Quoting: ElectricPrismI wonder how effective a reverse PR campaign would be.

Could the gaming community crowd fund a NYT Square billboard, or hold signs to create a awareness Nintendo is engaged in lawfare against their fans + The Tech Sector.

I think that drawing BIG attention to what Nintendo has done here would work against their interests and show them to be the crybully that they have become.

We need to make it not worth it for Nintendo to continue their hostile anti-consumer behaviors.

And we need them to know not to mess with the hornets nest.

Frankly, I don't think there's much that could be done to stop this sort of behavior, particularly because I think (without any particular legal knowledge) they're within their rights to do this. Yuzu devs were caught admitting that they knew that people were using pirate game dumps and system files with their software to emulate (and pirate) games, and they were making money in the process via Patreon.

Don't get me wrong, trying to take down AM2R, Gary Bowser essentially being made an indentured servant for the rest of his life, etc. etc. etc. is ridiculous, but you'd need a lot of money and a crack team of lawyers to take on Nintendo. I have my doubts a 10 second ad in between Crypto and AI shilling in Times Square is gonna do much, nor will protests. :\

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: GuestPink slips being delivered like hot pancakes, meanwhile prices keep rising and rising, something doesn't add up 🤔🤔
I mean, if they are selling less, maybe they could try lowering prices.

Games actually got (relatively) cheaper compared with what they used to cost 20 years ago, while the costs for making them have exploded over the same period. The problem is more the opposite of what you suggested - it's rock hard to deliver the quality people want for the price they're willing to pay.

This, though it's probably also worth noting that executives and board members who have what could be considered largely outsized salaries in comparison to the amount of work they actually do, and have a less than open mind to the suggestion of taking a pay cut instead of costing large swaths of others their entire livelihood would go a long way to make things easier, especially during the current global economic situation.

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While I can absolutely see the Hollow Knight influences (Queens Garden, Forgotten Crossroads, perhaps a bit of Royal Waterways/City of Tears?) in a few of the screenshots, the game overall seems to have it's own (in my opinion) very pretty looking art style.

Honestly feel like folks wouldn't have been as bothered about this, perhaps not even have noticed the announcement at all, had Palworld not suddenly hit such a wildly critical mass. So long as it isn't ripping assets straight out of Hollow Knight, I see no issue.

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It's extremely funny to me that they let this guy do this interview while they prepare to shut down the servers for The Crew in about 3 months and change. Also funny how they're putting out a new subscription for "Ubisoft+ Classics", and naming Rainbow Six: Siege (2015) and Far Cry 6 (2021) as the headliners. I think they have a different definition of what constitutes a "classic" than most.

Ultimately though, they interviewed the "Director of Subscriptions", so it's to be expected that he'd preach about how his job is totally worthwhile. I do appreciate the flattery of not forcing folks to subscribe if they don't want, but that should be the standard, not something that they should expect to be praised for.

As for not owning the games I buy on Steam, like you said, it's not a subscription service, and a lot of the games on there are DRM free. I also just don't have the storage space to house upwards of 1,000 games, and many of those don't even have physical releases. It's all about benefits and drawbacks, and Valve has done well in walking the line between both, at least for me.

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Bold move to say the quiet part loudly. Stupid move too, but then again when has that ever stopped this particular brand of pond scum.

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I mean, I have more faith in this than I ever did in The Day Before. I won't be preordering it or anything (I've been playing more than enough Pokemon as it is of late), but I'm excited to see this take on the monster collecting genre.

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Quoting: jordicomaGood, but I don't understand why this box lavel "caution" rotates only changing this.
This changes should have been made by konami in first place.

I'm not sure I follow what you're saying here. If you're talking about the box in the bottom right corner of the example in the article, it doesn't say "Caution", it says "Ration", one of the game's consumable healing items. From what I recall, in the original release, they float in the air and spin, do they not do that by default in the Master Collection release?

Unrelated, but I'm curious as to why this mod doesn't touch MGS1. Couldn't find anything on the Github specifying why it wasn't touched up.

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Timespinner was a pretty fantastic game, though there were a few spots that felt as though content was cut, which was a shame. I've been getting notifications about the dev streaming his work on the sequel on Twitch on my phone for years now, so it's awesome to see it finally get announced officially! Interesting that we're playing a different character this time.

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Still no news of a fix or update to how the system handles notifications for friends coming online or starting games? I've had to stay signed out of Steam chat since late June, early July just so the bell notification doesn't keep showing up every minute or two. You've got settings for this sort of thing, the bell just doesn't respect it for some reason.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: JustinWoodI don't get why folks are so opposed to this.

When your main objective is to break a monopoly, any move by the maintainers of that monopoly to block challenges is bad news. For quite a few of us, that's our main, or at least a major, objective. Or contrariwise, our objective is the rise of (desktop/ish) Linux, which cannot happen without the monopoly being broken.

Fair enough. I don't necessarily see this as "blocking" challenges, but I suppose that's looking at it from a more literal point of view.

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