Quoting: ToddLNot sure what you're getting at with this statement since the version of Dragon Age Inquisition that Epic is giving away is the Game of the Year edition, which includes the DLC and other bonuses.

Machinika: Museum is a complete game without any DLC offerings, too.

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Quoting: twinsonianThe anti-cheat these companies are putting in has nothing to do with cheating for the most part. Right now with companies, reaching for maximum profits to keep shareholders happy they need creative revenue streams, micro transactions and predatory practices are pretty obvious. They are only good for short term cash grabs, but continue to hurt consumer trust with the companies.

This is where the anti-cheat comes in. They now have a kernel level software running on consumer machines. What better way to collect whatever data they want to collect when they want to collect it. Having full access at kernel level opens up huge revenue. If you look at all the companies that I’ve had data breaches, in the last decade, including Microsoft, this should worry consumers in a big way.

Right now there might be disagreements about how much data they collect and when they collect it but a precedent has been set, and people are giving companies more than Microsoft dystopian levels of access to their personal machines. All in the name of stopping cheating. And people really believe this, what a joke.

VERY well-put. Unfortunately, gamers are usually not that great at organising against these sorts of things, and are typically perfectly accepting of it as long as they get XYZ Thing that they personally want, wider consequences be damned. Until some massive breaches occur and put people in actual danger, most folks just aren't going to care, which drives me mad, because it's their blind acceptance of it in the first place that causes problems for everyone.

Quoting: mAdCraZyaJSecondly, why can’t they give a launch option to disable anti cheat and thus disabling multiplayer. At least the rest of the game will be usable then.

The sad fact is, they don't have any reason to care - they've already got your money.

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Man, I love PC-gaming - giveaways like these remind me of older releases being given away on the C64 magazine cover-tapes of old.

I just grabbed Machinika: Museum - looks interesting.

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I must admit, I do like the splash of colour from the orange buttons, here.

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Quoting: scaineMight be because I'm on my phone, but I don't see the difference between your two screenshots of the jagged texture under the stairs.

It's definitely your phone! They look very different, even when not viewed at full-size.

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A great bundle here, but it's worth noting that Monster Hunter Rise is one of many games that Capcom has added The Enigma Protector DRM to after removing Denuvo, which is not declared on the Humble page.

Originally Capcom also left this undeclared on the Steam pages for every game they've added The Enigma Protector to, for at least four or so months, but they have now finally fixed that, at least.

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Quoting: CatKillerThere are people on the Internet who say anything.

This one's been flagged as having PSN integration for ages, and was always going to be part of having PSN as a Rockstar/EA/Ubisoft-style parallel store and launcher move. The lesson recently was that you can't accidentally sell games that need a thing in countries where you don't have the thing.

Yeah, I know. My point was simply that there were statements made just a matter of days ago, when people raised concerns, that've aged rather like milk. I just found it kinda funny!

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Quoting: CyborgZetaProbably a controversial opinion, but multiplatform is the way to go these days.

Sounds totally reasonable to me!

Quoting: CyborgZetaExclusives no longer make sense to me. They were fun back in the 6th Gen Console generation and earlier, but just seem old-fashioned today.

The only exclusives that ever made sense to me were first-party platform-holder ones, as the entire point of them was to establish and retain a userbase - and perhaps to some degree to set the tone of the company's product-line.

When third-party content became exclusive for any reason other than hardware constraints between wildly varying machines (which stopped being an issue after the 32-bit era), it was just moneyhatting that led directly to some of the problems we have today, in my view. The way that some folks are reacting to Square-Enix ditching exclusivity is really quite shocking and "tribal"!

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Erm, weren't there people out on the interwebs saying a couple of weeks ago that PSN requirements weren't going to lead to new launchers and similar stuff being added to future Sony PC releases?

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Quoting: neon_soaked_chryssalidI've already got a copy on the way! That game has been such a big thing in my family that I didn't even have to think about it once pre-orders opened. Is it a little overpriced? Probably. Will it still worth it anyway? I'm almost positive it will be!

Quoting: ShabbyXMaybe _now_ my 7yo will eat his vegetables, cause cooking and eating is all he does in the game itself :D

Can we expect pics when you guys cook something from it?

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