You can always torrent the game you once bought or if there is a title you WOULD buy, but it's not "legally" available.

I would like to specifically clarify what kind of games the petition is responsing to since it is genuinely complicated. These games are ones where you can no longer play the game at all due to a crucial server connection being permanently severed without any way to use it ever again. Removing the game from your library is just insult to injury. Few may have server emulators but generally speaking once these games shut down they are unplayable forever.

Torrents/piracy do not work on these games. For example if half-life 2 required a connection to a server in order to play it and then the server went down permanently and there is no way to crack the game without running that server (or relying on someone else to run that server in the case of some revival efforts) and it is now gone, you can torrent the files but you can't play the game even if say drm like denuvo is removed. Even a backup will not work because of its reliance on that server which is now gone. This is how the crew works, there is a fan effort to make a server emulator, but at this moment even if you pirate the game files you cannot play the game.

One last thing to note is that ubisoft itself said that it would patch other entries in the crew series when the server eventually shuts down so that they can be played offline ie the exact opposite of what they're doing with the crew 1. That just shows this server requirement is not needed at all and only adds more work for them later when they have to later patch the game to remove its reliance on that server.

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I'll eat my current Steam Deck if Valve went with Intel or NVIDIA. Don't hold me to that.

We're going to get the linux version of Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe if this happens

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Improved support for the Anbernic RG28XX handheld (H700 ARM Cortex-A53).

thats pretty neat, I wonder what that does in terms of performance for it and if other devices like the dozen of 35xx devices will get any kernel improvements

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welcome back guitar hero ds controller

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I think it would be pretty safe to say the majority of cheating players are on windows so lets just bar all windows users from playing it :DDDDD

This is just an admission that they know the anti-cheat they currently have is clearly not good enough, instead of going to a doctor they would rather put a small paw patrol bandaid on a gunshot wound to their foot. Instead of cutting off part of your audience you could invest more into the anti-cheat that you have especially since you could try to roll it out to your games.

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We are departing from the traditional Season Pass model. All players will be able to
enjoy the game at the same time on February 14 and those who preorder the game
will be granted the first expansion for free.

Season passes aren't traditional, they started a bit more than a decade ago and popularized themselves about a decade ago. It really isn't traditional when compared to the still ongoing practice of releasing a game and that's it, some updates to fix bugs and performance problems but that's about it. So still probably doing a season pass but not having preorders for it or maybe announcing it until 2-4 months after the initial game release.

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Something I don't get is the need for a 1080p display. I get making it still run games well when docked with a 1080p external display, but on the device itself I don't understand. Undocked is when you want more battery life not maximum performance unless I really need that to run that specific game but then you can play it for 40 minutes.
Obligatory comment about win11 on a handheld. One thing the anbernic devices get is that the ui on the non-android ones isn't total garbage and fan efforts also understand that. MuOS on the anbernic 35xx devices is super simple, super plain and easy to navigate with a dpad and face buttons.
A full os isn't, which is why touchpads are a great addition. Win11 and no touchpads is a double whammy. Every time I see a device with a full desktop interface and no touchpads I know they don't care about the user experience.

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Steam OS:
Compatible with Steam only
Locked to the Valveverse
What the hell is the valveverse? Uhhh it can run more than just valve games? What on earth is this even supposed to mean other than having two contrived points

Quoting: tpauOther stores require decky loader to do it and still aren't as well integrated into the GUI as steam is.

This does make some sense for the first bullet point but like I mean if I bought say an EA device and they let me install other launchers I would assume I may need to read a guide to get it working. Like I guess thats a bonus that this integrates them better but its also at the cost of functionality with losing native linux games.

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Are you telling me an ascii anime girl butt or breasts gets old really fast? Don't worry, I have an ascii penis, that won't get old right? I'm sure the people with adult content disabled like ascii genitals being displayed on basically every game.
Genuinely shocked they didn't do this much sooner since this isn't new at all. This doesn't need to be like nintendo's miivese but like some moderation more than what we have now which feels like zero is an improvement.

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Quoting: legluondunetNintendo is an innovative company and produces user-friendly games, switch emulators must be costing them a lot of money.

I'm mostly curious as to how nintendo has innovated in the past decade and even since the release of the switch. Also yes bleem was definitely a thing and its legal precedent is still massively important.

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