Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: 14It has gotten very tiring for all the comments to be about politics here, so I'm glad to see this comment that does not make me feel defensive for the place I was born.

First of all, I think this is economics, not politics.

I agree with everything else you said, but economics is political. That's why large corporations, purely "economic" entities, spend so much money lobbying/bribing/etc politicians. Politics is about people having different interests and deciding whose interests will be served how hard--and economics is a really big factor in whose interests get served.

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Quoting: Trinexx

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: Liam DaweWhile Valve generally limit key generation, I've no doubt they would work with bigger publishers on this.

That's quite the assumption. Valve hasn't shown much of a will to bend to publishers. They've let them leave steam because the publishers didn't get what they wanted.

Back at ya, you're assuming something that neither of us actually know. I'm just coming from the side of: we know Steam keys are already a thing and have been for a long time, and it would be to Valve's benefit to do it and would take little effort from Valve.

Publishers are allowed to generate up to 5,000 keys without question, but anything beyond that has to be approved on a case-by-case by Valve. Considering the number of copies Diablo 4 moved, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Valve rejected a request for bulk keys; that's a lot of potential money from second-time buyers to give up.

I'm with Liam on this one. Sure, it gives up a bit of potential immediate revenue--but then those people are in the tent and you're going to have their ongoing stream of purchases. And Valve tends to take the longer view like that.

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You'll also come across their new and improved Ubuntu App Center, which supports both Snap and deb package formats under one roof.

Cool. Does it tell you which is which?

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumSince everything is happening within the Sandbox

All this talk of Sandboxes nigh forces me to leave this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyPHWZx_X60 [External Link]

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumWhy is the game blurred? This developer should put their hands up and admit they failed basic computer security.

You mean . . . they're running Windows?!

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This is no doubt not a good thing, but all I find myself thinking is "Good lord, we're at a point where a game not working on Linux is news!"

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Quoting: JVargasyet another C++ engine is not something interesting.

To be fair, it's not really "yet another" C++ engine. It's one of the old original C++ engines--just forked.

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Just think how different Norwegian history of that era would be if someone had shoved Quisling in jail or something before he had the chance to pull his betrayal.
(Probably rather bloodier, to be honest, but different)

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Quoting: GuestThe demo is out! It requires a computer stolen from NASA to run

Many NASA computers are potatoes, actually. At least the ones actually on spacecraft. Probably a lot of the others too . . . NASA has seen a lot of budget cuts since the glory days.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusMind you, I think this is all shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.

This.

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