And yet, MMOs do it just fine. This screams laziness on the user’s part. You can block people, report people, or simply ignore them - do it. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I grew up being taught that:

1. I can’t control people and

He has a point, whether you like it or not. MMOs have (mostly) succeeded in handling the chat issues by make chat open, give players the ability to turn on/off content filters for themselves, and enabling a report feature that users can use to report bad actors.

I can’t stress enough how much you’re missing if you haven’t played III or V. They are both great games. Get them on Android/iOS if nothing else (unlike most SE mobile ports, they are actually really well done)

I’m not sure sure it’s that the other side doesn’t want to do anything, but that their solution is different. The key here is that both sides are afraid, for both similar and different reasons.

I hate that. I hate having to have 100 different app launchers to launch my games. I love the idea of news stores (like Steam, GOG, Discord, itch.io, etc), but I hate the idea of 1st-party only stores for PC. The other thing that really drives me nuts is when I want the Linux version of a game, but I HAVE to get it on…

I’m a bit confused why he didn’t just require users to get the assets themselves. That’s what other Open-Source projects do to keep from getting in trouble, require the users to own the game (several tools exist to pull down assets if you own the games on Steam/Origin/GOG/etc).

Consider this: This is a game that is almost 15 years old. Has (more than likely) billions of lines of code in it and with each update and expansion, they work to update/fix/change systems based on what was learned from the last expansion/update..... Problem is, software does this weird thing where certain…

Not to mention that DRM like Denuvo is now hooking itself into the WinNT Kernel.... something I would never want on my system outside of Hardware Drivers. It gives the DRM potential access to the PC Hardware and if used improperly could cause OS level problems, not just problems with game.

It’s a major WoW Software patch. An absence of calamity would be shocking.

Here’s the problem I have with the uproar about Price. She was talking about a company owned product that she worked on in a very public place (You don’t post to twitter hoping people don’t see it, unless you set yourself to private) and got mad when a prominent community member dared to disagree with her.

Maybe, but now that I think about it, the name itself “Octopath Traveller” implies that there are 8 individual stories rather than a single overarching one.

It doesn’t matter, your public attitude reflects on those around you. In our world perception matters way more than what reality is.

So, as others have asked here, where do you draw the line? If you think that any game that allows civilian/school shootings should be banned, what about games like GTA and Postal. They aren’t explicitly about shooting up a school/church/etc those games sure allow you to do it (or similar actions).

Wouldn’t truly “racist” content fall under “Trolling”?

Comparing Apple iOS apps to PC desktop apps is like comparing apples to oranges. Of course Valve wouldn’t distribute GOG via Steam, but GOG directly competes with Valve, it makes sense. What we are seeing here is Apple rejecting what is technically just a Video Streaming/Remote access application because the user has…

The problem is that thought process could be applied to ANY app that provides remote access to a server or desktop as that app gives you access to purchase digital content from your iphone without going through the app store.

I’ll give you the comment on Frostbite, though I thought I had read that they did port the engine over to linux as a fun side-project, but weren’t allowed to use it for anything (in my experience in the tech field as a dev, this wouldn’t be surprising at all). I could be entirely wrong on this.

That said, Vulkan, DX12,…

I’m not saying I know more than DICE. In fact, DICE has gone on record saying that they’d like to try developing linux (starts digging for that quote), but it’s not DICE’s decision, it’s EA’s.

I work in Software Development and Systems Admin. Time and again our teams warnings, suggestions, and expertise are outright…

It is, but based on numbers given from actual companies that port games from Windows to Mac/Linux, it’s not as much to port the games as to originally develop them. Much of Game Dev cost is upfront for the entire game regardless of platform (cost of developers, artists, designers, producers, tooling, etc). The cost of…

I’m going to get a lot of flak for this, but as much as I love BF, I’m not buying an XBone or Windows License just for this game. There are millions of Mac and Linux users (Yes, those measly 3% and 1% user base translates to millions of users), yet EA/DICE can’t spend ~$50-100k for a return of well over $1 mil......…