Wish I could find mine FFS.

It’s just arch isn’t it?

Gears 3

I’m not saying you you should or shouldn’t, but if you did, I’ve heard it’s possible to access a backup of the original even if you don’t have an original disc.

Just to fully expound on what you’re saying, it was a rootkit, literally malware.

It’s just a scam though isn’t it? 💣💣💣

I bloody hope so, I added it to the list of games I’ve purchased on steam but never played last week

Have you heard of GME?

I’d imagine chip design is sufficiently complex that you could both be competent and not have a fucking clue what’s causing this. A recall is bound to be cheaper than the impact this is going to have on customer trust. Not only are they the lower performance chips, they’re buggy lower performance chips.

I remember when RPS started, Kieron Gillen and the the PC Gamer gang. Fucking shite now.

That I did not know!

Without a shadow of a doubt, Metal Slug

How can you sell something if no-one is buying?

If it were a level playing field I’d be inclined to agree with you, but it isn’t. These companies are hiring specialists in the psychology of creating a sense of need where there is no need. It doesn’t work on everyone for everything but there are people who are susceptible to these techniques and they’re the people funding everything. The issue isn’t people spending their money on what they want, it’s them being put in the situation where they feel compelled to purchase things and encouraged to do so by companies who know full well that these people can’t handle it and will cough up the dough no matter what comes their way.

Can’t see how it would harm the company. Stocks and shares are just a way to raise money in a company. I’ll sell you x% for $yk and own that amount now.

Even with normal shares 30% is a minority stake especially if a single entity owns the other 70% (ie. You can express your opinion but I outvote you every time). Unless Larian are planning to raise additional funds by selling equity and need the stock price to remain high for that reason, Tencent are free to sell their portion without any impact to Larian. (Heck a drop might even let Larian buy itself back)

Or they’re super inefficient.

No comment.

Oi yoo, zombie bastarrd, hoops or gers?

The logical end point of that argument is not everyone is going to be happy with everything so why release anything.

Both MS and Sony absolutely produce their own games with wholly internally established studios. MS game studios existed before Xbox even.

I’m not sure what the rest of your point is even about, of course it makes sense for MS and Sony to short circuit work and risk, that doesn’t make anything better for consumers. The better option for consumers is for MS and Sony to build their own franchises and have good exclusives that way rather than taking existing third party franchises and limiting access.

There’s a third way here though, MS could make good exclusive games themselves and leave Activision available for everyone.

So long as it’s a standardisation process I think it’s fine. Most are using prebuilt anyway so having a few standard levels SIs certify to makes it more consoley and anyone who’s rolling their own can use it as a guide or not and it’s exactly the same as the status quo.

Yeah it really is, I jump on protondb and read like 2-3 reviews to make sure the performance is adequate and there’s no major game breaking bugs and it’s fine.

I don’t think the point was ever to have to buy the hardware from valve, or that’s not how I saw it anyway. They wanted other manufacturers in on the steam machines, I think there were even units produced. The idea (aside from more steam sales) was to standardise PCs around specific performance levels so developers could target them without the faff of having to know how a 12900K stacks up against a Ryzen 7 7800X3D or a 13700 with a 3080, 4070Ti or a 7800XTXxXTTX.

This game is certified steam medium tier, I have a steam high tier machine, I will get xyz performance.

Maybe Valve should take another crack at the console market.

People are complaining because they don’t like a thing, that’s fine. Same as you’re complaining in this post. Call companies out on their bullshit. Also don’t buy bullshit, that’s a good point too.

Any % speedrun is already under an hour!

Money spent on hot ass is money well spent

Except that’s not what happened in the old days, I’ve been getting PC game patches for as long as I’ve been gaming, upwards of 30 years. You’re not going to get every bug. Console games just didn’t get patched, if it was a buggy PoS it remained a buggy PoS.

How many dev teams have a kernel dev on them?