Jako301

I agree with the first part (not that it should mean they can just extract more money out of us), but the second part is something I simply don't believe.

Don't get me wrong, I know budgets have increased, but the dev cost definitely didn't by remotely the same amount. Devs wages are pretty stagnant since the initial silicon Valley boom and new tools at our disposal have made it a lot easier to create games, be it for indi devs or the corporate giants. Sure, graphics got fancier, but so did the readily aviable stock assets. High end work stations cost maybe a bit more, but they are a drop in the bucket in the 100+ million budgets of today.

What has increased on the other hand is the amount of executives/managers and their wages. In addition to that marketing has gone up a lot, probably over half of most budgets go there. The growing corporate overhead with its archaic structures also eats up a lot.

If we go purely by dev cost, prices should go down since the overall profit would increase with the greater amount of players. Everything else is corporate overlords throwing shitloads of money at a mediocre game to make it seem worth something.

I'd be somewhat ok with Kernel anticheat if they would work, but the simple truth is that they do nothing of value. COD has Kernel anticheat with Riccochet and is flooded with cheaters. Valorant has only slightly less cause riot updates Vanguard more often.

But guess what, it usually takes 1-2 days for new cheats to reach the relevant forums, maybe a few days more until they are more widely aviable. At most cheaters have to spend another 5€ every 6 months, but that's it. They don't care, the amount of money spent on accounts every other month is already way higher.

The only two things anticheat like vanguard protects you from is script kiddies that google "valorant cheat .exe" and Linux only players. And the former could just as well be filtered out without Kernel level.

You can't, end of discussion.

The most that the city or the police can do is issuing them a small fine for the noise complaints. The only one with even an ounce of power here is their landlord, but then it depends heavily on your country/state.

Lemmy is a nice place if you share the same values, but once your opinion differs even somewhat, you won't have that good of a time.

This is not a ban and it was never meant to be. They just force tiktok to sell the US market to a US company. Said US company will continue the platform just like it is at the moment, just with a bit more of that sweet American propaganda mixed into it. Tiktok won't be gone, all that data will just go to the NSA instead of the CCP, that's all they wanted.

Ich schmeiß alles in den Trockner und nur Tshirts/Hemden sind danach etwas knittrig. Die häng ich direkt danach ne halbe Stunde übers Treppengeländer und alles ist gut. Man muss die Sachen aber wirklich sofort raus tun, sobald die mal 10 Minuten im Trockner liegen hat sichs erledigt.

Live service and always online are two entirely different things, and the former isn't inherently malicious, unlike the latter.

I'd, for example, consider all Paradox grand strategy games as live service with major updates dropping once or twice a year (followed by like twenty bugfix patches cause they fuck up every time, but that's besides the point). Sure, every major update comes with a new dlc that isn't exactly cheap, but you also get a lot of free content with each release. All their major titles are entirely different games now than they were at the 1.0 release.

What ubisoft does is just a tacked on battle pass that gets a few worthless items/skins so they can call it live service and have a justification for their always online verification model. That's purely an anti piracy measure that fucks legitimate players more than pirates.

No, it's not. You paying them money won't stop them from collecting data about you. It only stops them from selling it to show targeted ads.

Don't get me wrong, I despise meta for it and think they should be prosecuted for that immediately, but that has nothing to do with the article or what the EU is saying.

Mixing these two things just cause you hate meta will get us nowhere. Their data collection of non-users is straight up illegal, but the pay with money or data model is something that especially news sites have been using for a long time now.

Because Bethesda doesn't provide the legacy versions on steam, unlike other mod focused games, afaik. Once you've updated your game, you are stuck with whatever version you have.

Sure, you can always download the right version from somewhere else, but I wouldn't count piracy + the risks coming with it as a viable excuse for their fuckup.

Their goal isn't to completely shut this down, Google is fully aware that that's impossible to achieve. They just want to annoy enough people and make it complicated enough so that the userbase doesn't grow any further.

That's just your bubble. Most VPN users just want to circumvent geo restrictions.

Besides that, the general VPN "propaganda" is that it encrypts your traffic and no-one can see it. The average user gets baited by that and doesn't care to look further into it.

Würde ich so nicht sagen. Meine Muttersprache und einzige Sprache die ich nutze ist Deutsch, trotzdem wechselt mein innerer Monolog zwischen Deutsch und Englisch hin und her. Englisch gesprochen hab ich eigentlich nur in der Schule, im englischen Ausland war ich noch nie.