Wow I need that

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I remember glibc breaking Enemy Territory Quake Wars back in the day, that took me hours to troubleshoot but I still had problems with missing letters and that kind of things. Nowadays we can consider ourselves lucky to have Proton.

I was so angered when John Carmack said Wine was the future of Linux as a gaming platform, but he was so damn right...

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"Look, we got rid of cheaters!"
"Well done! But hey, where are all the players?"
"Oh, those are gone, too..."

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Indeed, I was waiting for AMD to reveal a bit more about RDNA4, and more particularly its power consumption since Nvidia's seems to be skyrocketing with their next gen.

Now is a good time to strike and with sensible pricing and good power efficiency, they could reproduce what happened on the CPU market 8 years ago...

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: MalLet's hope they do it right this time. It won't (and can't) be worse than EGS that is for sure.

Microsoft "Hold my beer"

Unfortunately and as painful as it is for me to write those words, Blizzard didn't need Microsoft to start waning into the sad nonesense it is known for today.

After all, it's been a decade since the Diablo 3 launch debacle, and 3 years since the harassment lawsuits.

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Quoting: chrAnd deep down I believe that consensual titillation breeds nonconsensual titillation (also known as harassment) 😢.

While I get your point as far as video gaming is concerned, I think this statement is a bit far fetched...

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Quoting: ToddLIt wouldn't be a surprise if this gets released at full price since the game isn't a year old yet. Also, it wouldn't be a surprise if there are bugs in the initial release like any other game nowadays.

Agreed, hence why I put it that way: I'm sure I'll buy it but I don't really know when :tongue:

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I'm pretty excited about this game releasing on PC, and I'll be buying it for sure. However, I don't know if I'm willing to go full price yet... If the port is solid, why not

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Quoting: Talon1024

Quoting: PyrateAnd just a couple days ago I was praising this collection as a great way for a company to provide ROMs for retro titles.

No kidding. And just as I got the retro gaming and emulation bug, too! I had also been planning to save up this month, but so much for that!

I really hate when video game companies do these sorts of things!

What a sad day for video game preservation... :sad:

Well at least SEGA isn't adopting the same stance as Nintendo and has always been supportive of both emulation and ROM hacking communities.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI honestly feel like a lot of this debate is moot, because there are always less than legitimate ways to reacquire any games you may have lost access to.

Which brings up an interesting legal and moral question: If I have paid for a license to download, install, and play a game on my computer, then does it really matter where I download it from?

In France there's a right for a private copy, which means if you paid for a copy of software that you can't find or isn't in working condition, you have the right to use whichever duplicate you want of said software. That includes your use case.

That said, PC software isn't the same as console software: PC games become more difficult to run on modern hardware, and for some of them, impossible to run at all.
On the other hand, console physical copies do run indefinitely but their prices have just been skyrocketing, and the hardware will inevitably die one day.

Something that's not been talked about yet, is that when buying on Steam you support development of compatibility tools that may allow users to run titles they paid for in the future. Game licensing costs may be lost over time, but open source development that happens in the mean time thanks to Valve isn't going away.

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