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Yay for America making things worse yet again!

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Given enough time, every single PS game will be playable on PC trough emulation. Resistance is futile. PC assimilates everything.

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Taking this decision in the middle of the generation is clearly not a good idea.
It's too late for me to buy a PS5 now, especially with the price of the hardware going up.

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Before I buy a locked-down/dumbed-down console, hell will freeze over at least five times. PC port, or no money from me. Easy as that.

Hilariously, Capcom today reported that 50% of its sales are now from PC (I will refrain from posting the external link, just google it). It's safe to assume that the number is similar for Sony's PC ports. Not sure why Sony thinks that half of its total customer-base can be bullied into buying a console.

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Quoting: vertigoHas anyone played it? I'm looking for more games in the vein of Talos Principle and Portal.

Haven't played this one, but going of seeing a bit of the previous one, it's more like the "The Room" series of games. Which are actually quite good. However, if I read between the lines on the reviews and dev responses, they kind of rushed the second half of the game and it's not really good. So it was in need of an update.

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I can see that this would make sense if they're trying to keep their brand somewhat more exclusive and avoid some of the mistakes that Microsoft has made.

What doesn't make sense is that they didn't really manage to keep up their unique selling point of great single player games in the PS5 era anyway. And I can't really see them going back to a PS3/PS4 cadence of great, exclusive single player games. Just doesn't seem to be in their business plan anymore. So who knows how many classics we are really going to lose if this pans out.

If the same would have happened during the PS4 era it would have been quite a bummer. But these days we get so many great games of all sizes and shapes on PC, not really sure Sony really matters in that space in the grand scheme of things.

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Bought tons of PS titles over the years for the Deck. They’re going to lose some money for sure. And like someone said above I won’t be buying a console, as it seems like consoles are slowly dying. Xbox doing the opposite of them, and it seems like they have the better plan. This seems for sure knee jerk reaction to Xbox and their possible PC alignment.

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Apparently Canonical is proposing changes that would force ALL Linux users to verify their age during setup, too... I did post a link to a video discussing this last night; but it needed to be approved by Liam and from what I can see, it doesn't look like he's approved it.

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Quoting: pete910It will be to run game servers, Not client. Don't get ya hopes up people !

Why would they mention proton if it is going to run on the servers? They have their own anti-cheat that would run on servers which do not need kernel level access.

Chart a path for EA Javelin Anticheat to support additional OS and hardware in the future, such as Linux and Proton.

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Really waiting for this one. The first one was fun, and a very early version of shapez2 was cool too.

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It will be to run game servers, Not client. Don't get ya hopes up people !

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Quoting: JarmerI really had a great time in Horizon Zero Dawn (not so much forbidden west) and spent the crazy high premium costs to buy those games.

I hope you bought the DRM-free version from GOG.com? You never know if Sony will remove the games from your Steam catalog.

Quoting: elmapulbut sony is stupid, all they need to do is their own version of an steam machine, and a good client for pc, instead they chose to make less money.

It'd never happen, but they could always just come out and do their own SteamOS device... That'd be sick.

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Quoting: CaldathrasNever could get the Windows-based demo to work in Linux. I had really wanted to try this one out but I'm not going to buy it sight unseen. Besides, will Steam let you install it on desktop Linux?

It works fine for me on Proton. If you force the use of the Linux version, it tries to download something then says the executable is missing. That is now before the next update.

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If the law actually allows applications to rely on an OS supplied age instead of forcing application authors to try to steal identity documents or face scans, this could be a privacy improvement.

Think of all the data breaches with Discord being forced by the UK government to ask for user IDs - if they could rely on a device API, that could be avoided

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Quoting: sarmadWhy would someone play CSGO when we have CS2? Is there anything that CSGO provides and CS2 doesn't?

a huge archive of old maps that are not compatible with cs2. also more game mods.

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: GustyGhostFree and open internet <-----------(You are here)---------------------> The Great Western Firewall

Except the firewall is built around you and the only (back)door is locked with a state-owned key.

It's not a "firewall" ... it's a "wall of fire". Subtle but important differences.

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They port games after one or two years delay and complain that sales are low, lol.
And their games, after all, are not so outstanding or even so good.
But I think the main reason is not relatively low sales. Over a million copies sold are more than enough to profit from porting games.
I think the main reason why they want to leave PC is they want to sell more consoles to drag people into their ecosystem, and mainly aim for 30% cut to keep for themselves.
They think average steam users willbuy a whole new console, while steam users often don't even bother checking alternative PC game stores.

