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1·2 days agoOn Steam you can pick your version of choice among the various update.
If it’s some sort of forced update in which the game is made to not work with previous versions (it require special DRM or online activation by the third party): that’s more another issue (planned obsolescence) that’s being addressed with the Stop Killing Games campaign.
mis-linked (now fixed)
It’s worh noting that the OLD version still remain “free” if you purchased the old one: that’s less about Square but Valve.
It’s worh noting that the old version still remain “free” if you purchased the old one: that’s less about Square but Valve policy in which purchased items can be withdrawn… Well, actually it more about laws in most countries that if you buy something is yours to keep (or even resell) without the previous owner policing on what/whatnot
A Commission may do “nothing” while nobody watches… or when everybody is watching.
Difference is subtle, but it is there.
It’s an open source platform: if an american company makes and arm device, they need to pay tax to a British company. RiscV require not to pay IP tax to any foreign country.
Also, it’s not like “they move”: stuck there in the US, they would simply shut it down. So I don’t see how your tax money went in better use.
That’s the general idea: they don’t shutdown games because “you can’t support/keep server up forever”… they shutdown games for the otherwise illegal planned obsolescence.
You shut down a game people is playing, people that were playing that game are out looking for new game to (buy) play.
Anthem may have different interest from EA because nobody was playing; but they may still be out there to normalize planned obsolescence (and thus “protect” Anthem from being repaired
“don’t use our tools to sell mods”.
I think there are still misconception: CDProject was smart, albeit dishonest, into presenting the whole thing as “Cyberpunk’s Mod”; so, you (as general and misguided reader) inclined to think the modder took something from CDProject and generate something from thin air… added games are just icying on the cake.
The framework was already setup and working for several games even before Cyberpunk addition.
What is CDProject doing here is just some PR magic to blameshift their actual responsibility: they didn’t ask the modder to remove support for Cyberpunk, they went on and sink down is whole business by addressing directly another company (Patron) which are more “sensitive” to business and discuss less.
It doesn’t need to be legal: Patreon, like Valve and any other big company, deem request from other companies as top priority over any commoner.
Patreon think “we may have extra business with CDProjeck, but mod authors are nobody that need to work for free at best”.
So they know who need to be sacrificed.
(Had to look for AI on this, sorry: I am not an accountant)
for the US: Yearly franchise tax( California: 800$ min per LLC).
Annual report fees (50-300$ per state (Delaware 300$ // New York 9$).
…and also there’s a percentage of the income (if it’s not exactly zero, I guess)
…then, if you’re not an accountant, and don’t want to mess with taxes, you may want to pay someone (an accountant) that make sure your reports are correct (even if they are 0)
A small check for moral consistency: what about Loseless Scaling and 3DSen?
Given that, I’m okay with this DCMA.
Just a small detail that doesn’t look considered, if you ear only one side of the story. The "Cyberpunk VR” mod is not actually a "Cyberpunk VR” mod, but a framework that came to support Cyberpunk after many other games (like GTAV). If you’re still okey, bear in mind the same logic may apply to Loseless Scaling (sold for ~7€ on Steam) and 3DSen (sold for ~13€ on Steam) or you need to take VR Injection Framework apart from Loseless Scaling and 3DSen.
They are paving the road for “Doom running on Minecraft-Hytale hybrid”
It’s never a good idea to fall in love with CEOs; a company may sometime “help” their customer, but when strategic partner asks for a slap in the face for the customer… there’s no “may”, only must.
Steam comes with Denuvo, third party launcher filled with ads and kernel level anticheat. None of these was required by Valve… yet… they still slap their customer in the face per strategic parteners requests.
Also, refund is not something in Gabe’s book: it was written in Australia’s laws (also EU and other countries) and only after lot of struggles he conceded it.
To collect money from sales you need to be a company or a single person who act as it. There are taxes for companies and people acting as such (amount of sales didn’t justify the tax spending as company).
As I am replying, you got 9 upvotes and 9 downvotes; looks like the perfect “storm” to put my hot take too.
We got psychotic people on both side, when you get this grade of polarization people usually lose the perspective.
AI is a technology, an human logical entity like math: AI works on very advanced (probabilistic) math. Math is not the evil… but an actual evil does exist.
There’s a difference between a LLM chatbot that runs on your local GPU… and one in the cloud.
The chatbot on your GPU is “trapped” by your questions, your needs, your choices.
Today the chatbot on the cloud will tell you that Elon Musk is a controversial person, tomorrow it will tell you Elon Musk is the savior of the Earth and you’re not worthy to kiss his feet.
People seeing absolute evil in AI, are against you running your chatbot locally, on your PC.
People enthusiastic about AI will accept any “gift” (or AI GF) Elon Musk will give them.
I understand what you mean; but Android isn’t even a regular proprietary either: you can’t build the like LineageOS or Amazon’s Fire OS with iOS or Windows Mobile (Apple or Microsoft will sue you; Google can’t).
Anyway, the point is not Android itself: but Linux’s opensource stacks access to the GPUs (with OSS drivers) beyond AMD, Intel and Nvidia.
If you observe the ARM gaming ecosystem, you see smartphone are the most common gaming device on the planet… “Android Linux” (quotes for emphasis) is not recognized, in the Linux sphere, mostly because proprietary driver (in the gaming context: GPU’s drivers).
If we accept “Android as Linux”, Linux is the most common gaming platform (beyond Windows), if we don’t… Linux is just a niche in the gaming industry.
You can see where the problem is: if every Android smartphone was capable to “install” any regular Linux distro, tides could change in a glimpse. If not Valve Gaming, there may be Samsung Gaming… and so go on…
Competition to Intel+AMD+Nvidia.
It’s not about the “cut” you’re thinking; it refer to in-app purchases.
Once you bought a game, Valve keep demand a 30% cuts on anything you sell once the customer launch your executable (.exe, binary file/game engine).
hypothetical scenario to help visualize (it won’t go like that most of the time, but useful to understand the concept):