Yes, that’s what I was referring to; I didn’t mean you personally voting with your wallet, but in the broader sense. In my opinion there’s little chance of having success with this method in this field.

I’m not saying you’re wrong in basing your opinion on this, but I think the sample size is very small and not necessarily indicative of future results. I’m not saying the chances are sky-high either, but I think this is the best way forward, especially right now with the campaign having received a second wind.

If there are alternative roads to the same goal, I wouldn’t be against supporting those either. I believe this is the best we have right now, that’s why I’ve put it before friends, family etc. If you have a better idea, you should definitely do the same, but downplaying the potential of this campaign helps nobody but those in the games industry.

The fact that it isn’t just a petition, and if successful will put the issue before EU lawmakers. I’m presenting the alternative as doing nothing because you talked about voting with your wallet, and that is essentially doing nothing.

The reason I see this as having a higher chance of success than a legal case is the monetary limitation inherent to the latter. As far as I know there isn’t a big track record of successful ECI’s, so I would assume you’re basing your opinions on regular petitions. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Entirely discounting the fact that the EU has a track record of consumer friendly regulation. I agree, instead of doing what has the highest chance of success, let’s do nothing that could have an impact instead.

If you’re specifically talking about The Crew, you’re missing the point. If you’re being flippant, and mean online games in general, God forbid people take an interest in the health of their hobbies.

When I got banned from online play on the Switch for using homebrew I stopped paying them for games on the platform. A lot of people are former pirates, and they’ll only accept so much before they decide the grass was greener.

I don’t care about The Expanse, but I do care about Owlcat. I’ll have to keep an eye on this one.

A trailer having a sad girl cover of a song never inspires confidence in me.

Definitely, but as a counterpoint it’s also much more sensible ergonomically. The Switch makes my hands hurt, the Steam Deck doesn’t.

I’ve been pretty consistently buying Nintendo consoles, but I’m not buying this one. Not just because of this, but I challenge these assholes to brick the device I end up playing their games on.

I presume they still haven’t fixed the traversal stutter…

Very rarely would I be willing to spend 60 on a game. They’re not getting 80 out of me unless they blow me while I play.

I’m not blaming UE5, but I’m capable of pattern recognition. There’s a pattern of developers not fixing UE5 issues and releasing games with them still present. The fault lies with both game developers and UE developers.

If somebody didn’t realize it was almost certainly going to run poorly the second it was revealed to use UE5, I wouldn’t even know what to say to them.

No, it is boring.

No.

As long as you’re running KDE, it will feel familiar to a Windows user. I started with Kubuntu which was great until I had a system update, and it completely shat itself. Wanted to try Bazzite next, but the installer wouldn’t work properly, so I installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and I’ve seen no reason to switch since.

Basically, these tiers are nothing new, and they’re not especially helpful. My strongest and weakest decks are in adjacent tiers, which tells me the whole thing is pointless at best, and harmful at worst because some people will feel justified in saying which tier their deck is, and obliterating the rest of the pod.

If you’re playing with new people, the solution continues to be having a conversation, and these tiers do very little to affect that conversation.

You just aren’t perceiving the issues that are there. SH2 stutters. That’s a fact.

This article made me finally get around to installing Gamemode and Mangohud. Tumbleweed 💛

Bioware has been circling the drain for years, and it’s clear the people who made it special have long since left. If I worked there, I would have already been looking for employment elsewhere because this isn’t going to last.