It is thought highly unlikely that these parties would vote to abandon the upcoming regulation changes, having committed vast resource to the new rules over recent years.
This is the main part in my opinion. It's insanely late in the day to be considering changing next season's rules, the ones that everyone has already been preparing for for years!
The data shows that from January 2024 to December 2024, 67% of player hours on PC were spent on a game that was six or more years old. A further 25% of player hours were spent on games that were two to five years old, and the remaining 8% of time was spent on games that are less than two years old.
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The results are extrapolated from a yearly in-depth survey of 73,000 players, alongside data from over 10,000 games
Looked it up and apparently that quote was from 2001, and it was specifically about GPL code infecting their precious intellectual properly. Does sound like classic Ballmer though!
This is great news! I imagine we'll see some negative articles focusing on how they're just re-releasing old hardware, but I feel anyone who cares about that wasn't the target market for a Pebble anyway. Hopefully it goes well and we'll see some actual new Pebbles next.
There was a comment thread in one of the Linux communities a while back talking about this mindset. Obviously the comments got a bit rude and unconstructive, but the point is that you can switch to something like bazzite now and most things will work pretty well, but if you're holding out until it's perfect then you'll be waiting forever!
I don't know if it technically counts as freeware, but Space Cadet Pinball. Back on XP it was my go-to for something quick to play on the offline computer, and I just brought it with me to every new machine. Also it's now been decompiled and will run on pretty much anything!
I don't think there's any formal concept of a cross-post in Lemmy, the button in Summit will just create a new post with a link to the original and the description text quoted. They are essentially just two different posts.
This is the main part in my opinion. It's insanely late in the day to be considering changing next season's rules, the ones that everyone has already been preparing for for years!