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Oh I see it was a public vote, lame.

Perish the thought that anything should be decided based on what most people think.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAfter all these years I still know very little about Assassin's Creed. The impression I get, though, is that in the later games

• You don't play an assassin


• You don't have a creed

um . . .

Both Odyssey and Origins literally make me want to visit these places in real life (Greece and Egypt) though I suspect Greece still has some of the beauty left over from the game, whereas Egypt looks very different now.
But yeah, you do still play an Assassin... sort of. Because the Hashshashin, from which the word Assassin comes from did not exist until the late 11th century.

So if you really had been called an assassin, it would have been historically inaccurate.

Isn't there one where you're a viking or a pirate or something? Just because a character kills people, that doesn't make them an assassin.

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Radio General is 80% off.

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After all these years I still know very little about Assassin's Creed. The impression I get, though, is that in the later games

• You don't play an assassin


• You don't have a creed

um . . .

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI've been playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey lately. Unfortunately on my desktop (running an nvidia 3080 RTX) it does not perform well enough under Linux, and the frame rate keeps dipping. Under Windows 10 it ran flawlessly, with HDR and all on (granted I had to turn off my 2nd and 3rd monitor to get HDR to work, and maybe that'd also help the framerate in Linux).

That being said, for some dumb reason, Ubisoft Connect times out after I've played it so long and just logs me out (even after telling it again and again to keep me logged in.) so if I want cloud sync to work, I have to re-login with all my credentials and 2fa after I play it for sessions longer than whatever that time out is... Then I upgraded to Windows 11. Now it keeps me logged into Ubisoft Connect, but the game locks up when I try to quit it. I can't win...

On the flip side of this, Odyssey works quite well on the Steam Deck. Granted it's not trying to push 3840x1200 like it is on my desktop.

See, the problem with dual booting like that is that both platforms sense you're a filthy traitor. If you don't take that into account you won't be sacrificing nearly enough chickens to keep them appeased.

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So, like, one question in my mind . . . is Nintendo making this stuff available in any other way? Can you buy the games from Nintendo? I'm thinking probably not.

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Quoting: BotonoskiI wonder if the Deck will influence companies to put their games on Steam that they would've otherwise kept exclusive on some other store. The Deck appeal to PC gamers and console users alike, and the more console oriented users aren't going to go through the headaches of setting up other store fronts to function on their Deck, their just going to stick with what's on Steam.

Potentially, although I would have thought it would take a while more of brisk sales before that starts being very much of a thing.

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Where it says "More than 50 new combos" at first I thought it said "combs", and I was thinking, is there some kind of weird character in the game that collects combs, like they're the Imelda Marcos of combs or something?

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Quoting: GuestYes I read what you wrote. But you miss out on some important points - if 2% of potential buyers end up not buying the game, they could just as easily have been from windows "sticking up to their ethics" or some shit. Devs have no way of knowing if its from windows or linux.

Um, but this isn't about Windows or Linux in the first place? The person you originally responded to did not seem to be boycotting EA because they did anything bad to Linux in particular. Rather, it was about their "ethics or some shit", so it would be just fine if EA got exactly that message, from a mix of Windows and Linux potential buyers not buying.
So OK, I guess you read what I wrote, just didn't read what led you to your initial objection in the first place.

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Quoting: TermyThe only way to get rid of such bullshit is to vote with your wallet. So boycotting EA is the only right thing to do ^^

lol i can't believe people actually think this to this day. voting with your wallet does nothing - its just a less than a drop in the ocean for them, they won't notice and they won't care.

And yet, boycotts sometimes work. Admittedly, usually when they're well organized and relate to a major, clear-cut issue of current relevance.

But computer games are a good place for relatively low-level, disorganized boycotts to make some difference. There isn't really a need for any particular company's games (contrast with, say, MS Office). You can never play all the computer games out there. So skipping ones put out by companies whose policies annoy you either ethically or in terms of stuff they do that messes with the user experience is essentially cost free for the consumer, who has plenty of other games to buy. Arguably even less than zero cost, because the benefit of (smugness/feeling good about yourself) is probably greater than the near-zero cost of playing different games instead.

But it's not cost free for the corporation. If 2% of potential buyers refrain from buying because of a corporation's practices, that's a loss the size of, say, the Linux platform . . . which seems to be not big enough for an AAA company to actually target, but quite big enough for an AAA company to make the smaller effort of tweaking for Proton or Steam Deck compatibility, so enough to be worth a small behaviour modification. If a corp is scuzzy enough to lose 5% of sales to its reputation, that starts being a significant crimp in profitability.

As with any form of protest/boycott it needs quite a great deal of organization. Unless a concerted effort is organized and occurs, a consumer not buying something for "ethical reasons" won't have any impact on the bottom line of the organization particularly if its not organized in any meaningful way. Indeed, with computer games, unless it is something egregious most people will continue buying EA games even if they are linux gamers in one form or another. In addition, EA is too large that most linux gamers will end up acquiring an EA game. In short, "voting with your wallet" is stupid and doesn't work and just sounds ridiculous when said.

So . . . did you in fact read what I wrote?

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