Quoting: melkemindThis raises more questions for me. Let's say I already own a copy of Elder Scrolls Online. Can I just log into Stadia and start playing, or will it require a separate copy? Also, if I buy Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia, will that also give me access to a downloadable copy through GOG or some other store?

Nope to Cyberpunkt. Elder Scrolls Online might work, depending on what deal Bethesda made with Google.

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Quoting: legluondunetI don't think all this games have suddenly Linux native port.
Google should use a wine clone like Valve already does with Proton?

Not sure if this would be enough as some porting should be required for input and whatnot.

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Happy for devs to have more outlets to sell their games, but exclusive games like Orcs Must Die 3 won't be played by me. Nope. Not gonna happen.

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As always, emulation remains as a vital part of gaming's history. Not just so we don't lose access to tons of older games many years later when a developer moves on, but so we can play them often better than the developer was able to run them on the system it was originally designed for.

Totally agree!! Emulation keeps games alive!

It would just be so much nicer if it could be completely legal. I get that devs don't want to put any effort into old games, but at least they could just sell the roms/isos on Steam.

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Due to legal reasons, PlayStation 3 titles cannot be distributed online and must be self-dumped from your own PlayStation 3 console or from your computer using a compatible Blu-ray drive.

Completely legal.

Emulation is legal. Dumping games is legal, but how many people are actually dumping their own games? Barely any. And even if they do: it would still be annoying. I'd rather just start Steam, click on "download" and then play it with an emulator.

Well , if you look at that way many PC gamers are also pirating PC games despite how accesible they are. There are many people who has GTX 1080 class gpu's yet still pirating games.

Pirates will be pirates , always.

But buying/playing games on Steam is easier than piracy and the difference is that buying games is possible. I can't buy isos for PS3 games, even though I would.

Buying PS3 games is still possible. Assuming you don't have PS3 , just get a compatible bluray drive then buy/rent/borrow games you wanted and dump them.

I don't want to do that. What do you not get about that? :/

Well, what is the fuss about it then? You won't die if you don't play those game.

It doesn't mean you have to pirate. Just don't play.

Of course I don't have to play it. I literally just said that it would be nice to have a legal and easy way to play those games without the hassle of downloading a pirated version or dumping the games yourself.

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Quoting: Leopard

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Quoting: Spirimint

As always, emulation remains as a vital part of gaming's history. Not just so we don't lose access to tons of older games many years later when a developer moves on, but so we can play them often better than the developer was able to run them on the system it was originally designed for.

Totally agree!! Emulation keeps games alive!

It would just be so much nicer if it could be completely legal. I get that devs don't want to put any effort into old games, but at least they could just sell the roms/isos on Steam.

????????

https://rpcs3.net/quickstart [External Link]

Due to legal reasons, PlayStation 3 titles cannot be distributed online and must be self-dumped from your own PlayStation 3 console or from your computer using a compatible Blu-ray drive.

Completely legal.

Emulation is legal. Dumping games is legal, but how many people are actually dumping their own games? Barely any. And even if they do: it would still be annoying. I'd rather just start Steam, click on "download" and then play it with an emulator.

Well , if you look at that way many PC gamers are also pirating PC games despite how accesible they are. There are many people who has GTX 1080 class gpu's yet still pirating games.

Pirates will be pirates , always.

But buying/playing games on Steam is easier than piracy and the difference is that buying games is possible. I can't buy isos for PS3 games, even though I would.

Buying PS3 games is still possible. Assuming you don't have PS3 , just get a compatible bluray drive then buy/rent/borrow games you wanted and dump them.

I don't want to do that. What do you not get about that? :/

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Quoting: Leopard

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Quoting: Spirimint

As always, emulation remains as a vital part of gaming's history. Not just so we don't lose access to tons of older games many years later when a developer moves on, but so we can play them often better than the developer was able to run them on the system it was originally designed for.

Totally agree!! Emulation keeps games alive!

It would just be so much nicer if it could be completely legal. I get that devs don't want to put any effort into old games, but at least they could just sell the roms/isos on Steam.

????????

https://rpcs3.net/quickstart [External Link]

Due to legal reasons, PlayStation 3 titles cannot be distributed online and must be self-dumped from your own PlayStation 3 console or from your computer using a compatible Blu-ray drive.

Completely legal.

Emulation is legal. Dumping games is legal, but how many people are actually dumping their own games? Barely any. And even if they do: it would still be annoying. I'd rather just start Steam, click on "download" and then play it with an emulator.

Well , if you look at that way many PC gamers are also pirating PC games despite how accesible they are. There are many people who has GTX 1080 class gpu's yet still pirating games.

Pirates will be pirates , always.

But buying/playing games on Steam is easier than piracy and the difference is that buying games is possible. I can't buy isos for PS3 games, even though I would.

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Quoting: no_information_hereGabeN won't live forever

You can't say that with certainty.

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: Spirimint

As always, emulation remains as a vital part of gaming's history. Not just so we don't lose access to tons of older games many years later when a developer moves on, but so we can play them often better than the developer was able to run them on the system it was originally designed for.

Totally agree!! Emulation keeps games alive!

It would just be so much nicer if it could be completely legal. I get that devs don't want to put any effort into old games, but at least they could just sell the roms/isos on Steam.

????????

https://rpcs3.net/quickstart [External Link]

Due to legal reasons, PlayStation 3 titles cannot be distributed online and must be self-dumped from your own PlayStation 3 console or from your computer using a compatible Blu-ray drive.

Completely legal.

Emulation is legal. Dumping games is legal, but how many people are actually dumping their own games? Barely any. And even if they do: it would still be annoying. I'd rather just start Steam, click on "download" and then play it with an emulator.

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Quoting: Spirimint

As always, emulation remains as a vital part of gaming's history. Not just so we don't lose access to tons of older games many years later when a developer moves on, but so we can play them often better than the developer was able to run them on the system it was originally designed for.

Totally agree!! Emulation keeps games alive!

It would just be so much nicer if it could be completely legal. I get that devs don't want to put any effort into old games, but at least they could just sell the roms/isos on Steam.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut if you just read the sentence "Greed is not the same as seeking your own advantage"--well, what is it then?
Perhaps we could come up with a decent, reasonably well defined distinction between bad greed and good not-exactly-greed, but I would suggest that it's subtle enough to make use of the term pretty defensible . . . especially since nobody seems to quite agree what they want to call it instead.

Let me give it a try:

Everbody deserves its share.
The border between being seekingyouradvantagely and greedy is if you're trying to get "your share" (whatever that may be) or if you're trying to get way more than "your share" (whatever that may be) - and thus eating away from other people's share.

It's clearly hard to say what's on which side (starting with the huge problem of defining "your share" in different parts of the world), but I don't think there's any subtility to the overall difference.

It's "I want what I deserve" contra "I want what you deserve".

If you're going to define greed as anything beyond just trying for "your share", then I think it's going to include a lot of what some of the other people here want to exclude. And it's certainly going to include about all the people I was talking about in my original post that got people annoyed, thus meaning there was no point in bugging me about it.
Let's see . . . one might distinguish greed as the refusal to weight other factors such as causing distress to others when deciding whether to pursue a gain, or something like that. But then, some people are clearly greedy and yet have limits to what they would do for a buck. It's tricky.

Greed is wanting more of everything even though you already have more than you need.

And no matter the semantics... you accuse everybody of being greedy. That's bad.

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