I see. Then in this case, its only fair to remove exploits. I always thought this game is offline single player only (never played the previous game, despite being in my library… oh boy the pile of shame). In this case I agree with you fully and there should be no reason for “review bomb”.

Ok, fair I guess. Does it have player vs player mode? That was what I was thinking off.

To be fair, its a single player game. If the player wishes to exploit bugs to play the game that way, then the player should be able to.

That’s about the applications, not on operating system level.

As a European, would it be enough for me to use a distribution that is not from the US? So they would not have to implement age verification at operating system level. All the service (such as Flatpak in example) would still work without verification, right? Can I escape the US law as a European user?

I assume its on purpose, to make the characters standout more. I get the feeling of old films where live performance was mixed with animated cartoon. So the contrast might be a design choice. I personally do not get the feeling of “default marketplace asset”-flips.

By all respect without hating on it (love the game as it is), there is not much innovation in art style or gameplay here. From what I read in reviews the gameplay is oldschool standard shooter mechanics (which is good news to me!) and the art style is old and known, also used by other games before. What makes this game so special is how well it is executed and brought it into one coherent game.

The article links to to the article its talking about, which creates reports (this one is for free). My assumption is, that the report clears it up and is the main article all data is based on. However to get a copy of the report I need either put my mail address or create an account, but not sure about that one. I’m also not interested enough to do all of this.

It remains an open question.

Once the famous Nostradamus in the year 1569 that

one day a life service videogame called Fairgame$ will release and it will fail.

Nobody understood what he meant back then, because videogames weren’t invented yet. But now it makes perfect sense.

Or like StackOverflow… where the question was asked before and it gets closed immediately.

At the cart window before paying, there can be a notice if the game is available for cheaper price in a bundle in example. There were a few such cases in the past, which saved me a few Euros. I don’t know if any of the other store fronts on PC does that, let alone on console.

Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/steam-database/

Shows information directly on every page for game. I customized the settings and for me the most relevant information displayed are the lowest recorded price and how many players the game has.

For me I was using SearXNG for years now, by rotating public instances. So this private one is basically the same, just private. The search results are really not great to be honest. That’s why I sometimes used other search engines back and forth, especially if the instance got blocked a lot or was no longer available. And a few times I still access Google directly, if the prior search results were nonsense. Most of the time the search results with SearXNG are satisfying enough for me that this is a non issue. I’m okay paying with a bit inconvenience or worse results. I’m not dependent too much on web search anyway.

Little late posted, as the data is released now. And there is not much data, other than numbers how much Rockstar made money (especially off GTA 5). And because Rockstar made so much money, their stock prices went up with a value of about 1 billion USD.

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/grand-theft-auto/take-two-stock-jumps-usd1-billion-after-gta-leak-as-investors-learn-rockstar-really-is-making-that-much-money-off-gta-online/

How about “Overlookable”?

Fun fact:

First I wanted to install with podman, but the instructions wasn’t clear about it. And I’m not very familiar with docker much, just used podman to build a cross platform app with Rust (little unrelated I know). So I could not figure this out and looked into the AUR. To my luck that worked out pretty well. Maybe I will look into the docker again in the future, if I want do a cross device installation (access from other devices). Right now, I’m not comfortable doing that.

There were parts compiling though, such as Valkey I think at least.

Off course I already got affected by removing ability to purchase games, I wanted to buy when they get cheap. Now I cannot anymore (at least certain games on Steam). These affect me personally. What’s so hard to understand that the game in this post does not affect me personally and I do not care about this game on a personal level? I don’t have to care about every game.

I am however for archival of the game to preserve it for the future (not by the company, but more like we play Roms in emulators or install old Windows games from Abandonware site). Preservation is important and I do not discriminate there. But I do not care if pseudo games sold as a game for money. I do not see a value in buying this “media” in tricking people its a game. Those who have it do not lose access anyway.

First those who have it don’t lose access. Only new people will not able to purchase it anymore. Second where did I say its not important? I only said I don’t care on a personal level, because it does not affect me and because I don’t think its a game at all. The game is most likely already preserved. In fact I am for archiving every bad game too, that is important. I play old bad games for fun in emulators in example.