Quoting: Smoke39The purpose of copyright isn't to protect some "god-given" right to control "intellectual property," it's to incentivize contributing to society by guaranteeing a good faith opportunity to profit from one's work. It's entirely reasonable to question how well copyright achieves this, and to scrutinize how individual owners use their copyright.

You're right: It's a man given right. But you're not scrutinizing how their using their rights. You're just violating their rights. And they are contributing to society, they spend a lot of money (paying people) to create video games which people want to play.

Quoting: Smoke39Like jarhead was saying, I already have hardware that would be perfectly capable of running their games. If they won't sell me their games without strings attached (buying redundant hardware), then I would argue they aren't really using their copyright in good faith.

Just because you own a car doesn't give you the right to drive it (anyway you want). You still need a permit & must comply with the rules.

It doesn't matter what you're arguing in some forum. You're still just violating their rights. If you disagree, sue them. Maybe you will receive the permission to do so.

Quoting: Smoke39If a bunch of hobbyists are able to meet a demand in their spare time, for free, better than a large, wealthy corporation, then the profit motive has failed, and the system should be re-evaluated. In the mean time, it is ethical to resort to alternative means. No one should be able to lay claim to a market they choose not to pursue.

Neither the demand nor the means justify these actions. We're not talking about basic needs, we're talking about recreational activities. Also, we're not talking about limited goods. There is an endless amount of alternatives which you can use without violating someones rights.

In fact, it doesn't even make sense: If you'd simply buy a game from a developer which supports your platform you improve the platform itself. The developer will have the means to support your platform in the future.

Quoting: Smoke39As for the GPL, I have no idea what parallel you're even trying to draw. The entire concept of copyleft is to use copyright against itself to "hack" freedom into a system that would otherwise tend to restrict it, and would be unnecessary if copyright didn't exist in the first place.

You don't own any software in the copyright world. Any software is provided under the terms of licenses. It's hypocrisy to demand compliance with FOSS licenses & ignore everything else.

Quoting: HelmicSeems a bit strange […]

What the heck? You're behaving like a white knight fighting for justice when you're just a kiddy who needs to justify its "piracy". There is absolutely no reason to play these games in the first place. It's better to not play any games and do something useful instead. It's really strange to justify these violations with FOSS.

To summarize: You don't have right to decide what is right & what is wrong. Stop sugarcoating your behavior.

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If we were talking about GPLed software you'd be whining about how immoral this behavior is. It's the copyright's owner privilige to decide how anything is released. This is true for Free & proprietary software.

If you don't like Nintendo, why are you buying stuff from them & support their "anti-consumer" behavior?

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Quoting: ZeloxWhen it comes to the deck I love the ui and don’t have problems with it at all.

As a console it works well. Just as a Linux system (especially the Desktop on the Deck), I see a lot of problems.

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Quoting: ZeloxGot mine yesterday, and I’m very happy so far what valve have done. Now we just want the official steam os release so my main gaming rig can run it

Do you have a dedicated gaming PC? In my opinion, Steam OS is the weakest part of the Steam Deck (poorly optimised, especially for a touch system; in general badly implemented, e.g. the steamdeck user; I believe updates take too long) which I would never recommend for a general purpose PC.

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Quoting: Alm888Guess what version is on GOG?

The version the developer uploaded?

Quoting: Alm888That's the level of "service" Linux gamers are being treated with.

The windows version is updated?

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Quoting: MinuxCould you give me a bit of advice about this?

Ubisoft has a list of approved distributors. It includes sites like Fanatical, Humble Bundle & GOG:
Approved digital distributors of Ubisoft games [External Link]

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It's probably not a game, just an item shop with some gamifications => no good fit for Linux…

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Quoting: ShmerlIsn't it still Bethesda? I thought they bought Id. I don't follow their internal workings though.

id belongs to Bethesda Softworks (the publisher), but Bethesda Game Studios (developer of Starfield) is only a part of it. That's why the release doesn't say anything about changes inspired by Microsoft: Game Studios always developed Direct3D games. That's why nothing changed (at least yet).

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Did the Bethesda Game Studios ever use OpenGL or Vulkan? AFAIK they always used Direct3D. Even Arkane only used Direct3D although their own engine is based on the id engine.

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Quoting: JahimselfIf they can't tell the difference in such obvious filepath that doesn't operate the slighest hack

What do you mean by this?

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