So I was still on point with the reply.

Wait, I didn’t actually catch that last part. So Unity is not going to install random shit with their installers, but instead just guess how much copies a developer would sell and charge them based on that?

That supposing pirates remove it. Sure, some will, but I am also very sure that some will simply weaponize piracy to actually and directly hurt developers, since Unity now backpaddled with their “we only count unique installs.”

I reckon that’s entirely going to depend on how much of this tracking being a burden on the end user. If it isn’t, i.e. if the tracking system is not meant to authenticate your copy but rather just keeping track of “number of installs,” there will be no doubt versions with and without tracking out in the wild. The…

So let me get this straight:

Considering how reluctant they are to share information about their “proprietary software,” I wouldn’t be surprised if you are right about that. 

Technically, he got it? He got his own shiny article on Kotaku and is now here bragging about what a stand up human he is. With mixed results, though.

...like, what was this dope expecting? That the subreddit that is specifically about leaks and rumours would give him a pedestal for getting a leaker arrested? Man, talk about dense.

And yeah, sure, it’s a crime. No doubt. But I am not going to lose a lot of sleep over a multi trillion dollar company losing out on a…

Eh, bought a second hand copy some 2 months after its release and quickly stopped playing. It felt way too gamey for me; use spell a to open door a (and door a only), combat was quite average and even the puzzles were kind of lame. Even the school aspects of the game were exceedingly disappointing. Just “spend time at…

After I saw the video by Eddy Burback, that was the exact thought I had. A nicely worded idea, that is immediately taken advantage of by every major corporation.

Wanna bet VDC is gonna claim they cannot be responsible for the quality of the kitchens that make them, since they are not actually responsible for the actual cooking, or something along that line? I feel like all these tech startups offering something like this are completely banking on the whole “plausible…

So, with Bethesda and Acti in their pocket (or at least almost), anyone wanna take bets when they move to the next publisher, to bring the gaming scape ever closer to complete consolidation? Because they ain’t gonna stop.

They wanted to stop import and second hand sales as well. The latter being relatively recent even.

I don’t care what people thought about the additional content, I love the Sealed Temple from FFV, and was super disappointed the pixel remaster of FFV doesn’t have it.

Yeah, obviously. I am not talking about obvious pitfalls like those. More talking about websites that try to install whatever crap the moment you load them, and come with loads of ads.

You’re welcome to teach me, by DM or something. Many of the sites I used to frequent are completely dead now due to the antics of certain companies, and I could definitely use a virus free alternative.

Not sure, really. From what I could find by Googling a bit, a company folding is not a guarantee the IPs they had are now free for all. They could have sold off the IPs during dissolution, the IPs could have been transferred to the founder(s), or a whole ton of bullshit could happen if the whole topic of IP was not…

No, I didn’t fall for anything. As a researcher, I would like to conduct my research in a legal manner, and right now said legal manners would either require me to buy highly expensive vintage games or spend expensive travel expenses to go to them. Anything else would basically be piracy. Granted, not all vintage…

Yes, because unfortunately, copyright law doesn’t define piracy as something that incurs a monetary loss. It’s only defined as the unauthorized use and copying/distribution of software.

It doesn’t help though that Nintendo wiped out/threatened a lot of the websites that offered those. I mean, sure, I get that they are in the right from the perspective of the law, but those games before the 2000s used to be much easier to find, without having to fear countless of viruses.