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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly

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  • Games that are Epic exclusive aren't cheaper either. This is a nonsense argument.

    • Leaked Xbox Boss Email Perfectly Explains Why Game Publishers Are Eating Themselves Alive

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  • The suggestion here is that the type of game that can thrive on a subscription service is either a small one that benefits from better curation and visibility or a live-service one that can make up revenue on the backend by charging all the new players microtransactions (the new store shelves are inside the games themselves).

    I've been saying this since Game Pass launched: it encourages scummy monetization. The kind of games that come to it are going to have more and more content locked away behind microtransactions to make up the money lost by not selling copies. It's going to gradually become full of "free" to play garbage, and people will accept it because they didn't pay for an individual game outright.

    • Microsoft May Exit Gaming Business If Game Pass Subscribers off Console Don't Increase Enough by 2027

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  • They won't.

    • A quarter of Starfield players couldn’t even be bothered to finish the first mission

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  • People who have never launched the game aren't counted in these statistics.

    • Introducing the Epic First Run program

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  • This smells like desperation.

    • State of gaming on linux?

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  • EAC works in Proton, as long as the developer takes the time to configure it right.

    • Ubisoft reportedly deleting customer accounts with purchased games if they have been inactive for too long

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  • I said "generally." There are a few publishers that ship empty discs, and some games that are completely broken without a day-one patch, but most still have a playable game on the disc, at least on PlayStation. On Xbox, for games that have backwards compatibility with One, they often couldn't fit both game builds on one disc, so they made one version download-only instead of shipping two discs.

    • Ubisoft reportedly deleting customer accounts with purchased games if they have been inactive for too long

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  • For PC games, no, they're not actually on the disc. For console games, they generally are the full game, albeit sometimes buggy without the day-one patch.

    • Linux friendly CAD programs?

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  • I use OnShape and it works great. There is also Plasticity, a newer CAD application that has a Linux version and looks promising.

    • Debian testing for gaming?

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  • Pop is great for gaming, and part of the reason I picked it was so I'd have access to more software packages. No regrets.

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  • This is making perfect the enemy of good. What's actually going to happen is people are going to use "password123" because they can remember it.

    • Payday 3: Details About Different Weapon Progression Paths

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  • Game Pass (especially when a game launches on it) encourages aggressive monetization, so that doesn't fill me with confidence.

    • Opinion: Sync shouldn't be open source

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  • Plenty of open source applications are sold. Being open source doesn't mean you have to give the compiled application away for free.

    • Windows 11 vs. Linux Gaming Performance On The ASUS ROG Ally

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  • I wish he would have tested with a distro that at least has a custom scheduler instead of a bloated vanilla Ubuntu install.

    • Teeth teeth teeth teeth teeth

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  • Teeth.