Sony’s PlayStation is extremely good at two things: Making a console people want to buy, and having its devs make great single players games for that console.
The lack of adoption is more about nervousness around who created it more than anything. It’s incredibly stable and very well tested.
It’s a shame because openzfs is really truely fantastic, so hoping this new thing keeps that momentum but for a wider audience.
But sad to see people like yourself suggest myths around zfs that don’t have any basis, probably one of the other reasons it’s less used, people think there must be some reason and things get made up along the way
Eh I don’t think they have much of a claim here. Threads is a super common word in software and Facebook can so what they want with their own platform.
I feel like this is just built to make you mad, if you want to get your “I’m so angry and enjoying it”'s out this morning I guess this is what you read and leave an angry comment about.
If they actually do any steps to prevent modding, I’m more open to getting mad about this, but they are more outlining the effect that mods and piracy has on them, and there are some valid points in there too.
No, it isn’t. Some poor journalism half a decade ago based on bad translations and hearsay led to some bad articles. You added the felony bit, tho so the story unravels more.
the kotaku article is the badly translated one yes, japan has copyright advisories saying tampering with game consoles and game console save files is against japanese copyright laws and bad translations sought that out to be about modding games, it’s not
I needed to look up this studio to figure out what they did. They made a franchise I’ve never heard of for iphones called “hungry shark”. I guess that wasn’t worth keeping the studio around for ubisoft when the screws are being tightened
fun fact, whenever a game has crossplay - and has a big enough player base that i can do this, i will turn it off 100% of the time purely because I have experienced sooo many cheaters from the pc side of the crossplay.
a very common complaint about crossplay over on the consoles side of thing is “let us do just-console crossplay”
it is what it is, but it’s also funny to see someone say what you said there. One of the great things about pc gaming is the freedom you have to do what you want, which unfortunately makes it 1000000x easier to cheat.
You’re looking at this from a “what is good for microsoft” position. You won’t find much purchase for that thought process here. People care more about what is good for consumers and real people over companies.
You’ve now taken the stance that these other companies did scummy things so it’s okay for Microsoft to do scummy anti consumer things. This will also not find purchase.
Yes yes we all know that big companies are going to do bad things, you aren’t revealing new information here. And we know that leaving a comment on lemmy isn’t going to change anything, this is not new information.
We don’t really like this whole “big companies do bad things and we should expect that and not say anything about it” thing. should we just never talk about anything because big companies are big, so do what they want.
Remember when Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, Samsung Electronics and Tencent all had to come together and form a super group to develop a royalty free video codec because something as simple as compressing and decompressing video was so god damn patent encumbered by people who just existed to suck money out of everyone.
Literally, every time software is patented, it ends up being used to screw with everyone, then eventually the patent expires ten years after the software was useful, or we have to waste huge amounts of effort to sideline it.
You sound like you need a history refresher on patents in the software industry and the disastrous effect that it has had in hurting innovation and consumers and how it is dominated by trolls and squatters.
Again, look at the history of software patents. Tell me a single time it incentivied innovation and wasn’t just used by patent trolls and wasn’t just a huge waste of time and money for the industry to spend time on.
I think you are wholey unfamiliar with software patents in general and are just going on some basic guiding principal and I can tell you right now, history has not played out in your idilic description at all and you are just coming off as ignorant on the topic.
I’ve been re-watching star trek voyager recently, and I’ve heard when filming, they didn’t clear the wide angle of filming equipment, so it’s not as simple as just going back to the original film. With the advancement of AI, is it only a matter of time until older programs like this are released with more updated...
It’s worth noting that edited on tape also means that to make hd versions, you have to re-scan all the camera negatives (if they even still exist), then re-edit all the scenes to be exactly the same editing as the tape editing. Plus, all the colour timing needs to be redone.
It’s a huge amount of work, and the tng stuff wasn’t profitable because of it. It’s just too much.
It’s too complex to go over in a comment, but for film, it’s a process of exposing the film through different filters for different lengths of time to produce the final colours you want
Another competitive multiplayer shooter bound for the “I didn’t even know that came out” pile, I suspect.
We have this unfortunate situation in the industry right now. The only way you can get a game made is if you can get investors to pony up some money to pay for the development, and investors only care about what was already successful.
It just doesn’t work in creative industries. If something was successful five years ago, making something to ape that today isn’t going to work. Imagine if music was based on what was trending half a decade ago.
It’s a competitive shooter. The twist on the genre doesn’t matter for the point I’m making. They all have some twists, and they all fail, aside from the unicorns that make it.
Eh, it’s just unreal engine 5. It’s fairly proven on this level of visual fidelity and then some. I would be shocked if it looked worse than this on release
Nothing even happens there anymore, half my links used to be to twitter, or screenshot of twitter.
It’s already dead, just a bu ch of addicts circling the drain. We don’t nerd to talk about it anymore aside from pouring one out when the servers finally turn off
So, they’ve already won. They just haven’t turned on the nuclear option yet.
They recently added what amounts to drm for the entire Internet to chrome, it is a way for them to disallow access to YouTube and other services via anything but an approved browser. This would include approved extensions.
So I’ll use something that isn’t chrome? Well, they will just block Firefox from YouTube. Making chrome and chrome derivatives via its Internet drm the only option.
