Quoting: Egonaut

Quoting: artixbtwTo their credit, they actually removed DRM, unlike most. Positively neutral praise!

Denuvo gets removed from all games eventually, as it is a subscription model. At some point they won't make enough money on the Stores anymore, to satisfy the high subscription prices of Denuvo. Which is the only real positive part about Denuvo.

If that's true, then Konami must really be dedicated to the thing; Metal Gear Solid V still has it eight years after release.

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The creator of Yamagi Quake 2 seems pretty pleased: https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2/issues/1039#issuecomment-1673817064 (also note that the addons have apparently been newly relicensed under the GPL instead of the old SDK license as part of this)

Paril, one of the remaster devs, is also in there offering to provide additional info if needed.

And the new models and their skins are md5 (Doom 3 engine, open source) and png.

It may not be a full engine source release (which was never gonna happen with id being owned by Zenimax and ultimately Microsoft), but it seems pretty clear to me that there are people on the team who genuinely give a shit about the wider Q2 community, and are, actually, making substantive efforts to accommodate it.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfWhat about the original version? Is it still available?

Steam presents the original game and expansions as launch options when you click "play."

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QuoteIt’s our goal at Blizzard to listen to players and try to exceed their expectations in everything we do

lol

• take away the first game from everyone who bought it to force them onto the new one


• implement a monetization scheme that's even worse than the first game's loot boxes


• basically jettison the game mode that was used to justify making a sequel in the first place

But hey! You can play it on Steam now how awesome is that!?

I am so tired of corporate gaslighting. You wanna shit the bed, fine, I can't stop you. But don't try to tell me you're actually making tootsie rolls.

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Quoting: https://theforceengine.github.io/In addition, a Flatpak/snap (or similar) package is planned for version 1.10, alleviating the need to manually compile the project. Think of version 1.09 as “Linux Early Access.”

A self-contained package is planned, they've just been wanting to polish some stuff off first.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: CybolicAh, I was hoping they'd have fixed the Store/Web view going black when switching windows, before labelling it as stable. Maybe next update.

I used to get this all the time on Gnome, but now that you mention it, Ive not had it at all since jumping over to KDE, so maybe it a compositor bug.

Happens to me on KDE any time I minimize the window.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: ripper81358I use Dolphin myself. Having it available on steam is not critical to me. I have Dolphin installed as a flatpak on my end. So any steamdeck user can easily install it that way too.

That's just not how most people will use such a device IMHO.

Usually, I'd agree, but I think any crowd comfortable with tinkering with emulation will be absolutely fine booting into desktop mode to install a flatpak. I'm not much a tinkerer, but Liam's article on adding Decky Loader support is so easy to follow and complete that it's absolutely trivial. I doubt many emulation fans will even care that Dolphin is off Steam.

I would have figured that the main difference of having it available on Steam with no muss and no fuss would be precisely that a whole lot of people who are not "comfortable with tinkering with emulation" would be comfortable just downloading something from Steam.

Just acquiring the emulator isn't the fiddly bit, though. Sourcing roms, mapping inputs to a controller that may not match the original hardware, and configuring graphics settings are. Simply putting an emulator on Steam really doesn't make it "no muss and no fuss" to actually use.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: JordanPlayz158

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: JordanPlayz158

Quoting: Mountain ManYes, let's pretend that the overwhelming majority of people using emulators aren't also playing pirated software.

Let's say that is the case, is that wrong? If so why is it wrong? Pirating games that are no longer officially produced or sold on consoles that are no longer officially produced or sold, is that wrong? The only argument that makes sense for copyright law that I've seen is to protect sales, but what sales are there left to protect?

Whether or not you agree with the law as it stands is irrelevant.

Ah, so to you it is irrelevant if it is morally correct or not (or the actual purpose of the law), but whether it is legal or not. I hope you will reflect on how you gauge what is wrong if the law ever tries to outlaw something like End-to-End Encryption (they have a few times and thankfully failed)

Oh, come off it. We're not fighting some moral crusade here. We're talking about video games. Let's try and keep things in perspective.

So when it comes to enforcing copyright it's serious business and the law is absolute, but when it comes to keeping art alive and accessible it's "just video games" and so not eligible even for consideration. What a convenient double standard.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: robvvApparently, Valve initiated the conversation...

That certainly puts a different spin on the story.

It's not like it absolves Nintendo:

Quoting: Pierre BourdonTo the best of my understanding, this is what happened:

1. Valve legal contacted Nintendo of America to ask "hey, what do you think about Dolphin?"
2. Nintendo replied to Valve "we think it's bad and also that it violates the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions" (note: nothing about violating copyright itself). Also "please take it down".
3. Valve legal takes it down and forwards NoA's reply to the Dolphin Foundation contact address.

What I find more interesting is this additional context regarding the encryption key:

Quoting: Pierre BourdonNow onto Nintendo's legal claims: nobody can tell for sure whether Dolphin is in the right, or whether Nintendo is in the right. Like all legal matters, there is a lot of space for interpretation.

Dolphin does distribute the Wii AES-128 Common Key which is used to encrypt Wii game discs. This isn't required in theory, the tools that dump game discs could just dump decrypted images, in fact that might be easier than dumping encrypted images (the decryption is done transparently by the Wii OS).

Whether that's allowed by exception clauses for interoperability, whether that's allowed by some kind of fair use clause, whether Nintendo's broken DRM actually counts as an effective copyright protection measure, etc. -> only a lawsuit could decide that. Your guess is probably as good or as bad as anyone else's.

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Quoting: JVargasIsn't this what normally happens with consoles?

The entire appeal of the Deck is that it's not just a console, but a full-fledged handheld PC. Dumbing down desirable features that are common on PC but not on console is antithetical to its purpose.

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