Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: F.UltraI think you people are a bit to negative here. Fully understandable with the experience from EA and other big firms but Embracer Group, at least so far, looks to be genuinely interested in producing games and having the studios run independently.

In their Annual Reports each studio is presented individually with a list of what games they currently sell and what they are working on for the future, zero mentioning of "consolidation goals" or "business optimization". I also note that they buy studios by way of share issues so each studio becomes shareholders of Embrace Group.

They are also no big venture capital owners of the company, 61.12% of the votes are owned by 3 people Lars Wingefors from Nordic Games (that became THQ Nordic that become Embracer) and Matthew Karch and Andrey Iones that founded Saber Interactive.

https://embracer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Embracer-Annual-Report-and-Sustainability-Report-2021.pdf [External Link]

In my belief, a key factor to our success is that entre-
preneurs who become part of Embracer maintain their
creative and operative freedom while they can go faster
and boost their growth by being docked into our growing
eco-system and available resources. We are steadily
seeing more cooperation between the independent oper-
ating groups – for the simple reason that it makes sense
for everyone. We hope that access to the Embracer eco
system will be an even more decisive reason when gam-
ing entrepreneurs chose to become part of the Embracer
family in the future.

Lars Wingefors
Co-founder & CEO

Dude's name is Lars, and I have never met a Lars that I didn't like!

Metallica fan I bet !

:grin:

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Just a FYI THQ Nordic AB became Embracer Group

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Quoting: gilboa

Quoting: pete910LGP released/sent the keys to valve to redeem via steam, That's why I have X3:R on steam.

How did you get them keys? from LGP?
At least when I used it, LGP never used Steam.

- Gilboa

The original key from LGP activated through steam as thats what they did when they folded. I forget the guys name that let us know. It was a good few years ago now.

To be frank it could have been egosoft, no clue which way round it was done now.

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Quoting: KithopDeleted my Twitter & Facebook accounts many years ago at this point

Never had any of them to begin with :happy: Not even snapcrap or whatever its called!

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI think I'd be afraid to touch it, since my brain would keep thinking I'm about to short out some sensitive electronic doohickey. :grin:

Yes but the thingamabob and the dodawhatsit stops that from happening :grin:

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Well downloaded and compiled it fine all runs.

Downloaded the citydemo to give that a go from EGS (WHAT A POS THAT IS BTW) Why you cant acces assets from within unrealedit is just daft to me.

After a huge 90gig + download fails to be imported :cry: Suggests to build within vis studio, Fails in that to on last module.

So all in all a complete waist of hdd space and bandwidth :happy:

I'll revisit with UE7 :grin:

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Quoting: ridgePositional audio works a charm. Nothing beats cruising the Autobahn in rainy weather while using the game's internet radio function

:huh:
So you can drive through your local town whilst listening to the local radio station ?

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Quoting: gilboaX3:R also had a native Linux port (LGP), which worked just as well, but a DRM feature that died with the company.

LGP released/sent the keys to valve to redeem via steam, That's why I have X3:R on steam.

Just to point out in that in the bundle X3:R seems to be missing :huh: Which is a shame as that's still the best one IMHO :grin:

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: pete910

Quoting: elmapulfirst they should fix their supply issue

Not knowing how many they have made or pre orders taken you cant make that assumption.

"In the first month very quickly we'll be in the tens of thousands, by the second month we'll be in the hundreds of thousands. And beyond that it'll grow even quicker."

https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-says-steam-deck-production-will-be-in-the-hundreds-of-thousands-by-next-month/ [External Link]

havent you being following the news?

The point still stands, regards the news, No. Apart from it's generally depressing the time I do have I pop on here and Phoronix then have an hour or so gaming.

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Quoting: elmapulfirst they should fix their supply issue

Not knowing how many they have made or pre orders taken you cant make that assumption.

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