Katana314 @ Katana314 @lemmy.world

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Strange that they suffered a review bomb. As routine, gamers don't really follow the actual cause of events/actors that get in the way of their games.

I want to hope this leads to some shift where fewer games are run by Chinese publishers, but in current momentum I doubt that will happen.

On this question of verification, I don’t have a particularly foolproof solution, but maybe there just isn’t one.

I can criticize the modern web for a lot of things, but as long as we have situations where we want to check whether an account is a real person, as opposed to FarmingBot #295038, they need something. I'm not a fan of phone verification, but I'd only criticize it when we have alternatives.

I'd even be in favor of some kind of one-way algorithm by which a trusted real-person-identifying entity could tell a random third party site: Yes, this is a genuine human.

I vaguely remember The Matrix had an MMO that apparently evolved the lore in some crazy ways. And I’m going to guess they abandoned that for the new one.

I definitely wouldn't count Game Pass streaming as an option to validate PC gaming; since that can run on old Android Phones too. Plus, many of the games are only going to support controller, and you need to upgrade to Ultimate to get access.

I admit I'd forgotten about EAP and U+; to my knowledge they're pretty unpopular because of their cost-benefit ratio.

The gargantuan margin of error there basically means it's no different from the nebulous phrasing I put.

I’m sorry, what? Windows yes, I used PC Game Pass for a while before swearing off Xbox. But for all its emulation advances, Linux has always had huge struggles running UWP apps, which accounts for everything on Game Pass. Even on Windows, Game Pass isn’t always the best experience compared to just using a console.

How about we equate the nebulous uncertainty of those claims, since piracy arguments never have reliable motivator data.

“Piracy might not decrease sales. In fact it might increase them.”

Besides plug and play safety as mentioned, two other cool things:

• Monthly Netflix-style rental service. For people who want to try a lot of games to find their niche, PS+ and Game Pass are great.
• Sleep mode. Being able to pause a game for days on end is incredibly convenient. PCs have attempted to have this feature, but very inconsistently, and it often means you cannot web browse when finished playing.

I wish there was a way to test this without spending 50 bucks. My results have simply been that the resulting signal is just as unreliable as WiFi.

I have a bunch of useless phone jacks in several rooms of my house, and I’m wondering how much this would cost me. I took a look at the housing behind them and it doesn’t seem like anything I could convert myself, so it seems like a qualified electrician job…

Though I had a negative experience on my last go of it, and a "root"-based filesystem still confuses me, this was one of the big solid advantages last time I checked a few distros. I followed some advice of putting the system-level directories on one partition, and my user content on a different one. When I got fed up with one distribution, I cleaned and reinstalled things onto the system-level partition, leaving the user directory alone; I just had to inform it where those directory mappings would go.

Even though I was aware of it, this was one of my challenges. I was using Bazzite, which is obviously so niche that few tutorials would be specific. So, I tried to understand which distro was the base layer for it, and based my searches around that. Even then, a lot of things felt inapplicable, or needed to go through its containerized compatibility structure.

I’m very curious what they’ve done to prevent people accidentally forcefully removing it during gameplay. The sliding lock was annoying at first, but if you’ve ever gripped the controller hard at a pivotal moment it’s probably good that it didn’t rip away or even stress the parts.

Never heard that about early builds, which makes me think it's perhaps not verified.

I took it as the railroading matching up with Walker's feelings of having only one choice. It doesn't make sense to continue, but you feel forced to anyway - very much like him. What makes it more convincing, to me, is that there are hundreds of other action games that don't give you a non-action, non-killing choice - and no one has those same criticisms of those games.

I respect Undertale, I guess I never felt much admiration for its peaceful methods because it's such a direct translation of their combat mechanics, when making peace with people is rarely so simple.

But global warming seeks to fix that!

A friend of mine linked me to one called Straftat that seems fun. It’s built around small maps and 1v1 fights.

I could in some ways understand their pursuit of emulators when they're monetizing those same games currently (even if I disagree with their pricing structure on them). What really got my goat was when they went after Garry's Mod animations, a medium that has promoted their visibility and never conflicted with their software sales in the slightest.

I agree that the mocking approach doesn’t work in terms of enacting change. I’m still in favor of it for our own sakes just because it’s fun.

One of the reasons I love Spec Ops: The Line. It’s marketed to the correct crowd. The exact type of person that needs to understand killing your way through a situation rarely works is the one who will see the cover and think “Aw cool, a shooting game about killing your way through an adventure”.

Your comment is now an extension of that movie’s plot.