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Aww, yeaa, nahhh.

But I can see their strategy and wish them well assuming they don't compromise on their integrity to selling DRM-free downloads.

Considering Amazon is planning on building a Nuclear Powered DataCenter, I suppose they will have the niagra-falls of cheap energy to power even the beefiest overclocked GPUs and Cooling Solutions to make this a thing.

And Amazon doesn't have the same track record as killing off things as Google, so I imagine they really mean to carve a niche.

Still, it's not for me. Best of luck, I hope they make a billion dollars and remember their roots and stick to their core values.

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I use this on at least 4 computers, my biggest complaints would be that fan speed doesn't adjust unless the app is open all the time, so one of the SFF computers gets really hot, then I notice it or reboot and the fan goes wild.

Another complaint would be that it doesn't always start, AFAIK I symlink the desktop launcher to `~/.config/autostart/` and most of the time it works but some of the time it doesn't.

I'm not sure the status of the program, but it would be really great if the App did all the actions through a Systemd service or Daemon or however that could run all the time in the background and auto-start.

They've done a great job though, and I appreciate their work, and also recently I heard of LACT -- a AMD voltage and sensor control panel -- I could almost see several projects like these combining someday into a more robust solution.

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Quoting: Mountain Manbut I can't imagine developers and publishers are going to be too thrilled about the possibility of this feature cutting into their sales.

The primal human -- using the lower brain functions is definately going to be afraid of "loosing sales".

But kick in higher brain functions & logic and get the opposite result. The more people that play your game the more The Network Effect happens and the more sales.

What's worse than people playing your game and talking about it among family? Nobody playing your game and nobody talking about it.

Lower & Higher brain functions can be a funny thing.

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Quoting: seamoose"Family Sharing is a feature that developers may opt their games out of for technical or other reasons at any time. Visit the Steam Store to see a list of games that currently support Family Sharing."

The words "at any time" do invoke concern.

Not a fan of that -- if when I purchase a product that feature is included and declared, I think they should only be able to turn it off for new purchases.

A handshake is a handshake.

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QuoteCurrently, with Steam Family Sharing, if one person is playing a game your whole library is locked. You can either boot them off, or wait. Now, that's changed. As long as you're playing different games - it's all good. [...] if other members in your Family Group have a copy, multiple people can play the same game at the same time.

Like it should have been, and I don't even have to come to the comments to ask.

I've purchased 500+ games and the whole -- I can't play a free to play game while a family member is playing some other game I bought is not sensible at all.

Hail Gaben & VOVO -- one of the last companies who truly care about their customers.

This is how Capitalism was supposed to be.

I really don't like companies behelden to Wallstreet Stock Investors. The companies have 2 masters and they always pick their stock holders over their customers -- infact it's legally codified that they are required to otherwise they could be sued for not squeezing every dollar and cent.

That's what the symbolism of the Harkonnen lore in Dune is all about.

Remember when corporations weren't legally considered people?

/rant-off

Good Guy Valve delivers once again -- no wonder I am proud to return their good in kind.

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Quoting: PenglingThis particular one's just an emulated PlayStation title.

That explains so much, thank you :)

Quoting: PenglingAs far as I know, this collection never had it [Denuvo].

I combed the Steam Forums a little couldn't get a "yes" there -- maybe people have been speculating based on the trend to shoe-horn launchers and DRM into games post-launch -- like what happened with the Bioshock series IIUC.

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Of course, MGS1 can still be bought for PS1 and simply emulated, and I think there may be a team working on a decompiled version of it too -- which honestly would seem to be the real definitive edition.

It's been a long time since I've beat MGS1, but man did I enjoy the story. It's definitely worthy of preservation and upgrades.

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This is probably my 5th attempt at a play through over the years. There was some flashlight bug on AMD Graphics Cards & MESA in one of the last levels where you are going through these scientist tents or whatever.

It was pitch black.

Hopefully that is fixed on my next play-through.

The story is amazing, I would put it up there with Bioshock 1 in my top favorites of all time.

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Those pictures on the Steam Store are terrible.

In 2024, it should be trivial to do proper anti-aliasing at a resolution that is not insanely low-res.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2131630/METAL_GEAR_SOLID__Master_Collection_Version/

And for that matter, living in the age of AI, it should be trivial to AI upscale all the textures in the game or at the very least support modders so that they can trivially re-texture it.

Did they ever __NOT__ add Denuvo? Because memory is fuzzy but that was absolutely nogo for me. I ain't buying that trash.

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Quoting: MalMadbro literally proved to the world that 30% is the right cut. He has shown with his own very feats that it is not possible to offer a better service than Steam with a lower cut. At this point any smart developer should rally behind Valve. In a PC market dominated by EGS the only way to prevent people from returning to the high seas is to hand out games for free.

Two Great Points, to distill them into other words:

A. The Market has decided that 30% is acceptable for the value exchanged.

B. Piracy is a Service Problem, and EGS can only compete with "The High Seas" by trying to give away games for free.

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I legit think that there are entities that are just mad that Valve is not a public traded company and can't be easily corrupted or remotely influenced/controlled.

We learned this week from Sweet Baby Inc being kicked off Steam for extortion and subsequent GlowFeds going after Valve for it that there are powers who are angry and want to dictate what games you get to play. I wouldn't mid a article or two sourcing these events in a factual fashion.

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I gotta say Halo MCC "Drive or Die" servers are pretty fun, kind-of like how Counter Strike Source had surfing and sniping in the Bedroom and Bathroom maps where you are bug sized.

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