Quoting: elmapul"Denuvo DRM removed, plus performance improvements"
what a strange coincidence /sarcasm

There seem to be many reviews noting a major FPS boost from today like this one.

Quotehttps://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198078428650/recommended/1774580/

***POST DENUVO REMOVAL REVIEW***

[...] Around Pyloon's Saloon I used to get anywhere between 50 and 70 fps with HUGE stutters (Thanks Denuvo for that...).

Now I'm getting anywhere between 70 and 100 with buttery smooth gameplay with that POS DRM removed, (1440p, high settings with FSR on Quality).

The Shattered Moon I'm getting between 70 to 100 fps as well.

Galaxy map does tank the FPS but honestly, I'll take that over the denuvo Crap any day.

My Rig is as Follows:

rx 6750xt
r5 5600x
32gb Ram

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Congratulations Valve & Steam & these communities too. The World is a better place because of you

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Imagine having to pay a full time developer to "keep fixing the DRM" -- what a waste of money.

Also nobody tell them that piracy is a service problem. IIRC some rando street dweller uttered those words once, nvm it was billionaire Gabe Newell. (Is it cool to like billionaires again? and ok to praise people for their hard work and success? Because I'm gonna do it anyways.)

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In the sidebar I see:

1. Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: EA online activation and EA app software installation and background use required.
2. Requires 3rd-Party Account: EA Account
3. Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA -- STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ EULA
4. EA Play subscription requires acceptance of -- EA Play Terms

Yeah no. Remember this?

Quotehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/disney-wrongful-death-lawsuit-jeffrey-piccolo-b2597268.html

Disney has claimed a husband cannot sue the company over his wife’s wrongful death because he signed up for a trial of the Disney+ streaming service.

Jeffrey Piccolo is suing the entertainment giant for $50,000 (£38,900) after his wife died from a severe allergic reaction after eating at a restaurant in Disney Springs, Florida, in October 2023.

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Removing DRM is a step in the right direction -- but this is EA we are talking about -- I fully expect this to be 1 step forward 2 steps back. Color me shocked if they prove me wrong.

No I don't want to join your "platform" to buy and play a product. My machine doesn't need to be contaminated with nefarious suswarez.

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QuoteMay 1, 2024 -- Unity Appoints Matthew Bromberg as New CEO

This man was installed like a toilet. Either his mission was to run the company into the ground (stock market people do this all the time and short-sale the stock so they can get millions of dollars of free money) or to bring the gaming industry under surveillance and control of whomever his masters are.

I have never seen such a BOLD FUCK YOU to this industry, especially the indies. Always online editor? Pay per install? This man is a shark and should step down as CEO and all the other executives should get checked for corruption for letting this happen.

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I do have to give the industry credit though. And the consequences were that godot gained a lot of traction. No backsies -- I like it better this way.

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This guy is the Rick Berman of gaming.

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Quoting: pbDonald Trump signed, too! (page 134, 0:37 of the video)

I hope Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are there too!!!

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Imagine the billions of dollars left on the table by companies who are too dumb to just sell on PC.

Yeah no, I'm not going to buy your walled garden device and pay for a game only to be required to re-buy it every couple years.

Instead all we get is IQ50 Rage where henchmen are hired to STOP people from having fun. Stockholders should demand that ALL game makers sell on PC. It's inefficient to create all this ewaste by requiring people to buy additional devices that will end up in a landfill too. Existing devices should be repurposed once they are EOL at minimum.

Billions flushed down the drain and an entirely new set of vendors have appeared* to fill the void raking in those billions and billions more and even taking their money bags to console-land to cut into their markets too.

Idiocracy. Complete IQ50 Dumbasses that preside over a industry they neither respect nor understand at* the expense of investors and the market alike.

These projects are always proof that there is demand. But their is no supply due to ignorance.

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Is it possible to learn of this power?

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2019, 06.28 -- Valve Index was released
2022, 02.25 -- Steam Deck was released
2023, 11.16 -- Steam Deck OLED was released

So we are about 2.5 years since Steam Deck's initial release.

Considering the R&D & time to market, I wouldn't really be surprised to see Steam Deck 2 in the next 12-18 months which would make the upgrade cycle interval about ~4 years.

I presume the Steam Deck hardware team (which previously achieved the Index, Steam Controller, and Steam Link) got pulled over to Deckard which would delay a Steam Deck 2 until after what I would imagine is either Valve Index 2 or Deckard Standalone VR. (Obviously the wuflu pandemic years messed up the timeline for R&D.)

I expect Steam Deck 2 to have a resolution of 16:10 1920x1200 (likely under this AMD Z2 chip), OLED, and largely be the same with better Wifi, Bluetooth, Increased Storage, Perhaps a 10-15% reduction in size or if they're feeling ballsie we'll see a flip up Nintendo DS style option (maybe from another manufacturer), but I largely expect it to look nearly exactly the same and function the same with better specs -- they may steal a page from Apple's book selling colored rectangles and make the personalization as simple as having different colored shells (Orange OLED shell is pretty sick, I'm looking at it right now) Translucent FTW.

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If there's one observation I've made about China. Their actions are typically extremely pragmatic. For Linux to make ground on Microsoft there I would think that Linux would need to become more practical than Windows.

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QuotePlaytron is a Linux based operating system that extracts the gaming ecosystem from Windows and supports every game store and many 3rd party integrations. It is optimized for powerful handheld gaming PCs and will launch later this year for Steam Deck and other devices.

404 Espresso Not Found.

I had to look up what a "Playtron is" ^^ ( -- At first I thought it was some kind of new SqureEnix launcher.)

I will give them the benefit of the doubt until all the facts are in and the thing is released. I do think there is space in the market for something like this. As a consumer it would be important to me that there is a public handshake with the game stores to feel confident enough to invest in whatever system they provide. At a glance their work seems pretty cool.

I have virtually 0 interest in EGS, but GOG is another story, also GreenManGaming and Fanatical were okay last I checked and I wouldn't mind having API directly in something like this.

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