing money?

No, it's not an excuse to pirate like you imply. Some games WOULD be lost to history if not for the community, that's a fact.

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Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: F.Ultraso if you happen to live in any of those countries you are now blocked from playing the game you bought.

I just want to say this is not true at all, as someone from an African country that's not South Africa, this is not news at all, it's always been that for any of these global services, you just pick US/UK/EU, or whatever region where you have access to that region's currency so you can buy stuff from the service etc, since no one will support your local currency, obviously, that's just the status quo here. Steam itself until very recently (November last year) didn't officially support MENA countries either. Yeah yeah lying about your region probably breaks TOS or whatever, that's never been forced in any service that I know of for us here. Just because Sony or whoever doesn't "officially" support our regions, doesn't mean there are no PS5s here or no userbase or that we're "blocked" from playing.

This is just to give everyone an idea of how things go here.

Ok, well to be fair then the possibility to loose your account over lying about your actual locations sounds similar to "oh you bought this game, surprise we now require you to have PSN account or it will stop working" which is something I didn't think would happen before this either.

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It's always been clear that a PSN account was required. The only thing changing now is that they're enforcing it. I don't even think you need to "sign up" for a PSN account - you just link straight through via Steam.

The people complaining about this (around 20 thousand review bombs so far) are the kind of people who probably complained about nGuard. And they'll keep playing, despite the negative review, no doubt.

This is a mountain out of a molehill. Entirely normal internet behaviour, of course.

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Slice and Dice - it recently had a big upgrade, and I got into the game after watching a few videos

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Whenever I hear people talk about "game preservation", it always sounds suspiciously like, "I want free games."

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The previous games (Men of War, Men of War Asasult Squad) have been stellar games superior in many ways to Company of Heroes (the more popular WWII RTS). So I have high expectactions for this one.

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Quoting: cameronbosch2. […] The TL;DR on this point? Both support Linux offically.

Sorry, TL;DR: You have no point. Tuxedo comes preinstalled with Tuxedo OS, Ubuntu, Kubuntu or Ubuntu Budgie. Framework does not have any Linux options. None. You either DIY or buy Windows.

Obviously, Tuxedo notebooks are compatible with other distributions, too. They even provide their packages for openSUSE (https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Infos/Help-and-Support/Instructions/Add-TUXEDO-Computers-software-package-sources.tuxedo).

As far as Linux support goes: Framework doesn't even compete with Tuxedo.

Quoting: cameronbosch4. The Tuxedo Laptops are pretty much DOA outside of the EU and the UK, as they only offer ISO layouts, while the Netherlands and everywhere outside of the EU and the UK use ANSI, which Tuxedo does not offer on these laptops. […]

They offer various ISO-QWERTY, QWERTZ & AZERTY layouts as well as US ANSI. For the Pulse you can even create a custom ANSI layout: https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Individual-Keyboards.tuxedo

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Quoting: emphyIf you don't want future nostalgia be held hostage by such, do not play their games. They are much overhyped and overrated any ways.

Yup nintendo aren't exactly great at looking after their legacy games, I despise how they put old nes, snes ect. games behind a subscription service

Same time though, you can only do so much with consoles when it comes to preservation.. it's always going to be PC where the real preservation of software happens

Personally don't consider their games overhyped, switch has some fantastic games. but I paid for my games and I intend to preserve them and ensure I can continue to enjoy them (even if it's not on my actual switch console)

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Quoting: TeomyrI really don't understand why these people doesn't run their own Gitlab server (or similar) ?

Because 8535 people didn't fork Yuzu's repo to start developing 8535 different forks individually, I'd just round this exaggerated number of forks to just non technical people just forking the repo out of panic thinking this can be a way to preserve it somehow.

A fork that is actually being developed, Sudachi is still up, so this does just seem like they were going after duplicates here. I heard Sudachi removed some of the problematic code from Yuzu and that could be why it's still up, not sure what the problematic code is or if this is even true though.

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A few comments have been removed. Please do not quote other users that are name calling. Please remember to check the rules, I have no problem banning anyone who cannot behave.

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Quoting: Talon1024Did you know Perimeter is open source under the GPLv3?

It is noted in the article.

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Just when I was considering hopping on that bandwagon. I think I'll give it more thought if it requires yet another account.

And Sony doesn't exactly have a stellar security record, they keep getting hacked :|

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