Quoting: CatKillerOf course another thing that they're going to have to consider is whether they're going to have to increase the price of their SteamOS HoloIso Windows 11 device to account for the licensing fee or whether whatever deal they managed to get for folding to Microsoft pressure will let them keep the same price point.

"Worse than a Steam Deck for more money than a Steam Deck" isn't a great place to position your product.

except that it will run more games due to... windows (in theory, im not considering games that might not run because the hardware is a potato) so they still have an argument to sell their device.

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Quoting: LachuI remember, what people from Poland do with Facebook plans to implement XMPP. They hound plans and Facebook on official forums. They do not know, how world working. They claims Facebook should implement support for Gadu-Gadu, closed source competitor of Facebook/XMPP. If Gadu-Gadu agree, that would be kill for it. People does not understood Gadu-Gadu protocols are closed source (so agreement, etc. needed) and XMPP are free. It brinks me think about discussion with Windows users on forums. Mental slayers of closed source/Microsoft/etc. They known nothing about software or how world works, but they pretend to be specialist for many different kind of knowledge, like politics, IT, psychologist, economics, etc. I think, that many Windows users forces producer of this device to deliver it with Windows. Simple: by scamming.

that reminds me of a few things, discussions i had with people who couldnt understand how microsoft was locking then and that its microsoft that should implement open standards not the open source tools that should do reverse enginering to support an proprietary standard or protocol...
as well as the people who claimed that consoles (including steam machines) were just pcs with aditional restrictions put into then so the companys can make a profit by seling those features separatedly or stuff like that.
they cant understand that features have a cost to develop, the reason why n64 didnt came with an cd player was not "greeedy" from nintendo...

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that is the perfect timing for valve to introduce ad-hoc multiplayer, and if this game have a trade system...

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Quoting: ObsidianBlkYou're not wanting to buy physically is totally your choice! You do what's convenient for yourself!

its not that i dont like physical media, if they were DRM free and i could afford, i would totally buy all my games in physical, and i dont see a big difference from having physical media or an steam key in terms of DRM (aside from all the conveniences that steam offer)

i just dont like the discourse arround it, as if physical was synonymous with preservation while digital was automagically bad, gog is a good exception to this rule!

the only downsides is that they can delist, ban your account, you cant resell (but you often pay less to accommodate for that) and... in cases where they sold something they dint really had the rights to sell, they may remove it... ok its quite inconvenient when you think about those issues.
but physical is not an guarantee either, with things like games that dont have the full content (or in some cases any) in the disk, they just act as an key to download the rest of the game (or even the entire game).

every "digital" game is being distributed to an physical media, and the content of every physical media is digital anyway (aside from things like superFX chips, you cant download then nor store hardware, at best you can emulate with an powerfull enough hardware)

the fact that people have being able to dump content and break DRM does not mean they will be able to do so forever, the same can be said about hacking servers to download content (take nintendo giga leak for example and compare to an cloud exclusive game, sure in theory we can hack the server and download the game to preserve it, in pratice we have no guarantee that we will be able to do that before it got deleted, so why risk it ?)

sure i hade a lot of problems with HDD in the past, not that i use an cd as often as i use an HDD, but im pretty sure optical media is better, the issue is that i can make as many copies as i want, so its not a big deal.
in theory breaking the DRM we can too, but there have been a few cases of multiple layers of DRM that hackers think they broke then all, only for the players to realize later on that they havent and end up losing progress and stuff like that, at least on gog i have the right to ask for an refund (or maybe even sue then) if i realize my game have any form of drm.

anyway, gog isnt perfect either.
i support steam for convenience, price and because they support linux gaming (and in my opinion we should win the battle on OS before we atempt to win the DRM battle)
i support gog because they have DRM Free games..
but both stores dont support things like 18+ anime games (or at least ecchi without censorship), i still have to find out an store that is "perfect" but it dont seems to exist...

oh i forgot to notice, if flash memory is safer than HDD then you can store your gog games on flash memory, if its not you can store in HDD, if SSD are safer you can store it there, if CD,DVD, Bluray is safer do an backup of it on it, so regardless of what is the safer option in your opinion, you still have it (unless some company make an tech that only then can produce copies of the game and distribute in such format, and it turns out to be safer than opitical media and everything else an consumer have access to, but still, making more copies and new copies from time to time seems like an more trusth worth option).

