Quoting: ArehandoroObsidian are great. I wish they could have stayed independent, though.

They were great. Past tense. I loved most games they used to make, but I have zero interest in the games they're making these days. Not sure why some devs think everybody loves first person games. I certainly don't.
But yes, maybe they would still make great games if MS wouldn't have bought them. Big business has that tendency to kill everything it touches, so there is that.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyGood news! I'm still wondering what's up with the increasingly strong difference between the apparent growth speed of desktop Linux on the web (as noted here ), and the relatively slow growth of desktop Linux on Steam.

Speculating here, but it could be because of some governments moving away from using Windows for their administration. These Linux PCs would be seen on on web, but not on Steam.

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Personally, it just left me stunned about how there really doesn't seem to be any limit on the absurd things corporations (and governments) are inflicting on us these days. I am pretty sure nobody asked for that feature. And it's so in-your-face obviously problematic in so many ways that even Microsoft must have known it. They really don't care. Not one bit. We're just sheep to them. That's the simple truth.

The sad thing is that close to 100% of all Windows users won't even realize that this "feature" is there. They will never even realize that they're getting permanently watched. And knowing MS, you will need a registry hack to disable it, or at least click through three layers of settings in places you wouldn't look for them.

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I am going to buy that!

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Quoting: westurnerWhat are some solutions to anti-cheat on
Linux?

Grow Linux so that it's too big a market for anyone to decide to just ignore. That's it; that's the only solution.

If only that happened over 20 years ago because at this point, Linux will never reach a large market at the rate it's going.

Huh? Our market-share seemed to have exploded last year, after endless years of hovering just around 1%. This is probably in large part thanks to the Steam Deck, and we're already getting noticed by more developers, just not the ones whose games you probably don't want to buy anyway (EA, Ubi...)

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Quoting: dpanterWhat exactly do these people consider "quality", I wonder.

Anything that sells.

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Quoting: pilkI feel Valve has done pretty much everything they can for anticheat compatibility. The issues that remain are the Hall Of Shame (Epic, Riot, Electronic Arts, Roblox, Bungie, etc.) that refuse to make the AC work because of whatever excuse they made up that day.

The excuse typically is something like "Because Linux users are evil h4xx0rs and because open source is insecure by definition! Only closed-source operating system can ever be trusted."

Which doesn't help my impression of people using rootkit anti-cheat doing so because they're not very competent at coding or game-design. :D

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I love my Steam Deck, and honestly the only thing I feel needs regular updating is performance, because these games are not getting any smaller or less GPU-hungry. It's fantastic how the Deck can run even more recent AAA titles, and I think Valve should make sure it stays that way (I still can't believe how well Hogwarts Legacy ran on it).

Unlike Liam, I don't necessarily see the future of gaming in mobile. Maybe I am a dinosaur, but for me, gaming always was, is and always will be desktop. The Steam Deck is for the casual 30 mins of Stardew Valley in bed or when out in the yard. My lifestyle is thankfully not very mobile (I would hate being away all the time), so the desktop serves me just fine for most gaming. The Deck will always be my supplementary device, and it does a superb job doing that.

Do we actually know how many Steam Deck units were sold so far?

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceYou failed to answer me how much this man should earn or how you arrived at the number. There is no right number and that's why. The whole argument is just to hate the "rich". You say that this is for the terror of the elites but it should terrify anyone at allowing anybody to make law how much another person can earn. It would never end at the "elites" and would end up affecting the very people you claim to want to help anyway.

There is absolutely no good reason why we can NOT regulate excessive salaries. Free markets never produce 100% desirable results in all situations. Even free-market advocates don't deny that. Which is why in economics, it's considered to be just fine to correct market failures with regulation and/or taxation. And as I pointed out above, it's borderline insane to claim that these CEO salaries are somehow NOT a market failure.

As for who, how and when to regulate? That's the parliaments job, don't you think? They do that all the time, and the numbers aren't always hard science. Like the numbers they set tax exemptions and grants to this exact amount, despite it also could have been 1000 dollars more or less.

Whenever this topic is discussed, people go "Regulation? Dictatorship!!!!". It's so funny, because similar to CEOs, thieves also grab stuff and run away with it, because they can. And yet we made regulations against it...

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Quoting: PublicNuisance

Quoting: Caldathras

QuoteIt's worth noting at this point that Take-Two's CEO, Strauss Zelnick, was paid $42.1 million last year, which is more than two-and-a-half times the previous year. So once again, the people at the top are pulling in big numbers while cutting the people doing the work.

This needs to be pointed out more often. No one deserves this high a salary, especially at the expense of those that earn much less. Plain greed.

What's the correct number for them to make ? How do you arrive at that number ? Who gets to decide ? I'm not trying to defend Take Two but at the same time trying to dictate how much people are allowed to make is a recipe for a different form of tyranny.

The salary should reflect somebody's productivity. I didn't make that up, economic theory did. And you can't sell me the idea that a CEO is more productive during his potty break than one of his developers during an entire year, without making me burst out in hysterical laughter.

These people stuff their pockets with money until they burst because they can, that's all there is to it.

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