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Quoting: randylEmbracer is freaking huge. I've been wondering how they've flown under the radar so well. Maybe it's because of their name change and how little known "Embracer" is. Embracer is the rebranded parent company of THQ Nordic and was also previously named THQ Nordic AB which owned THQ Nordic GmbH. They rebranded to Embracer in 2019.

Some of the subsidiaries Embracer owns and several are massive parent companies in their own right: Amplifier Games, Asmodee, Coffee Stain Holdings, Dark Horse Media, Embracer Freemode, Gearbox Entertainment, Plaion, Saber Interactive, and THQ Nordic. They've also merged several previous brands into their fold or into their subsidiary's holdings group.

Thanks for pointing out!
They also got Koch Media and Deep Silver, both well known at least in German speaking countries.

Everybody knows deep silver publisher of stalker developer of saints row

Koch Media (not to be confused with "Koch Industries") was shining in point and click / adventure games [External Link] back then.

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Quoting: minidouI fail to see how glibc devs could be blamed for removing a function deprecated for 17 years (though I can agree a major version bump should have been called for). Do videogame devs need that much nursing ? EAC linux lib is a recent piece of software, how many deprecated dependencies do they use ?

Quoting: TermyI tend to agree with the criticism about unstable APIs for many cases - but in this case, i really blame Epic for using a function deprecated for almost two decades in a recent piece of software.

From everything I've read from other people, it wasn't obvious that the function was depreciated. You shouldn't need to search up, "is x function depreciated glibc" for every function you use, it should be immediately obvious (like most languages I know have comments or a depreciation tag), some say that all distros somehow knew about this but you shouldn't need to be familiar with linux development or need to be in the right communities to know about a depreciated function.

Small nitpick here, but DT_HASH is not a libc function, it's a linker section in the ELF header of a shared object. The function that utilizes this section is dlopen() and that function have not changed and it works, it's only applications that tries to read the ELF data manually that have to handle DT_HASH and DT_GNU_HASH, and by all means it looks like the glibc devs "incorrectly" thought that dlopen was their ABI/API and not the actual linker section in the ELF headers.

I find this neither nitpcking nor small! So it isn't an actual API change, but considered an internal data invisible to almost every user program.

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Quoting: PenglingEe! :grin: I loved the first Metal Gear Solid and I strongly lean towards games with cute aesthetics, so this looks right up my alley.

I can recommend the original MSX-2 Metal Gear from 1987.

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Quoting: randylEmbracer is freaking huge. I've been wondering how they've flown under the radar so well. Maybe it's because of their name change and how little known "Embracer" is. Embracer is the rebranded parent company of THQ Nordic and was also previously named THQ Nordic AB which owned THQ Nordic GmbH. They rebranded to Embracer in 2019.

Some of the subsidiaries Embracer owns and several are massive parent companies in their own right: Amplifier Games, Asmodee, Coffee Stain Holdings, Dark Horse Media, Embracer Freemode, Gearbox Entertainment, Plaion, Saber Interactive, and THQ Nordic. They've also merged several previous brands into their fold or into their subsidiary's holdings group.

Thanks for pointing out!
They also got Koch Media and Deep Silver, both well known at least in German speaking countries.

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Quoting: crseEmbracer Group is truly interesting. They seem to try monopolize the industry, yet their way is not the same as other big company.

They have a varied and diverse catalog of games... they even buy niche yet successful game franchise.
So far, they never put any excessive monetization towards their franchise. Things relatively keep under the vision of the game developer.

As if, they simply want to claim small creator before "swallowed by evil guys."

Of course, monopoly is bad. This is simply my impression towards their product portfolio.

Sounds good...
Too good to be true...

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Quoting: StalePopcornToo bad the countries wherein these monolithic, soulless viruses exist also dictate the minds of their respective governments—as most successful parasites do.

The countries dictate the minds of their governments?
Strangely put, but it doesn't actually sound like something bad.

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The preview image is chosen so well... :D

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Quoting: ShabbyXThis is absolutely not true. 16KB is 4 pages of memory, saving that on every .so is huge! It's not just that you have the memroy laying around, there are other costs too. There's the cost of loading the objects from disk, maintaing the struct page entries in the kernel etc.

Everything has worked fine so far even with this extra cost, so I doubt the (real world) effect is huge.

Many small changes can sum up to a huge effect, though.

Quoting: GuestWhat kind of improvement this change makes for desktop use case?

Glibc is not only targeted at desktop use case.

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Quoting: 1xokThis whole criticism from CodeWeavers developers should be taken with a pinch of salt...

... Why?

Because WINE is where their money comes from?
It's not like they're a neutral party in this question...

I see nothing wrong or biased in what they said.

We didn't say it's wrong. But they are biased. It's hard to take an absolute neutral standpoint about something that feeds your family. This doesn't automatically mean there's something wrong with what they said. Just have your salt ready.

But, as you asked:

It’s hard to blame developers for targeting Windows and relying on Wine + friends. It’s just much more stable and much less likely to break and stay broken.

I have heard it's not that easy and automatically working to run old Windows games on Windows, so I am not sure about this. I would even think that Code Weavers have to work around such changes. What I positively know (as they are mentioning changes in Linux sound interfaces) is that my Sound Blaster card stopped working on Windows with some update and continued to work on Linux.

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Quoting: 1xokThis whole criticism from CodeWeavers developers should be taken with a pinch of salt...

... Why?

Because WINE is where their money comes from?
It's not like they're a neutral party in this question...

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