The fuck he talking about? Obviously it has worked before. How else can you explain yearly COD releases making billions in revenue?

That it’s a losing strategy in the long term was always obvious, but get this: whomever’s in charge only cares about the numbers of the following quarter. That the company will go under in 10 years is literally not his problem, that’s the next schmoe’s problem.

Luckily EA hasn’t published anything I care about in over a decade. No big loss.

I don’t know what went wrong that such a patent was granted. I absolutely loathe IP people.

Someone got paid, guaranteed.

Well, it would literally be the difference of buying the game or not at all for me, so…

It’s crazy, it’s as if these corporations don’t WANT my money. Never, EVER buy into day 1 DLC, it’s the most anti-consumer practice in the entire games industry.

People need food. People need housing. People are freezing in winter and boiling in summer.

“Please help us”

“Sorry, best I can do is ChatGPT. Ask it how to survive, or how to entertain you, idc.”

I’ll probably still buy it… in a year or two, heavily discounted with all dlc included. But at these prices and conditions at launch? Lol.

Thank god they can’t do shit to TPB and its ilk since those are already illegal anyway.

Just wait a year and they’ll throw them at you for free with another Samsung product because of overstock.

Fuckin’ class act.

Most of them created from literal child labor and exploitation. Roblox as a platform is incredibly predatory and I don’t mean in a chomo way (though that too, sadly).

I just hope the price point is reasonable. I think 30 for the original RDR remake is steep.

Needlessly intrusive. Can obviously be circumvented by cheaters anyway, so quite possibly superfluous. Apart from that it protects against the kinds of attacks that typically require physical access to the computer. If you have physical access you have full access anyway. Etc.

I love the Battlefield series but I’m not turning on Secure Boot for them. If it remains a hard requirement, I’ll simply be passing altogether.

Sell 15K units at 900 a pop, or sell 150K units at 500 a pop…

We don’t know the margins on these things but I’d think that higher volume sales would be better. But what do I know.

Steam and Itch are both victims in this matter, their hands are tied. If the payment processors simply refuse to process any payments unless they comply, there’s no point in trying to put pressure on them. I’m pretty sure they were happy to take people’s money for these games and still would be, if they could so while saving face.

Steam is gonna look mighty empty if every game with violence is removed tho.

My line is these payment processors being judge, jury and executioner about what material they deem valid. So I am fundamentally opposed.

There are a few smaller EU payment processors. I’d love to see them move into the space Visa/Mc leave behind here but I’m not sure they are “big” enough for it.

First they came for the incest/rape games, which most people somewhat agree with (although the principle is still wrong) Next up is all nsfw games. After that, it’ll be mainstream and indie games altogether. This never stops with just one “victory” for these groups.

Technical issues mostly, check the Steam reviews for more details.

This’ll do wonders for morale across the board, I’m sure. The kind of people who stay late and work through their lunch? Yeah, they’ll stop doing that. After all, why bother if the end result is random unemployment? Might as well phone it in.

I own all the other Enhanced Edition D&D games and this is the first one I’ll probably skip. Unless they massively improve a few things that aren’t how they’re supposed to be.

TPB is basically immortal. Any instance taken down can be back up in minutes. It’s a game of whack-a-mole you can never win.

These only exist to make the more advanced (and more expensive) models seem reasonable by comparison. It’s marketing, not product development.

Not to mention that studios like Larian have proven that it’s entirely possible to make a blockbuster game without teams of 400 heads, changing direction and leadership every few years and laying off the people who made the product in the first place. They really seethed at that one, so many salty comments lol.

Imagine if the CEO who laid you off was also your psychologist/therapist who you have to turn to. What in the actual fuck is wrong with these people.

Not gamedev but other software, going through the exact same thing (new, external CEO). Guess the axeman cometh for us all eventually.

Considering a 5080 retails for about €1400, this is gonna be €1800 and up innit?

I remember the giant boss from the second level. That thing was positively humongous.

Yeah it’s a Windows (11?) feature. AFAIK it’s only supported explicitly by a handful of games, but it does appear to make a major difference for those games if the hardware used is up to the task.

It might just be a feature in the same category as “Nvidia hairFX” or w/e as a marketing gimmick though.

I have no doubt that “bare metal” games’ performance is better under Linux but what about things like cpu scheduling for multicore or directstorage?

Shitty ads/malware incoming in 3…

If you NEEDED both hands for that before, well, then you are truly blessed sir.

I recently swapped out my old 2080 with a new 5080, but my i7 8086K (type of 8700) is over six years old and it’s really struggling hard with recent titles. Oblivion remastered or Helldivers 2 take between 85 and 95% of cpu time.

The bottleneck is tremendous. I ordered a new cpu, mem, mobo & cooler to bring it back up to par.

AMD is making a lot more off their CPUs than off their GPUs afaik.

Don’t worry Nintendo, even as someone who grew up on SMB, you’ve thoroughly convinced me to never do business with you ever again. Not even nostalgia…

We’ve been up against the 5Ghz thermal wall for over a decade. We can keep adding cores but we need significantly improved design (less nanometers) for these gains - and these are now running up against another wall, namely quantum tunneling which begins being a problem at around the nanometer scale.

I assume only a radically different architecture (light instead of electricity?) will be able to smash these barriers.

Horrible creatures.

Damn, this is with everything on max at 4K with DLSS & Framegen?