These different markets are served by the same “Xbox” branded gaming division at Microsoft, though. When she talks about Xbox reaching a billion users, she means all gaming output by Microsoft.

“Xbox” is the umbrella term for everything gaming at Microsoft, including Candy Crush and Minecraft on mobile.

Steam is peanuts compared to phone games. Candy Crush Saga has over a billion downloads on Android alone where it’s the #3 top grossing casual game. On Apple it’s still the #21 puzzle game.

I know that a billion overall downloads is different from a billion daily users. This is just to put it into perspective that Steam is not the benchmark when it comes to the overall number of gamers out there. Mobile is.

This is an id software that has only released sequels rehashing mechanics with no original new IP since 2010.

id lost their touch when Bethesda bought them. All the cool modding stuff is gone. The last GPL engine release was Doom 3.

Microsoft wants to be bought by Saudi Arabia?

Chances are the next big id game will use Unreal Engine because Microsoft rather made a deal with Epic than to switch Halo and Gears to id Tech.

https://github.com/bearlikelion/godot-box3d

Non-spamblog version of the same article: https://www.levelup.com/en/news/playstation-could-permanently-delete-your-psn-account-and-digital-library-for-this-reason/

In the 1990s we were unsupervised 90% of the time between school and bedtime.

I’m sort of okay with this.

I guess Sony didn’t revoke any movies you bought without any refund just a few days ago?

I think it’s a disease a bit like addiction.

Give me all your money then. Get rid of your addiction.

Money is a disease

That’s what rich people want to make normal people think.

I never understand the thought process of giving a Linux newcomer some niche Ubuntu derivative.

Just go with Bazzite desktop. Pretty popular and should something go wrong, there is fairly up to date information out there, so no forum posts from 15 years ago with shell commands that at best don’t work and at worst break stuff.

One concern I have is she uses her personal laptop for work

Employer needs to provide a new notebook.

They would definitely not agree to that

dbrand wouldn’t ask them – as usual

Just make Frank face plates. Surely nothing will go wrong.

Why am I not surprised they didn’t get a license

Why am I not surprised they went ahead without even asking to get a license?

Pretty sure these are the occasional individuals, not large scale bot nets.

The PS3 compute cluster incident commented below is what came to mind.

You mean the thing that was amazing advertisement for the computing power of the PS3 over the Xbox360? Yeah, Sony suffered so much from the abuse.

do you think it would stop a savvy IT personnel?

You expect companies to list on their tax forms with hundreds of Steam accounts?

No, machine generated output is not eligible for copyright protection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality