You’d think after what, 15 years now, of COD being the best selling game on every platform every year that comments like these would have stopped, utter here we are.
However, Waze says that to minimize distractions, it won’t show these alerts on regularly traveled roads and will limit alerts on unfamiliar roads to prevent driver overload.
Hmm that seems like it’s out of context. They said that the goal at the moment is still growth, meaning they’re reinvesting everything they make on it in order to grow it. This can mean that if they stopped the reinvesting for growth it would be profitable.
Worth pointing out that while Microsoft will pay each of the 20 teams $6mil if the league dissolves, each of those teams paid Microsoft (well ABK) $7.5mil to enter.
The OnePlus Open brings what might be the best hardware on a foldable phone and enough clever software tricks to turn heads. It pairs top-end internals with some of OPPO’s careful trial-and-error to create a debut foldable phone that hardly feels like a first attempt. Add in a competitive asking price, and the OnePlus Open just might give other foldables a run for their money.
It’s a folding phone that looks to have the absolute best hardware of all the folding phones, and a very very smart big screen OS. That price seems fine compared to the other foldables? Reviews say it’s great too.
This is like saying that because you can write a sentence in one hour someone else should be able to write a trilogy of 1000 page books in an hour too.
Does it count as tracking though? What private or personal data is it? I’d also say that it’s at the very least grey area since all they’re doing is trying to prevent people from using their service in unintended ways, ie without ads.
It says nothing of how “poorly” they’re doing. A big portion of the PC master race crowd are hardcore steam Stan’s that are “no steam no buy”. Releasing on steam brings extra sales that they otherwise wouldn’t have gotten.
As for the rest of your rant, well the less said the better. Kotick has made every part of ABK the most successful they’ve ever been.
Worth the effort? It’s zero effort. They don’t have to re-make the game to release it on a different PC launcher. What’s the total player count for steam? Peak is irrelevant, it’s not an online shooter that needs a huge concurrent player count.
A quick google for steam charts shows shows a 24 hour peak concurrent players of 7,152 players, double your figure. You seem to be looking at the current number of concurrent players, not peak. 7152 x USD$60 is almost half a million dollars, just in people that played at the exact same time in the last 24 hours, for a release that would have taken 1 guy an hour to do.
The game is also more popular on consoles than ever and available on battlenet, where most diablo players on PC buy diablo. Using steam numbers to say diablo 4 is a failure is like the people using Steam numbers to say Starfield is a failure. Those people are eating crow currently seeing as Starfield was the number 1 selling game in the US in its release month and went straight to the 7th best selling game of the year after people called it a “complete bomb”.
Because giving valve 30% of a new sale is better than no sale. Again - the only people buying the game on steam are people that are “no steam no buy” or people buying the game again. Diablo doesn’t need exposure, it’s one of the biggest gaming franchises around. What they want is more players and more money - not because it failed, but because that’s what profit driven companies do.
Also microsoft release all their PC games on steam, and Microsoft just bought Blizzard so this was likely done in preparation for the purchase.
Red Dead Redemption 2? I got that on PC for like AUD$20 6 months ago (RRP AUD$120). Elden Ring on PC has been half price at least plenty of times already.
Returnal is Sony who don’t like to drop their prices too much, but it has also been on sale for half price.
ive been using kodi (xbmc was better moniker) since google killed sagetv. i recall attempting plex, but it seemed to lack some open/extensibility (its been awhile)....
Plex is just easier, especially when using multiple devices to watch content and/or sharing content with friends and family. I used to be all in on kodi over Plex, but Plex improved and improved and improved and is a better product imo.
One of the things that really put me off Kodi (as a long time user as well, I also had an XBMC xbox) was the mentality of “it shouldn’t be easy, there shouldn’t be any setup wizards. It needs to be difficult to configure and get working because we’re l33t haxors!” in so many kodi forums and affiliated people. They wanted it to be hard to set up and use because it made them feel smart, it was absolutely ridiculous.
As soon as Plex got their UI to a design I liked I jumped ship and haven’t looked back.
Google discontinue a lot more than almost anyone else though. It’s a meme at this point how often they kill things off. Does a website like this exist for any other company?
Google will absolutely be stopping Android development in the relatively near future. They’re already making almost all the new features pixel exclusive, never making their way to AOSP.
Their pixel exclusive features absolutely do not require the tensor SOC. They would work on any flagship chip.
The source is Google want to be Apple with respect to phones. They crave that locked down closed source OS where everyone is beholden to them. They don’t like that their product is used against them by their competitors who often do it better. They’ll drop android development in the relatively near future 100%, when they have their closed source replacement.
No? Not sure how you got that from what I posted lol.
Google aren’t going to kill android. I never said that. What they’re going to do is make a new OS for their mobiles and devices and stop android development. As I pointed out, they’ve already begun this with fuchsia and by not adding 90% of their new OS features to AOSP. They don’t want their OS to be open source anymore, that was just how they would capture the market they wanted.
The last few Android OS versions outside of pixels have just been essentially UI and security updates. Virtually no new features. Everything is pixel exclusive. This is their way of weaning off Android into their new closed source OS. They’ve already updated all of their Google home hubs to fuchsia.
Am I doing HDR wrong?
I have never used an HDR display before so I’m not sure how it’s supposed to look....
Apple TV+ renews global hit, epic sci-fi saga “Foundation” for season three (www.apple.com)
Following its global hit second season, Apple TV+ announced that its epic saga “Foundation” has been renewed for season three.
Gamers using GeForce NOW to play Call of Duty are reportedly being banned (videocardz.com)
Waze will now warn drivers about crash dangers using historical data (arstechnica.com)
The Epic Games Store still isn’t profitable (www.theverge.com)
Starfield group fixing Bethesda's bugs say their job is tough as mods feel an afterthought (www.eurogamer.net)
Microsoft may lose $120 million due to the Overwatch League shutdown (www.windowscentral.com)
OnePlus Open review: Should you buy it? - Android Authority (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2704659 (!oneplus)
King Kong Report Says the Developers Only Had One Year to Make the Game (comicbook.com)
YouTubes Antiblick is illegal in the EU (eupolicy.social)
Cross post from lemmy.world/post/7027225
The Diablo 4 Steam release is struggling, with mixed reviews and less than 2,500 players (www.pcgamesn.com)
YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I’m sure many of you are already aware that YouTube has been rolling out anti-adblock detection for Chrome users for a few weeks now....
i gotta ask... why so many plex over kodi users? (moist.catsweat.com)
ive been using kodi (xbmc was better moniker) since google killed sagetv. i recall attempting plex, but it seemed to lack some open/extensibility (its been awhile)....
The Response to Google's 7 Year Pixel Update Promise is Getting Weird (www.droid-life.com)