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Quoting: williamjcmSame group that sued Valve back in 2019 on the subject of Steam not allowing transferring accounts or selling individual games, by the way.

While UFC-Que Choisir won the initial trial, Valve won the appeal, and the Cour de cassation (the French equivalent to the US' Supreme Court) upheld the appeal's ruling.

So you're saying France's legal system is just as corrupt as the US? That's depressing.

I feel like you're putting words in my mouth here.

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Quoting: PhlebiacWhat's the attraction of MATE over Cinnamon or current GNOME with classic-look extensions? Serious question, not trying to start any desktop wars.

I can move to Cinnamon immediately when it has Classic Menu "applet" (do not know what Cinnamon calling these) menu where is Applications Places and System menus. MATE is good but support is what is it (or not it).

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

seek revenge against your own body after it betrayed you.

What.

You know, a bit like getting a gym membership.

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Unlike many here, I like this company and what they do. They support CachyOS, my favorite distro, and now support KDE, promoting longevity, reducing e-waste, and repairability.

I'm not as concerned about who they interact with as many people here have been stating. The amount of left-leaning bias and 'passion' is a little concerning in these comments. We should commend this company for the good they do, rather than condemning them entirely based on a few interactions with someone who holds a differing view.

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Quoting: SakuretsuHope the consumer group wins. That's what Ubislop deserves.

What Ubisoft deserves is bankruptcy. But I take them losing that lawsuit, too.

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Quoting: CaldathrasBeing that I am not a fan of MMOs (or any online games, really), it would seem to me that the most important aspect of an online game would be replayability. Wouldn't an endgame scenario interfere with that?

Once you've finished the endgame, what is there left to do?

A good endgame has no end. Consider a game like Path of Exile: over a decade of endgame expansions, consistent large playerbase every update, emphasizes player interactions but allows you to do everything on your own at the same time if you'd like. It has perfected the infinite grind.

To be fair, Arc Raiders is a baby in comparison to PoE, and in a different genre, but can learn from its success: if players already enjoy the core gameplay loop, Embark can't just pump out new content, but also has to to give players different ways to interact with existing content to keep stuff fresh even years down the line... assuming the game is still popular by then.

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This case specifically is a good test case as nothing in this game should technically be able to run entirely without the servers. Anything multiplayer is entirely optional and therefore having it locked down is clearly just a kill switch.

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I can't believe nobody's taking Ubisoft's side here . . . hang on, yes I can.

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Quoting: williamjcmSame group that sued Valve back in 2019 on the subject of Steam not allowing transferring accounts or selling individual games, by the way.

While UFC-Que Choisir won the initial trial, Valve won the appeal, and the Cour de cassation (the French equivalent to the US' Supreme Court) upheld the appeal's ruling.

So you're saying France's legal system is just as corrupt as the US? That's depressing.

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seek revenge against your own body after it betrayed you.

What.

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Really, I can see it being very hard to pull this kind of thing off without either losing money or being scummy. Might be easier in a less market-oriented economy, with more mechanisms to pay for things just because people want them to exist.

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Interesting, another one for the first-person puzzle genre. Reminds me a bit of Superliminal and Viewfinder (learning to solve problems by looking at things from new perspectives), and also [Gravitas](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1067310/Gravitas/) a short, hilarious (and entirely FREE) game which I can't recommend enough.

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Quoting: PhlebiacWhat's the attraction of MATE over Cinnamon or current GNOME with classic-look extensions? Serious question, not trying to start any desktop wars.

Well, the attraction over GNOME with extensions is that from what I've heard on this site many, many times, extensions tend to break when GNOME gets a significant update, and I'd rather have something that keeps on working. I do kind of wonder if it would feel like something I'm uncomfortable with, but with an overlay, rather than just feeling comfortable.

Anyway I like Mint, which doesn't really do GNOME. I was actually one of the GNOME 2 users who moved to Mint when I couldn't hack GNOME 3 (and around the same time Mandrake, I mean Mandriva, died). Odd to realize that's ancient history now.

Cinnamon . . . I haven't tried it in a while, so I don't know what it's like these days. It's certainly available to me as a Mint user, so I probably will give it another shot at some point. Back when I was first deciding which to use, Cinnamon was earlyish days and felt kind of . . . brittle, plus there was a function I wanted that it wouldn't at that time do. Probably does that function nowadays and probably feels fine now, but MATE does everything I want the way I want it and feels comfortable, so I just haven't had much motivation to investigate.

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Microsoft has to re-release Heretic II!

