Epic can finally add all the features they want but until they stop the BS of PC exclusivity deals, I’ll continue to never buy from them and will stick to Steam, GoG, and Itch.

Lack of competition? WTF are you even talking about?

You’ve got Epic, GoG, itch.io, and not to mention publisher specific storefronts like origin, ubisoft’s whatever the hell launcher for PC.

That’s plenty of competition, it’s just that they suck at actual competition or are comfortable in their niche market.

Instant claim link is there of you’re already logged in with your browser.

If you’re getting unauthorized it means you’re not currently logged into your account.

Tim, something, something about preventing games from being released on other storefronts…

I guess you’re living up to your user name.

https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-contacted-annas-archive-to-secure-access-to-millions-of-pirated-books/

and

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/wga-disney-openai-deal-theft-of-our-work-1236606872/

and

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/george-rr-martin-openai-court-legal-1236413461/

But of course when corporations infringe on copyright it’s fine right it’s not theft at all.

Okay. So how is Steam causing Nintendo to release their games at 80 dollars or rockstar threatening to sell the next GTA at 100 dollars due to Steam’s undue market dominance?

Also game developers have the option of using other platforms like epic, humble, itch, or using mostly DRM free GoG, my personal favorite.

As for the whole Steam preventing developers from selling elsewhere, I’d actually be interested in seeing their proof on this because developers have their games multiple storefronts at launch all the time. And kind of hypocritical to not sue Epic to for their exclusivity deals they make with publishers, literally preventing them from selling on another storefront.

Seems like a bullshit grifting lawsuit to me but hell I’m open to seeing what their actual evidence is.

Honestly AMD only has mid-range this time around but the 9070 XT trades blows with the 5070 TI and the ray tracing, if you’re into that, is much better but not quite as good as Nvidia.

So another thing to consider is with Windows 11 being an AI dumpster fire that patches will brick your system, if you go with a Linux build, AMD or Intel would provide a lot better driver support than Nvidia.

Whelp if I didn’t need another reason to ever buy Nvidia again.

Honestly, I moved from Windows 10 over to Bazzite and I’ve been enjoying the gaming experience so much more, despite some of little short comings, than Windows since 7.

I mean given the past couple of card launches, especially with this generation, how much would actually be affected.

Here’s the thing, he and the other modders that are doing this are very much so running a fine line here. They’re modifying the game’s code, sure it’s in memory, but it’s their code they’re modifying to get things to work. It’s not just relying on using existing API calls that are open for them to use. Just because they’re not modifying the files on disk vs modifying in-memory doesn’t mean they’re not using their IP, they certainly are and there’s precedent that this type of action falls under the DMCA.

Take in point that Riot and Bungie and many other companies have DMCA’ed and sued cheat makers and hey those guys were also just selling mods for their games. They also weren’t selling any files from their copyrighted games either they were just selling a framework to inject their software into their games. So question is are you also saying that Riot and Bungie are also DMCA sue-happy people who are Debbie downers that are preventing coders from making money?

Your simplistic, it’s just a phone case, isn’t analogous here.

Don’t get me wrong, IP law is tricky and IANAL but again, when a company politely asks you to respect their ToS and not sell a mod using their IP and you throw a tantrum and manage to piss off your community, well good luck buddy.

Don’t rely on making money off of paid mods that require use others IP and then throw a giant tantrum garnering more Streisand attention to yourself that you’re making money off of paid mods using other people’s IP by publicly throwing a tantrum disrespecting the wishes of a reasonable request by the developer that says “Don’t make a paid mod for our game but here’s an alternative so you can still make money but still respect our developers’ desire to keep mods free.”

Just a thought.

I use a Xbox controller and works perfectly with Linux.

For some, that’s good enough for them.

They enjoyed the game and they can play it with each other and have some fun together as life keeps punching all of us in the face and having the game playable when the company stops supporting it is always a great thing.

Your condescension aside, the fact that his framework worked for several games before this and their publishers/developers were fine with paid mod and if he releases the paid mod to work with BG3 and Larian would be okay with it, none of that is relevant here. So what if his software worked with other games? This particular game says you can’t have paid mods and CDProject was well within their right, and rightly so if you ask me, to make him get rid of it.

As for taking down whole business, once he scrubs his stuff of the CP 2077, he’ll be right back at it again his business is not sunk.

