Well just one word: AI. They going to fire a lot of people and let AI rehash the above mentioned games and add a new number behind it.

The irony in Ubisoft's case is that AI probably would make better games than them...

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Gesh, Ubisoft, go bankrupt already and sell the IPs to someone who doesn't produce uninspired corporate slop every single time.

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"This includes content such as artwork, sound, narrative, localization, etc."

It's so funny how "code" is conveniently absent in that list (or is it "etc."?) I wonder if that is because you can't enforce what you can't prove is in the product, anyway? Or because they realized that the vast majority of programmers is using at least some AI-generated content these days? Or simply because consumers don't "consume" code, because they can't see what it does? Or because vibe-coding is a legitimate efficiency tool in their view, while efficiency gains by generating AI art assets are not?

In any way, as a person whose code has very likely been used for AI training, I call hypocrisy on it. Apparently, the "poor artists" are entitled to protective measures, while coders aren't. Which reflects the vibe I am getting from the anti-AI crowd, really. One should think that people hating AI should hate all of it equally, at least.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Linux_RocksFuck Amazon. Their slogan may as well be "At least we're not Walmart!"

. . . And Walmart's slogan might as well be "At least we're not Amazon!" Twins, separated at birth, one screws you in meatspace, the other online.

Haha, so true! But at least there are alternatives to Walmart. Amazon is kinda hard to avoid, at least if you want to shop online.

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Quoting: Tethys84I hope the Lord of the Rings MMO is dead. I didn't want them to make that from the start.

IIRC, Lord of the Rings is still copyrighted in some countries. Since Amazon has the license, that will (for now) mean that nobody else is making it, either. Which sucks, because I am starved for a new major MMO that's not some action-combat garbage.

But I do agree that it would have been crap anyway. Amazon just can't make games.

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Quoting: emphyI would vastly prefer for gog to spend the resources on officially supporting existing open source efforts such as heroic, minigalaxy, and lutris.

I would prefer that, too. We all learned not to have Galaxy available and relied on other solutions instead. Lutris in my case. I have no desire for another game library management tool. I got Steam and Lutris, and that's enough for me.

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Quoting: Liam Daweou go by averages. [...] Going by the Steam survey, over 50% have 16GB or less RAM.

Well, if 50% have 32GB, that's pretty much your median user. I fully agree (and said so above) that it's silly to design for hardware without an installed basis, but the 32GB RAM I'd give a pass, personally. In the end you don't design games around the slowest PC out there either, and people shouldn't reasonably expect to be able to run the newest visual wonders on a 10 year old potato.

12GB VRAM is still way out there, when only a handful of GPU models have more than 8. In the end, your point still stands. It's pretty ridiculous.

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They may have hoped for that 50xx refresh that ended up getting postponed for at least a year.

Well, typically you don't design games for hardware that's not even out yet. You go for stuff that has been out for 3-4 years, so there is an installed basis. Even IF the upgraded 50XX GPUs become a thing (there are rumors that they might get canceled), the game will likely launch before any of these has reached a customer.

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To be fair, 32GB RAM have been sort of standard for gaming PCs for a while now. Also, these decisions were very likely made before the RAM prices went out of control, which started only a few months ago.

What I don't get is the 12GB VRAM. Even in the 50xx series, NVidia stubbornly refuses to put more than 8GB in most GPUs, so what's the target audience here?

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Quoting: Carolly

Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrhea¨gaming optimized distros" are the dumbest thing ever

Because nobody at all uses Proton-GE patches

I wasn't aware you needed a specialized distro to install these. Learn something new every day!

Oh... wait...

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