No no, this time it is really for real!

I actually meant how it paid off to pay for 10 years. Denuvo is quite expensive as far as I know.

Its a bit weird. The game came out 10 years ago, which mean Square paid Denuvo 10 years long. The game was countless times on sale for 3 Euros on Steam: https://steamdb.info/app/225540/

SteamDB lowest recorded price is 2,99€ at -85%

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I have no clue how this paid off.

If you can imagine it, then its not worth it. :p Half-Life 3 will be unimaginable… I mean off course it will, yes?

There were so many suggestions and prediction about Half-Life 3, that I cannot take anyone doing it seriously anymore. There were suggestions Half-Life 3 could be announced at the Summer Games Fest in example. I don’t expect the game to launch with the system, despite it would be the “perfect” opportunity. But someone said it could, so people start believing it will. And off course they will write articles about rumors, because that generates hot link of clicks.

I was a bit reluctant at first (pun intended)

I think this is the Reluctant Anarchist guy from YouTube? His writing style would match the way he talks in the videos.

It depends on the distribution. In example Manjaro was unstable for me, while EndeavourOS is stable for the most part. In fact, Manjaro was holding back packages and is less rolling release than EndeavourOS, and yet less stable (for me). :D

Exactly. The term “stable” in connection with software has the same problems of “free”; without understanding the context, it can be interpreted wrongly. “stable” type of distributions are meant to be “unchanging” in the sense of feature freeze. That off course depends on the distro or software in general how far this goes. Archlinux is “unstable” in the sense it is ever changing and adapting new technologies by breaking compatibility; something Debian does not.

I thought they were experimenting with teletext, a precursor to the world wide web. Maybe its unrelated. The article really should have some sort of explanation or at least link to articles:

• https://segaretro.org/Sega_Channel
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel

The only part I want to share is this:

But its not true in all cases. Let’s say a game is vastly optimized to run on high end hardware. There is not much to do, but they can optimize to run it on low end hardware with low resolution textures and other settings to make the game run on handheld. This would be optimized for handheld. And it won’t change how good the game run on high end already.

You count specific optimization strategies that affect everyone. But not all optmizations or in the case of our discussion, making the game run on Steam Deck, won’t affect everyone.

Neutral does not mean its a benefit. And not losing something was not the point of discussion or what i was talking about.

Low tier optimization does not mean its running cooloer on higher tier systems. In example if a game requires 16gb of VRAM for high tier setup, then developers optimizing the game alongside for low tier handhelds that have less VRAM will not change the fact for high tier. Therefore not everyone benefits from it. Similar to RayTracing or other features.

Not everyone benefits from games making run on Steam Deck.

They really don’t need to hype it up. Most players know they do amazing work. In worst case, people get disappointing.

You make some assumptions about who will benefit. And those are not “everyone”.

But optimizing for low hardware does not mean its a win for everyone. For lot of people who have strong enough configuration does not care the performance at the portable level. There is no real benefit for them.

I don’t think it makes it better for everybody, but I agree every developer should support the Steam Deck.

Hopefully Ubisoft can stay on their own feets. With some marketing support from Amazon, it will be helpful for sure. I don’t want Ubisoft to be purchased by a bigger company, despite not buying their games. I want these companies be “independent” if that makes sense, as Ubisoft is also a publisher themselves…

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