Quoting: MayeulC...
It's a bit weird to me how some games never adjust their base asking price, even when they haven't been updated in 10-20 years (6 years here). Well, I guess inflation will eventually make them cheap enough.
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Shops seem to be in near-permanent sales-mode nowadays, so it makes sense to keep the high base price and joining those as opposed to lowering the base price and not joining them. Gets more eyes on the game with the added advantage of being able to advertise a "higher percentage" off when they are on a real sale.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: officerniceFeedback: stop using electron.

This please! There are much better cross platform toolkits. Electron is trash. The only app I've seen that uses it well is Discord.

Rather fond of the heroic launcher. It runs smoother than steam on my decade old laptop and electron means it is easy for me, even as someone with a bare minimum of html and css skills, to dig into its source and chuck out the parts that I don't want.

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Had the witcher 3 for €3 in the cart over at gog, then I realised that I am guaranteed never going to play it.

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Very interesting.

How does one permanently disable this creepy tracking?

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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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