The thought process is I don’t pay for things I can get for free.

you don’t need a subscription to use bittorrent.

The game was trash on the PC, and they thought that downgrading it to a console was going to make it playable?

with the amount of information they collect on their customers, it better be damn good. honestly, the only reason it’s not a huge privacy problem is because they zealously guard that data to protect their near monopoly on PC gaming.

Gabe has been pandering to gamers and mostly giving us what we want, but when he dies, we better hope the next dude in charge isn’t some corporate suit that only cares about maximizing profits in every way that they can, or the enshitification of Steam is going to really fucking hurt. imagine if Valve was run like Microsoft. for example, the next guy might cut a deal with Microsoft to stop supporting Proton.

No. For example, I’ve seen a lot of games use Unreal, and almost all of them ran perfectly fine. It’s almost always the dev or publisher at fault for a shitty game. Usually the publisher, in the case of AAA games.

gaming started getting expensive when micro-transactions became a thing. AI is just the latest fad they can blame their price gouging on. because when the AI bubble pops, that PS5 ain’t going back down in price.

the best way to improve Fallout 4 performance on the Switch 2 is to play it on Steam Deck instead

wait has it always been that much? I feel like I didn’t pay that much back when I bought it years ago.

What a shame, my kids loved this.

Did you wake up in a bad mood, or is this just the personality everyone who is misfortunate enough to meet you is stuck with?

Doesn’t really matter to me, because I was going to pirate it the same as I do any game, AAA or indie.

You can’t steal something you copied, because nothing has been taken, and the concept of owning ideas is ridiculous anyway. Not to mention morality is subjective.

Pirate everything, because everything is yours as much as it is the original creators.

Pirating the game and using those assets was always fine, no matter the circumstances, company, artist, or developer. Copyright and intellectual property is an illusion the capitalist class uses to exclude the poor from ideas they feel they can profit from.

Well alrighty then.

Everybody is shitty and the whole universe sucks and sometimes not even dying can save you.

I’m looking forward to seeing this utilized in games.

So rude. If you can’t handle the reply, don’t ask for it little buddy.

You literally asked twice for a longer reply. If you’ve already forgotten that, maybe you should see a doctor about those memory issues you’re having.

I was gonna just laugh at you and move on, you pestered me twice to give a longer reply. Don’t complain to me when I do as you asked.

The actual content of the comment was stupid. What am I supposed to do, rub your nose in it? You’re obviously not intellectually equipped to understand how moronic you came across as, so what makes you think me writing out an essay on why your comment was dumb is gonna help you at all? I said they’re capitalist, and you "well, acktually”ed me about how really they’re just capitalist adjacent in the most mealy-mouthed reddit communist-bro way possible.

I don’t reckon you’ve done much thinking before, so that doesn’t surprise me.

😂 stop ur gonna kill me

So you’re going to stop?

China is a capitalist country. It’s still a capitalist problem.

nobody gets free passes

Sure, but your opinion of them doesn’t really matter all that much. You’re acting like your judgment is somehow important to anything. But that’s not really true, now is it?

I dunno if anyone has a right to be talking about “integrity of their machine” when that machine was built using slave labor and mining processes that heavily pollute poor countries.

Licenses only matter if you care about copyright. I’d much rather just appropriate whatever I want, whenever I want, for whatever I want. Copyright is capitalist nonsense and I just don’t respect notions of who “owns” what. You won’t need the GPL if you abolish the concept of intellectual property entirely.

Yeah I don’t really think so, GabeN. Loot boxes should go the way of the dinosaurs.

They already broke the record, they won’t be needing those peons anymore.

why else would people pay Nintendo for inferior hardware?

The struggle is how to come up with a system that minimizes the loopholes while not entirely crippling the things they are intended to protect.

the “things they are intended to protect” is profits for the rich.

The fact that you consider it so black and white

it is black and white. the patent system is a capitalist invention with no benefit to society.

Without some protections on human creations you end up with a war of who can steal the most ideas

you can’t “steal” ideas any more than you can copyright them. you think that just because you signed some piece of paper, that nobody else can come along and do it anyway? as a pirate who “steals” all media and video games they consume, let me be the first to tell you that you are out of your mind. the only thing enforcing patents is the monopoly the government has on violence. the same government whose police force started as slave catchers. the same government that refuses to charge the rich and powerful from the Trump-Epstein list. patents exist to protect the profits of the rich and powerful, they do not exist to protect you.

You end up putting resources toward protecting your ideas and keeping them entirely secret

the patent system is no different than that. “your” ideas might not be secret, but nobody else can legally make use of them. there’s no practical difference. either way, the benefits those idea bring are restricted to the few people with enough money to purchase access to them.

I’m not arguing that they have no downsides, I’m arguing that the position of “it’s all bad, get rid of it” is reductive, at best.

that’s because you either don’t understand the basics of capitalism, or you defend it because it’s the only chains you’ve ever known. or you’re rich and pretending you’re not.

whatever the case, anyone who has a patent is a leech on society, and all patent holders should be hanged by the neck until dead. when we said “eat the rich”, what we mean is kill them all. sorry if that bit confused you.

Patents give an incentive to actually do the R&D for new products and projects?

when Sir Frederick Banting invented insulin, he patented it not for greed, but to protect it from the patent system. he famously said, ‘‘Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.’’

a hundred years since then, and corporations have patented new forms of insulin that slightly changed the original formula. they sue anyone who tries to make generic insulin, in order to prevent competition. the EXACT FUCKING THING BANTING TRIED TO PREVENT. the patent system is a weapon that has literally taken untold thousands of lives just from that one example.

patents don’t incentivize shit, and you’re just the latest person without critical thinking skills to fall for that capitalist bullshit propaganda. the patent system exists for one reason, and that’s to monetize ideas so that corporations can choose who gets to improve the world based on who has the biggest wallet.

Besides, patent trolling is not completely negative.

The very idea of intellectual property is ludicrous and absurd. The concept of owning ideas is one of the most ridiculous notions that capitalism ever came up with. There are absolutely zero positive benefits to society when it comes to patents. They are the very reason people can’t afford lifesaving medicines and farmers can’t replant their own seeds. Anyone who owns a patent is a leech and should be hanged by the neck until dead.

Pocket change when it comes to Valve

Pocket change when it comes to a Rothschild as well. This isn’t going to discourage them, that family is the dictionary definition of old money.

conspiracies are plans made in secret. it’s not a secret that tech companies are trying to gouge people for everything they own, that’s just basic capitalism and every corporation is trying to do that. maybe spend less time being a snarky edgelord on fedi and more time actually using that brain millions of years of evolution gave you.

As long as you’re logged in, you should have it. Sometimes it takes a minute or two to be added, and sometimes you also have to restart the client you use, assuming you don’t just download the installers directly.

Don’t click the instant claim link, that’s invalid. Click the main link.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/alone_in_the_dark_the_trilogy_123

I just did it. You have to click the button to go to the giveaway, then scroll down until you see the claim button.

I don’t use corporate AI. And I also don’t pay attention to liberals trying to define what an anarchist can or can’t do.

You should really try again, I think.