Clever idea would be to give to option to sell it without RAM and SSD (as option, you can still buy the whole package).

They need an open platform to soar, who cares if RAM and SSD comes from second hand market? Steam is a store, they could even lead the second hand market for the (key) accessory components!

Epic can take “some money” by selling third party indie and AAA games… or take “all the money” when people spend in Fortnite. It’s a conflict of interest: Epic don’t want a good store that do the job for other companies, Epic want advertisement for their single product. They give free games with the same logic you get free merchandise to gather people around place that cost money… they don’t give the customer free stuff to make them happy, they don’t give “free money” to publisher/developers because wants them happy (well, aside for the purpose to have happy business).

They want as much as people possible, regardless of their role as customer or publisher, to bring their business in their pocket.

It’s not 0, its “AAA piracy gaming” in China that’s basically 100% Windows.

Linux (kernel) is present in China in all other environment (Android, Supercomputers, servers, IoT… etc) but Windows desktop (office&home) platform.

Please, be aware that in the DENUVO version Leon wear Nekomimi ears and may had caused some FPS trouble with aerodynamics as he runs.

🎺"The upgrade argument for desktops doesn’t stand up anymore" 🎺

of course, you can still…

hum… well, you can also…

yeah, yeah, you can do that also… but…

…and so going on.

It’s not about the “cut” you’re thinking; it refer to in-app purchases.

Once you bought a game, Valve keep demand a 30% cuts on anything you sell once the customer launch your executable (.exe, binary file/game engine).

hypothetical scenario to help visualize (it won’t go like that most of the time, but useful to understand the concept):

• customer Install and Launch Steam
• customer buy (Valve earn 30% cutshare) and install game on Steam
• customer uninstall Steam, keep installed game
• customer launch game (if is made in a way don’t need Steam dependencies).
• Anything sold while game engine is running must give 30%,of further earning, to Valve.

A Commission may do “nothing” while nobody watches… or when everybody is watching.

Difference is subtle, but it is there.

…but how many cases left to win?

It’s an open source platform: if an american company makes and arm device, they need to pay tax to a British company. RiscV require not to pay IP tax to any foreign country.

Also, it’s not like “they move”: stuck there in the US, they would simply shut it down. So I don’t see how your tax money went in better use.

That’s the general idea: they don’t shutdown games because “you can’t support/keep server up forever”… they shutdown games for the otherwise illegal planned obsolescence.

You shut down a game people is playing, people that were playing that game are out looking for new game to (buy) play.

Anthem may have different interest from EA because nobody was playing; but they may still be out there to normalize planned obsolescence (and thus “protect” Anthem from being repaired

“don’t use our tools to sell mods”.

I think there are still misconception: CDProject was smart, albeit dishonest, into presenting the whole thing as “Cyberpunk’s Mod”; so, you (as general and misguided reader) inclined to think the modder took something from CDProject and generate something from thin air… added games are just icying on the cake.

The framework was already setup and working for several games even before Cyberpunk addition.

What is CDProject doing here is just some PR magic to blameshift their actual responsibility: they didn’t ask the modder to remove support for Cyberpunk, they went on and sink down is whole business by addressing directly another company (Patron) which are more “sensitive” to business and discuss less.

It doesn’t need to be legal: Patreon, like Valve and any other big company, deem request from other companies as top priority over any commoner.

Patreon think “we may have extra business with CDProjeck, but mod authors are nobody that need to work for free at best”.

So they know who need to be sacrificed.

A small check for moral consistency: what about Loseless Scaling and 3DSen?

Given that, I’m okay with this DCMA.

Just a small detail that doesn’t look considered, if you ear only one side of the story. The "Cyberpunk VR” mod is not actually a "Cyberpunk VR” mod, but a framework that came to support Cyberpunk after many other games (like GTAV). If you’re still okey, bear in mind the same logic may apply to Loseless Scaling (sold for ~7€ on Steam) and 3DSen (sold for ~13€ on Steam) or you need to take VR Injection Framework apart from Loseless Scaling and 3DSen.

It’s never a good idea to fall in love with CEOs; a company may sometime “help” their customer, but when strategic partner asks for a slap in the face for the customer… there’s no “may”, only must.

Steam comes with Denuvo, third party launcher filled with ads and kernel level anticheat. None of these was required by Valve… yet… they still slap their customer in the face per strategic parteners requests.

Also, refund is not something in Gabe’s book: it was written in Australia’s laws (also EU and other countries) and only after lot of struggles he conceded it.

To collect money from sales you need to be a company or a single person who act as it. There are taxes for companies and people acting as such (amount of sales didn’t justify the tax spending as company).

As I am replying, you got 9 upvotes and 9 downvotes; looks like the perfect “storm” to put my hot take too.

We got psychotic people on both side, when you get this grade of polarization people usually lose the perspective.

AI is a technology, an human logical entity like math: AI works on very advanced (probabilistic) math. Math is not the evil… but an actual evil does exist.

There’s a difference between a LLM chatbot that runs on your local GPU… and one in the cloud.

The chatbot on your GPU is “trapped” by your questions, your needs, your choices.

Today the chatbot on the cloud will tell you that Elon Musk is a controversial person, tomorrow it will tell you Elon Musk is the savior of the Earth and you’re not worthy to kiss his feet.

People seeing absolute evil in AI, are against you running your chatbot locally, on your PC.

People enthusiastic about AI will accept any “gift” (or AI GF) Elon Musk will give them.

Competition to Intel+AMD+Nvidia.

There may not be a problem of Japan itself, but the act of this specific company in Japan that’s responding to the “induced” PC hardware crisis. The induced doesn’t mean that’s some natural development (such as people is not buying PC anymore) but because critical components and materials (such as GPU/ram/SSD) are currently absorbed by the ongoing AI bubble eating and eating resources that are key for PC manufacturing.

Looks like an arm device: you can buy a good smartphone with better specs on that price. Actual gamers (people actively looking for a gaming device) are no the real market target: this is aimed more towards people looking for memorabilia or action figures from their favorite brand/IP.