Quoting: emphyBack on topic: I see on their github that they are also working on arm builds. That would be a raspberrypi port?

Or macOS silicon?

Quoting: Liam DaweUpdated with statement from Epic.

So basically... abandonware of sorts?

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This is weird... wouldn't it just be simple to still offer the game in stores (GOG seems like a perfect choice) and/or make it Freeware?

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Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: _wojtekI wonder... couldn't Valve just collect the stats without the "survey prompt" to get saner results?

No, because of regulations. You can't just collect a bunch of info about a user's machine and send it over without consent. The survey is not just about knowing which OS people game on. The survey is targetted at game developers, and devs want to know more than just what OS the user is running; they need to know OS, CPU, GPU, RAM, VRAM, controller, keyboard, language, screen size, resolution, aspect ratio, etc.

Erm... could you cite exact regulation that forbids that?

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: _wojtekI wonder... couldn't Valve just collect the stats without the "survey prompt" to get saner results?

They're collecting information about their users and publishing it for any third party that wants to use it for any reason. Whether or not permission is strictly legally required for that, it's better to err on the side of getting the permission than not.

They likely also have very detailed moment-to-moment internal data about exactly who's using their network & services, but they aren't sharing that.

And this contradicts what @sarmad said. So if it's regulation they couldn't/shouldn't collect any data (GDPR and whatnot). If they do collect it then they could share statistics...

IMHO GDPR would not apply in this instance as those are not PII. What's more, anonymized stats wouldn't violate that either.

There could also be, quite popular, toggle "allow telemetry" and they could share data in the form: "those are the (detailed) stats from the people with enabled telemetry and this population is x percent of the thotal user base"

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to be honest after getting SteamDeck I completely lost interest in geforce now... had founders plan and decided to stop paying for it after about a year of not using it...

The biggest issue was that the experience wasn't all that streamlined in the end, there was a waiting to prepare environment and whatnot...

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I wonder... couldn't Valve just collect the stats without the "survey prompt" to get saner results?

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Looks awesome and I do like sensible port layout (hdmi and usb/power on the back!)

Maxed config is 2249€! MBP M3 with 1/3rd of the memory is 1k € more…

Would love to see it with 16" display

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Quoting: QYMEAnother "he said/she said" situation, with nobody showing any proof of anything.

This! Looks like "cancelling"…

Quoting: Liam DaweI was shown some links, but chose not to include them from the Decky team, because it's mostly random Reddit comments that we don't get the full context on (as other stuff seems to have happened in Discords and such), and some seem to have been taken the wrong way. It's just messy, so leaving it with the main statements provided.

Would be nice to see those and the Decky team showing it with a statement: "look, he said that and that and this crosses the line of approved code-of-conduct". Honestly, nowadays people are beyond touchy on any issue and quite often exaggerate...

Besides, have they informed him that the behaviour was incorrect and he should "tune it down" or just did the typical witchhunt?

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An this, ladies and gentleman, is why I don't support Nintendo in any form, especially financially...

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Quoting: chrI think suggestions that include non-automated work (a paid human doing something) are nearly always a no-go for a company if they understand economics. There can be edge cases where it provides great value to customers or customers specifically pay for that extra process. But otherwise - yeah, they would more than hesitate when such a suggestion comes up.

Yeah, that's true... Though maybe relying on government ID (but those hardly provide "family ties" info :( )

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Quoting: neolith

Quoting: mZSq7Fq3qsI miss the times when allmost all games had their own dedicaded servers available and you could just host your own server.

Good god, yes! I am SO annoyed by the fact that community maintained servers are going the way of the dodo... :angry:

Isn't this because of the publishers/developers wanting to keep tight grip on the game? And everything having to be connected and "massive"? Quite often local clan would be more than enough to have fun...

Which reminds me - if anyone still hasn't signed up for https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ [External Link] / https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home [External Link] -- now's the time! :)

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