Evans continued noting "We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere"

Reflexive was an indie dev and publisher, and amazon proceeded to annoy its customers by de-listing its steam titles, disabling reflexive's website, and forcing the direct customers to move to amazon (particularly egregious because of reflexive's drm).

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With that graph's vertical axis not being labelled properly and such a ludicrously small range in the horizontal axis, it tells precisely nothing interesting about the number of cheaters, let alone correlation. Don't even mention causation.

There's simply not enough data points to claim anything beyond a natural variability in numbers, which one doesn't need a graph for to know that it is there.

Even assuming it did tell anything relevant and there was a causal relation: we're seeing the numbers well on the way to creeping right back up to the old level as cheaters (and the providers of their tools) would seem to be adapting to the new windows-only environment.

Then there's the big elephant in the room: given the processing power of mid-range, soon also low-end, phones, cheating methods are going to be moving off-pc entirely (aim phone's camera to monitor, connect phone to special controller), making kernel-level anti-cheat methods look about as relevant as the Maginot line.

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Imagine spending $100m on a beat-em-up... Though I wonder how much of that money was burned on character licensing.

In a sane world wb games wouldn't pay a dime for wb characters. So if it was "burned" on licensing, that was done to move profits (not only from this game, obviously) to a subsidiary located in one of the many tax havens.

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What's the point of those labels if they change willy-nilly?

I will keep hammering on this point: anything short of a label with which the developers can indicate official and legally binding support for proton and/or the deck is insufficient.

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If they were trying to go for the more offensive language in their press releases, they were pretty successful.

<sigh>

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Any way to disable this creepy tracking?

Is that still a "no"?

Back to gog and itch I go.

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Will you be picking it up at release?

We are in the age of purchasing well after release.

That being said, I will be watching with interest with how it turns out, especially now that embracer is no longer involved in its publication.

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Gnome is not for me and I never can get along with the kde versions from the past decade.

Xfce gets out of the way and is adaptable to my preferences with the least effort and little to no risk of me messing it up in a way that requires waaaaaaaay too long to figure out how to fix.

Amusingly, the amount of kde software that I use does keep growing. It's a varied list that includes kwrite, kolourpaint, okular, konverter, konversation and kupfer. Kde software just integrates so gracefully on my mint xfce install, both visually and in the usability department.

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Really a big fan of mint.

However, in preparation for my yearly round of open source donations I have been taking my usual cursory glance at the financials of the projects that I will fund.

I am extremely surprised at their lack of clarity on who or what organisation is managing their donations and on their spending. Basically, I have a better grasp on how gamingonlinux finances are managed than those of the linux mint team, whatever that is (a company? A non-profit? A club? A bunch of people?).

Not what I expected from such a big and long established project.

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I am an unfan of branding on my hardware (or, indeed, any stuff), doubly so for branded functionality such as a "windows", "copilot" or, in this case, "steam" key/button.

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