We were not discussing that. It’s about a label on DRM-free games, marking them as such.

“people like you”

People asking about their certification process?

Even if I was complaining, Sony should want to improve their process without the need of it.

I thought consoles had their long winded certification processes? Do they not catch these types of games there?

The final final update?

If there’s not riots from what is already happening in the US, then there definitely won’t be from a video game being banned.

That’s a very out of touch take.

Yeah, I mean I still give them a go, but ultimately I think first person is better suited to shooters.

If Division 3 has a beta or whatever, I will probably try it too regardless. If the game is good enough even with TPS, then that would be great. I doubt it will be anything remarkable though, given Ubisoft’s implosion.

Well yeah that’s the thing though, you are filling in the blanks. I can’t remember all the marketing material, I think they did cut a lot of the map though.

Even if they did manage to make it expansive and interesting enough, the third person would ruin it for me. It was clearly made with slow camera movement of controllers in mind.

Yes, the whole reason they started on this game 11 years ago is because Mojang banned a whole bunch of MTX. Hypixel lost a lot revenue because of it (good, literally exploiting children) and went to make their own game.

Hytale will be drowned in MTX eventually.

It has always been a pile of shit anyway, but yeah.

It’s gonna be the real name thing, honestly. But I do feel GTA VI is going to be a lot more “censored” than the previous titles, I hope not.

Eh I remember it looking a lot better, it does look very bland in that trailer now I have watched it back. I suppose your mind fills in what you actually want from the game, but then after it releases you realise you get exactly what you were shown, a mediocre and boring game.

Israeli Overwolf payment processor too. Fuck that.

Yeah for external DRM, but if a game has Steam DRM, then there’s no official label or warning.

For example, Witcher 3 is DRM-free on Steam, but there’s nothing (AFAIK) on the Steam page saying that.

Epic Games is a scumbag company :)

Well the new owner, was one of the original founders.

As long as games stop using shitty Epic Online Services, I’ll take GOG’s.

Steam don’t disclose it, there’s no tag or label on the store page. Which is fucking shitty, either oversight or business decision. So you would never know unless you tried launching the executable yourself, looked it up online or the game was marketed that way.

But yeah, with GOG, you just instantly know.

Steam does allow DRM-free games, it’s up to whoever is publishing the game to the platform.
GOG just currently requires it.

Most of the games on GOG are also DRM-free on Steam.

So it’s really just looking at prices and other features that is the defining factor. Considering Steam’s Linux support, GOG is off the table for me.

yah
see: quake, team fortress, overwatch

3rd person is for selling skins.

It would, at least with the initial cast. I don’t know if they have added any movement creep kind of stuff since.

Overwatch had hyper mobile characters and worked well, even with its low FOV (it really needed higher FOV).

I’d like to try it in first person. Third person fucking sucks for shooters.

Should be less of a requirement in Divinity anyway. D&D isnt suited to be a video game, it was made for table top. I “save scummed” a lot lot less in DOS2.

The random game over screens sucked too, its like why even have the dialogue option if you are just going to be hit with game over and no other cutscenes.

Also you had to quick save a lot because of all the bugs and inconsistencies.

Yeah, the rest I can understand, Arc Raiders is anything but innovative.

There’s differences in playthroughs, if you choose, but it is linear. The game ultimately railroads you to the same endings.

Steam Awards is a popularity contest.

Get a Steam Deck? You can hook it up like a PC, use it sat around. Though its not a powerhouse. Wait and see how the Steam Machine fairs? There’s still a good second hand market for parts too.

Its a shitty time at the moment with scumbag companies and AI, so consumers are completely fucked.

Also: Fuck subscriptions.
Plus the game pass versions of games are complete dogshit compared to the Steam versions most of the time.

The guy isnt a publicly traded business though.

Good thing to get away from CD Projekt, to be honest. I hope GOG thrives more in the future!

The argument for it boils to “im lazy”. Which is why they are struggling to come up with anything else that justifies the negatives.

Cute.

It’s not indie, it had the full support of a publisher. Indie is a handful of people making a game with their own money, not getting a millions of dollars in investment from a publisher.

They want to argue for AI, they just don’t know how. Says it all.

Exactly, they can’t be angry if we don’t pay anymore.

Predictable deflection and going in circles again.

They are spending money on AI, more than the cost of a texture :^)

The major rub of Gen AI art is profiting off of others work. If you’re never displaying it and don’t ever want it shown then who cares?

This doesnt even make sense, you just answered your own question. The major rub is exactly why we care.

There’s no red tape. From the site I provided, the license allows them to use it privately or commercially. It’s placeholder and from all the options out there they could have found something.

There’s also all the environmental problems with AI.

Why go through the effort of AI then for them? It’s the same amount of work, well less even, you’ll get a full pack of textures at different resolutions with UV maps and all, versus AI where you then have to check it and potentially do more.

It says it all, when purchasing a texture is now “stupid busywork”. You literally type in what you want, get hundreds of results, buy one, put in the game. They used UE5, Epic Games have Fab and it’s integrated into the engine, they even give away lots of free assets there (granted that is probably going to fill with AI slop soon). There’s loads of other options out there too.

This argument of “its placeholder textures” is null.

Why are you being obtuse? If the in-house designers didn’t want to make some placeholder textures, they could have used a marketplace instead of AI. Are you just going to keep going in circles?

It’s been proven time and time again that a game doesnt need to compare to AA and AAA shit to be successful. You dont need a big game with a big world. There’s an endless list of simple indie games that had a captivating charm that are crazy successful, all without a single bit of AI used.

Of course not, big games were ruined before the AI craze, but that doesnt mean they are getting a pass of any kind.

Yes, so they can buy some cheap marketplace textures instead of paying to use stolen content. What are we not understanding here?