Quoting: Guest

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.

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Cute.

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: CorbenNow we "just" need the slow transition of devs actually doing native Linux build with it

Yea, Not going to happen. We will still be reliant on Proton. The days of the big publishers doing native builds just ain't coming.

Depends how many more Steam Decks get sold.

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Quoting: GuestThe github page shows over 5k open issues. I love this engine and everything that is going on with it, but I hope at some point they really focus on polishing bugs and issues before adding more features.

I don't exactly disagree with this, but it seems odd if it's intended as a criticism of this that's happening right now. That's not the place they're in, in the software release cycle. Right now, they're building up to a shiny new major release with masses of features. Once they get 4.0 out, presumably there will be plenty of time for bugfix releases.

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I'm sure this Miles Morales is a good character and all, but for me, Spiderman is Peter Parker. I've known Peter Parker for nearly 50 years, and I just don't feel right about Spiderman being anyone else.
It's like if someone said "OK, we're doing another LoTR movie, but this time the ringbearer is going to be Merry's cousin Doderic Brandybuck. We think it's time to move on from Bagginses."

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How can turn-based combat reward quick decision-making? Is it not the nature of turn-based that you have time for your decisions?

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Quoting: Guest<anti cloud gaming blabber>

You do realize that locally installable games are here to stay regardless of the cloud gaming success?

You seem very sure. But as the great Yogi Berra said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." On top of that, the thing about cloud gaming is that it becomes far more lucrative than locally installable games if, and only if, locally installable games are pretty much not a thing. So Very Rich People have an incentive to try to make that happen.
Sure, probably they won't be able to manage it. Probably. But I don't like that kind of bet.

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Quoting: GroganSomebody should make an ice fishing game... now that would be something exciting. I always loved going ice fishing, but never caught any fish, because by the time we got the hole cut big enough to put the boat in, it was time to go home! :-)

This reminds me of a Canadian joke. So a guy decides to go ice fishing. He goes out on the ice, gets out his hatchet, starts chopping a hole in the ice. But before he's gotten very far, a voice booms out
"There's no fish down there!"
He looks around but doesn't see anyone. He shrugs, moves to another spot nearby, starts chopping. But he's barely gotten started when the voice booms out again
"There's no fish down there, either!"
He looks around wildly, can't figure what's going on. There's nobody around. So, well, he moves over again, but before he's even swung his hatchet the voice comes again
"There's no fish down there, either!"
He's getting pretty frustrated, so he yells, "Who are you?!"

Spoiler, click me

"The arena manager!"

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Quoting: GuestHow did they solve lag problems, by increasing the speed of light? It is impossible to solve latency with anything, except placing the server nearby your location.

Well, yeah. As I understand it, Google took advantage of the fact that they already have server farms near most people's location--to serve you ads, do the search and stuff.

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It's nice they optimized rats. Wouldn't want to be attacked by plague rats that were sub-optimal.

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