the people who provoked Nintendo.
This is my problem with your argument, you’re saying that because of piracy they’re entitled to crack down on emulation. Piracy is just a pretext they’re using here. Emulation is legal and yet they’re doing everything in their power to stop it from happening, this has nothing to do with piracy.
What if he had preordered the game?
Not only that, but you’re also harming the console modding community by incentivizing the publisher to go after homebrew developers and emulator developers. It wasn’t a coincidence that shortly after some asshat streamed an unreleased Zelda game being played on Yuzu, Nintendo decided to finally come down on the emulator with an iron fist.
There’s plenty of ways to stop piracy, Nintendo just doesn’t want you to play outside their walled garden. They could choose to facilitate emulation and let you buy their games from emulators and prevent piracy while not hindering emulation. They could choose to port their games to other platforms. But no, they crack down on emulation because it hurts their bottom line if people don’t have to buy a switch - or whatever to play their games. Fuck Nintendo.
Yeah i was gonna mention xcom initially but i doubt stuff like party deaths will be a thing here. This game looks like it’s gonna feature full on companions, and the controls look pretty much exactly like bg3.
Those are some hot 10 seconds of footage. Looks like bg3’s combat with some tactical cover.
I always wonder about the people who drop off just before finishing the game.
They probably don’t want the game to end, there’s a certain finality that comes with an ending. I’ve had this happen to me for a few games and books but i usually power through.
sometimes reviewers only play the first few parts.
Not just the reviewers unfortunately, games shed players at every step, it’s why most games are front-loaded and fall off the further you get into them.
Do not get steamos lol.
Any regular desktop distribution is fine (fedora, mint…), if you have new hardware you’ll want a recent kernel. Nvidia gpus can be problematic. You can always try the distro before installing.
You can update fedora through the terminal which skips the reboot part.
To choose your distro you must first decide whether you want a a stable distribution (debian) or a bleeding edge one (arch). Then you have to decide whether you want it to be a rolling release (tumbleweed) or a fixed point release distribution (fedora).
There’s a lot more that could be said about each of these distros, but they all have KDE sessions.
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Firefox’s reader view (ctrl alt r) is a godsend for cases like these.
The nvidia support is getting better, but yeah they’re years late compared to AMD which basically has better drivers on linux than windows.
Sure, as long as you run a wayland capable DE. Like GNOME or KDE. It’s still experimental in linux mint afaik. You might have a few problems if you have an NVIDIA card (no proper wayland support) or HDMI cables (limited to 144 fps because of copyright issues iirc).
Pretty sure I’ve heard users from these regions mention that they had their shops completely unavailable in certain games
Those were local measures that were not handled by the European Union.
If you look at how the EU is handling the Digital Markets Act - it’s gonna be fines.
The gaming industry is gonna fight this every step of the way. There’s gonna be lobbying, kicking and screaming; and no it’s certainly not as simple as “follow the rules or get banned”. First off because you can’t just ban games by flicking your fingers, there’s thousands of games and dozens of distributing platforms. Secondly because the goal isn’t to remove them from the market but to get them to play ball.
I guess guidelines are a decent start, the part that’s gonna be tricky is getting the gaming industry to follow them.
The fine is up to 10% of their global annual sales. Not even profits, sales. We’ll see if the EU is willing to follow through on their threats.
Microsoft is actually the least problematic of the console racket (Sony, Nintendo and MS), games release simultaneously to pc and they offer cross compatibility. Maybe the EU will address it eventually, but i guess mobile takes precedent given that everyone has a cell phone.