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Quoting: finaldestThe only exception being PC gaming as its simply impossible to buy games physically so I am sticking with Steam and maybe GOG in future if they ever give linux 1st class support.

gog is actually better than physical, you can have as many backups as you want, good luck riping your games that you have on physical media for other platforms, few people have the know how / tools to do that.

I will admit, it's not always strait forward to rip the physical media of non-PC discs, however, for most, it's not really rocket science either, and if a person is already at the point where they feel ripping their media is the way to go, they would probably have the where-with-all, if not the direct technical know-how, to figure the process out quickly enough. It's not the difficulty of ripping as the reason few do it, it's giving a shiz enough.

For those physical discs that have a higher than average ripping difficulty (looking at you, OG XBox discs), finding a rip online isn't horribly difficult either.

you said discs, dont forget the switch still uses catridges.
its not rocket science once some one figured it out, or to figure it yourself?

anyway, people who are purchasing something do so because they want to support the developers and dont want to go into the extra trouble of pirate it, i dont understand why people think the proprietary catridges and discs count as "preservation" despite the fact that it can rot and its hard to copy, while completely ignore gog.

i dont know about you, but i dont want to purchase something physical, expect that someone else will figure out how to dump it and distribute online, only for, years later realize no one did and just realize that after my copy is rotten.
digital is the way to go.
unless we count delisted games... speaking of it, how many games got delisted from gog?

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Quoting: PenglingI'm comfortable with not buying any Ubisoft games. :tongue:

It's not like they've made anything I'd even want in decades anyway. And then they turned Rayman (protagonist of the only one of their series that potentially would've been of interest) into a violent cocaine-snorting alcoholic pervert propaganda-mouthpiece for a dystopian murder-machine in a recent animated production. That's commercial suicide for a franchise like that, so clearly they've got no plans to make anything else that I'd want to buy in the future anyway.

More money saved. :grin:

i think they tried to pull an "conkers bad fur day" wich is a fun game... except it didnt worked for then, at least not in my book i dont want to give it a chance.

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Quoting: finaldestThe only exception being PC gaming as its simply impossible to buy games physically so I am sticking with Steam and maybe GOG in future if they ever give linux 1st class support.

gog is actually better than physical, you can have as many backups as you want, good luck riping your games that you have on physical media for other platforms, few people have the know how / tools to do that.

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(look at the mess of Pokémon streaming) and never owning a damn thing.

its not so bad, you just have to pirate it all because the licenced version have the 4kids/tpci changes that destroyed a good chunk of the anime anyway, with things like sound track replacement and etc.
other than that you can get almost everything with just netflix and prime as far as i understood, then you get a few more with youtube and might need hoopla for some movies.

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they need to be confortable with not owning our money

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Quoting: TheRiddickApparently is FULL of cheaters/hackers.

Also it has a coin shop which I'd hope is only cosmetics but wouldn't be surprised if there is a pay2win element. Either way cheaters ruin games such as this where everyone expects to be playing on a more or less level playing field, but ultimately aren't due to ineffective anti-cheating methods.

Wouldn't be surprised if they implement kernel level DRM (blocking Linux) in hopes to stop cheating (it won't).

The only way to stop cheating is custom design anti-cheat into their OWN server and client code, relying on generic third party tools only cuts out the MOST laziest of cheaters!

i think the best solution against cheaters is not to ban then, but to put then to play against each other or bots that pretend to be real people using cheats.
they will swallow their own poison and learn the best way how anoying it is to destroy other people fun.

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