Quoting: scaineI just find it weirdly funny that a title who's sole premise is to promote car theft, prostitution, drug crime, gang warfare and violence to police is now relying on a posh LA lawyer to prevent "loss of sales" due to a fan effort. It's kinda pathetic.

I say "loss of sales" and not "piracy" here too, because this fan effort required the original games to play. GTA 3 is £5.99, as is Vice City. San Andreas is £9.99.

So what's the betting that the "Trilogy" remake will be more than £22...

Because if it's less... well that would be even funnier. Cost of huge lawsuit to shut down fan effort that promotes sales of ancient games, only to create their own version that costs less again. It would be the kind of brain dead thinking you often see from publishers (re: DRM).

Are you sure that the sole premise of these games are to promote said criminal behaviour? I would claim that the sole premise is to allow a gamer to take part of said illegal activities in a pretend matter.

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Quoting: dpanterMaybe they should come back to Sweden then, we just decided to drop all restrictions and pretend the pandemic is over even though we have several fatalities and hundreds of new cases every day. What can go wrong... :cry:

Still massively better (all trends are going down) than the situation on Romania (all trends are going massively up), compare the trend curves:

Sweden: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/ [External Link]

Romania: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/romania/ [External Link]

The difference most likely down to vaccination rates, Sweden have so far vaccinated 63.7% of the entire population while Romania 28.1%

Valve where idiots for first complaining that Sweden refused to host their event in the middle of a pandemic and trying to actually host one in Romania, just as I said back when they announced that they would switch.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: elmapul"there will be a lot of disappointed players if some games are blocked when they ship with the Arch Linux-based SteamOS 3 distribution."

or players instaling windows :unsure:

IMHO some 99% of steam users don't know how to even install Windows on a normal PC. They all get it preinstalled with their gaming pc.

on my country people didnt knew how to USE an computer, but they were able to put an pirated copy of windows to replace the shit linux distributions that came on cheap computers due to tax exemptions for machines running linux.

to be fair, things were much worse back then:
1)prety much no games
2)an shit distribution
3)an country who is used to pirate stuff.

hopefully things will be different this time, but i would not hold my breath, its better to not create any expectation and be surprised than create and be disapointed.

Of course there will be an amount of people being able and willing to do this, but I don't think that even in your example we where talking about millions of people.

edit: I mean e.g there are lots of people running custom roms on Android phones, but when compared with the total number of Android users they are still a tiny minority,

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut I've been forced more and more to switch to Chrome (or rather, at home at least, Chromium) because I hit more and more websites Firefox just doesn't manage to load, or can't show article comments, or stuff.

Could you share some examples? Being a web developer I would be genuinely interested in such pages, because so far I haven't come across such websites (or rather these which showed quirks showed - different - quirks in Blink based browsers, too). And since I web development is my daily job, I'd say nowadays you have to put in some real effort to get something to work on Chrom(e|ium) but not on Firefox.

Huh. Maybe it has something to do with extensions, then. Perhaps I'm typically using an adblock on Firefox but not Chrome? I should do a bit of experimenting.
Examples that stand out in my mind are articles on the CBC website (that's Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's BBC equivalent), where Chrome seems to show the conversation threads below but Firefox does not, and EBSCO, a major player in scholarly journal publication. I work in a university library and often have reasons to follow links to articles in our holdings. Chrome shows Ebsco articles no problem, Firefox shows a blank page. The problems seem to be the same on Windows at work and on Linux at home.

Just tested it with Firefox 92.0 and with Adblock Plus on and I could see the comments section on the first article on CBC website. So it's probably some other extension.

Looking at the Firefox I'm using at work, I do have Adblock Plus and one other extension . . . but they're both disabled already, so I dunno.

So Wizards and Warlocks then... The web have become far to complex.

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Quoting: GuestUbuntu will get a lot of hate for the switch to snap for Firefox even though this is driven by Mozilla and a lot of the arguments used against it just aren't true anymore. Frankly I think it this move makes perfect sense and I would wager that the vast majority of users won't even notice the change

Not really driven by Mozilla since they cannot dictate what Ubuntu does or doesn't do. Sounds more that Ubuntu wants to no longer have to rebuild Firefox for every release and just hand that and support off to Mozilla.

My issue with this is how it will effect extensions, I remember when Chrome moved from a deb to snap in one version of Ubuntu and none of the databases from the extensions where moved over and simply deleted from the machines at work.

And this will probably not be a problem with Firefox since it should really only have access to the Downloads folder but since Ubuntu moved Totem from deb to snap it can only open videos from a few specific locations which e.g means that it refuses to play videos included as extra or DLC in games from Steam unless I copy the file to the Desktop first.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut I've been forced more and more to switch to Chrome (or rather, at home at least, Chromium) because I hit more and more websites Firefox just doesn't manage to load, or can't show article comments, or stuff.

Could you share some examples? Being a web developer I would be genuinely interested in such pages, because so far I haven't come across such websites (or rather these which showed quirks showed - different - quirks in Blink based browsers, too). And since I web development is my daily job, I'd say nowadays you have to put in some real effort to get something to work on Chrom(e|ium) but not on Firefox.

Huh. Maybe it has something to do with extensions, then. Perhaps I'm typically using an adblock on Firefox but not Chrome? I should do a bit of experimenting.
Examples that stand out in my mind are articles on the CBC website (that's Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's BBC equivalent), where Chrome seems to show the conversation threads below but Firefox does not, and EBSCO, a major player in scholarly journal publication. I work in a university library and often have reasons to follow links to articles in our holdings. Chrome shows Ebsco articles no problem, Firefox shows a blank page. The problems seem to be the same on Windows at work and on Linux at home.

Just tested it with Firefox 92.0 and with Adblock Plus on and I could see the comments section on the first article on CBC website. So it's probably some other extension.

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Quoting: elmapul"there will be a lot of disappointed players if some games are blocked when they ship with the Arch Linux-based SteamOS 3 distribution."

or players instaling windows :unsure:

IMHO some 99% of steam users don't know how to even install Windows on a normal PC. They all get it preinstalled with their gaming pc.

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Quoting: SamsaiI sure wonder what games the "don't put politics in video games" crowd plays. Pong?

Usually they play Call of Duty and Bioshock (I kid you not).

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Really like that they now display the patch notes on the download page!

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: F.UltraNo one have claimed that "you can just decompile" and have a finished product, nor do I see how piracy can be any more rampant. Is there a game or application in history that isn't pirated?

Simple, if you could 'just decompile' (other wise translate the binary to source code that works in a compiler) than you could remove any copy protection checks easier than the current method of hacking the binary.

#1 that would required a build environment matching that of the original build, which for various reasons can be quite difficult to get hold of.

#2 actual copy protection is usually built with decompilers in mind so they apply various tricks and run the result through the existing decompilers to make sure that they have obfuscated their code enough.

#3 the manual cleanup needed is a far more labour intensive effort than hacking the binary. Note that GTA3 was a bit of a special case here since the binaries was not stripped so all the debugging symbols where present, but still the generated source code needed manual cleanup before it compiled, do take a look at that 1h video that I linked above, it shows the steps for the litter function in GTA3.

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