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The performance hit of features vary, but it's not nothing. You can still get big performance boosts by fine tuning settings in some games esp considering specific HW limitations. I think it would be a huge mistake to take away this fine tuning ability for the sake of simplicity. That has been...

Upgrading the engine under an existing project is always a hassle. Unless you did literally zero customization or haven't added any of your own code, in which case I question how good is your game if it just uses everything as is OOB.

Fewer options is never a good thing. That's why we have graphics presets for those who don't want to bother. But giving the most options for fine tuning should always be the goal.

In five to ten years. Wait, what?

How is axing ui customization and the other things I listed protection from lawsuits? Did they ever say that? I would not think them that brazen. This entire narrative smells of white knightery.

I don't believe that's true. What if any of these things that I find most annoying in W10/11 are court mandated? The constant push to upgrade to windows 11 The pressure to use cortana then copilot ai Removal of most UI customization options Fragmentation / hiding of options from users that...

Bitlocker with TPM does not protect you from hacking, the only thing it does is protect the data when it is physically stolen. Secure boot offers protection from rootkits theoretically. But for a regular home user I think they are more likely to cause data loss, than protect anyone. It's...

Isn't it also microsoft who is pushing bitlocker tpm and secure boot and such things whether you want them or not?

That's a good thing, maybe they work out the DEI from their system by the time they start actively working on them. So we don't get censorship of "problematic themes", or make Mona Sax into a trans lesbian with a man jaw.

Unless they are unattractive enough by progressive standards.

Congratulations on hitting every single dumb talking point that ever came out of the mouth of an activist. "It's not happening, but it is totally to prevent you from spanking" I have to ask, do you often spank it to video game characters? Why is it always the activists and their supporters who...

They have been doing that for 10 years now at western game devs. I'm sick of it, but especially the gaslighting about it claiming it is not intentional "you just don't understand how game development works"

I'm pretty sure it will have microtransactions that early access reviewers won't be allowed to talk about under NDA.

And this way they won't get our money.

The game doesn't feel like Star Wars, despite all the key jangling. And they gave her a double mastectomy.

Now you are just coping. I explained why they can't possibly be legally binding, try reading and addressing those points, because I'm not going to repeat myself. The purchase is the contract. When you buy something you enter into a contract, even if there is no specific terms documented on...

Ah, nobody of consequence only the ones in charge of their cash flow... Sorry, I don't think class actions are a thing here. Consumer disputes are handled by organizations like the ECC on a case by case basis.

No they aren't, read the post above. That's what they want you to believe, but you entered into the contract when you purchased the game, they can't change the terms later. The only terms I can legally agree to is what I was aware of at the time of purchase. Anything that is only revealed to me...

EULA's are not legally binding, they are basically toilet paper in an actual court here in the EU. It's just another way to make you fall in line and do nothing out of fear because the EULA said so. It is nothing but a strongarming tactic. It doesn't have to be legally binding, people just have...

Actually yours are, and not just a little. If you sell a product that depends on some sort of online service then you are obligated to provide that service. The company I work for is actually in one such contract, because someone made a bad deal 10 years ago, so we must continue to provide...

People want to label everything they dislike with the buzzword they hate the most or heard last these days. But globalism has nothing to do with ownership. Even calling it feudalism is a big stretch as feudalism describes more the social structure rather than commerce. Under feudalism peasants...

Owning what you bought is actually very capitalist. You'll own nothing and be happy is more in line with taking away games after a while, and usually people call that communist.

Control, nothing else, they want to dictate how you play the game. They can't sell microtransactions if you can just play offline and use mods and cheats to circumvent their predatory monetization. I swear the only reason they are eager to implement AI in games is so they have another excuse...

It is not dying because Billy is not going to let it go.

You came into a topic, you willingly clicked on it, right? You weren't under any duress? So what gives? Do you also buy books you are not interested in then start reading them and then moan how you are not interested in it? BTW you got the story completely wrong, so it's not as if you ever...

Correlation is not proof of causation. I think for a fair competition it is a necessity to have standardized hardware. Just because nvidia or amd is sponsoring an event doesn't mean that's the only reason to have official hardware.

That's a paradox. If it's procedural, then it is driven by a random number generator, not a story.

If they are too incompetent to monitor for cheating, they are too incompetent to organize an event period. As for people bringing their own systems this is not a freaking lan party, who is going to comb through all of their systems to find where they hid the trainer / exploit / etc.? You think...

That would clearly show up as input, even if you claim to have done it accidentally that is still user error.

I assume their inputs are recorded anyway to prevent cheating. What could you even do to deliberately create a driver error or HW crash?

I don't get it, if the organizer provided the hardware that crashed, then the only fair thing would be repeating the match. This is questionable practice and opens the door to manipulating matches. Oh, sorry, your HW accidentally crashed, the other team wins!

Not really, you can still sell the console after you done using it and recoup some of the initial cost. If you just subscribe to it, it's all lost.

I'm sure them announcing new DEI guidelines for developers will turn things around. /s

Memory loss? What does that even mean in this context? I'm sure it's not that if I use chatgpt I forget what I had for lunch yesterday, right? I'm going to take this with a grain-silo of salt.

I could've sworn it was there yesterday when I checked, I can't find it today either. Maybe I looked at something else. I still see it on RE4. There were more than one case where games tested after cracking has shown a significant increase in performance and reduction in micro-stuttering...

Yet we never heard of most of them, except for the really bad ones, which means the problem is not DRM per see, but invasive, performance killing, or otherwise bad DRM, like starforce, securom, denuvo... So the question remains why do they keep using trash like denuvo then? That's a rhetorical...

Village is still listed on steam as containing denuvo, there seems to be no clear pattern to what they are doing. That is no excuse especially for outright spying proposed by the tech here. Dragon's Dogma has many issues, denuvo is just one of them. It is unlikely to be solely responsible for...

You are joking right? Then how do we get the infamous "sales fell short of expectations" press releases, if they can predict sales so accurately? Where is this info coming from? Do you have a single source to back up that this is commonplace that investors make their investment dependent on a...

What numbers? How do you even measure it? You can't release the same game with and without DRM, and comparing different games is meaningless. Shouldn't it improve sales compared to no DRM anyway? If it doesn't what is even the point?