Even if they announce 120% revenue sharing for devs, games still cost same for end user/paying customer, excluding freebies. Those won't last much longer, IMHO. What else they have as store...?

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Quoting: dwmI think the CEO has to be fired.

CEOs will be kicked one day and be provided a golden parachute or two to soften the blow...

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Nice move, sadly majority will gravitate to some other proprietary stuff and will be f*** down the line. More interesting how big player and platform holders silent on the mater, only indie and relatively small studios chimed in.

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When most AI Art neither AI, nor Art... Algorithmic collages using (2D/3D) image manipulation enabled by powerful GPUs. So much of "AI Art" just updated or blatant copies of some old CGI/3D models/scenes with different backgrounds, textures, lighting, props, camera angles, filters etc. Decade(s) old 3D (re-)construction from 2D and some manipulation in 3D/CGI software became AI Art... nothing lost for now.

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TDP, clock speeds, total cache or L3 cache? Rebranded 7#00U? No much info but at first glance look like 6800U (8/16 Zen 3+, 12 RDNA2) and 6600U (less Graphics compute units 6 RDNA2 vs 4 RDNA3) with upgraded architectures. In few weeks or so speculation/guesswork will end...

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Quoting: pmatulkaSorry for off-topic but I am puzzled why Valve named next CS game Counter-Strike 2.
There was: Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike Source, Counter-Strike Condition Zero, Counter-Strike GO and next will be Counter-Strike 2. How? Is Valve really don't like number 3 so much?

Nah, they do not dislike #3. They just had... CS 1.6... CS:GO basically 1.9 series... and now finally turn for CS2. Can't go to third without second. HL3 (and other) must be first.

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Anti-cheat middle-crap-ware do not work similar to anti-piracy measures. Only hurts honest and paying customers. Plenty online, multiplayer, live services game came out with client side "cheating" and "hacking" - editing config, .ini or some other random files. Companies and studios should start creating proper online multiplayer games from start and/or hire dev who knows how to deal or mitigate cheating. Not to mention other issues caused by intrusive middleware: crashes, stability, performance, random kick/bans.

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Quoting: LeopardI think answer to that is easy: You can just tell them " you have a drifting problem" while you actually don't have ( btw " you " here is an example, anyone can do it ) such problem, get the parts, sell them somewhere or just stock them in case if they go drifty.

As a verification process for such thing would be messy - user has a problem but wants to do repairing themselves, should we send the parts now? - i totally understand that approach. Like you can't get a camera module from Samsung, Sony, Apple etc with saying " i have warranty, give me part, i will change it" .

well, there will always bee black sheep. The question is how much you trust the customer (and of course how expensive the parts are). For example Fractal recently just sent me a replacement fan after i asked if it is a known issue with a possible workaround that a fan started ticking sometimes, despite my case being out of warranty for a year already.
Additionally, shipping, diagnosing and repairing isn't free, so if the money saved on that outweighs the money lost on dicks abusing the system, it even makes sense from a pure economy-standpoint.

So while your point is perfectly valid, it is not set in stone that sending in the whole unit to be repaired by the RMA team is the only viable course of action.

You comparing PC case fan replacement with modular pcb replacement in small and cramped device. Those fans (likely) are cheep than any one ribbon cable, connector or switch/stick. Who and how many times someone FOBAR'ed case by replacing fan in past few decades and how many broke something extra on steam deck past 6 mouths? Steam Deck not designed for casual or bit more advance servicing. Self-tapping screw, glue-in batter, replacements of internal storage few mills bigger f-up things. Telling a lot IMHO, give it who knows better or will give new replacement, no questions asked, if THEY screw something up.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP(including a common database of known offenders)

This never gone wrong, specially in (semi-)automated system. It will be abused to hilarious levels.

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So VRChat Inc. buyout incoming by Meta or something else or it become, little by little, Epic Online Services/Epic Game Store (kinda) exclusive.
Account/credential stealing, client crashing server and clients, malicious scripts/mods... what's going with net code/online part of this VR app?

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