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Fixbeat, in 2 way communication is key

Girls bad, boys good!

GrammatonCleric, in Where are all the games featuring skunks as playable characters?
@GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world avatar

I’m guessing any skunk-centric game did poorly because not many people want to be one of the worst-smelling animals on the planet. Probably easier to just put a tuxedo cat in your game.

Toes, (edited ) in Windows 7 and Windows 8 Support

What do you think causes these people to hold on?

Windows 10 is free, it takes hardly any technical skill to upgrade. Linux is a great idea too for tech savvy users.

zipzoopaboop,

10 WAS free, if you updated years ago

conorab,

What do you think causes people to hold on?

If it isn’t on fire yet don’t fix it, probably. I’ve heard of people still using Vista, which is certainly a choice.

Windows 10 is free

It’s not free legally in Australia, the US and I’m guessing the EU (I think Portugal is a. exception here). The rest I have no idea. The legal free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8/8.1 ended some time ago even though Microsoft will still accept those keys. That said, if you’re willing to deal with the activation watermark you don’t even need to crack Windows to make it work without a licence. 😉

Linux is a great idea for tech savvy users.

I was never able to get past the “I need a Windows partition stage” because there would always be obe game that I couldn’t play. It’s making great strides though and is one hell of a rabbit hole to jump down!

wildginger,

I heard through the grapevine and definitely not by experience that there are many easy ways to remove the watermark too

progettarsi, in You know what? I'll just wait...

lmao I’ll probably not even crack it, like ig it will be 500gb download

RampantParanoia2365, in You know what? I'll just wait...

Months after console release, you mean.

GreenMario,

Yep Rockstar never releases PC day and date to get y’all to double dip.

TheFriendlyArtificer, in Gatekeeping for profit

I’m okay with this.

/s

I just got a 5 figure check for two weeks of work reverse engineering proprietary protocols for a super high end centrifuge.

Geeze, scientists! How hard is it to rip apart the hardware, hook up a JTAG debugger, attach an oscilloscope to various PCB traces, capture the data (praying to Linus that it’s a switched protocol), find what might be some documentation from a sketchy Slavic website, call an ex who speaks Russian and have them translate, then reimplement the drivers in a modern operating system with modern realtime kernel modules.

It ain’t bathysphere rocket surgery!

TowardsTheFuture, in Gatekeeping for profit

Cries in I just wanna play Landscape but “online only” that the pulled the plug on after like 3 months. Thanks Daybreak.

Monkstrosity, in In the end it all became the same

Fact is, current software licensing laws needs to change. Doesn’t matter whether I own a physical copy or a digital copy, a company shouldn’t be able to decide that I can’t access the product I paid for anymore.

reddig33, in Where are all the games featuring skunks as playable characters?

A Pepe LePeu videogame done in the style of cell animation would be awesome.

wildginger, in WotC Denies Using AI Generative Art In Promo Materials, Later Admits, Yeah, It Did

God I wish mtg and dnd could escape the claws of wotc and return to the hands of designers who want to make good games, not money squeezers and advertising scams and gimmicks.

Tosti, in Steam Workshop: New Quality of Life Workshop Features
@Tosti@feddit.nl avatar

Having competing platforms require games to move away from steam workshop in order to also service their customer on these other platforms might be a blessing and a curse at the same time.

Finally some much needed updates.

HarkMahlberg,
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.social avatar

I assume you mean Paradox and Cities Skylines 2 mods. I worry when their mod manager finally gets released, it will still have a fraction of the features and QOL that Steam Workshop has right now. Epic Games learned the hard way that it is extremely difficult to spin up a new product and compete with a product that has decades of maturity.

Tosti,
@Tosti@feddit.nl avatar

Absolutely true. There are several websites that also do mod support (for better or worse). I just think that having several options to provide mods to customers is better than having one option.

x4740N, in I remember getting a PS3 just to avoid this back then
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

I literally had this thought today then this post shows up on lemmy

fsxylo, in Ubisoft started showing ads in games

pukes into trashcan

bstix, (edited ) in No-Bullshit Games

Nice list.

Personally I’ll always recommend Swordigo, which is also on the list. It’s old, but not only is it ad-free, free to download on Android, several hours of gameplay, but it’s also one of the best platformer that I have ever tried on any platform. Mainly because it’s perfectly balanced. No need to grind, but still difficult enough for some parts to require a little practice, without ever feeling needlessly difficult. IMO this game is what mobile gaming should have been.

My only complaint is they didn’t make a proper sequel.

Deckweiss, in Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat

Looks cool, but I am already in love with Starsector

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