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Would this be the French equivalent of a class-action lawsuit? It's no less than Ubisoft deserves.

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Quoting: DurandalThere's plenty of articles summarizing it, such as this.
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

Whoa. Creepy.

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this one was a little more unusual with it changing the series into third-person

I did not know this. I'd always assumed it was first-person, like its predecessors.

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Quoting: gaboverstaI still remember many years ago when I bought Age of Empires 3 with both DLC on physical disc. Somewhere on the box it said that the ESO game servers needed for online play would be running until at least 2030.

Has been shut down in 2024, if Google serves well?

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The reality of free-to-play, online games...

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Being that I am not a fan of MMOs (or any online games, really), it would seem to me that the most important aspect of an online game would be replayability. Wouldn't an endgame scenario interfere with that?

Once you've finished the endgame, what is there left to do?

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I still remember many years ago when I bought Age of Empires 3 with both DLC on physical disc. Somewhere on the box it said that the ESO game servers needed for online play would be running until at least 2030.

Even back then I was shocked by the possibility of some day not being able to play just the online multiplayer anymore, more than a decade in the future. The game itself and local multiplayer would still work and yet young me realized that having the thing I bought with my money being downgraded later was bad.

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Quoting: plain_textI dont know if its allowed to link other sides but:
at Gamedate.org you can find weekly UT gaming sessions: friday UT99, saturday UT2k4

Check this link:

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I think you're good...

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Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: XpanderWhat distros are dropping X11 support? there are still things that dont work on wayland some people require, so i doubt X will go anywhere soon. If that time comes we will see.

All of them...

Fedora
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Popos
Mint
Gnome (I know not a distro, it's a de, but still relevent) is fully wayland only, no x at all.
^ this is just off the top of my head, I could look up more, but it's pretty much all the major parent distros.

I'm sure you can add X back in to some of these if you want, but that's not the point. X will of course still be used by the legacy people, but every day that passes that percentage will go down and down until there's a stable like 0.1% or something.

Technically, isn't it the desktop environments that are adding Wayland support, not the distros?

However, adding Wayland support does not equal removing Xorg support. The Mint team, for example is adding Wayland support to the Cinnamon desktop. They are not, however, removing Xorg support. KDE is shipping Plasma with Wayland enabled, but they have not completely removed Xorg support either. XFCE is in the alpha stages for Wayland, but they always move slowly.

I can't speak to Gnome, Cosmic or Budgie. Haven't been following them as closely. I will admit that I have heard that Fedora and Ubuntu intend to ship with Wayland as default but that does not mean that they are dropping Xorg, just that they are favoring Wayland -- likely because their DE of choice is also doing so.

That being said, one of my laptops has a Kepler GPU. As long as I remain on the proprietary driver, I will never be able to use Wayland on that laptop. Many users of legacy Nvidia hardware will be in the same state. If only Nvidia would let the open-source community take over full management of their legacy GPU drivers instead of hording tech secrets on what they consider to be defunct hardware. If Nvidia thinks they will force legacy hardware enthusiasts to buy their new GPUs by denying us support, then they are truly clueless...

Go NVK!

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Vive la révolution, obviously.

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Same group that sued Valve back in 2019 on the subject of Steam not allowing transferring accounts or selling individual games, by the way.

While UFC-Que Choisir won the initial trial, Valve won the appeal, and the Cour de cassation (the French equivalent to the US' Supreme Court) upheld the appeal's ruling.

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[Tethering a product or program means designing it with features that can function only through communication with a restricted set of servers, through a protocol that you could not make your own server speak. That is always an injustice since it means you can't use the program without one of these servers. It is also a secondary injustice if you can't communicate with the servers in another way.

In some cases, tethering is used to do specific nasty things to the users.](https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-tethers.html)

Funny enough, there is an entry on that page for 2024-11: "Ubisoft is facing a fraud lawsuit for shutting down the proprietary video game The Crew..."

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Hope the consumer group wins. That's what Ubislop deserves.

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I'm 106 years old horse 🥰

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Thanks for showing the game, I might have missed it otherwise and it looks really cool. Just backed it!

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Some, not informed about those incidents, might take your initial comment to be overly emotional or even inflammatory.

The initial comment assumed that people knew what the big tent referred to, but the follow up post was the least-emotional, least-inflammatory take I've ever seen on the subject of DHH. There's even a link to the "big tent" reference that Framework made. It's concise and factual. We're all grown ups here, I think, so we can up our own minds whether we like the idea of Framework welcoming such individuals into their patronage.

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