cybernihongo
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- Comment on GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams 1 week ago:
But i always thought GOG’S refund policy is more generous
Not to mention it they had it way before steam ever heard of refunds.
I wonder if people ever homebrew’d it to circumvent it (idk if this is even legal)
People have! Homebrewing it for piracy is definitely not legal, but you can hack it like any other PSP (okay technically you can get original homebrew for it kinda but not really legally). But if you’re a law abiding citizen, you can’t buy new digital games for it.
I think the only non-NSFW/NSFW-adjacent Game GOG gave out was Postal 2
Postal 2 was one of the games in the bundle I mentioned. HuniePop was included IIRC along other games like Fetish Locator. It was given away just after the other two stores caved in.
- Comment on GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams 1 week ago:
IIRC Didnt Visa and Mastercard pressure them
If they did, then they caved to them despite their wealth and resources. Meanwhile GOG gave away a bundle full of NSFW games and they’re also served by Visa and MC. AFAIK only they and itch.io publicly shot themselves here.
Paid mods?
A long while ago, they thought it was an okay idea and they actually sold mods for a short while before taking it out due to backlash. Skyrim was one of the games to have paid mods. I heard a year or two ago they were reconsidering the idea but I don’t remember the details. On that note, their mod store is locked to their own versions of most games, meaning that if Skyrim still had workshop mods (free or paid), you likely wouldn’t be able to download them for the GOG version of the game. I’m sure if Epic did this, I’ll be hearing all sorts of bloody murder all day.
i heard a government pressured them to doing this,yeah that sucks though
IIRC that was Australia. But even their refund policy now is shit. Two hours after you click launch on a game? GOG back then had a 14 day money back guarantee, now extended to 30 days.
Yeah that sucks to,but for me its fine for F2P Video games and if its not P2W
Worth noting P2W is a direct result of the F2P model that Valve has popularized in full fat PC games. Minecraft’s first April Fool’s joke is a parody of the TF2 store, long before its Bedrock Edition had a similar store for itself. It’s not a stretch to say they planted the seeds for games like Star Wars Battlefront 2017 which had you grind for too long of a time just to play the iconic Darth Vader.
and used games well i think the digital switch killed it
The killing started very slowly with HL2, which was the first physical game to require using steam keys to even be able to play it. Selling your copy of HL2 with a used key means the other person can’t legally play it. This practice really sped up with 2011’s PC physical version of Skyrim which did the same, and at that time many more games did it. Before long, we started seeing discs that don’t even have the game files. Microsoft tried to track and limit used games for the X1 console, but backtracked due to backlash. Bethesda continued “innovating” with the Fallout 76 cardboard disc. Now the practice has bled over to current gen consoles.
Tangentially related
The PSP Go was the first digital only console and since the PS Store was discontinued for it, yep, no more buying games for it.
i think for non-DRM Games you can Still own it on Steam???
There are very few of these games and the only way to know about them is a community-made spreadsheet compiled through trial and error. Unlike GOG, they’re not guaranteed to stay DRM-free - they can suddenly become DRM’d at any moment.
- Comment on GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams 1 week ago:
but today no one even owns a disc drive, steam just won on convenience
Few people own disc drives because of the constant attacks on physical media and ability to own things, especially games. It’s not that they “won on convenience,” but rather they “won” by making it so physical games slowly become just a more expensive one time redeem key for digital copies… which you can spend money on right now with Humble and the likes without moving an inch or waiting for the order to arrive. If it wasn’t for them, we would own more of our games.
- Comment on GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams 1 week ago:
They are responsible. They planted the seeds with HL2 as early as 2004. Then they essentially made it not only feasible but also popular to make the physical games of even third parties be just glorified one use digital codes, and all of this waaaaay before 2013’s Xbox One attempted to do similar things and got booed very hard.
- Comment on GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams 1 week ago:
Caving in to the anti-NSFW demands is “doing nothing”? Paid mods? Not offering refunds for more than a decade? Being one of the first to popularize loot boxes and with it marketplaces where you aren’t even guaranteed the horse armor you want to buy? Literally destroying physical media and game ownership in one fell swoop so we have to rely on GOG to get the latter back in some form? Damn, their logo must really have the same memetic effects the Apple one has.
- Comment on GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams 2 weeks ago:
I hear of lgogdownloader. There’s plenty of projects like this. I second the notion to download all your stuff, or as much as you can now.
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- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 2 weeks ago:
What, for questioning the mental gymnastics over the number for the price tag? 3 is 5 and 8 is 10 or whatever? Just say your game is worth $8 and leave it at that.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 2 weeks ago:
Good thing I didn’t buy this game. Or continue to buy anything from steam. I got lost trying to figure out what this is even talking about, other than money money money.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 3 weeks ago:
All the employers where I am. Heck, they have some group chat “newsletters” and such set up to let us know of updates and things. Sometimes it’ll be used for informal group chats where things aren’t really binding, and reserve email for official communications.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 3 weeks ago:
A premium tier for WhatsApp? The app I want to get rid of but can’t because employers can’t be assed to send emails or make phone calls first?
