I only played the demo of it but Luma Island seemed quite nice.

Your first two points are mentioned in the article:

The filing claims that Williams sent thousands of messages on Reddit to other users directing them to piracy websites, at times offering technical support for issues fans might encounter while attempting to mod their Switch. Williams reportedly asked for “donations” of Nintendo eShop gift cards in exchange for his services. The Japanese company believes that Williams created, operated, supported, and promoted piracy websites that allowed users to download “extensive” libraries of Nintendo Switch games.

In the lawsuit, Nintendo also says that it attempted to work with Williams by sending a cease and desist letter in March 2024. In it, Nintendo urged Williams to “shut down his pirate shops.” While Williams initially seemed receptive, Nintendo alleges that progress came to a halt as Williams denied involvement with any piracy shop and apparently became “combative.” Eventually, Williams apparently deleted his online posts that could imply culpability.

The article says for other age groups it dropped single digit percent points, so yeah it is mostly Gen Z in this case.

Both cost per frame graphics show the price adjusted for inflation and are the same cost per frame.

It’s a wallet

I will buy it when it’s on sale. 70€ is too much IMO

At the end of the year I look at the Steam Year in Review overview.

I feel the same. It kind of drags on with the combat and there are sooo many battles between story sequences. And you have no choice but to pay attention to the combat because of the parry and dodge mechanic. I’m playing on easy mode because I can’t be bothered to learn the perfect timing for it. It’s difficult enough on easy mode.

It says Steam right there

That’s not an excuse to not even try.

Good. FSR is finally able to compete with DLSS.

Hard pity is at 90 wishes and soft pity starts at 75 (which means that the chance to get a 5 star increases significantly with each additional wish past that point). Getting to hard pity almost never happens.

I kind of hoped for a custom character like V

The only thing that matters is that the cables don’t get caught up in any fans. Other than that you can stuff as many cables in a PC case as you want and it won’t impact temperatures by much (maybe 1 or 2 degrees Celsius). JayzTwoCents made a video about that. Cables don’t really impact air flow.

I agree. And if you want some level of convenience and some level of privacy I think Apple is the way to go.

For example I have the skills to use GrapheneOS but I just don’t want to deal with it and I want to still be able to use NFC payments. So iOS is the next best thing.

The reason Valve is not massively predatory is because they aren’t publicly traded and remain a private company.

German ID (ePerso) can transmit your age anonymously.

Germany for example has an ID with digital functions that are able to transmit if the holder of the ID is an adult or not completely anonymously but Steam refuses to implement a proper age verification system.

Your friend is entitled to her own opinion and I somewhat get her. Good graphics are really nice and can add greatly to a game.

That sentence went right over your head it seems.

It was a play on the “I use Arch btw” meme.

Bits are basically donations.

How long was it an Epic exclusive?

Calling Creation Engine Gamebryo Engine is like calling Unreal Engine 5 Unreal Engine 1. Almost no part of both engines are alike anymore after so many years of development. And Creation Engine can do so many things that other engines can’t do like their easy and simple modability or stuff like how the engine remembers where every item in the world is regardless of if the player put it somewhere else. This notion that Bethesda RPGs would be 10 times better if they would just use another engine is so stupid.

ESO is also almost 10x older than Diablo 4.

About time. Maybe they will finally be able to compete with DLSS and XeSS in terms of quality.

I don’t think this is exclusive to the HSR and GI communities.

They are rumoured to be announced at CES 2025.

I’m tempted to buy it just because.

I’m looking forward to it. I will wait for the full release though.

I don’t understand this obsession with player numbers unless it is a full fledged MMO where player numbers matter to a degree and up to a certain point. But for games like this it doesn’t really matter.

Planetary Defence Cannon Commander is the literal translation.

I’m glad they reworked the character models to be less blocky, it looks so much better.

From what I’ve seen of the game it just didn’t look good tbh.

I’m more excited about Paralives.

I will miss the iconic witch voice from PoE1 😕

It looks very interesting and with a few of the original creators on board also promising. But does anyone else think that the FOV in the trailer during the first person sections looks weirdly small?

If that would be case I doubt he would push patches to Nouveau under his Nvidia work email address.

No

I think the biggest problem for Cyberpunk was that they also released it on last gen consoles which cost them many resources that could’ve otherwise been used to polish the game for the other platforms.

What if it becomes Baldurs Gate 3: Witcher Edition? BG3 also has a player created character without an existing personality and the storytelling is certainly not shallow in that game.

They already said that PoE 1 will stay playable.