Quoting: Linux_RocksYay for America making things worse yet again!

The UK started it ALL.. thank them.. all because UK parents do not know how to parent their children and want the government to do so

View this comment - View article - View full comments

LOL its almost as if they don't want money

View this comment - View article - View full comments

As someone thats making a Distro.. good TF luck getting that $7k per "child" from me.. and as a Coloradian I am ASHAMED of my state!.. this has NOTHING to do with "protecting mu kids" and everything to do with pushing us to mass surveillance, just like NONE of these age verification laws rather it be the UK, Brazil, or ANYWHERE else has ANYTHING to do with "protecting mu kids" and has EVERYTHING to do with mass surveillance of everyone

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Hopefully they provide means for those of us that can to make custom images like Bazzite.. the only way I can use Bazzite is via my custom image because its too bloated for my tastes.. KDE Linux though I think will be the opposite of that but I want to be able add performance tweaks under the hood and that will require being able to build my own image because I do think they are going the generic route in that regard.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I will give Blizzard one thing.. their anti-cheat is mostly server side and the bits client side doesn't require kernel access and should be the standard way to implement anti-cheat as they do with their Warden setup

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: tohur

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: tohur

Quoting: williamjcm

Quoting: Egonaut

Quoting: williamjcmThe reason the third-party sale numbers increased by that much is because they now include VAT, while previous years didn't include it to my knowledge.

That makes no sense, where in the world do we have 57% VAT?

I mean, it would still have increased compared to the previous year, just *much less* than what Epic's claiming. For example, if we assume that everyone on the EGS paid a 20% VAT, then the "before VAT" spending would have been around 333M$, which would seem much less impressive.

Not everyone pays a VAT and the largest gaming market outside of China is the USA.. the USA alone is the largest market by a long shot compared to any country that pays a VAT. Point is that math don't math.

The math doesn't math. But the US is a small part of the world's game market.

The USA is the SECOND largest market at around $50 billion.. the next closest market is Japan at $17 billion.. like I said the math he put up does NOT math for obvious reasons

I agreed with you that the math doesn't math?!?

It doesn't matter if they're the second largest or the largest or the third largest. What matters is their size compared to the sum of the others. Well, in the end to the others that take VAT, but I won't try to figure that out.
My point was that the US is a minority in the whole PC gaming market. Depending on whom you ask it may be below 20 or around 30 percent, but either way a minority.
(I had deleted my post because I decided not to go into this deeper, but you were too fast. ;) )

The only Europe countries that even show up in the top ten is Germany, UK, and France.. and those 3 combined are less then Japan.. the rest are MUCH less then one of those 3. like I said the vast majority of gamers that spend money do NOT pay a VAT

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: tohur

Quoting: williamjcm

Quoting: Egonaut

Quoting: williamjcmThe reason the third-party sale numbers increased by that much is because they now include VAT, while previous years didn't include it to my knowledge.

That makes no sense, where in the world do we have 57% VAT?

I mean, it would still have increased compared to the previous year, just *much less* than what Epic's claiming. For example, if we assume that everyone on the EGS paid a 20% VAT, then the "before VAT" spending would have been around 333M$, which would seem much less impressive.

Not everyone pays a VAT and the largest gaming market outside of China is the USA.. the USA alone is the largest market by a long shot compared to any country that pays a VAT. Point is that math don't math.

The math doesn't math. But the US is a small part of the world's game market.

The USA is the SECOND largest market at around $50 billion.. the next closest market is Japan at $17 billion.. like I said the math he put up does NOT math for obvious reasons

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: williamjcm

Quoting: Egonaut

Quoting: williamjcmThe reason the third-party sale numbers increased by that much is because they now include VAT, while previous years didn't include it to my knowledge.

That makes no sense, where in the world do we have 57% VAT?

I mean, it would still have increased compared to the previous year, just *much less* than what Epic's claiming. For example, if we assume that everyone on the EGS paid a 20% VAT, then the "before VAT" spending would have been around 333M$, which would seem much less impressive.

Not everyone pays a VAT and the largest gaming market outside of China is the USA.. the USA alone is the largest market by a long shot compared to any country that pays a VAT. Point is that math don't math.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

All this so called "backlash" has been for nothing LMAO... From the very beginning Mozilla said they would do this even BEFORE the "backlash" started.. but NO ONE took the time to ACTUALLY read their initial announcement. We live in the age of rage bait and people reading a headline and NOTHING else. Now granted Mozilla should be disabling them by default but it is what it is

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: tpauI wish we could replace this with element&matrix.

sadly will NEVER happen as will never be enough people using either to gain traction

View this comment - View article - View full comments