The first is a commitment to make available technological controls to effectively restrict anyone under 18 from acquiring a loot box without the consent or knowledge of a parent or guardian. Many of these controls are already available on games platforms but aren't as widely used as they could be. The new principles set out best-practice for their use in an effort to increase take-up.
The second is to drive awareness of those controls with a public information campaign. An expert panel will be set up to share best practices on age assurance issues.
This is pretty pathetic and limp. They need to take a stronger stance on this than just get parent/guardian agreement - we already know how this will go and that circumvention is just going to be lying about age.
There’s a small team of people working on Asahi Linux with the main purpose of getting Linux running on Apple silicon. It’s still very much in progress but they’ve made tremendous progress in areas like the graphics drivers to get OpenGL 3.1 working lately. Where they sit with M2 specifically though, I’m not sure.
There’s loads of titles I’d love to see remastered but Xenogears is the one high on my list. I doubt we’ll see that one anytime soon though. But give me Threads of Fate, Brave Fencer and Einhander, please. Of course, I’ll take Parasite Eve and Vagrant Story too. I guess that’s my wish list.
Every time I see anything about this, I’m just glad I don’t dedicate any time to it. I played OW1 religiously and I can tell there’s still an amazing game in there somewhere, but it just seems they’re intent on doing their most dedicated players dirty.
This is pretty pathetic and limp. They need to take a stronger stance on this than just get parent/guardian agreement - we already know how this will go and that circumvention is just going to be lying about age.