They could’ve started with anti cheat on the server side first. Characters were teleporting, money was appearing out of thin air, people were invulnerable, etc. Basic shit that doesn’t need any client side changes.

And yeah, being able to run your own servers would be preferable.

They locked me out of GTA online when they added battleeye and didn’t make it work on Linux. GTA O was shit anyway, everyone was hacking or griefing.

It was free if you already owned the game. Honestly not sure why people are complaining.

I’ve been using it, it’s basically still K9 mail with minor changes. It doesn’t really have the features you see in the desktop client.

They might promote it more when it’s got the features you’d expect from a mobile client, like proper search with a local index.

But still, can’t they just reuse the last codebase and just add the relevant assets for 25? Or at least create a DLC for the next year?

I think that’s their point, the quality of games has gone down the drain where the golden disc contains basically an alpha version of the game.

Yeah, who the fuck wants to deal with discs and shit like that? I moved to all digital before you could legally do it for basically all my media. It takes physical space and why the hell would you put up with switching discs and stuff? Just make sure you have enough storage for your shit and done.

You can still get to it if you really want to, it’s just harder. Like, someone can probably send you the APK over DM or through an email.

Edit: and I could be wrong, but that page looks like a CloudFlare page, so it’s basically them blocking those pages, not an ISP or anything. APKmirrors could switch to a different CDN if they want to.

Nowadays it takes like a year or 2 for devs to fix all the bugs anyway. People who buy on day one or pre-order are suckers.

I basically only have games that cost less than $5 on a sale. The prices for new games are ridiculous generally. $100 for something that will take a year to get the bugs fixed? Only suckers buy new games.

Next they’ll tie AOC to this because she played Among Us on Twitch once.

I mean, they settled as soon as they found this, as they knew how it would’ve played out in a trial. If you can show a judge that evidence was deleted, the judge/jury would need to assume that the missing evidence would show the guilt of that party.

The needle in the haystack part was that Vivendi were trying to bury Valve in evidence, as they assumed that they wouldn’t be able to afford to hire a bunch of Korean paralegals to go through everything. A wealthy opponent will do that in order to put you in the position where you have to choose between settling or paying a fortune to go through the evidence that may or may not contain anything useful.

Destroying evidence is a big no-no in a legal case, and would allow the judge to draw a negative inference, so I’m guessing that gave Valve the leverage to settle the case.

The DMCA was never about protecting the little guy.

Yeah, I have the same issue with WhatsApp. I have a group with my wife and parents that my parents just called myfirstname/wifefirstname, which makes no sense to us (on our end we’d like to call it ‘jonne’s parents’ or whatever).

Same with any other group chat we’d like to start that includes a tradie or whatever.

I’m sure it’s fun for your average plumber to have 50 different group chats with clients that are all called ‘plumber’.

And I don’t get why they would use it for graphics instead of using an AI coprocessor to do interesting stuff in games, like generating dialogue, complex missions, smarter NPCs, maps, etc.

You could build worlds where stuff happens that isn’t just governed by randomly doing stuff based on triggers.

Yeah, it’s not like Minecraft itself is marketed to the hardcore gamer demographic. It’s essentially a kids’ movie. I suspect it might still suck at that though.

Ah, that makes sense I guess.

Seems like a really old game to be porting. Is the Quest that underpowered?

Yeah, never had a console. I recently did get the steam deck and that has definitely allowed me to play a few games I never had the time to play before. Still have a huge backlog though.

Pretty sure Gaben has a yacht too.

The reason is probably that too many people got caught liking questionable content through the likes page.

And that costs a fortune compared to what a mass produced new car with a basic open source stack would cost if someone built it.

Yeah, but you can’t keep buying second hand cars. Some brand really needs to start making dumb electric cars (it at least allow you to replace/upgrade the computer easily).

Good luck finding a new one that doesn’t.

Not sure if it features in the fallout games, but it’s a banger line in the TV series.

Do you know what fiduciary duty means?

Fanatec is basically sponsoring a million different things, so that’s probably part of it. There’s only so many F1 fans you can sell a steering wheel to.

It’s not like Belgium does anything special either for the games industry. Their success is just due to hard work and good management by a studio that’s taking the long term view and it’s passionate about the work.

So they’re going to invade Belgium again?

Which is something typically only the maintainer/admin has rights to.

Presumably they removed it all before launch. What I don’t get is how they didn’t figure out who did this (unless it’s mentioned later on in the article, I gave up after it got rambly), don’t they use version control?

You don’t want to play Mafia Wars with your manager?

Same. Especially since every game basically barely runs on release day, I don’t get why people don’t wait for a sale to get it.

If you pay $80 (or whatever) for a game that’s full of bugs on release day, you’re just a sucker.

It’s a US law that basically any internet company just follows (or they implemented internal processes that just follow its guidelines where you don’t even need to file an actual official DMCA request).

There’s plenty of examples of companies intentionally filling DMCA claims to screw competitors. As far as I know nobody’s ever seen any consequences for this. The law is broken when there’s no actual punishment for abuse.

The issue is that nobody at the justice department seems to be interested in pursuing perjury, which is what filing a fake DMCA claim would be punished as.

Yeah, if their publisher hadn’t forced them to release in its unfinished state, it would’ve been a lot better.

Yeah, Musk bought the wrong company.

Yeah, way more work went into something like GTA V than any movie. The script alone is orders of magnitude longer.