Quoting: EikeI would buy any point and click from Wadjet Eye Games without any additional information, pictures, trailers, anything.

Indeed.
Not many devs like that.

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I'm not really following the argument that they need that data for their project's future.
But I also don't really care if they gather extremely basic system information.

In big projects, you need user telemetry to not develop features and make fixes in a vacuum, based on guesses and/or some vocal minority.
That's just a reality of software development.

Still, they should at least be up-front about it and force a choice to opt in or out on the user, so that nobody can claim to not having known.

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Quoting: GamingTFMHopefully they go for a silent protagonist, like in the first game.

Doesn't have to be silent, but I really do hope they take a hint about what was most disliked about Below Zero - the partly awful writing, especially the almost entirely unlikeable cast.

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Quoting: LestibournesSounds like the usual case of cultists banning anyone who doesn't subscribe to their doctrine, and I'm so tired of that.

It has the very distinct smell of that, doesn't it?

However, it could also be a case of people just being extremely thin-skinned - say anything they don't agree with, maybe don't sugarcoat it, and it's immediately harassment.
Some also just really go out of their way to take anything said as a personal offense, especially if they know the person in question disagrees with them about something.

If you refuse to walk on eggshells around people, the internet can quickly close some doors on you.
It's also one of the reasons I don't really communicate much on Discords and such - context gets immediately lost as nothing is really backed up or searchable from the outside.

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Quoting: M@GOidI'm sorry if this sound harsh but, they get no sympathy from me. People should know that money is not infinite, so if you drag development of something for 6 years, it will end with the project being canceled.

Gaming development is not a new thing. People should know how it works by now and have realistic goals, when they start a project like this.

Absolutely, yes.
Game development is a business - especially once it isn't only your own money on the line anymore.

I had never heard about this before, but looking at the Kickstarter and digging in some more into the developer "history", I see more red flags here than at a CCP National Congress.

Quoting: whizsethis reads like a cautionary tale of how NOT to do game development.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

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Quoting: RomlokI don't understand the hostility to this.

As soon as governments are involved, some people just get their panties in a twist.
It is an automatism, I don't think they can help it, nor do they think about it.
So far, so normal.

Generally, I think this is a reasonable requirement, age restrictions and content declarations should be on store pages - so people can check BEFORE they buy.
And of course, an age requirement for video games makes sense to begin with, I'm somewhat surprised Steam did not already do that. Or does it?
I'm way out of the age for that to matter, so no clue lol...

However, the way they go about this with already released games retroactively requiring declaration or not be listed at all has the distinct taste of a "politician's idea" - something that was simply not thought through with its practical implications.

I'd just set all games that haven't been declared by whoever is responsible to be 18+ and be done with it.

Quoting: GamingTFMThis is the regional pricing thing all over again. I can see many games being delisted for Germany, because so many companies aren't going to go back to older games and set those ratings.

Nah, Germany is a big enough market to care, and I do hope Valve will pester devs/publishers until they take action.
If a game sells at all, devs will care. And if it doesn't sell at all - well then nobody is going to miss anything.

As national laws (especially from bigger EU countries) tend to become broader laws in many cases, I'd also expect other countries to follow suit here, sooner or later, adapting something similar.

I have no doubt the vast majority of devs/publishers will be very quick to comply here.
I mean, come on, it's not like something impossible is demanded here. Fill out a questionnaire, done. This is easier than uploading a patch for a game.

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Quoting: Leahi84Why are there so many Chinese users on Steam? I thought they have their own version created for the Chinese market?

That's true afaik, but A) They might work around that "restriction" and B) who knows if both versions don't count into the same statistic.

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Quoting: pbPersonally I find this fascinating that China is so Windows-centric. It might be because there's no IP laws and a lot of these are pirated copies of Windows (so basically free as in beer), but still, it's an American product, I would think its use would be discouraged at the very least. I guess Red Flag Linux didn't gain as much popularity as they hoped it would. ;-)

On the other hand, Linux is an open system while Windows is fully controlled plus they might have some deal in place for backdoors and stuff, so everyone is happy (I mean the corporation and the government).

Honestly, I think it is mostly because Windows has really, REALLY good support for Chinese language + Pinyin.

Linux support of those two is absolutely abysmal - yeah, you can get something installed that "kind of works", but it will still be far, far away from the support MS offers for this.

And because that is the case, there are not many Chinese Linux users, and because of that, not much effort goes into improving the situation, and there you are, vicious cycle.

I tried learning Chinese for a while and I totally get why no Chinese person would want to touch Linux, even IF they were tech affine and not afraid of terminals.

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This is unfortunately not very surprising.

If a console is still actively being sold, offering any kind of emulation for it is asking for trouble.
Especially if it is a Nintendo console.

I'm relatively certain that once the Switch's lifetime has ended, Nintendo will be a lot less aggressive towards its emulation.
After all, I don't see them going after GB, NES, SNES, N64, DS, GameCube, etc. emulation (unless there is some additional shadiness involved).

I just wish they would communicate more clearly. A simple "do not try to emulate our actively sold/developed console, or else" would go a long way.
Though I guess they communicate through actions here

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I already switched from the native version to the Proton one - it's just vastly superior, the native one had worse performance for me and several display bugs.
Nice try, but it is clear they never had a good developer for the port.

Better to drop it than to carry an inferior version along.
Though the communication could indeed have been better.

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