It’s the publisher, not the dev, thankfully.

But there is a group actually cracking Denuvo recently.

As much as people hate Denuvo for its downsides, it has been effective at preventing piracy.

The real question is whether piracy has a negative effect on sales.

Works for me

Right, they always want more, but they can always outlast the poor during a shutdown.

Congresspeople are already rich. Shutdowns don’t really have any impact on them.

A bunch of the game’s art looks like quick mspaint drawings. It’s just placeholder art while the game is still being developed.

I feel like a month is a really long time to do something like this that makes you feel uncomfortable and creepy. And yet there are people who won’t feel any awkwardness and who will gladly wear these glasses and interact with others as if they weren’t.

Yeah, Fortnite makes a billion a year. I can’t imagine the entire company would sell for so little.

“Had to happen” surely.

Fortnite is still printing money. On its own, it’s enough to sustain the company, so they very much didn’t “have to” lay off any employees to remain profitable.

Maybe it’s all legendary employees now

Epic is a private company, they don’t have any public stock to buy back.

That said, Slay the Spire regularly goes on sale for like 90% off. You can pick the game up for under $3.

I’m pretty sure Twitch has stopped exclusivity deals. They even recently allowed showing combined Twitch and Youtube chats on screen.

I agree that GOG should put out a Linux client to make things easier, but with Heroic as an alternative, getting the games working is pretty painless. The only thing that sucks there is that Heroic doesn’t update its Proton versions on its own.

All anticheats are not made equal, and some are functional under Linux.

Doom ran at 100+ fps at 4k on my 1070ti with graphics maxed out. It’s hard to tell what optimization allows it, but the game runs way better than anything else that looks at least as good.

TBF, at the time, 800x600 was a pretty standard resolution. For gaming on a low-end PC, you might go down to 640x480 to get a better framerate, which wouldn’t look too bad on a CRT.

25 ports is a lot, but I can see anyone making music or streaming wanting this. Keyboard, mouse, microphone and camera (sometimes multiples of both,) controllers, phone, tablet, stream deck, external drives, etc.

They’re calling for a boycott and you want to spend more money instead?

People are voting with their wallets, and so far they’re ok with paying $80 for a game.

The key is whether or not someone would confuse one franchise for another based on the aesthetics. People were losing their minds over Palworld being a ripoff of Pokemon when it first released.

I could see it going either way. IP law is a mess.

They’ve already moved away from Unity for their new games, but still have active, published games based on Unity that they can’t just drop entirely, and can’t develop for without it.

Make it P2P or player-hosted and then you don’t need to pay for server costs.

It’s not a AAA GaaS, there’s no real reason for them to host the games.

It hit the spot that Lethal Company held when that stopped being fun. They were clearly aiming for the same kind of game, but I don’t think they expected it to get the attention it got.

mechanics that penalize you for opening treasure chests too soon.

Unlike all the other chests, the ones that “penalize you” have an event and prompt asking if you want to open them, and in a game about time travel, it’s not too hard to figure out what’s intended.

People generally don’t talk too much about things that don’t particularly stand out. If a game is bad, people will complain. If a game is good, people will praise it. If a game is middling, most people will just move on. Nobody’s going to start a discussion about a game that was vaguely enjoyable but not noteworthy, unless expectations were unreasonably high to begin with.

In the fiscal quarter ending June 2024, Microsoft reported over 500 million monthly active gaming users across all platforms and devices

I assume that includes Windows as a platform, which would include Steam users as well. It’s easy to look good when you include your competitor’s numbers in your own.

You also find Alluring Skulls before that, which can also be used to make the fight easier.

What’s weird is they offer preorder bonuses, but no preorders available 2 days before launch.

I mean I think preordering is dumb anyway, but this is even dumber.

Dead Cells is 50% off on GOG right now.

If you enjoyed Hades, you might like the new Ninja Turtles game, Splintered Fate. It’s definitely a bit more than “inspired by” Hades. Doesn’t quite hit the same, but it’s still a good time.

Travel in, then travel back out.

Gerry Rafferty’s most famous song?

That’s Kenny Baker

Just because someone doesn’t play games all the time doesn’t mean they don’t play games sometimes.

If you race 10 hours a week, but you watch racing 20 hours a week, are you not still a racer?

Israeli supremacists

A lot of the jankiness is gone in the later games. DS1 feels really clunky after having played DS2 and DS3.

It runs fine on Linux.

It’s true that most people wouldn’t know, and probably wouldn’t look that far into things before buying a game. Fortunately Steam’s refund policy is pretty good for this kind of situation.

That’s the key here. People who were willing to pre-pay for the game ahead of time are clearly not the target of the DRM, and yet they’re the ones choosing to cancel their purchase. It’s not pirates complaining because they want to play the game for free, it’s people who were looking forward to buying the game.

Who’s the indie company going under here?