Yeah, hence why I said that technically the license can be revoked. Enforcing that is another matter. Without going into the weeds, we need to rethink how to handle it. At minimum, we need to make sure that if the license is revoked not from breaking ToS, the Copyright/IP holder must refund the purchase too. The copyright/ip holder still has the right to their creation but the consumer is also protected via those refund. It is indeed not bulletproof but whether you like it or not, copyright/ip protection is needed to some extent.

On the basis of technicality, it will depend very wildly on the ToC of said intellectual property. As you said, GOG just distributes the installer and that is it, the IP holder can technically revoke your/GOG license if that is in the ToC somewhere.

This. Titanfall 2 has ruined my taste in FPS forever. Nothing ever comes close for me

I wish it has more element like CnC Renegade or Battlefield. This is quite an interesting game experiment

Damn, reading this from a CS POV really puts into perspective how efficient our brain is.

I personally think that if valve with their size managed to make a game and maintain their infrastructure for other publishers to use, wtf did the competitor do this whole time?

Proton is throwing money at wine IIRC

I think valve is silently collecting the data for their internal team all this time when they didn’t act. It’s always a cat and mouse game after all, but if the cat is patient, then he may catch a lot of mice. And remember, they don’t have as invasive anti cheat as any other game of the same genre.

Yep. Already edited my comment too

I was curious and then trying to edit the contrast, sure enough. This is 3×

It means it isn’t there. I don’t see the hue either. Which leaves, screen issue.

Edit: It seems like a contrast issue? I took the screenshot and modified it contrast value -3×

But the recommendation can make better inference if they have more data wouldn’t they? What should have happened is opt-in for a better recommendation.

Alright, I don’t have the data nor time to research it now. But just try to check the pricing on EGS when a game was exclusive there AND after the exclusive deals run out AND the game is then sold on steam. Did the price increase? Or if that feels flawed (which I get it, maybe the dev has no intensive to change the price), try to get the average cost of those exclusive AAA games from other stores and compare it with average AAA games on steam. See how different it is.

I mean, did the competitor even make an announcement to have at least feature parity with steam? Last time I heard, GOG doesn’t have regional pricing, Epic is not supporting linux just because, and EA/Ubisoft is just a glorified ad

They being the largest platform because the consumer wanted their service, not out of obligation. Epic provides cheaper cut for the developer and is steadily building up their library. But why don’t users flock there? Heck, they even have some actual exclusive titles there. EA and Ubisoft too got their own store, and they too got a few exclusive title. So why does steam is still being chosen? Maybe there is other value provided besides hosting, like, idk, remote play? Controller remap? Family sharing? Opening linux gaming market? Social feature? Forum? Modding?

I’ll reiterate here that I think it would be funny to see steam actually lowering their cut to 20-10% or something and the mass migrations of developers from other competing stores to steam, and finally making the other store even more insignificant. That’s what they want isn’t it? And even more funny when after the changes are applied there is no difference in price because after all, publishers get more money for free, why should they lower their profit? If anything, when the policy is reversed/back to when it was, we will only see an increase in game price lol.

Well, it is very distinct from the usual Japanese anime. I’d say go watch it with the mindset of the usual western action movie just with anime style.

Cyberpunk and moon just brings me PTSD from the anime.

Ah, I thought it was like Dragon Age: Origins or even Skyrim. Because yeah, that is the Fable that I remembered. The appearance is affected by our action but we cannot create a hero to our liking.

For any games without explicit support, you need to force enable the compatibility layer for it. Should be on the settings menu.

Wait, fable has a feature to create our hero? I thought the hero was predetermined. Forgive my ignorance since I only ever played The Lost Chapter. I hope MS will give fable the Halo treatment so I could play the other series too.

Can confirm. I have DA:O on steam and running Arch linux. It works flawlessly IMHO. Haven’t encountered any bugs so far either

Shame. It would be a good way to know if you are their favorite child lol. All joking aside, I think this is a compromise as others have alluded deep in comments. Valve likely doesn’t care or enforce it, but they don’t want to be responsible for account transfer due to games licensing and other legal shenanigans.

Hey, at least your purchase is transferred!

Why… why is it more secure? Does it mean AI training is actively abusing copyright law? And this is more secure because they can hide it better?

From the pareto principle it can be said that if the cost for adding a feature for the little percentage of users is quite high, it is not worth it.

Yep. Can’t wait to overfit LLM to a lot of copyrighted work and share it to public domain. Let’s see if OpenAI will get push back from copyright owner down the road.

Sure, but I specifically ask other launcher. If we are talking no launcher at all then it is a different discussion entirely. If we are talking about not having a launcher, yeah, that is understandable too. But then again, many games have their own launcher and they do not add any value other than for the sake of having one/promoting the publisher

What other value does the so called other launcher provide? Modding sdk? Community forum? Family sharing? Controller remap?

And sony could mandate that the email be a real email, and if you get caught the account gets banned. Congrats, now you invented a game of whack a mole!

Size wise, it is small relative to the ship size. Look at car engine. How many % of volume is taken up for the engine and fuel tank of car? I think it is close to 30-40%

Until you realize that the energy requirement is also different. Land transport in general is very inefficient. Ship is in fact one of the most energy efficient means of transport.

No, I do not since I am an individual which has no need for such high security/trust. A military of a certain nation certainly could (and probably should tbh). But I could if I wanted to, and I can’t say the same for iOS. The difference with open source is that I can choose if I trust them or see it for myself instead.

Korea has the capabilities to make an android phone (Samsung). I’m pretty sure they can make Android with vetted source code and hardware. iPhone is just trust me bro™

Alright, this is the one! OMG thank you so much, you just quench my hyper fixation!

The problem with any device having any internet access at all is that it is quite trivial for a program to establish a connection to a known server (malware can initiate it) and then having those servers send commands back to the computer, effectively having control over it.

Yeah, that is if I remember it correctly. But I do remember installing a modern office suite back then using crossover. They also have trials so you can test your target program is indeed running as it should before buying.

If you are fine with the older office suite (2019 I believe), there is a codeweaver program called crossover. They are the teams that make WINE a reality and they have a one version license so you can own it forever. Or yeah, you can also use VM.