Now as for you argument that this was unnecessarily heavy handed and they should have asked nicely instead? Maybe, but we don’t know what either party said to each other outside of what both sides have publicly release and honestly Luke here sounds like a very unprofessional prima donna with the flare for the ultra dramatic and the only thing that seems to be solid is that they CDProject did ask that for that part of his mod, make it free and use donations instead which I still think is fair, you can release a singular package for the game with donations and have called it good while pay walling the rest who’s developers were fine with a paid mod on their game.

End of they day, even if they were heavy handed, they were well within their rights to take the mod down until their game is not part of their code base and it’s not that slippery slope argument you say it is and we just disagree on paid mods and methods used to remove them.

I think you’re missing some nuance here.

3DSen is based on reverse engineering and not IP since it’s not selling the ROMs that come with it. All completely legal to sell and don’t mind buying to support this guy’s reverse engineering and transformation effort. If it was just some stock NES emulator that he was selling, eh, I’d probably just say legal but bullshit.

Lossless Scaling is a tool/actual framework that uses released/open source API calls to apply frame gen to any game, as far as I know and that’s not violating any terms or conditions or IP either.

With this, while I can appreciate that he’s done this for other game, the terms and conditions for them is “don’t use our tools to sell mods”. Do I agree with it? Actually yes, for the most part. I’m of the firm belief that the modding community should be open, I think that these are things that should be done for passion, I like having donations set up, and that we’re lucky that we live in an age that many game companies are kind enough to release modding tools without demanding a license fee. Plus he’s not selling a framework here, he’s selling his framework built with a company’s tools that says “No paid mods because we think the modding community should be open”.

I think that IP is often tricky and I think that this is fine and not a slippery slope argument.

I’d like to briefly address the discussion around the “Cyberpunk VR” mod created by Luke Ross. We have indeed issued a DMCA strike, as it was available as a paid mod (only accessible to Patreon subscribers). This directly violates our Fan Content Guidelines: we never allow monetization of our IP without our direct permission and/or an agreement in place. We were in touch with Luke last week and informed him that he needs to make it free for everyone (with optional donations) or remove it. We are big fans of mods to our games — some of the work out there has been nothing short of amazing, including Luke’s mod for Cyberpunk 2077. We’d be happy to see it return as a free release. However, making a profit from our IP, in any form, always requires permission from

@CDPROJEKTRED

So they offered this guy to make it free with donations, which is reasonable in my opinion, and he said no.

Given that, I’m okay with this DCMA.

There nothing available to the rest of the world because AI companies have bought the supply and they’re not going to not buy it just because of the tariffs.

Now onto the cheering of lowering prices.

I honestly think it wont, especially in the long run.

If they move production onto US soil with the threat of tariffis and not with incentives like the CHIPS act, the prices will go up greatly, not just for the US but for everyone.

Take a look at TSMC and their current investments in the US. This investment is going to alter the global supply chain with these plants expected to provide around 30% of the global supply. And even now with the first plant, the company announced that the ROI is of course less than because it costs more to build here from materials, regulations, and staffing, which they’ve been moaning that they have a lack of qualified people in Arizona, go figure.

TSMC has already announced that they plan to raise prices by 10% in the 2026 year and expanding in the US so do you think that this raising in prices is just due to AI or do you think they’re also making up for US production costs too? I tend to think it’s a reaction to both since they did officially say it was a price raise to “expansion costs”, that’s with the billions in incentives, and what do you think will happen if the a company like SK Hynix, which is planning on expanding fabs, move it to the US for all global supply, will do to prices of RAM?

My two cents.

Yup. I expect nothing less from a silver spoon moron that daddy bribed officials for his “prestigious” BS in economics.

Well so far AMD and Intel have not decided to screw over their non-rich gaming user base as much so you can still play modern games.

Hate to break it to you but consoles aren’t going to be exempt from any of this.

Yeah, sorry, random.org didn’t roll your number. I may have a copy of WWE 2k23 if you’d play that.

Don’t forget that they’ve also announced they plan to reduce GPU production because of their AI BS.

Microsoft.

And by then they will have had their millions in bonuses and they know most people will be buying their crap when the bubble bursts because most of people have the memory of a goldfish.

Or just part of the destructible environment.

Your windows drive would be fine, Linux side you’d need to download then again.