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Cant speak for Elden Ring, havent even watched any, but Cyberpunk is a good example of a poorly made game.

Its more of a movie engine now than a game engine.

Avoid all AAA and UE5 games and youve dodged 90% of poorly optimized games.

Valve build products they want to use, they just happen to sell them to the rest of us aswell.

It’s probably both. If they have limited manufacturing due to RAM prices, then they are not going to sell them in the US, due to tariffs increasing the cost further. Any supply they do have is probably going to Europe and others.

0.1% is generous. It’s much smaller.

Yep. If some software requires Discord for support and updates, I find other software.

Sounds like a lack of education. The focus should be there, not age verification.

It’s hard to get away from consolidation. I see things like Stoat getting popular, though it looks like development slowed down?

Teamspeak works fine, most use Discord as a voice and quick text app rather than a social network anyway. And honestly the whole “forum” aspect of Discord needs to rot anyway, perhaps this would stop companies relying on Discord as their news and support outlet, because fuck that.

The whole internet is adult-by-default, so why are we doing any sort of age verification?

But please Discord, keep ruining the platform, cause an exodus.

Im guessing end of march

They already did that, we’d just be clearing up the trash.

Can we destroy all starlink satellites already?

We were not discussing that. It’s about a label on DRM-free games, marking them as such.

Individual plans are a rip-off yeah, Spotify is one of the only services I subscribe to and that’s because I have a family plan, so it’s not so easy for me to just cancel it, when others are relying on it. It works out at €3.40/month ($3.95) per member. The value there is really good.

Spotify lets you just listen to anything, I can put a playlist on and it will keep going forever and I have discovered many tracks I would have never listened to, or even known they existed. Buying music is great, but only when you know exactly what you want, I’m not a big music person, I like listening to it, but I don’t really have a dialled in taste. Spotify is great for that.

There will obviously be a tipping point though when they inevitably raise the price too far and I will abandon ship.

“people like you”

People asking about their certification process?

Even if I was complaining, Sony should want to improve their process without the need of it.

I thought consoles had their long winded certification processes? Do they not catch these types of games there?

If there’s not riots from what is already happening in the US, then there definitely won’t be from a video game being banned.

That’s a very out of touch take.

Yes, the whole reason they started on this game 11 years ago is because Mojang banned a whole bunch of MTX. Hypixel lost a lot revenue because of it (good, literally exploiting children) and went to make their own game.

Hytale will be drowned in MTX eventually.

It has always been a pile of shit anyway, but yeah.