Recent content by emphy

Given the highly specific language of the press release and the fact that interested devs need to register, I doubt that they are releasing it under an actual open source license. Note also that the word "public" is absent in the press release.

Never doubted its importance. At the moment, however, its computational cost is too high for my taste.

All that graph shows is that the company leadership is good at advertising to investors. I am pretty sure that microsoft leadership does know what it is doing with their business in general. Your additional implied inference that they know what the f they're doing with their gaming division...

The value proposition ceased being a factor for my gaming habits a long time ago. Not because I am stinking rich, but because anything that gets released has to compete for time with my insane backlog. It's fairly ridiculous; anything I pay for now could very well get its first serious looksie...

I can't speak for other raging nerds, but I was never okay with it on android either, over time becoming a dealbreaker. Over a decade ago I made the concession in the name of usability. Now I have had to slowly divest myself of the playstore ecosystem to prepare for a de-google. It's taken me...

It make sense, in a sick sort of way. The new one has more experience running a mobile software company, so knows much better how far the licensing terms for their playable monetization strategies can be pushed.

Not to mention that we're talking about the company that is dark patterning users into upgrading entire operating systems. There will be a strategically placed (as in: where normally a cancel button would be) "no thank you, I would prefer to keep using your creepy ai feature" option when you try...

Then microsoft would chuck ads into at least some paid versions. Dark patterns would be nudging people towards the ad-infected versions so that microsoft can pretend paying customers want ads and put them in all but the most expensive versions. On top of all that, the ad-less versions would be...

Aaaand as predicted, all that fancy ai hardware will be used to process 24hour/day usage for your profile, on device so they can pretend they're fans of "privacy". The only thing that surprises me here is that microsoft beat google to the punch: Source...

Recommended by the late totalbiscuit: Invisigun.

Doesn't community investment nearly always "lose money"? Not that well versed in post-warcraft III blizzard, but I always gathered that the main point of their conventions was never the direct profits, but community investment in the literal sense. Which, for an mmo and <spits> live services...

Did I mention before that he's a fucking clown? Why hasn't he been fired yet? Unlike the people he fired, he would do fine in a circus, after all.

Prediction: there will come a day that someone releases a debloater for windows debloating software. If you doubt that debloaters will get bloated: just take a look at the ad-blockers that that let through "approved" ads.

Companies reap what they sow - more often than not the amount of "drama" is proportional to the amount of cow manure in the communications coming from the company in question.

Russia is perfectly capable of setting up a national console + infrastructure, I'm sure. A credible games industry capable of providing quality content, though, would be a different matter altogether.