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Quoting: Phlebiac

recent shift in the VR market

Anyone know what this refers to? VR didn't take off like they hoped (just like the last few attempts)? Or something else?

Definitely a part of it.
Those old enough will know that this was like the fifth time or so VR was touted as the "next big thing"/"the future"/etc.
And of course it didn't take this time, either, at least not to the level of mass success some were hyped into believing.

But also: Current price & availability for any kind of electronic hardware - within and without the gaming sphere.

Add that to a product like this, basically a free online hangout - these concepts have already failed so many times before (remember the first hangouts of comparable kind in the late 90s/early 2000s, with avatars and stuff?).
It adds this extra step to hanging out together digitally, I am honestly surprised it lasted as long as it did.
And as it turns out, that was because the devs poured their own money into it.

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recent shift in the VR market

Anyone know what this refers to? VR didn't take off like they hoped (just like the last few attempts)? Or something else?

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Well that's good news, because it was the last legacy id software related game that was missing a source port

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Omelette du fromage!

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Hopefully it can be preserved somehow.

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Quoting: rea987Microsoft has to re-release Heretic II!

I dream that Hyperion Entertainment will come back to releasing games for Linux, and then they will port Heretic II to our system. They did it with Heretic II for AmigaOS in 2024.

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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.

Don't see how. That was the conclusion I came to based on what you said. Not my problem if you want to take it that way.

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"What are your thoughts? Leave a comment,"
RMS was right, join us and share the software...
but at the same time "this ship has sailed", its not enough to fight by making free software alternatives, we need preservation of the softwares and games regardless of if they are free or proprietary, companies shouldnt have the right to take away things from people forever especially if they paid for those things, its stealing.

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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.

It's much less corrupt than the supreme court but they uphold laws. The laws themselves might not be the best but that's up to the law makers.

As always, I still miss Totalbiscuit as he was a great advocate for gamers as consumers.

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Quoting: Eocene84

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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