this is ridiculous, date aside, it seems like we are patenting ideas instead of implementations.
i mean:
one thing is: no one know how to make an machine fly, you create an method, you get compensated for it...
another thing is: we patent the act of pressing an button and something happening on screen.
the fact that the player pressed an button has no impact on the result on screen,the programmers can code the button to do anything or even use an joystick axis or mouse movment to do the same action, there is no physical correlaction between the 2 things like an "cause and effect" due to physics, its just how the programer chose to "wire" the machine.

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Quoting: tmtvlWhat is it with these weird alien distorted gamepads? My hands are mirror images of each other, why aren't these gamepads symmetric? Also: no touchpads, no Steam controller.

the goal is to make the most used buttons/stick more acessible than the others.

probably.
they assume we arent into fighting games...

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still disapointed due to the lack of trackpads, but wow, now that sounds more like an official controller

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Metaphor: ReFantazio

finally some JRPG made it to the list.

speaking of it, if the deck is selling that well on japan, shouldnt that be more common?

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if the ammount of linux players is THAT SMALL as they claim, they should have no problem refunding then for all their in game purchases right? RIGHT?

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Quoting: PyrateAs long as these devs don't post some statistics to support their "findings" I'll keep calling bullshit on this "Linux makes cheating easy".

I refuse to believe the amount of cheaters who would go out of their way and install a whole different OS just to cheat to be of any signifiacnce. Cheaters are lazy bitches, most of them would probably get filtered just by the aspect of dualbooting alone.

nope, many cheat solutions are way harder to install than an operating system.

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Quoting: WYWLooking at the Steam reviews it looks like Apex is dying. It's been getting massive negative reviews since July, 43% positive reviews in the last 30 days. And 33% positive reviews so far today since this news dropped.

Looks like they are panicking and trying to find any easy solution to their bad image, but they just created more bad press in doing so.

Lifetime ratings are now at 68% which is "mixed" and will be turning off new players looking for a new game.

maybe the reviews are negative because the game got flooded with cheaters?

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i dont care about those games (except maybe gta5) but the damage they are doing to the linux "brand" is quite bad.

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Quoting: Leahi84What I don't understand is why are these companies so hostile towards Linux? It seems completely illogical for late stage capitalist corporations to turn away potential earnings no matter how small when their investors demand endless growth.

its one of 3 things:

1)we are everything they seek to destroy, imagine if players get used to the openes of linux and start demanding more products to be that open? they wouldnt be able to milk their users for over priced skins, gambling pay to win, FOMO daily login rewards (because the games arent fun enough to make people want to play everyday without bribe), etc...

2)microsoft paid then to sabotage us, while then thenselves keep their hands clean, and above all suspicious because their own games support linux.

3)making an anti cheat solution that work in an open source operating system is really hard, even kernel level anticheats wouldnt do much since we can just customize the kernel anyway.

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It's not just them though they've pulled in Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) and Tim Sweeney (Epic Games)

those two on the same board isnt something i expected to see.

Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., Lenovo

omg, HP name is anoying to write/read in this context...
i mean it include an comma and an dot in the name...

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