Quoting: tonRI'm very sorry to Electronic Arts (EA) for losing "the worst game publisher in the world of the year" title. This year "competition" is so damn tough.

Goddamit, yeah. Between Activision (and Blizzard especially), Zenimax, Bethesda, Ubisoft and EA, it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Pretty depressing.

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Quoting: LachuSentence about lost of market, because game will be available on new platform is stupid. People must still buy an license to play on these new platforms, so Reverse Engineering team made a big gift for Take Two. It must not port game code to the new platform, so save many money. And it will receive profits, because users of these new platforms will buy an game licenses.

Defendants have sought to exploit a potential market that belongs exclusively to Take-Two

Yep, completely agree. Since you need the original game to use this re-engineered engine, T2 still own the market, still get all profits. Indeed, they do so without any support burden, or risk.

Nearly... oh so nearly picked up GTA-V in the last sale, but glad I didn't now. Last GTA I paid for was 3, funnily enough, back on the PS2, I think, or maybe PS3. I used to work in the same building as the R*N guys too. Of course, this isn't about them as devs, just their knee-jerk publishers.

Not really, with a free implementation of GTA3 you can buy say the cheap pc version to get the assets and then use this free port to have the game on the Switch, meanwhile T2 want you to pay a premium to be able to play GTA3 on the Switch so the free version have "taken that market away from T2".

Well, perhaps some hard-core modders will get this working on Swtich, but it's not quite there yet. I agree that this is probably the mindset of the executives at T2 making this decision.

I guess it's like DRM, a little. The executives/publisher thinks they're protecting sales, but the reality is that I'm not buying their game as a result of their actions. Hopefully I'm not alone, but sadly enough people do buy/play Denuvo-encumbered and similarly restricted DRM titles that the executives/publishers don't get the message.

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Quoting: ArehandoroLooks like a great game to play on the Steam Deck!

Honestly, every single game that comes out now, I'm seeing it through two lenses. First, will I enjoy this on my monster PC, either traditionally, or in VR. Second, will I enjoy this on the SteamDeck, sitting on the couch, on a train, or in bed, chilling out.

And yeah, completely agree - this is couch/steamdeck perfection!

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Quoting: LachuSentence about lost of market, because game will be available on new platform is stupid. People must still buy an license to play on these new platforms, so Reverse Engineering team made a big gift for Take Two. It must not port game code to the new platform, so save many money. And it will receive profits, because users of these new platforms will buy an game licenses.

Defendants have sought to exploit a potential market that belongs exclusively to Take-Two

Yep, completely agree. Since you need the original game to use this re-engineered engine, T2 still own the market, still get all profits. Indeed, they do so without any support burden, or risk.

Nearly... oh so nearly picked up GTA-V in the last sale, but glad I didn't now. Last GTA I paid for was 3, funnily enough, back on the PS2, I think, or maybe PS3. I used to work in the same building as the R*N guys too. Of course, this isn't about them as devs, just their knee-jerk publishers.

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Wow, that's some great voice acting. And I've never seen such a huge clone of Disgaea without it being a Disgaea sequel... I wonder if you can pick up team members and throw them?? But that's definitely a good thing. Superb art. I'm sold.

Wait... "later in 2022"??? Goddamit!

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Quoting: The_Aquabatit's better to run ARK on proton.. it's that bad seriously

Yep, the graphical fidelity under Linux is appalling. They must be running this under Proton on the Stadia farms.

Nobody is running Proton on Stadia. dxvk/vkd3d native sure, but not wine / proton.

That was my understanding. So has anyone tried it on Stadia? Because if it's feature-complete graphically with the Windows version, then either we're wrong and they're using Proton somehow, or they've written a new renderer and just not bothered applying it to their atrocious Linux desktop build on Steam.

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Quoting: The_Aquabatit's better to run ARK on proton.. it's that bad seriously

Yep, the graphical fidelity under Linux is appalling. They must be running this under Proton on the Stadia farms. Unless they pulled a full douche manoeuvrer and developed an upgraded rendered for Linux... but only for Stadia. Wouldn't put it past them.

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Wow, August shot past! I think I ended up playing games more than talking about games this month, which is a nice reversal. Also, debunking all the terrible Steam Deck articles in the wider press - always fun.

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I have to admit, I bought this years ago, played it for 15 minutes, couldn't understand a thing that was happening and never went back to it. But it gets rave reviews. Not sure what I was missing. I didn't even understand the symbols, their meaning... nothing. Does it have a tutorial now? Or was I just being thick that day?? :grin:

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Quoting: OsrandilI replied to CatKiller who apparently believes that unconditional refunds are a great solution, while I and others expect that such rules would scare developers away from Linux.

Yep, and I replied to you because I don't think CatKiller was suggesting any such thing, and I wanted to clarify that there's a big difference between demanding unconditional refunds years later, and demanding unconditional refunds when your platform is withdrawn.

Valve's refund system isn't perfect - indeed, a developer has recently very publicly left the scene [External Link] because their sub-2-hour game was consistently refunded after completion (despite positive ratings). That's definitely not cool.

Not sure what the answer is, but given the scale Valve operate at, case-by-case analysis probably isn't on the cards here.

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