IMO the trends are showing that competitive shooters is a bubble. Not only are many of them struggling to get the sales they want lately, but given what's going on with Arc Raiders it's clear there's a narrative shift (and consequently why so many games "journalists" are talking negatively about it).

I'm not saying competitive/online shooters will go away, but that the level of competition, and the amount of it, people want isn't actually what everyone thinks. A lot of this is being driven by streaming; whether that be fortnite (which in it's own regard will sustain itself), DayZ, rust, or Tarkov, so much of this is propelled by streamers.
Ironically I think the streaming world also is causing a drive for cheats/hacks, since there's a large enough percentage of each game's community that play that game for 8+ hours a day which forces you to be way better in order to just have fun at the end of a long day at work.

Couple all that with the move to external cheating solutions and Kernel A/C is going to collapse sooner or later.

Time will tell, and Arc Raiders will be one of the best indicators on where things will be going, but I can't imagine that invasive A/C actually has a future.

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This comment section is hilarious. Anyone acting like this move is what seals the deal for them for buying games from this company...
Really? THIS is the final straw? As if EA wasn't already one of the worst companies? As if it wasn't already endlessly apparent that they're greedy af and don't give a rat's bottom about any of their customers or employees?

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Quoting: tuubiI simply have a hard time trusting a phone any better than I trust the browser on my Linux desktop.

Given how things have gone (with both google and apple) I have a hard time trusting a company who takes OSS and then layers closed sourced software on top of it with my mobile phone. I also don't use web browsers with closed sourced software in the mix for the same reason.

I've looked into sailfishos several times, and while it looks promising in many ways, I just am done with buying into software/services from companies that promote their product as open source when in reality most (if not all) of their own actual code is closed source. Not only do they become harder to trust, but their work really SHOULD be given back to the OSS community to help further linux mobile software development given how much they themselves rely on OSS.

When they're ready to go open source then I'll consider buying their product(s)

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI will say this:

The antitrust lawsuits against Apple and Google can only help in limiting the duopoly on mobile and making the experience better for both Android and iOS users. Especially iOS users.

Agreed here. Apple and Google are both pretty horrible on all the things they do to control their respective platform/monopoly.
The duopoly is clearly secured when you try to find any sort of alternative; linux on mobile (outside of android) is basically a joke at best at this point, and realistically the best de-googled option of android is grapheneos which is only developed for google's devices.
And android is the "open" platform of the two.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI legit think that there are entities that are just mad that Valve is not a public traded company and can't be easily corrupted or remotely influenced/controlled.

We learned this week from Sweet Baby Inc being kicked off Steam for extortion and subsequent GlowFeds going after Valve for it that there are powers who are angry and want to dictate what games you get to play. I wouldn't mid a article or two sourcing these events in a factual fashion.

Absolutely agree with this. IMO the single biggest issue with the "AAA" gaming industry is that they are all publicly traded companies which has drastically shifted everything about the companies. From getting too involved in playing politics to the way they do business and how they treat their employees, these old giants of the gaming industry are nothing like the companies they used to be. May they all die a deserved death.

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I'm not going to sit here and say I full heartedly support valve, since steam is DRM after all and quite frankly the client has been pretty crap on linux the past year or so, but if Sweeny thinks he's got the support of gamers or indie-devs he's pretty delusional.

He can complain about the 30% cut all he wants, but despite all his efforts the epic game store has been a flop and a half. Maybe if he wasn't a prick and didn't have the horrible hot-take stances he tends to and didn't make idiotic decisions like pulling their own (older) games off their own store then people would like him more. At the end of the day people are willing to put up with the drm of steam because of all the features and services valve offers in return, and on the dev side people are willing to put up with the 30% cut because of the large customer base valve offers in return; EGS doesn't offer enough value to make spending money on it worthwhile.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI asked in the Discord channels directly what "Tropic Haze LLC" was. The response I received was, "It's not anything suspicious, but I'm not going to comment about it right now." Now I'm thinking it was setup purely to take the fall for when Nintendo sued them. And I'm still curious...

I'm surprised Nintendo was pursuing a settlement at all. I thought they would have wanted this to go to trial.

This is the best outcome re: legality of emulation. No court judgments were made.

That's more or less the idea of an LLC; the laws around LLC's work in a way where (generally speaking) if something happens to the company none of the employees (regardless or their position) are legally responsible (unless it's a case of what a specific person has done and they are specifically called out in the suite).

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Without going into too many details my main suspicion here is that Nintendo obtained logs from discord that exposed the development team of some illegal activities -there's been some leaks of such if you know the right corners to find them, I will reiterate that these are merely leaks and therefore speculation not evidence- and used them to strong arm them into this settlement. This to me makes even more sense with consideration that the original lawsuit filing was very vague about any specific person(s) involved only really naming the parent company and the online handle of one member of their team.

Again this is all speculation, but if true it should be a warning to everyone to just not even entertain the idea of piracy. Companies can and will find out and they will prosecute and (especially in the recent cases with Nintendo) the final judgement will be a strong one.

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Quoting: poiuzThey use less checks in the Wine version. This is what I'd call different anti-cheat. Just because it's the same software doesn't mean it's the same code running. Especially in the context of its domain (preventing cheats), what's running in Wine is, according to the developers, a worse version.

It's like the Linux kernel: It's always the same software but based on the build (or in case of specialised builds even the system it is running on) it behaves differently (e.g. missing drivers). Up to the point to which the versions may be incompatible (e.g. Android vs GNU/Linux).

Well thanks for explaining that to me, but this is exactly what I was alluding to. To you the same software isn't the same software if it's been changed, but to Pengling the same software-but-changed is the same software. And frankly I'd side with Pengling because what they explained in that quote doesn't sound like some repository fork, but rather just changing flags to off (again I'm going purely off that quote, if that's not what they actually did I have no point of reference for that).

And if you have problems agreeing on that kind of term I'd warn you that you probably don't agree with others on terms such as "rude" or "exasperated". And at this point it really doesn't matter who is using the words right, you're still going to be wasting your time arguing over semantics.

And frankly if you find it more important to be precise and correct than to be polite or take the high ground and apologize (even if you don't think you did something rude) you're kinda showing yourself to be rude, and this is why people are calling you rude.

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: PenglingThey were using the same anti-cheat and allowing it through Wine before. This is mentioned in the article.

No, they were not. That's mentioned in the previous article.

We can probably say a final goodbye to Roblox on Linux with Wine soon

Additionally, we had to disable many antitamper checks to make Hyperion run on Wine.

Perhaps there's a bit of pedantry/semantics in what I'm about to say, but frankly that's the importance of it anyway.

"we had to disable many antitamper checks to make Hyperion run on wine" actually (I'll be honest that I didn't read the article nor do I care to) that sentence in and of itself does not disprove Pengling's statment about using the same anti-cheat and allowing it through wine. In fact it lines up with what he's saying.

Saying they had to disable functions to make it run on wine actually implies it's the same anticheat (again I dont know if Hyperion is the same software they were using before, just going off your specific quote), and furthermore shows they had to do things to allow it to work with wine which is further in line with what Pengling states.

Now to my point about the importance of semantics, I suspect that your definition of "same anti-cheat" is probably different than Penglings, otherwise you wouldn't have use a quote that actually supports their statement in order to counter their statement. Given how your previous discussion went, as well, I'd suggest coming to equal terms with others on what you specifically mean with each term because otherwise you end up in meaningless discussion that will come to no resolution other than frustration.

Discussion is unproductive if the people involved cannot agree on the definitions of the core terms being discussed.

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