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European Consumer Organization goes after multiple publishers for their in-game currency
16 Sep 2024 at 6:24 am UTC Likes: 1

Epic published the game. All the money goes through them.

Quoting: dziadulewiczWhatever the case; Epig is not going to last with this business model (and attitude) of theirs much longer.
As long as they have the cash cow that is Fortnite they will be around forever. They can burn through billions in other parts of their business. You don't follow the gaming market, do you?

European Consumer Organization goes after multiple publishers for their in-game currency
15 Sep 2024 at 12:29 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: dziadulewicz
Taking aim at Epic Games
Good! And please free Alan Wake II from your shackles EpiG so it can be available on Steam, then i'll buy from there. Won't give you epic pigs money ever.
Epic published it, so you'll be giving them money regardless.

European Consumer Organization goes after multiple publishers for their in-game currency
14 Sep 2024 at 9:30 am UTC Likes: 6

Oh, that is good. Even if parents are clued up on the nefariousness of the practice, it's so widespread, the pressure to let their kid do it anyway so as not to be different from others must be very high.

Quoting: coolitic"Shouldn't need a calculator" as if the conversion ratio wasn't absolutely trivial.

And from that point alone, they stretch it out into buzz-words about "Companies manipulating children to spend money", as if having a (trivial) conversion step was the root of the issue.
A new user, voicing support for the companies' point of view? Did you register only to do that?

The Jackbox Megapicker fixed to stop megabreaking your Steam Deck
6 Aug 2024 at 4:37 pm UTC Likes: 1

A game forcing the system into a boot loop? Ouch.

Intel to lay off around 15,000 staff as they try make $10 billion in savings
2 Aug 2024 at 3:41 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ZlopezI'm not sure why companies are taking growth for granted. Why they won't rather work with what they made the current year and expect that the next year will be the same or maybe save some of the money for bad times if you are making more than you expected, so you have some reserves.
The stock market doesn’t work that way. It’s cool and useful or sometimes necessary, but it is also cancer.

Valve has a new Steam Chart for the most played Steam Deck games
28 Jun 2024 at 6:04 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: emphyHow does one permanently disable this creepy tracking?
By not using Steam!

Max Caulfield returns in Life is Strange: Double Exposure
10 Jun 2024 at 9:54 am UTC Likes: 2

Oh, that is lovely. I tried playing LiS2, but bounced right off it not far in. A return of the protagonist from the first one is very welcome.

SteamVR for Linux gets "experimental improvements to async support"
30 May 2024 at 5:47 pm UTC Likes: 1

This update makes me very happy. I can run Room Setup again and games actually launch now.

It still creates a black window every time VR is started which can't be killed and survives even killing Steam, but one can't have everything.

I'll be very glad to play Alyx again.

Proton Experimental improves Halo Infinite, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger and more
17 May 2024 at 6:44 pm UTC Likes: 1

Oh, right, that's Gunslinger. Well, then. Incompetent game devs. Or something.

Proton Experimental improves Halo Infinite, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger and more
17 May 2024 at 5:29 pm UTC

At least Call of Juarez is a game from 2007, I'd say the most you could count on back then were two cores.