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Pretty sad though.
- Comment on He is a man of equal opportunity. 3 months ago:
Understood. I shall check an ending guide before I play. Thanks for the heads up.
- Comment on He is a man of equal opportunity. 3 months ago:
Looks kind of like an RPG.
- Comment on He is a man of equal opportunity. 3 months ago:
Is “Evenicle” what’s in the pic?
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SHIKA!
- Comment on ...I may have bitten off more than I can chew... 4 months ago:
Thank you.
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What is N#?
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Yay!
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Source?
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Don’t cut onions.
You’ll make them sad. - Comment on Liz Truss loses seat as ex-prime minister becomes biggest scalp in Tory bloodbath 5 months ago:
Interesting. Thank you.
- Comment on Liz Truss loses seat as ex-prime minister becomes biggest scalp in Tory bloodbath 5 months ago:
It amazes me that she nonetheless came so close to keeping her seat. Who voted for her?
I don’t like how it was a labour landslide. I hoped it would be more balanced with the tories getting fewer seats than green if any.
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- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 7 months ago:
If you’re going that far; just ban gendered pronouns altogether.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 7 months ago:
“But my reality is how it’s always been” - Torys
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 7 months ago:
Fully agree.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 7 months ago:
Perhaps an advantage could be that people could try again using “software” and making some other tweaks. I think you’re only supposed to make a petition for one subject once.
If there is a second attempt using “software” then you can campaign to the older people who may then better understand, as well as the people who are already interested in games.
Making it about software might then make the idea of public demonstrations seem less silly.
Not too sure though.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 7 months ago:
I guess the petition committee only has the significant power to request information for their response.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 7 months ago:
For people who might not have seen the acronym before.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 8 months ago:
Nah.
The devs that don’t do that would stand out a ton.
Plenty of meaning to me.Non-permanent games would be easier to identify, so plenty of devs would add an end of life plan just to stand out.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 8 months ago:
Maybe “leave” could have been a better word than “keep”?
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 8 months ago:
IMO (In My Opinion), that would be a good thing.
Knowing is better than not knowing.
It would also give devs who want to let you keep your games a way to stand out.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 8 months ago:
Because a game is not a chair, nor is it a DVD.
It’s still a product though. Besides I believe DVDs can contain software data as well as video data. Many of the older game discs were probably DVDs of some kind/
Any piece of software requires periodic maintenance to keep it functional as operating systems, drivers etc. run away from it in compatibility. Demanding that any game developer spends money in perpetuity to keep a game “playable” is completely absurd which anyone understands if they just think about it for a second.
I thought this too at first, but you could easily keep an outdated device offline to avoid the need to update it and keep it secure. Besides, compatibility layers exist (WINE, Proton, etc).
What do you suggest should be done for example if World of Warcraft is permanently shut down, should Blizzard be forced to release the entire source code? Should they be forced to spend man hours to release something publicly that was never meant to be released? Should they be forced to document it?
I don’t know much about that game, but I think the guy said that that game was subscription rather than purchase, so I reckon that specific game probably made it sufficiently clear that you weren’t buying it. For other games where that is infeasible; do the same. … or whatever they feasibly can.
When you buy a game that requires a connection to play, you’re not even buying a game, you’re buying a service.
Then they should make that clear.
If you don’t want to agree to the terms that probably already outline this pretty clearly, don’t buy the game.
I do strongly agree with that. Sadly though, many people just don’t know what they’re getting into. By the time they do, they’re already hooked on the series. It wouldn’t be as bad if the terms were clearer.
As nice as it would be to force companies to open source their code when they stop selling it, it will never happen because there are too many implications that are completely untenable, one of which is trademarks.
Releasing closed source server binaries, or even just not being allowed to go after people who make their own server when no official one is available would be a step forward though.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 8 months ago:
Or perhaps more importantly; aren’t irrevocable.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 8 months ago:
Yeah. Having to make it clear that their services would be great.
It would make people more informed about what they’re getting, and give games that the devs intend to be sold and kept a way to stand out as such.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 8 months ago:
I don’t think that providing never-ending service is likely practical.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 8 months ago:
Why is that unreasonable?
If I buy a chair or a dvd, I can expect to last as long as I don’t break it or let it degrade too much.
The only things that seem to make this apply to software are planed hardware obsolescence, and needing to connect to the company’s server with no option to host your own.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 8 months ago:
Kinda why I still think it would have been a good idea for it to refer to software in general.
- Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 8 months ago:
Good idea.
Edited. - Comment on The “Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state” petition just got a response. 8 months ago:
About what I was expecting.
Kinda hoping for it to reach the debate milestone, but its growth seems to have slowed. Still plenty of time for that to change though. It’s still in the first month I believe.
