It really hurts my feelings when people badmouth my bad behavior.

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BallisticNG devs aren't buyin' it. They're staying on an older version to avoid the new TOS, even sacrificing the planned Switch port to do so, and looking into other engines for future projects.

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"Let us clarify: our new setup isn't monumentally stupid, just outrageously stupid."

They can't "clarify" their way out of this mess. It's a cockamamie scheme, and every day that passes that they don't outright reverse course adds years of damage to their reputation.

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What is the point of this? If the purpose is to get more revenue from successful projects, what does this accomplish that taking a cut of sales revenue wouldn't? What is the relevance of number of installs? Why should a dev have to pay more if I install a game on both my PC and a Steam Deck? Or if I replace my PC and reinstall the game there? What about all the logistical issues people have already raised?

This seems nonsensical and over-engineered. I hope this drives a surge in interest in Godot.

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Quoting: Egonaut

Quoting: GuestTo their credit, they actually removed DRM, unlike most. Positively neutral praise!

Denuvo gets removed from all games eventually, as it is a subscription model. At some point they won't make enough money on the Stores anymore, to satisfy the high subscription prices of Denuvo. Which is the only real positive part about Denuvo.

If that's true, then Konami must really be dedicated to the thing; Metal Gear Solid V still has it eight years after release.

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The creator of Yamagi Quake 2 seems pretty pleased: https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2/issues/1039#issuecomment-1673817064 (also note that the addons have apparently been newly relicensed under the GPL instead of the old SDK license as part of this)

Paril, one of the remaster devs, is also in there offering to provide additional info if needed.

And the new models and their skins are md5 (Doom 3 engine, open source) and png.

It may not be a full engine source release (which was never gonna happen with id being owned by Zenimax and ultimately Microsoft), but it seems pretty clear to me that there are people on the team who genuinely give a shit about the wider Q2 community, and are, actually, making substantive efforts to accommodate it.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfWhat about the original version? Is it still available?

Steam presents the original game and expansions as launch options when you click "play."

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QuoteIt’s our goal at Blizzard to listen to players and try to exceed their expectations in everything we do

lol

• take away the first game from everyone who bought it to force them onto the new one


• implement a monetization scheme that's even worse than the first game's loot boxes


• basically jettison the game mode that was used to justify making a sequel in the first place

But hey! You can play it on Steam now how awesome is that!?

I am so tired of corporate gaslighting. You wanna shit the bed, fine, I can't stop you. But don't try to tell me you're actually making tootsie rolls.

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Quoting: https://theforceengine.github.io/In addition, a Flatpak/snap (or similar) package is planned for version 1.10, alleviating the need to manually compile the project. Think of version 1.09 as “Linux Early Access.”

A self-contained package is planned, they've just been wanting to polish some stuff off first.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: CybolicAh, I was hoping they'd have fixed the Store/Web view going black when switching windows, before labelling it as stable. Maybe next update.

I used to get this all the time on Gnome, but now that you mention it, Ive not had it at all since jumping over to KDE, so maybe it a compositor bug.

Happens to me on KDE any time I minimize the window.

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