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 4 weeks ago:
I once saw someone somewhere comment that HL2 is actually a tech demo meant to show off the physics stuff. Which I wholeheartedly agree with, and even that didn’t win me over. The game doesn’t feel like a shooter meant to be enjoyed, rather it feels like Valve flexing its muscles only because they can.
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Wish we could all do more of that!
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 4 weeks ago:
I played this game twice, and tried to get to the end twice, and in both times I just WALKED AWAY. The original was actually playable and beatable in comparison.
One moment it’s a shooter, then it becomes a driving game, then it becomes one of the earliest walking sims with long stretches of nothing, then a horror game, then a tactical shooter, and it wasn’t good at any of them - it was all just cobbled together. Valve would have had a much better game if they sold just Ravenholm.
And by this point in time I can’t help but think the funny letter G guy is just a Mary Sue to glue the game together with very little character or substance besides “man in black”.
I firmly believe the only reason this game is “beloved” is the same reason that iPhones sell just because of the logo of the company that made them. (And also because of this game every fucking company that breathes has an online DRM launcher)
Fear by Monolith and its expansions on the other hand, they were so much better despite the aiming system being unintuitive in comparison to HL the 2. Everything just clicks. I just loved Fear. But I’m sure this won’t save me from “Ubisoft target audience” allegations.
- Comment on We were all thinking it 5 weeks ago:
That’s actually better. I assumed she was writing a prompt.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 5 weeks ago:
No, what you mentioned is just one of the options. They literally go over “bare metal” installs even if it’s just a skim. I always find their article funny because of that.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 5 weeks ago:
I think you might be underestimating how some people type really slowly when given a full sized QWERTY keyboard, numpad and all.
Then again the one limiting factor of phone keyboards (touch or physical) is that they’re designed for two thumbs, instead of just whatever fingers happen to be closer to the button you want. Though I’ll admit I do miss when Nokia, BlackBerry, etc, came up with unique solutions for how to get a small physical keyboard attached to a phone.
- Comment on GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026 5 weeks ago:
Lemme copy my own post from somewhere else
GOG’s installers work great with Wine as do the games themselves. If you desperately need a launcher before you can even consider them, you can use Heroic Games Launcher - in fact I’d prefer if they throw their weight behind it than on Galaxy. A match made in heaven.
I guess the other good thing is GOG is not a US company, they’re based in Poland. No tax money going to the American regime and their shenanigans I never asked for.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 5 weeks ago:
Might be an unpopular opinion but
In the late 2010s or early 2020s, I wrote a short story in the Notes app on a Nokia C3-00. It was one of the budget offerings with a QWERTY keyboard and WiFi support, and it was pretty awesome for the time, and still is to an extent.
By that point I cycled through a few touchscreen phones beginning from tiny Samsung junkers to mid-range Chinese phones we would have called “phablets” a few years back and got used to touchscreens. I’m typing this right now on a touchscreen and it’s pretty nice, yeah autocorrect is wrong some of the time but it is solid most of the time, and I can type really fast. Typing on a phone with a small physical keyboard was eye opening in a way. It felt slow, and I had to actually put some effort into pushing the buttons to make them register. In all fairness, it could be the age of the phone making the buttons stiff.
Something else is how the labels on the buttons eventually wear out. If this was a physical keyboard I could just replace it, but a small panel of keys built into a phone? Yeah not really replaceable.
I get that all those very tall, very flat slabs of plastic and metal can get boring very quickly, but I guess because there’s not so much more left to perfect that form factor.
- Comment on Have you ever had a shave in a barber shop or spa? 5 weeks ago:
I’m almost 30 for fuck’s sake, I know it’s not rational
But I have this impulse go to a barber like that. It’s just a kind of refreshingly different vibe I guess?
- Comment on Quite true 5 weeks ago:
How many more memes are like this? More popular than their original show? The Office memes maybe? Dinkleberg or Mr. Turner’s trophy if he had one? That new show about superheroes with one of them called Homelander?
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 5 weeks ago:
I swear, the whole outrage over EGS can only be plainly and simply explained as the stupid “no steam no buy”. When a game remains exclusive to this DRM launcher madr by an American corporation for 50 years, all is well in the world, but when the game becomes exclusives to that DRM launcher by made that other American corporation for a year, suddenly all hell breaks loose. They’re both the same toxin! Just blind devotion to a company that only did very pro-consumer things like make lootboxes really popular and making it hip and cool to give up ownership of your games.
For the record, that other American corporation’s wealthy CEO should really just shut up. Or really, any American wealthy CEO for that matter, their grand standing over freeze peach isn’t worth the oxygen required to produce it instead of just… not enabling CSAM like normal platforms do?