While Nintendo sucks for their highly litigious nature, this guy deserves zero sympathy. Play extremely stupid games, win extremely stupid prizes.

On October 24, after unnamed platforms had shut down Keighin’s streams in response to Nintendo complaints, the gamer reportedly sent the company a letter in which he claimed to have “a thousand burner channels” to stream from and “can do this all day.”

The complaint further alleges that after Keighin’s monetized YouTube account was set to be shut down, he added a CashApp handle in order to profit from streaming Nintendo’s games.

There’s some things you just don’t do if you have any intelligence whatsoever, and making a profit by streaming dubiously-obtained unreleased games and poking the lawyer-happy hornet’s nest is one of those.

Because a subset of people are and always will be idiots. Remember: some people think unions exist to steal your money, socialism is communist dictatorship propaganda, and privatization of government services is good for everybody.

Obligatory fuck Nintendo, but I also blame the selfish dumbfucks who keep posting videos of themselves playing unreleased games on YouTube and Reddit. If you want nice things contingent on having software which exists in a legal gray area, don’t openly poke the litigious hornets’ nest.

From a theoretical point of view, emulators of modern consoles may actually be illegal. Under the DMCA, emulation for preservation is protected as a periodically-renewed exemption list defined by the library of congress. But, (paraphrasing) “creating or distributing any hardware or software device—or component of such—designed to circumvent DRM technology” is still illegal irrespective of any exemptions. A reasonable (and bullshit) interpretation of that means that any emulator which is capable of bypassing any DRM features (such as decrypting ROM using user-provided keys) is a violation under the act.

I say theoretical because it hasn’t ever actually been tested in a court. Nintendo v. Tropic Haze LLC nearly gave us the answer, but the latter chose to settle instead.

Because people are technologically inept and buy into the propaganda that kernel-level anticheat is more effective than the alternative solutions.

The 650 job cuts will primarily impact “corporate and supporting functions,” according to Spencer, meaning cuts to HR and marketing roles.

I was going to make a joke about HR and DEI getting the axe, but reality surpasses satire once again…

But think of the profit improvements!

I’m in a small minority, but their ring0 anticheat isn’t helping with that.

It’s not disparaging to say “I would not buy this game” :)

DisplayPort still has much better features :)

“We have received further reports and questions concerning the changes made to our Helldivers 2 product on PC, and we would like to clear the air on these matters. Please refer to our knowledgebase article for Helldivers 2 for more details.”

The article:

"Why is a PlayStation Network™ account required for Helldivers 2? In order to deliver the best matchmaking and gameplay experience, a PlayStation Network™ account must be used when playing Helldivers 2 on PC.

I bought Helldivers 2, but the PlayStation Network™ is not available in my region. Will I be refunded? We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused, and we are working hard to bring PlayStation Network™ services to new regions around the globe.

Will my personal data be safe if I link my Steam account to the PlayStation Network™? Rest assured, your data will only be used in accordance with the Sony PlayStation Network™ Privacy Policy.

I didn’t need to use a PlayStation Network™ account before May 2024, why do I need to now? Prior to May 2024, a technical issue was preventing the PlayStation Network™ sign-in applet from correctly functioning in PC releases of Helldivers 2. This has since been fixed, and you should now be able to play with other consumers who purchased the PlayStation™ 5 release of Helldivers 2."

They should be paying me for these top-notch PR non-answers.

In the gaming industry, or elsewhere? The latter wouldn’t surprise me with micromanglement, but AAA game dev studios are notoriously bad for never having enough time to hit deadlines let alone doing things on top of that.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20240503105938/https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/games/psn-sign-in-pc/

Because 5 MB of data is absolutely nothing in the grand scale of things, and it’s not worth wasting a salaried developer’s time to set up automations for purging data from users who refunded on third-party storefronts.

If they invested enough to where it became a viable competitor to Unreal, it would have a benefit in preventing Epic from leveraging their fee structure to “encourage” exclusive publishing on Epic Games Store.

The “watch” in Overwatch stands for “watch for the queue to pop,” apparently.

To succeed, Little Timmy needs to do the exact opposite of the super-profitable Valve Software company. Much to his surprise, it’s been the opposite of profitable.

Now it all works except for anti-cheat because of those terrible cheaters. publishers are too cheap to pay for dedicated authoritative servers, instead relying on P2P networking that blindly trusts other clients’ game state updates.

FTFY

I wasn’t the host, but it was a multiplayer game

I had it attached to a kb+mouse and screen and was using it as a PC. I couldn’t be arsed to return back to gaming mode, only to have to then switch back again.