Some of that is a result of the AAA devs ignoring Valve’s documentation on what NOT to do for things to work in Proton.....

I.E. Making launchers in .NET Framework 4.x instead of .NET 6.x or Qt (both of which are cross-platform).... or simply NOT making launchers at all.

Several EA games are marked as unsupported or…

My therapist has a term for this. It’s a “reason”, not an “excuse”. Just because they do it, doesn’t mean it’s right, but understanding the reason can help to understand the people.

We don’t have to like it, but we do have to accept that not all cultures share the same values. That has always been true and always will…

Corporate malfeseance should be called out, but let’s not mince words. WE, the gamers/buyers/consumers/viewer, encourage this behavior by continuing to buy things from these companies.

That’s not how that works. DRM cannot validate if a game is running on the physical console or not unless it is running at least during the launch of the game. The bigger issue is that Denuvo DRM has been notorious for being horrible on performance and that game devs generally don’t care since once you buy the game,…

The core issue with Vanguard, more so than other kernel-level anti-cheats, is the level of control it has over your system.

Except many companies don’t prioritize profit at all 

Only after the recent stock market issues did my company start to shift priorities from growth/revenue to being profitable. Instead many companies these days look to be high growth companies to either:

1. Try and get another company to buy them out so the founders…

It works really well and you can use it for GamePass, Stadia, or GeForceNow streaming. Simply follow the instructions from Microsoft and replace the URL they give you with whichever streaming service you prefer

You can install the Flatpak version from the “Discover” app in desktop mode, but that doesn’t replace the old one installed into the immutable part of the system. Despite what the author says, unless you are really really trying to install something out of the box, you won’t be adding any special “repositories” on…

This could be solved by simply going back to the old self-hosted multiplayer model. Many older games are still running online as they can still run their own servers.

Ah well then good thing most Christians aren’t hypocrits who act in the opposite of what they preach!

That’s not how that works. It’s not “if they both were abusive”, the questions to be answered were:

Eh, that doesn’t say much. If you look at the fact that he is a Christian (as am I), our faith is very focused on not alienating anyone based on their actions and the idea that all people are redeemable.

From what I understand, that’s not how it works. The Jury found that Heard’s claim against Depp was true in one count and found that Depp’s claims against Heard were true as well. Depp won bigger because his damages were bigger. I’m not a lawyer, but I did watch several lawyers, whom I’d assume know what they are…

Are there no local used game stores in your city? I live in Omaha, NE - hardly a huge metropolis by US standards, and we have several locally owned used game stores. Lincoln, the city in the story, about about 1/4 the size of the Omaha metro and it also has several local stores

From what I read, the tricky part to the Most Favored Nation clauses is that it is illegal for two stores to enter into a MFN with each other, but since this is between the “seller”(Dev/publisher) and the “buyer”(Valve, GOG, etc) and that has little legal definition, but is generally allowed since it doesn’t impact…

Specifically, Gamer Nexus called out online headlines taking their poor battery ratings and ignoring that they had maxxed out the settings in those scenarios. The Steam Deck has options for saving battery, one being to force limit the FPS to 30 (which is fine for the resolution). If players don’t want lower resolution…

The bug gives them the ability to arbitrarily execute code on your system. This could be as your user, or if the vulnerability gives the malicious actor access to the code running in memory, direct access to the memory space that Dark Souls is running in.

Log4J was a bad vulnerability, but the bigger issue with some of those is that companies using those libraries/software with the vulnerabilities in them refuse to update after the fix is put out.

Lots of games are written in C++ (which is also what Unreal uses). C++ is an extension of the C programming language and both of those have undocumented behavior that can cause simple functions to perform in unexpected ways depending on what compiler is used to compile the code.

Things that simply can’t be tested for…

If Steam IS DRM, then so it Humble, GOG, Itch, EGS, Origin, etc.

The reality instead is that Steam is a distribution tool that offers developers optional DRM, but does not require it. If the installation method is DRM, then everything except old-school discs are DRM......