dormedas

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s tariffs for you. Completely expected, though a ~10% bump on the PS5 doesn’t adjust for all the tariff increase IIRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A List of Open Source Game Clones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenMW is a full engine, not just a rendering engine. And as of the recent release, for those that may not know, it’s technically capable of launching levels and worlds in Bethesda games up to Fallout 4, though of course they’re just loading maps, not scripts or other non-MW logic. (Yet, we might see that in the future)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just adding historical context that those games were exclusives. If them being exclusive meant “the ps5 has games” then timed exclusivity didnt really help in this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The handheld PC and things like SteamOS have crossed the moat that console games used to have as a defense. The PC is coming to the living room, attaching to your TV, and playing games controller-first. The question will be how well will those games play and will they be exclusive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Console And New PS6 Handheld ‘Canis’ Specs Leak, It’s Claimed - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FF7 Remake, Rebirth and FF16 were timed exclusives, though both have since left and Square Enix said “never again, it wasn’t profitable enough.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve relies on Visa/Mastercard to process billions worth of transactions occur every year. They’re not going to rock the boat unless they want to risk the whole business.

  Their (relative?) silence, to me, is indicative of just how bad this duopoly is, and that Valve sees no alternative worth publicly mentioning at this juncture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RPGs that are optionally pacifist?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fairly certain the NPC in Morrowind could theoretically be killed by a combination of his own drain health spell reflected back at him and/or - once he’s out of magicka - dying to fire shield.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Distribution is left to the developer.

  But the silver lining is that you’re outside of a walled garden and outside of a company’s control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If everybody has to finance their purchases, something might be fundamentally wrong with the economy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops, they just admitted that leadership doesn’t really DO anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just about. I did an audit and about 90% of Sony’s games eventually hit PC. The largest one which has not made the leap yet is Astro Bot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with your argument overall, but I think it would be reasonable to say they are broader-purpose computing devices now, and are not yet general-purpose. Consumers don’t have an expectation to reach for their game console to do an arbitrary thing. They generally can expect their phone or laptop to.

  “There’s an app for that” just isn’t true for huge swathes of apps on almost all consoles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have explicitly what you’re looking for as I am not a lawyer, but game consoles aren’t a general-purpose computing device (despite theoretically capable of being one if appropriately jailbroken), and as such, prior case law for PC doesn’t apply.

  iOS/Android tend to be classified a general-purpose computing device because it does all the same things a PC does (or did) and more. It plays games and does banking and plays music and browses the web and displays pictures and movies, etc etc. For some, it’s their primary and only computing device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Best I’ve got for you is this

  Post in thread ‘Nexus Mods site has been sold’ www.resetera.com/threads/…/page-2#post-141554013

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ProtoPwn - All PS2s Console's now hackable via MemoryCard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have Firefox on iOS and a DNS ad blocker and it’s still hell, what am I missing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ProtoPwn - All PS2s Console's now hackable via MemoryCard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Universal is the reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ProtoPwn - All PS2s Console's now hackable via MemoryCard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair it looks horrendous on mobile, lots of overlays and ads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MindsEye - Official Launch Trailer | 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mad world remix in a trailer is just …. So samey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: You can still play Wii and DS games online, even on emulators.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wiimmfi distributes those events periodically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyan (Myst, Riven) to lay off 12 people, "roughly half the team"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would love to see more of the developer providing good information for those laid off so other companies can more easily ingest possible hires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Legends Z-A - Nintendo Direct 3.27.25⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking alright. It’s a Pokémon game so I know what I’m getting into but it looks fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upscaling is actually good (as an option)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a game developer and I will 100% confirm that studios have already started and will continue assuming the user has DLSS/FSR/XeSS enabled because it turns out rendering half as many pixels can get you across the finish line.

  It was already fairly standard practice to try as hard as you can for performance, and when that fails to bring you to native resolution, just cut some resolution (for example, to 900p from 1080p).

  However, I do want to add that DLSS/FSR/XeSS is great technology for the low end of the market who can’t afford insane rigs but do get to have a slightly sharper image than previous upscalers could accomplish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally got my lemmy instance fully updated.

  Been improving my backup scripts in advance of adding backup to a server.

  Updated servers and other services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For context: I was very young around the NES & SNES era, but a lot of kids back then went to play at other kids’ houses. Not every household had one, but one of my friends would and I’d want to go play at their house because they had one. In this way, 30 million NES’ could reach far more million people (kids), leading to modern nostalgia.

  Personally, my grandpa had a NES and I ALWAYS wanted to go to his house to play Duck Hunt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 214 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m working my way up the generations and I need to replay Alola in the Ultra games since I only had Pokemon Sun before and had different livingdex rules when I played it. A bit unfortunate for time-sake, but I really liked the Alola games. Good luck on your dex!

  To add some naming inspiration, my friend and I like dumb nicknames like:

  Blingo Splorp Gunch Slizbop Boizo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You sort of need to keep track of creature count but I feel like the game should do that for me, and not in a menu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's making older games so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scarcity and some artificial scarcity called grading. Take for example Pokémon vintage trading card game packs. Base set has a bunch of print differences but even buying a normal unlimited version pack is $300-400. The value of a Charizard, if you pull it out of that pack, is ~$200-400 raw. However, if you grade it and it comes back a 10, it’s suddenly “worth” $1000+.

  This is not quite as prevalent in video games but it is happening. The price of popular Pokémon games that are complete in box are sky high because someone somewhere wants to buy it and submit it for the chance it’s “worth” 10x the price.

  Pricecharting.com is your friend. Patience is a virtue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This would basically be my reply as well. Companies are in the game to make money, and setting up all this infrastructure, not to mention maintaining it, is NOT cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You apparently can transfer saves on PS4/5 offline. For PS4 they can be copied to a USB drive, but more to your point here, the only way to copy PS5 saves around (besides PS+) are to do console backup and restore processes and then during that process say you want to take save games wholesale (and then restore them wholesale). That’s definitely greedy bullshit.

  I don’t know what more to say, consoles are walled gardens that consumers pay to be in. Within those walled gardens, the company dictates the rules. There’s plenty of good arguments for using a more open platform like PC. Not the least of which is that PlayStation has had an abysmal console cycle for trying to prove their console is worth purchasing - what with it having basically no exclusives that won’t eventually come to PC, first-party or otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the consumer’s perspective, at its cheapest, it’s $10/month to play with your friends on PlayStation, be able to claim new games monthly which are good for as long as you are paying the subscription, and have cloud saves (among a few other minor benefits).

  No service can guarantee uptime, that’s just the reality of it. This is the largest PSN outage in 14 years. Most outages have not been this long or widespread.

  Napkin math shows their uptime to be ~99.5% in the 18 years it’s been operational. Not that good nowadays, but not something you can’t sell to people.