Please cite your sources for this. A quick search for easily quotable numbers brought me to an Arstechnica article (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/new-study-same-authors-patent-trolls-cost-economy-29-billion-yearly/) which it (against patent trolls who, generally, have MUCH weaker cases) thus:

Yes, but also no. Because of the vagueness of how patents are written, they cover a WIDE variety of means. This means that even if you use a different game engine, different tools, and different methods of committing, if you have a system where killing an enemy makes them return with a vendetta about you hurting them,…

...and you’ll never see it done. Because it’s patented. 

Yes, absolutely. But you would have to make the game, publish it, get sued, and then fight an expensive legal battle to determine whether or not it was different enough to not be covered by the patent. Which is possible, but requires you to have DEEP pockets AND the desire to litigate your game. Most people don’t want…

This really bums me out. It’s an amazing system, but one that already isn’t imitated nearly enough. A patent isn’t going to encourage teams to pay WB, it’s going to simply stop them from including this feature, or, from smaller teams, from even attempting anything like this, due to them not understanding the legal…

Neat, but I really only need the W key to be analog. That’s it. Gas pedals and walking to match the NPC in the game. Nothing else needs analog.

Yup. I’m all for them refining the physics of the Mako, but as you said, the Mako was never the problem with the Mako levels. Likewise, the elevator conversations were never the problem with the elevators: it was the load times. Unfortunately, in both cases, Bioware took the absolutely wrong lessons from it, and…

lol the internet

Because most people don’t understand how NDAs work, and if it gets mentioned, will assume that something big is being covered up and will react against it. In addition, I’ve seen a LOT of NDAs that specifically forbid directly acknowledging the existence of NDAs. It’s a plague, but not an uncommon practice.

I feel like this comment is well intentioned, but, ultimately, nonsense.

yes

Point of clarification: 6 million people have seen the clip that she posted to Twitter, which got retweeted by Elizabeth Banks (which extended the reach DRAMATICALLY). It wasn’t 6 million jut watching her stream (which would be insane). 

I get your point, but we’ll have to just agree to disagree. I thought that the original was so melodramatic that it was just generic nonsense. The enemy is SO EVIL that there is RED LIGHTNING!!!!!1

A PC that has a 2060 will cost more, absolutely. My point is, simply, that as the consoles run ray tracing worse than a 2060, we should not expect them to run at higher than 30fps for the entire generation. It’s a bummer, but the simple truth (with some exceptions. I think that DMC 5 can run 60fps @1080 with the basic…

huh?

It really depends on what you mean by not liking Bioware games. If you didn’t like the way that they did combat and movement in their previous titles, then Mass Effect is a completely different series and one worth picking up. While ME1 had the jankiest combat, it was still a decent 3rd person shooter (ME2 and 3 are…

I really don’t think that the pathetic fallacy is “basic visual storytelling.” It’s just lowest common denominator nonsense. Bad things can happen on nice days. 

oh, don’t get me wrong, Ray Tracing MURDERS framerates. It’s just that the game is playing on PS5 wil pretty low settings, and, with those settings, you could get 60fps 1440p gameplay on a 2060. On a 3070, you’re either maxed out, or almost maxed.

Thanks for taking the time to type this. You’re 100% right about bits and subscriptions and affiliate links. I’m willing to extend some belief that they might get cuts for tournaments, but I wouldn’t bet on that as a surety (in fact, I would not be surprised to see something of the opposite, which is almost always how…

This is true. But...you can use DLSS. You can run similar settings to the PS5 on a 2060, but @60fps