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2·9 days agoSo, who stands to gain from the project being killed (i.e. if the developers get doxxed)? Steam/Valve, because they sell the PC version of the game? I don’t buy it. Sony? That’s an even greater stretch.
Bet on “people are stupid”: usually it’s the winning horse to these philosophical issues.
Humans are flawed, and make stupid things; sometime it’s not even about malice/narcissism, but because they are in hard time in their lives.
I don’t remember which project, but a volunteer developer sustained for many years a very popular dependency package for the web: it was free and companies worth millions used his software without ever-never give anything back. When the dude was in economic/life hardship he sabotaged his own project in some sort of form of protest.
It’s not something can be freely shared: Valve still own all the rights:
Project link is here: https://incrue.net/p2008/
But is only the source code created within the community to make the maps work; it doesn’t include maps.
presume that if people know about AI, they hate AI; a true evangelist for AI!
“but that’s not about PC videogame”
Well, I think together with Valve, in this period Capcom has been the strongest entity the PC gaming industry (as far AAA goes): maybe the PC gaming industry is actually taking all the spot Sony left open?
Translation:
"Sony&Microsoft birbe us with lot of money to release on their console, because their console are worthless without birbed exclusives.
Valve won’t birbe us because they are still into that obsolete thing called… <<honesty>>
Ultimately Epic Games can’t afford to biribe us"
Speed is relative: GoY got a ∞% increase of speed compared the previous instance, which was 0 fps.
Is probably the most “legitimate feeling” giving experience. You can be a legitimate owner of a copy of a game and use a random iso dump of the very same game, but just plug the actual thing gives different strokes.
Laws are those things that anytime touch you and the people around you, should always raise red flags; even (and especially) if they come from people you like… you won’t get people like the MAGA so forcefully fed in any BS if this was a common practice.
Once you haven’t raised red flags on politician you like… you’ll risk to be trapped forever in the shame you share with them.
It must be some kind of fresh new marketing system, I would call it the “Star Citizen” marketing system.
Typo fixed.
I do usually mirror on archive.org/archive.is (whoever save the page first) when a website become annoying with unreasonable amount of popup (“please log”, “please install our app”, “please eat our spyware cookie”, “please pay subscription if you don’t want to sell your data”)… All this on net positive of ublock already blocking most crap.
My reading is this: Nintendo is paying a lawyer firm that, unfortunately for Nintendo, can’t do all the things Nintendo dream (ie: physically slap in the face whoever is NOT actively give them money) because they loss most cases, and when they lose a case… that’s a precedent.
However, the lawyer firm is taking money from Nintendo, and they would like to keep doing so; unfortunately for them “doing nothing” is not a good call to keep the Nintendo money flow in their pocket.
So, they figured this out:
Point A: Microsoft want to be friend with Nintendo (Nintendo publish few games on Google’s Android and MS hope Nintendo will consider MS’s stores too).
Point B: Microsoft own Github, and Github has to please whosoever Microsoft wants pleased)
Point C: lawyer send letter to MS-github: “we represent Nintendo, and Nintendo would be pleased if you do this unlawful thing and you show off your shitty EULA against these poor bugger like it was actual law”. MS-Github obbey hoping some Mario’s money will come in MS-store later or extremely later (which is “sooner or late”, but for very desperate simp)
Point D: lawyer present Nintendo their “doing” as it was actual lawyer job to ignorant morons; being as such, Nintendo pays.
Qualcomm is provider for the next coming Steam Frame, which is an ARM platform planned to run X86 videogames through Valve’s Fex. Their active interest in kernel Linux may be driven more by Android and broad challenge against Intel/AMD in the desktop/laptop industry, but ARM Linux PC gaming is posed to be there by the time Valve’s FEX begin rolling like proton itself is doing today.
The problem with employees and employed is that the thing goes the other way around… unfortunately.
Is also a free game engine if your earning are lower than $200,000/year.
I just wish Valve would try to deliver the SteamMachine in form of barebone: without ram and storage. So customers can find their own way to build their PC.
…and once freed from ram cartel, push for a very alluring price on par with what they did with the SteamDeck.
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Other than the broad “Microsoft hate” people is thinking about, there are two reason I can think about; and none about Gaben being a Microsoft’s scorned ex-employer.
- conflict of interest: Microsoft’s EEE. Look it up. If they rule the OS on which majority of Steam Hardware work on, Microsoft rules on a competitors against it’s “Xbox experience”.
- Microsoft doesn’t allow open source drivers to officially run on Windows. Any hardware driver must be done, paid, by close doors at Valve and no extra help as the whole community around mesa and affiliated. There’s a reason why Valve is skipping Nvidia on basically everything.
I suspect GTA6 will sell a lot on PS4, PS5, PS6 and PS7; the same customers will push by buying on PC whatever release/remaster/**edition (as separate copies). That’s not an actual audience, it’s what I call the “CoD audience”: a critical mass of people with enough money to buy from a franchise (regardless if they want to play or not the game).
Anyway, GTA6 is not PC Gaming… anything can be PC Gaming, but the GTA6 product from Rockstar is currently “not PC game” because that’s their core business: double-tip on the same product.
They (Rockstar) now are just afraid by some random AI port that will ruin things for them.