Quoting: kit89Do the above gog links fail to open for anyone else?

They're affiliate links, so common ad-blockers will likely block them.

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If I may venture to guess: there will be some sort of triple-a-male-cow-manure with this game.

I will keep to the real indies, thankyouverymuch.

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What's with the white blob on the keyboard?

That's the sort of thing that would bug me immensely if I were in the market for yet another ultrabookalike.

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Quoting: Viesta2015Ah just what i needed... recall spyware on my handhelds

The option to disable the Recall function is available in the Settings. And by rumors it's been available to select during the initial setup screen, at least in Europe.

Given microsoft's history with such things, one would need to be be truly naive to trust them to honour such a setting, both in spirit and its definition.

Even then, expect microsoft updates to mess with the setting.

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Lately I've even been shifting my purchases away from steam due to my annoyance at the obligatory start of their shop to merely install and/or play the games one has purchased there.

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to guess what I think of the announced requirement for an extra account.

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Laptop RAM has been a problem for quite a long time, and while there's various laptops out there that do have somewhat easily upgradable RAM there's plenty that don't. One of the major reasons being power-draw in tech like SODIMM (which is pretty old now)

Another one being product segmentation. Guess what I suspect will turn out to be the bigger consideration for major manufacturers.

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I am sure there is some advanced spreadsheet-management behind this that makes some sense to the people making the decisions over at microsoft.

For the life of me, I don't see the benefit of those nokia-style close-em-down-acquisitions.

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Quoting: emphyWhatsup with that? Does the pachislot machine happen to be a place where one can gamble away real money, either directly or via in-game fantasy currency?

I read about this at some point and asked a coworker who is a fan of the series, and they told me it's just a rather pointless Japanese-style slot machine minigame where you can win items that can all be obtained elsewhere. I don't mind fun minigames, but this one sounds like a waste of time to me.

If it follows the real-world model of Japanese pachinko-parlours, one should be able to "sell" the items one has won right next door.

Which still doesn't quite answer the question of why it isn't in the drm-free version of the game.

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As I mentioned before, I am rather disenchanted with those steam deck labels due to the lack of clarity on whose door one is supposed to knock when stuff goes downhill.

Valve should, at the very least, include an extra category to indicate whether the dev will commit to supporting the deck/proton.

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Quoting: scaineI'm gonna be that guy and point out that both Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Hi-fi Rush are encumbered by Denuvo DRM. Otherwise, I'd have bought this bundle. Actually, that's a lie - I'd have bought Hi-fi Rush on release if they hadn't put that keek on it. There are still, today, about 5 or 6 titles I'd have spent my money on if it wasn't for Denuvo - Monster Hunter Rise, Strange Brigade, Deathloop, Atomic Heart, Gotham Knights and a handful of JRPG games, like Octopath or Legend of Mana.

I'd probably have bought Far: Changing Tides too. It's a £15 indie with frequent £5 sales, so no idea what it's doing with Denuvo on it. I suppose that's the problem with Denuvo - this title will clear around 1.5M in revenue, and 15 months of Denuvo will cost them 350K, so they still clear £1.15M. But they'd have to be properly deluded to think that pirates would cost them over £350K in sales. But they still put Denuvo on there...

I'm gonna be that other guy and say that, since yakuza: like a dragon is a playable dlc-shop, I was never going to buy it any ways, despite it being available drm-free on gog.

On a side note, that version has the disclaimer:

Please note that the DRM-Free version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon does not include the Pachislot machine minigame with the related items and DLC.

Whatsup with that? Does the pachislot machine happen to be a place where one can gamble away real money, either directly or via in-game fantasy currency?

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