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Quoting: LupertEverett

2: In-game purchases yadda yadda

"Hey Sony, so I have this DLC for a game I bought from GOG, can I play this on PlayStation?", said nobody ever.

True - it is also not even remotely the point made in the lawsuit.
But tearing that strawman down sure must've felt great.

Quoting: LupertEverett

3: Commissions commissions

The fee, that is... 30%...

You know... the same amount Sony and Apple also gets, yet somehow it is only Steam who is constantly put on target for it.

Lol, lmao even.

Hmmm....
You mean only Steam as in:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/legal-claim-filed-against-sony-over-30-store-cut [External Link] (Sony)
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1751446916 [External Link] (also Sony, but other country)
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1023834758/apple-app-store-epic-games-fortnite-verdict [External Link]
I'm quite certain there were more, but I can't be bothered to do more digging.

What was that common sense rule again, about not talking about a topic you know nothing about?
I can't quite remember.
Oh, well.

But I guess it is really surprising that we hear more about Valve on this Linux-focused website.

What I am saying is that it is pretty much the rule instead of the exception *everywhere*.

Hell, Steam is actually an exception here because they do nothing of the sort when it comes to in-game purchases.

Like, you can just go and buy Factorio: Space Age from the dev's own page and download it and play it on your Steam copy of Factorio. Right now. Without giving Valve any cut whatsoever.

Therefore it is entirely an "issue" on the developer-side and it is not Valve's fault if the devs/publishers don't do jack shit about implementing such a feature.

Lastly thanks for the links about cases, I honestly had no idea about them. Still once again, the 30% cut is a rule rather than the exception and I am personally fine with it if they are going to be used to improve the Linux ecosystem. Not to mention that having much reduced cuts usually doesn't result in prices being less in the stores that practice such a thing so (there is so far one exception I know of, a game called Heard of The Story, which also goes against the first argument in the case that is Valve forcing their prices on others so... lol), this argument of theirs is also doubly pointless.

Now go, scram. I am done talking to you.

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I wonder how many times these same arguments have been made at this point.

Someone needs to tell them what the definition of insanity is.

1: Steam "price parity clause"

This is only for Steam keys that are sold OUTSIDE Steam.

2: In-game purchases yadda yadda

"Hey Sony, so I have this DLC for a game I bought from GOG, can I play this on PlayStation?", said nobody ever.

3: Commissions commissions

The fee, that is... 30%...

You know... the same amount Sony and Apple also gets, yet somehow it is only Steam who is constantly put on target for it.

Lol, lmao even.

Just like someone else said above, I wouldn't be surprised if Epic was behind this, as the speaking points are more or less the same as what Timboi keeps saying.

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Wonder how they'll handle cd keys, because afaik it is needed to play online.

Other than that detail, this is amazing news!

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>Ubisoft account

How to kill excitement 101.

Funnier still is that they also disabled the multiplayer components.

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What happens if after the release, WB/Atari prohibits Nightdive from patching this *again* and turns these held-out improvements as Blood: Freshest Supply 5 years later?

Buying this would set a bad precedent imo, no matter if this new one is built on the actual source code or not.

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I hope that the controller issue fix extends to keyboards too. It is so damn annoying having Hornet being stuck running in one direction, or not moving at all when I told her to.

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As far as I know the main issue isn't that we can't reclock the GPU (I some where heard that either the 9xx or the 10xx series can be reclocked) but that we can't change the voltage which makes the reclocking meaningless.

IIRC, the problem was controlling the fan itself. If it can be controlled separately, like in a laptop or something, it could work.
I roughly remember a Nouveau dev running Hollow Knight smoothly on one of these "non-reclockable" GPUs that way.

The overall idea is the same though. Nouveau devs cannot control the parts they need to control to run these cards faster.

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Sadly, these are the cards that are still restricted to slowest clock speeds. Unless Nvidia releases a PMU firmware for em, nothing will improve when it comes to using these cards with Nouveau/NVK.

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TIL: Gliding on an animal as a mechanic is patented by Nintendo.

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Since they have changed their FAQ, let us not forget them going Ooblets on us during the exclusivity period:

But I want to play it on my heavy computer that's strapped to my face and sprays pixels into my eyeballs.

Don't see your favorite platform listed? Don't worry. Throw your other platforms in the trash, and get it from one of the above!

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