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Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit
5 March 2024 at 9:52 pm UTC

Quoting: elmapulhonestly this incident just show how important an device like the steam deck is.

1)we arent locked to valve to make an device running linux (unlike nintendo and their proprietary OS)
2)we arent locked to valve to make an OS based on linux (unlike windows)
3)we arent forced to purchase games from valve on steamOS (unlike consoles and iOS devices)
4)we arent locked to valve to fix our devices (unlike some phone manufactors)
5)we arent locked to valve to make accessories
and so on, i can continue for longer and longer to point is:

if companies like Nintendo succeed, we will lose access to more and more media over time, it might sound impossible now, but we saw that happening with many MMOS, we have some lost media in old games, and cloud is a big menace on our future (eg: cloud exclusive games)

if only we had an publisher that made alternative games to nintendo games, capable of outputing the same ammount of games as then, with games that are different enough to no count as plagiarism, but similliar enough to compete for the same audience while at the same time, they could make better games than nintendo, as well as make high quality original games instead of just imitations, if we had all of this with an company that was actually ethical...
nintendo would be forced to improve.

meanwhile, we have things like this...

Yet the average gamer is/user is perfectly fine that DRM infests their computer to play their games/netflix. While I agree the doomsday scenario where all entertainment is locked behind bullshit copyright/patent laws sounds awful, i also think that some of the purchasing decisions we as video game players make are unfortunate.

The "bad" apples are succesful only because most of the gamers don't care about anything, they'd pay for their favourite game even it had a built-in keylogger, or they'd have to pay per click.

Game over for Roblox on Linux / Steam Deck as it's now blocked
1 March 2024 at 9:18 pm UTC

Quoting: KithopSimple solution to any of these that I (mostly) try to stick to:

Don't buy/play or support multiplayer games that don't support you hosting your own dedicated server, on hardware you control (none of this forced 'rent a server from our partners' BS either), using configs and settings you control, including the ability to opt out of and disable whatever anti-cheat they support.

Something like Minecraft Java? Amazing - totally the kind of thing an interested person can set up a private server for, mod and customize to your heart's content, invite friends and family onto and be able to admin (cheat) to fix when little Timmy's house gets blown up for the 5th time.

Any kind of 'live service' game? Not so much.

Now even I admit this can't be a 100% hard and fast rule - this means no MMOs, nothing ranked or hyper competitive, and not even the likes of casual things like VRChat (which *has* anti-cheat that works on Proton and they explicitly court Steam Deck support on, but that could change at any moment!), so you can be flexible if you so choose, but this is a general concept I try to stick to.

Kind of how hearing a cool game everyone talks about is some console exclusive, for a console I don't have nor have any other use for? That's nice, but I'll pass...

That's kind of the direction I've been moving unconsiously too. I even ditched steam and cs:go last summer and went all in on gog. Although i have a lot less time for playing lately as well.

We can say now they killed wine in Roblox.

World of Goo 2 launches in May on the Epic Store - but Linux support from their website
21 February 2024 at 6:04 pm UTC Likes: 4

I find it weird that people find it weird that a company supports our platform of choice. I wish more devs had an option to bypass the bullshit stores. Why is it so necessary to put the game on these stores?

Paradox confirm no Linux support for Prison Architect 2 but investigating Steam Deck
20 February 2024 at 9:42 pm UTC

I bet there will be just enough native games to buy from.

Baldur's Gate 3 hits over half a million Steam user reviews - ranked 19th most popular
13 February 2024 at 9:26 pm UTC

Just about to finish my 2nd playthrough of Rogue trader, after that i may give BG3 another go as well. It's a great game, also a good first choice if you're just getting into these kinds of games. They've done away with the larianisms in this one.

Arms Race returns to Counter-Strike 2, custom sticker placement, Zeus skin and more
8 February 2024 at 7:56 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: brokeassbenI'm having pretty serious performance issues after the update. Also have a mesa update that just installed, so I'm not certain of the culprit. Getting about 15 fps during heavy fighting. Anyone else seeing issues on Radeon?

EDIT: Looks like performance drop is only on the map, Shoots.

The performance of the whole game is abysmal, maybe gets better next year.

Eidos-Montréal cut nearly 100 staff with new Deus Ex reportedly cancelled
29 January 2024 at 8:23 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: JustinWood
Quoting: Kimyrielle
Quoting: KoopacabrasPink slips being delivered like hot pancakes, meanwhile prices keep rising and rising, something doesn't add up 🤔🤔
I mean, if they are selling less, maybe they could try lowering prices.

Games actually got (relatively) cheaper compared with what they used to cost 20 years ago, while the costs for making them have exploded over the same period. The problem is more the opposite of what you suggested - it's rock hard to deliver the quality people want for the price they're willing to pay.

This, though it's probably also worth noting that executives and board members who have what could be considered largely outsized salaries in comparison to the amount of work they actually do, and have a less than open mind to the suggestion of taking a pay cut instead of costing large swaths of others their entire livelihood would go a long way to make things easier, especially during the current global economic situation.

Since January last year i bought RT and BG3 on release, plus i got WotR with season pass on a GoG sale; that's about 150 EUR overall, really hard to justify even on a job with a degree.

People in Germany with the same job earn 10 times more; these are the countries that video games are mainly made for.

Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher aims to improve Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck
24 January 2024 at 6:46 am UTC

Quoting: NociferSo, after years of getting his balls busted by people using GE-Proton with Lutris/Heroic/etc and breaking their games and then complaining about it, despite him patiently explaining to them over and over and over that they shouldn't be using GE-Proton outside of Steam because they risk breaking their game and that instead they should be using Wine-GE, it seems GloriousEggroll has finally caved in and decided to provide an officially nice way for people to use GE-Proton outside of Steam.

(In Tychus Findlay's voice) Hell, it's about time.

- Signed: a happy user of GE-Proton outside of Steam

I'm not that surprised by this, on reddit I've encountered several posts where the person trying to explain wine/proton did not even know the relationship between the projects and just said people should use the latter no matter what.

OpenAI say it would be 'impossible' to train AI without pinching copyrighted works
22 January 2024 at 8:54 am UTC

Maybe i'm wrong but to me what seems especially funny is how quick they went from 'non-profit' to profit-oriented.

League of Legends likely unplayable on Linux / Steam Deck soon due to Vanguard anti-cheat
11 January 2024 at 9:56 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: BlackBloodRumDo they not realise that this software has a high enough level of access to do any number of activities on their computer, and hide it from the OS and the user? For example, hide a running process from "Task manager" on Windows, and continue running even after they close the game?

Can you really justify that level of access just for a game?

Maybe a bit pessimistic, but i'm not really surprised by it. Have you heard techbros or (in earlier times) PC magazines talk abot free software or software freedom? I sure haven't. The only time you (rarely) see this stuff is to maybe to compare it to something else to see how slow/fast it is. And it's been going like that for ages. It also reminds me how parents refuse to do parental controls on devices.