Doesn’t Gamers Nexus interview the guy who runs that company? Like, they have a working relationship?

I wonder what his rants about this are like.

Sadly the preponderance of competitors in the/a consumer market means that abusive and misleading and pervasive advertising is baked into our current economic model.

I hate this fact. And hate advertising.

It uses less VRAM? That doesn’t sound right. Does it encrypt or obfuscate video memory contents? That sounds implausible too.

Why does it use more VRAM? And no need for generic “because it sucks” comments.

I think something happened with Ridiculous Fishing pre-AI too. A really hasty clone gained a bunch of undue attention.

What attitude do I have? I’m into VR, I love Valve. I’m excited for the Steam Frame. I’ve met people who work there.

It was just a bad word choice. And it was unreasonable for me to make a comment on the analogy that was used to respond to my poor word choice.

I’m just clarifying.

“Fault” isn’t an attack here. No need for the weird analogy. I just think the Steam Deck is the inciting incident to a whole chain of events in the gaming industry.

Like I said, the conversation would be different if users and mod creators didn’t bitch about breaking changes in game updates.

Mod support backs devs into corners. And it’s unreasonable to expect all game devs to take the extra time.

If all users stopped bitching about breaking changes, we would have different story here.

And if users didn’t expect to have full freedom to mod multiplayer games (exploits) the whole story would be different too.

Developers can do this if they choose to right now.

Most devs would turn off the feature if Steam was just indexing every release and letting people switch to old ones. This is because it will lead to users complaining about old versions for any number of dumb reasons.

The most profitable game ever was a buggy unplayable mess upon launch. GTAO.

Patches are also a tool to keep a game in the news cycle in more recent times.

So much comes out every single week. It’s quite a lot of noise.

I don’t think DS is first party? I might be wrong. It came to Macs and iPhones too.

I think they just got the timed exclusive.

Yeah, if anything, this is Valve’s fault. They upturned the playing field and proved a new path.

Neither the price increases or the fact that Microsoft is giving up on a pure console are Sony’s fault.

It’s still unfortunate that this is happening. PC is no longer neutral ground.

See, this is a toxic attitude to promulgate. They are not charging an outrageous price. It’s not a subscription. It’s not an unfinished game. It’s not locked to the Epic Games store. It’s being actively maintained. It’s not being sold by a toxic publisher like EA. It’s an indie developer. Etc. etc.

It’s just a simple product, with a simple price. And you insist you have the right to obtain a copy of it without paying because they don’t offer discounts. This just isn’t reasonable. You don’t have a right to a copy of this game. It’s entertainment. It’s a product that those who work on it derive their lively hood from. It’s not food. It’s not shelter. It’s not healthcare.

It was, and I felt the same way.

But I fear I was naive, and didn’t see that a single distributor/platform dominating could be bad. Even only having two or three would be bad.

It was easy to cheer them on when they were an alternative to cable and broadcast and home video. But now that all those other things have become diminished, I think it’s strange to complain that one service doesn’t have all content from all producers.

I also think music streaming platforms are a bit strange. But the sheer volume of songs vs movies and tv make that a different animal. And we have managed to have some competition there.

I think people should be arguing for content to be across more platforms, not for it to all be on one platform. But you’re not going to get Warner brothers and Disney to agree to swapping content unless they are required to by law. If people argue for one platform having everything, they might be doing it because they see it as the most plausible “remedy” to their woes. But that’s not a good idea.

We might need to get distribution platforms and production companies broken into separate entities. Studios probally shouldn’t own platforms. Just like they shouldn’t own theater chains.

Exhibition and content creation should be separate for the long term health of both parties and consumers.

You mean Netflix? You wanted Netflix to dominate like Steam? You use the word “beloved” so i assume so.

Disney is desperate to secure a future. They are not top dog.

Everyone should be saying even more provocative and violent things. More often in more places. It gets upvotes and views and increases time on the platform.

Let it rip.

This was intuitive and obvious to anyone paying attention to AI and who knows video game engines. Nvidia trying to imply anything else is really shitty.

When it comes to generating lighting and atmospheric and dynamic surface effects in real time, calculating each mesh or surface in the scene instead of one big collective pass would be even more demanding. And will likely be beyond their capabilities for a very long time.

I’m curious how well it handles lighting from unseen light sources that otherwise didn’t contribute as much to the scene as they should have. In other words, off screen lights that shine into the scene but are not fully rendered by traditional means. Same thing goes for reflections.

I expect a lot of nonsense being hallucinated in those areas.

And Nvidia claims it will release without the need for a second 50 series card this year.

Lots of bullshit being laid out by Nvidia here.

Claiming something is still in progress and that major change can happen before release is a classic tech industry public relations game, and too many “influencers” take it at face value.

This equivocates piracy and bittorrent tech as stated. That’s lame.

They likely want to start collecting data. So they need to get something rushed out so that they can build up the pile of data they will need to build out and refine this feature in time for the launch of their next console.

Good

Classics of Game [YT] appears to be working through uploading clips from the game right now. Their channel format is absurd clips from obscure games. So it’s a perfect fit.

I’m not familiar with the channel enough to know if they have been previously hit with a take down. (And I didn’t read the article link) I’m guessing they were, based on the YouTube comments. Edit: I just noticed the “episode” numbers make it clear these are re-uploads.

I really think that part of what is changing is that the hardware people run games on is becoming less and less differentiated in both power class and capability. And the hardware that does bring a large performance gap is very expensive.

Of course that’s criminal.

Make it Post it notes, free standing signs, whatever. I mentioned signs too, for a reason.

So I should be able to go down to my local GameStop and write the same sorts of things on game boxes and put up signs saying the same things?

That’s speech too.

Just because this is digital, it does not give a pass IMO. These are private spaces still. They are not administered by the public.

Yeah, I’m glad I’m not alone in having that vibe about Phil.

Following the immense success of the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative

Wait, what immense results have come from it?

In any case, getting a proper hearing is an achievement. Hopefully it actually happens. Right now the headline says it is happening, and the article shows that it should happen.

Yeah, makes me wanna say “Translation, not emulation.”

Sony made efforts to improve that because people like you complained about the process. And now here we are.

But you launch Fortnite to access it on every platform. There isn’t an “Epic UGC” app. So this is what Fortnite has become. An umbrella for experiences that include Battle Royal, Zero Build, Concerts, etc.

Those in the industry know that the guy running the content in question is just using the most profitable techniques available to him.

“Its open”

It’s funny to me that 6 years latter, we still don’t have fully ray traced lighting like this in very many games.

So we haven’t even seen the payoff of Nvidia’s expensive fucking hardware and they are already abandoning software that does show it off.

“But if we don’t do it, they will. And then they will win.”