Anyone who complaining about 30% or something similar go work at retail or even bigger stinker - hospitality. As someone pointed out - show or prove that service on same level as Steam can operate properly, well below 30%.
... or everyone, just lets go back to 70's-90's and everything will be solved. Printing office and box taking nice cut... not to mention other physical parts, whole distribution and retail. Everyone will be happy, it's just 70%-90% cut or something.

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Quoting: ShadowXeldronhad been estimated in 8 or 9 months of work.

Quite common to hear same or similar lines, decade after decade, specially from corporate/proprietary software side... and some hobbyist programmer do same or better in weekend, while playing quake, scratching backside or something...
Gaming side full of that too... modders fixing crap, adding stuff without having access to source code, documentation, etc., in hours, after yet another buggy and broken releases/patch.

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Quoting: XpanderPersonally i don't care if its done in a way it doesn't annoy me.

Never seen this or similar line before...

One thing using tools (terrain, robot-voice generator and/or similar) with proper attributions, but whole "AI" with totally legit "training" and many other s**t surrounding it.

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Quoting: Doktor-Mandrake

Quoting: Mountain ManWhy do they bother when they know Nintendo is going to shut them down? 🙄

Not happened to a single decomp so far

Banjo Kazooie should come at some point hopefully since that's 100% decompiled now

Not sure why you disapprove so much over such old games being ported to pc lol

It's not that I disapprove. Rather, we know for a fact that Nintendo will slap this project with a "cease and desist", so those hobbyists are just wasting their time.

Years, decades later, because hobbyists today "wasting" time, people sailing high seas or random ex employee took something home, will be only preserved, archived, existing copies, samples of tech.
Indeed, waste of their time...

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Quoting: redneckdrowI just got to thinking: am I the only one who thinks that this doesn't improve the preservation problem? :huh:

I see as ports to current/modern systems. "Preservation" use for PR to sell copies. ROM dumps, ISO cloning or what id Software (and very few others) done with source code and proper archiving, public availability - what's preservation.

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Quoting: PyreticThey're only switching to UE5 now, just so that they can stay ahead on engine updates and stability.

Switching to point release messing thing up, not to mention major jumps. IMHO, switched to UE5, because everyone on internet can't shut f-up about it. Should gone with UE4, it is more stable and better performer, just look how over the place UE5 games are, especially if lost setup lottery or hardware dated a bit.
Because how long development take, switching tech around not good too. One of many reason why so called AAA release are so borked and in development hells.

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Quoting: missingnoForget about power, I just want a Steam Deck Pocket. One that fits in my pocket.

So... need line of "VALVE" chips. 3 ofc.
1st: Sub 10W, 1-5W or something for SteamPalm/Pocket/Pouch.
2nd: Chip for SteamDeck 2, generation leap? from barely 30fps to solid 60fps same game same power consumption.
3rd: 60-180W for SteamConsole or for those who constantly droning about 144Hz and 4K, SD-PPS (Portable Power Station edition aka always in the wall socket).

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualSome patents The Pokemon Company owns: https://patents.justia.com/assignee/the-pokemon-company [External Link]

BS filed 2019-2023 and granted 2023-2024... Yep, those NEVER existed and are totally new innovations, nothing like this ever have been done, nothing in those decades, a half century of games and virtual worlds...
Sadly... will be plenty of fan(atic)s and general corporate backside lickers defending it.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism- Multiplayer

Live and kicking... everything must be/have multiplayer... First, properly finish main/single-player game, than can shoehorn other stuff (multiplayer, co-op, platforming, survival, battle royale, skins, NFT, etc), preferably, without messing-up latter.
Plenty examples of "extra features" adding addition figures to production cost not to sales number.

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Quoting: elmapulcoming from the company who made the steam controller and put macros for specials in fighting games as an built-in advertised feature...

And what's wrong with it? Not all game are competitive multiplayer. Not all have perfectly functional dexterous hand.

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