Eh, probably. But it’s for fighting those darned internet pirates, and the only body that seems to protect us anymore, the eu, seems to be all for that. So I’m.not expecting anything good
They are all for copyright protection, the current copyright reform act proposes automatic scanners installed to prevent copywritten content from being displayed without authorization
It’s not that simple, it’s not forcing everyone to use chrome, it’s denying access to copyrighted material to drmed browsers only. This is something that already happens and no one seems to want to break things up around that. Infaft they seem to legislate more for that.
And sure today it’s youtube, but this is actually a form of drm for everything. Today youtube tomorrow everything else.
The company’s AI-generated content policy for apps being uploaded to the Google Play Store currently applies to the end-products of text-to-text, text-to-image, voice-to-image, and image-to-image apps. Voice and video recordings created by apps using AI are also included. However, apps and games that can’t leverage AI to generate content are exempt, even if they make use of media made by AI. Productivity apps that leverage AI are also excluded, as well as those that summarize non-AI-created content.
To adhere to Google’s effort to maintain responsible AI practices, developers now need to report or flag potentially offensive AI-created content. The ultimate goal is to enhance content filtering and moderation.
I don’t know if the article authors misunderstood it, or wanted clicks, or had ai generate the article. But it’s misleading from the title.
also, no one said the AI that is going to replace everyone’s jobs and kill the economy because we don’t have a society or economical system that can survive that amount of job losses inside of it was going to be good, or accurate.
the goal of ai isn’t to be good or accurate, it’s to seem plausible.
… because everyone blocks them, you bozo. I’m not generally gonna be out here simping for ad supported things, ad’s suck. But the reason no one makes money from ads anymore is because everyone blocks ads, and thus, companies that want to show ads have less value in the system
I know everyone loves RE Engine for how performant it is, whilst still looking pretty good. But that’s mostly because it’s based on technologies designed for 2014 hardware, we’re really just reaping the rewards that come from Capcom having a good art team that can make that 2014 tech still look pretty good on modern stuff.
It’s worth noting that this guy is talking not of old Bethesda but modern Bethesda. The writing team behind Morrowind and half of Oblivion absolutely cared about the details that only 1% of people might see. Morrowind especially is a world built around you exploring the world building. It’s not about levelling up (wowee I can miss the flying fuckheads 2% less now), it was about exploring the politics and cultures in the world.
At some point, Bethesda games became about the mechanical exploration, about going over there because that looks like it might be interesting, oh it’s just a cave with combat in it oh well maybe over there will be interesting.
Freespace 2 Open, the games source was released in the early 2000’s under a … dubious licence that may or may not be legal to work with but no one really knows and it’s been more than 20 years so eh
Freespace 2 far and away my favourite space game, nothing else comes close to the tension of war that game setup so it’s great that you don’t have to run a .exe from the 90s to play the game. lots of mods for it now too thanks to this project
Apple One Price Increase (lemmy.ca)
Grrrr 😠 Screenshot shows Canadian dollars.
PlayStation Is Making Bad Investments, Bad Decisions (www.forbes.com)
Sony’s PlayStation is extremely good at two things: Making a console people want to buy, and having its devs make great single players games for that console.
Bcachefs Merged into the Linux 6.7 Kernel
www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Merged-Linux-6.7
A software company called Threads says Meta tried to buy its domain and kicked it off Facebook (www.engadget.com)
In a recent Capcom R&D presentation, Capcom has clarified it's stances on mods and PC gaming. (nitter.net)
NES, Game Boy – October 2023 Game Updates – Nintendo Switch Online (www.youtube.com)
Castlevania Legends (Game Boy)...
In a recent Capcom R and D presentation, Capcom has clarified that it Capcom considers mods equal to cheating, and is worried that "mods that violate public order or morals" will cause them PR damage (twitter.com)
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/df8c034b-416e-4658-9990-ac4d4dc11a4b.png...
Ubisoft closes London studio (twitter.com)
God of War is coming to GOG (www.gog.com)
www.gog.com/en/game/god_of_war...
Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'
Valve: "We don't know enough about NFTs to weigh in on that conversation" (web.archive.org)
GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations" (www.eurogamer.net)
Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9?
I’ve been re-watching star trek voyager recently, and I’ve heard when filming, they didn’t clear the wide angle of filming equipment, so it’s not as simple as just going back to the original film. With the advancement of AI, is it only a matter of time until older programs like this are released with more updated...
Ex-DICE developers’ very un-Battlefield shooter goes into open beta (The Finals) (www.polygon.com)
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater vs Metal Gear Solid 3 Comparison (youtu.be)
Twitter takeover: how a year of Elon Musk rendered the platform useless | Pranav Dixit (www.theguardian.com)
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection (www.theregister.com)
Android app developers will soon be required to flag AI-generated content (www.androidpolice.com)
AI will change the way we do everything. All jobs will be replaced. (lemmy.world)
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Capcom Reveals It's Working on a Next-Gen RE Engine Codenamed REX - IGN (www.ign.com)
Ex-Skyrim Developer Explains the Key Difference Between Bethesda Games and Baldur’s Gate 3 | IGN (www.ign.com)
Game Revival Projects?
So, there are projects like these;...
What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?
So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I’ll help out.
Report: Unity's Runtime Fee quietly gave exemptions in launch rush (www.gamedeveloper.com)