It doesn’t hold up. It pushed the envelope, but of a very early field with very limited tech.

3D gameplay has evolved way too much. It takes a remake to make the game mechanics still feel fun.

Sell DLC that isn’t just a bullshit cash grab and people will buy it.

SteamOS is arch, so some of the derivatives are too.

Steam shouldn’t really care though.

That’s fine, and in principle I understand the threat, but I think there are plenty of security experts who choose to just use cloudflare because some of the services they provide genuinely require their scale and they have a pretty steady history of making very measured decisions about where they need to leverage their position to improve security.

There’s never been any indication that they’re collecting more than they need to or exploiting it beyond the scope of the service they provide, and several scenarios where they have refused to cooperate with governments trying to do invasive things. I absolutely think “moderately secure” still applies to traffic routed through cloudflare.

The point is to not be compelled to a central service. Choosing a provider that does a better job is perfectly fine.

That applies to most of the internet, and Cloudflare has a long track record of not abusing that position, though.

Good. Scanning everything for CSAM is one thing, but requiring platforms to scan everything uploaded for alleged copyright infringement is insane

Your actual browsing of lemmy is moderately private, provided you trust your server.

But nothing else is. By design, it’s pretty easy for anyone who wants to track activity on any federated platform to do so. They’re extremely open.

Except it’s a strong demonstration that even epic paying for your game won’t make your money back on a well made game if you lock it to a disgusting excuse for a storefront.

It would have been better for the studio not to make the game. It’s identical for the majority of gamers as them not making the game. They still haven’t broken even because they made a bad, anti-consumer decision. They failed because they deserved to fail.

If you’re only for sale on an actively user hostile storefront, you get what you get.

Sony does hardware features well pretty much across the board. It completely changes the experience without dominating it.

Third parties seem to either halfass it or ignore it.

Almost every game that uses the speaker is even more annoying.

Maybe, but they’re on the side of normal people here.

Court ordered mass surveillance is horseshit.

They definitely should be treated as super sketchy, because they are, but abandoning a project that doesn’t get anywhere near goals is part of the idea of kickstarter. It’s “this idea takes some minimum investment to make happen, and you (the funder) are willing to spend $X to make that happen if the critical mass is reached”. Abandoning failed campaigns is the core concept.

Nobody owns an Xbox already.

They were porting to PS because they’re losing money on those games without PS’s audience.

Skyrim is mind blowing.

The actual gameplay feels very different, and locomotion on that scale was more uncomfortable for me than other games (on an original vive). It might be that the performance isn’t stable, as their engine has always had some level of that.

But holy shit, even the whole introductory sequence hits different, and just getting to whiterun feels like an epic adventure. Because of physical space requirements I never got super deep into it, but I could easily see getting lost in it if I’d had more time and got past the slight discomfort other VR games didn’t give me.

Only if you’re willing to do business with Facebook.

Paying you per hour to use Facebook hardware would be overpriced.

One random one that jumps to mind is a game I routinely see bundled on fanatical dirt cheap.

Ugly starts a little slow, and I think the writing is just weird, but the some of the puzzles are really cool, and there’s a good blend between pure puzzles and puzzles that require platformer execution.

I don’t know that I would have paid $20, and I paid less than the $7 it’s available for there now (it says for 10 hours), but I enjoyed what I played of it.

The reasoning is super transparent. It’s the only way it could do what it’s doing. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Hitman is really good, too.

The always online for live service shit sucks, and I can’t defend that, but you can run your own server on PC and they don’t seem to have taken any action against the project. But once you get past that, it’s right there in the discussion for the best stealth action games on the market. The gunplay is a little clunky, but it feels intentional to push you into using weapons to get back to stealth, and of the contenders in the stealth space, the costume element makes it the most unique.

But I’m really excited to see what they do with Bond.