But we know how it will go. We'll see sony few years later, quietly returning to Steam.

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I'd guess it cuts into their PSN subscriptions—you might not always be buying games, but you'll always pay to play online thru their consoles.

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I have a PS5, but this is not a good move.
After 2-3 years (on ps5) why not make more money just by re-release it for PC?
Easy money and ppl are happy. They wont hack your console, and after emulate your games on PC.

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Why would someone play CSGO when we have CS2? Is there anything that CSGO provides and CS2 doesn't?

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No offense to the parents on this forum (who are likely the exception), but from my experience, most children are better at navigating parental control features than their parents. So, of course, the kids will figure out how to circumvent them too.

But, then, as we've already established, it's not really about the kids after all ...

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I bought Stellar Blade for PC, but there was no way I was ever buying a Playstation or ever will.
Looks like they don't want my money going forward. Interesting business decision for out of touch millionaire execs. They don't live in world where not everyone wants to spend their limited money on consoles. I give it 3 years before they announce PC ports again.

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Quoting: GustyGhostFree and open internet <-----------(You are here)---------------------> The Great Western Firewall

Except the firewall is built around you and the only (back)door is locked with a state-owned key.

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Has anyone played it? I'm looking for more games in the vein of Talos Principle and Portal.

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Quoting: CatKillerMore than anything, it's an admission of a fundamental lack of self-confidence on Sony's part. If you're turning out bangers then PC ports are free money, and advertising for the next game. And that's the view expressed by Sony at the time. When they still had games studios.

I'm guessing this was an "excel decision".

Total revenue was probably not all that high compared to PS sales. Mostly likely reasons are: 20%-30% cut by Steam. Late PC releases, so a lot of people that had to wait a year for it might as well wait a few more months for a sale. And I doubt many PS owners would opt for a second copy just to play it on PC, so the market is already reduced. Now if, they'd to simultaneous releases on PC and PS the story might be different. But that would also mean PC would potentially cannibalise part of the PS sales and they definitely don't want that. So the corporate decision is probably that the potential FOMO outweighs the income that they do get.

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Quoting: poiuza) Please provide as source for said roadmap. b) I said like Spotify. c) Again: Stop inventing statements! I never claimed the DMA was instigated by Spotify.

The roadmap for the DMA started with the DSM during the Junker Comission and was defined here: [https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/attachment/8210/DSM_communication.pdf](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/attachment/8210/DSM_communication.pdf)

Regarding Spotify it was my interpretation of what you wrote that you meant that they instigated the DMA, it that was a misreading of what you wrote then I am sorry for having done that.

Quoting: poiuzI'm perfectly aware that "they" are Apple's business "partners". Any other reading you imagined.

Great that we are in agreement in this, your previous comment sounded like you saw "they" as the legislators when you wrote "You still fail to explain how the payment processing regulation is not about the cut" and refered to "they" which IMHO was a very strange wording since "they" did not create the legislation and thus it does not matter one ounce what "they" want or don't want. But perhaps you just worded it wrongly.

Quoting: poiuzThe effect is still the same: Businesses are allowed to use their payment processors & avoid Apple fees, i.e. would work as intended. Except it's not - because Apple still wants their fees & as such the process is still ongoing. Again: How can that be? (Emphasised so that you stop ignoring it)

What does this have to do with what we are discussing? Aka weather or not the DMA is about the specific cut that Apple et al is allowed to take.

Again I conclude that you have still not linked to a single piece of the DMA that defines what cut Apple et all are allowed to make...

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Just make the EULA make it not available in CA and CO. See how long these idiot 'lawmakers' hold out when suddenly all their expensive data centers are illegal... and processing software for the entertainment industry is illegal... and half their city infrastructure is illegal... and game systems are illegal... etc. I'm sure none of that is relevant to California is it nuisance Newsom?

I hate this fucking timeline.

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Free and open internet <-----------(You are here)---------------------> The Great Western Firewall

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So sad that the only good games are Sony Playstation exclusives, with literally no other games existing that are worth playing.
So sad.

<cries in backlog on GOG and Steam>

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[Bloomberg article without the paywall](https://archive.ph/hSXXu)

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