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3·5 days agoAfter cutting the price to reach greater audience (originally too expensive) Sony had to remove Linux support from Playstation 3 because companies where amassing lot of those things to set up some sort of DIY supercomputers.
It needs to be cheap.
However, when comparing to the power of locked up device such as ps5, it never hurts reminds that the supposed GPU processing power of a ps5 doesn’t come for free… even if you’ve fully paid your console. Aside for demos or jailbreaked devices (piracy on console) the only way to run graphics at full potential on the locked ps5 is paying full AAA (which now is settling around 80$/€) for EACH product. There are alternatives in the spending (ie: the Netflix alike from Sony’s store)… but those are only options that Sony allow you to (you can’t run weekly free games from EGS, itch.io… or even web browser games!).
Whatever power you pay for any generic PC potentially cover you in any way: you can play arcade vector games as Asteroid at 4k (or even teorical 32K when the hardware will exists).
The difference Valve could make is showing the topical console gamer customer an easy to use access to it: once they’ll see the light… things may go different also for console-only customers (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo wouldn’t want to lose more customers to Valve’s better deal)
I doubt that the Steam Machine outperforms anything made in the last 5-10 years.
It’s all about the price… and the very recent years weren’t exactly kind in relation for price per performance
It’s mostly a poker game: you need to call with money to keep playing, otherwise you “fold” and they win… even if the winner got shitty (“no papers”) cards.
You can buy it on ebay or alike: a PC/PS2 dvd is basically a license (even if it’s broken: once bought the disc you can download the same exact version of the disc you own…under the EU laws, not sure about elsewhere but nations in the British commonwealth have strong customer protection ).
I am not defending IP laws, I am avoiding people making confusion about what’s SKG scope. I am completely in favor of a similar initiative that addressees IP craziness; but it need to be appropriately represent on what the initiative is about.
Broadly spreading the scope of an initiative is a hostile technique to sink the initiative down: I don’t know if you’re aware of the PirateSoftware fiasco: he tried to say that the initiative would force companies to keep server online forever… just to basically spread the idea “this is impossible, so SKG is impossible”. Luckily SKG initiative was appropriately (and painstakingly patently) readdressed by Ross Scott calling on PirateSoftware, de facto, BS.
SKG address a different issue than NOLF’s IP hellscape.
When a game is killed it doesn’t mean either is free or random shops can sell it without agreement with the right’s holder: only people who bought it previously are (and must be) allowed to play.
If only all monopolies were so user-positive.
All monopolies come into being super user-positive: it’s the moment they need to make money that shit hits the fan.
Is: Google Chrome is an overly appreciate, open source, web browser… then they came to shut down ad blocker “we gotta got +80% web browser share, what are you gonna do about it?”
Must be lemmy.ca then:
That’s the one lemmy did suggest: you can see yourself in the previde lemmy itself auto generate vere insidie the post.
I guess pcgamer sneak the clickbait title in the metà data so they can have clickbait whenever their article are shared, but don’t take full responsibility on their own very pages
Valve is “de facto” monopoly, bit the actual monopoly potential is in Microsoft hands. Microsoft is for PC gaming industry what Google is for the web browser one. Sure, there may be other cool web browsers, but it’s Google that (through Android base) decide whic web browser will be delivered with the next billions of Android mobile device: some elderly people on smartphone don’t even know what is a web browser (“oh, you mean when I Google? I don’t know: I just Google”).
All future new PC will be sold with Microsoft Store and Xbox junk ware: Microsoft has been exceptionally shitty for not being the actual monopoly in the PC gaming industry. But that’s a very feeble protection: break Valve business is just a mandatory “security update” away to happen. They can break Steam little by little (such as suggested by Tim Sweeney) or just a big blow by sheer monopolized manipulation (such as Google not allowing adblockers to chrome to feed their advertising business)
They fire the developer who says “2+2=4” and hire the one who says “2+2=5”… then the hired developer is absolutely free to say his/her “5” anytime they want until EA doesn’t roll a new formula. (they is fire&hire again)
The problem is that also… Apex Legends was fully linux/steam deck supported. When developers are insecure about their ability to provide protection against cheater… Linux is usually the first target so they can “show” they are resolute (in truth, insecure indeed) about anti-cheating.
Kernel level anticheat, is the foundation of insecurity by developers. An example of “non-insecure” developer is Valve: all their efforts against cheater are nearly kernellevel-less.
I would add
[]to the title, just to be sure
Last week argument in the PR team: “do we middle finger to our possible paying customers or not?”
It was an heated discussion.
Any device that come with SteamOS by default, is a device that doesn’t come with both Windows and Xbox game store by default. Basically Valve isn’t paying for the OS, it’s paying for devices that run Steam Store by default (instead direct, unfair, competition from Microsoft)
Can Windows PC come by default with Steam Store? Of course… if Microsoft allow them to.
mini PC things.
…or PC things, but mini.
“It’s a security hole that endangers democracy itself.” NieR creator speaks out against payment processors pressuring Japanese adult content platforms
NieR creator Yoko Taro comments on the series of instances of Japanese adult platforms being pressured by credit card payment processors.
clams: False “No Funding” Declaration
evidences:
Multiple media interviews identifying Scott as handling “the standard day-to-day work of running the Stop Killing Games initiative”
Scott described as the primary strategic decision-maker and public spokesperson throughout the campaignConservative Professional Value Assessment:•Intensive Periods: “Many weeks” of 12-14 hours/day during critical campaign phases
Conservative Estimate: 15-20 weeks at high intensity (12-14 hours/day) = 1,260-1,960 hours
Regular Campaign Work: Additional ongoing daily campaign management throughout 12+ month period
Professional Rate: €50-75/hour for campaign management/advocacy services (market rate)•Minimum Estimated Value: €63,000-147,000 in professional contribution
**Additional Considerations: **
This represents only documented intensive periods, not total campaign involvement
Scott has managed strategic decisions, media relations, and operational leadership throughout
Even conservative calculations show contribution exceeding €500 threshold by 125-295 times
…probably also a 400$/€ PC, but here’s the plot twist: it did cost 400$/€