Man, I miss this guy.

(Near) Monopolies are just inherently bad. Steam will enshittify further, like all the others. Let’s talk again after Gabe kicks the bucket.

I’m still using that 1080Ti and currently see no reason to upgrade.

If I could just download right from the Website

You can.

But then, my steam link could already do that.

I’m by no means talking about AAA latest and greatest. I tried Everspace 2 and Visions of Mana. Both need considerable tuning down, after which Everspace manages a fluid experience, while VoM still stutters while looking horrible. I haven’t dared to even try the likes of Witcher 3 (which people are talking about playing on the deck). I’ll probably stick with pixel art etc for TV mode, and go back to the ps5 for more demanding things.

You mean on the small screen, right?

People’s use cases seem to be wildly different from mine. I mainly use it in TV mode as a couch gaming machine. For most modern 3d games you have to turn graphics quality down substantially that way.

Edit: A downvote does not constitute an answer or a counter argument.

I played Witcher 3 day one and have no idea what you’re talking about.

but I’m back to feeling rather ambivalent about the whole thing, which to my eye looks like nothing so much as an alt-universe Mass Effect.

And that’s supposed to be a bad thing?

More Mass Effect is always a win in my book.

School of the Cat managed to successfully get to a point where 1/10 women survived. School of Crane is the later iteration of the School of Cat, which is why I mentioned them specifically.

Where is this info from? I could only find fan fiction so far.

As for why, it’s because Ciri wants to be a proper Witcher like Geralt.

Too thin for a 70% death rate when you already have most of what it takes for other reasons.

As far as we know it has never been done on a woman or an adult. Also, she already has super powers. Why risk a procedure that only 3 in 10 young boys used to survive?

Nah. Cat eyes and witcher potions don’t. They have some explaining to do.

Never put it past EA to do so.

Looking good. So… does this mean Splitscreen ? Sure looks like it.

So far I see Guardians of the Galaxy with product placement.

Who’s that ugly fucker that took the Leshen’s place?

Anyway, let’s wait and see in what state it releases.

FF 13 was 15 years ago, but it was also only 2 single player titles in the franchise ago if we don’t count remakes. Square Enix is just very slow at making them.

So … what … Ubisoft isn’t greedy and predatory enough for them?

They don’t. Buy on gog.

like you have no choice but to use Epic… which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

Literally anything besides not getting that game?

So we are giving participation awards?

Huh?

Are you blaming them for not preserving things more than actual physical objects that you bought are preserved in your house? The whole root of the matter was people complaining about companies obsoleting or taking away games they paid for. What GOG is doing counters just that. It is now once again in your hands and your hands only to preserve and maintain your property, and if the data gets corrupted, you only have time, physics and yourself to blame.

I couldn’t care less about anybody creating some kind of eternal video game archive for archaeologists of the post apocalyptic world to find. I care about if I will still be able to play the games I paid money for in 30 years, provided I keep the data and hardware. How would that last part be the store’s responsibility?

If you don’t download it, then they can remove it and it’ll be gone, regardless of if you purchased it already.

Yes, if you don’t take possession of the goods you paid for, you are in fact not in possession of the goods you paid for.

Sony once put a root kit on their CDs

Ok. In theory they could have put in a kill switch. I’m choosing to trust they didn’t.

The core of. ©RPGs that makes them special is the feeling that you decide what’s going to happen or at least that your choices have an effect on the world. That’s the core appeal of TTRPGs and it doesn’t change for video games.

Since the installers are DRM free, they physically cannot. Save for breaking into your home and destroying your hard drives.

A “DRM-Free” game is only as preserved as the hard drive space you dedicate to it.

You mean, just like any pre digital purchasing game that you own on disks? Or similar to any physical object you ever bought (hard drive space / shelf space), for that matter?

They’re preserving it as much as they’re able to without being a government funded museum.

Thinking about Sins of a Solar Empire 2. Any opinions?

Well intentioned my ass. If I want to cheat in my single player game it’s my damn right. They just want to make sure you buy their cheats (microtransaction time savers) instead of making your own for free.

Reactor online

Sensors online

Weapons online

All systems nominal

Wing Commander 1-4, space epics of my childhood.

Moderate Inflation (around the 2% target) is necessary for the current economical system to function. It incentivizes people to either invest or spend their money instead of sitting on it.

The last time I had to troubleshoot windows I was running 98 or XP I believe.

Linux has limited marketshare because of its Marketing.

I think Linux has limited market share because “will software X work on it?” and “are there drivers for hardware Y?” are legitimate questions.

It does not. You can download and backup all your GOG installers, making the games functionally equal to games you purchased on CD ROMs back in the day. They can revoke your license all they want, they wouldn’t be able to keep you from using the software you acquired this way. That makes all the difference.

Joke’s on MS, I’m happy that it doesn’t nag me to upgrade.