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i think the funniest part is ontop of bad acquisitions, Microsoft was only able to buy blizzard activision partially because sony had a history of making non PlayStation versions of games inferior to the PlayStation version.
had Sony actually played fair ball, none of this would have probably happened.
the performance in the short term doesnt change much. its long term that does, and theyd rather you upgrade your gpu rather than use your current one indefinitely.
did you read the article. the phenomena is basically tied to asrock and aggressive dynamic voltage values, while other oems voltage values are near static.
while amd isnt a saint by any means, reading just the headline is extremely misleading.
stores have increasingly reported high return rates of snapdragon based laptops reletive to their x86 counterparts.
even Amazon slapped a returned frequently tag on the surface laptop 7 at one point.
less that there was a time limit, but it was a project that was worked on for a long time, and had on and off discussions throughout the development cycle of the game
Someone “hacking” files or systems doesn’t always mean what you think it does. Naughty Dog “hacked” PS1 to create crash bandicoot. Just means they gained knowledge in how the hardware works. Not that their game only works on “hacked” hardware.
they point out theirselves in August 2021, that they were using a solutionthat breaks Valves TOS before later replacing it later in 2022. Its evidence that there was on and off times where what theyre doing was skirting what valve says was okay.
So until I hear anything from valve. I’m inclined to believe the mod team. Based on valves previous interactions with their community.
you believe the mod team despite there are other games who have successfully worked with valve and actually have fully recreated the entire game they made and actively sell on their storefront for actual money?
again im not saying valve are in the clear, but the devs clearly says it so themselves they have throughout the process, broke the TOS and you’re still inclined to believe that theyre not hiding anything else? I don’t see it as a black and white issue, rather a situation that I can’t trust anyone because only one side of the story has been said, by a side that doesn’t necessarily have the cleanest history.
it was less illegal and more the dev took money to quit it.
i mean im not saying. im pro Sikh either, but Indias response and justification for the Assassination of Singh Nijjar was pretty fucked up, even if he didnt have the cleanest of histories.
why didn’t they shut it down in January then. there’s WAY more to the story than this. They gave the dev 8 years to develop this. and Valve already has a historical track record of letting other devs work on their IP (Nvidia making RTX remasters of valve games, Valve LITERALLY letting the Black Mesa devs basically sell half life 1 remastered on THEIR STOREFRONT.). You cannot absolutely trust the devs words either entirely. the fact that there are other users who believe the story of the hacky work around even when the announcements in other pages can only exist if theres a shred of truth in it, or you think valve is legitmately having a disinformation campaign, because these users have nothing to gain from for a free mod being canceled.
I’m not remotely saying valve is a good person in this situation, but you’re giving the devs way more leniency than they currently deserve. Reminder back in 2022, the devs were given essentially access to the source engine code, and already had the decision back then knowing that their only two options for their project (at least in the way they were designing the mod) was to either do a hacky method, or cancel the game(their own words). the game wasnt canceled till 2024, so you can put 2 and 2 together to know what they ended up deciding in 2022
is an example
a source twitter for some info
https://twitter.com/ZooL_Smith/status/1878385881649725760
its hard to get a whole story, because valve hasnt really had full public discussion on their side, and of course the developers side story would be biased, especially hard to trust after public meltdown
is it a lame decision? valve was okay with the project, until the devs used a method in the closed source part of source to do something. Valve then asked them to not do that, so the dev then implemented an even worse method than the first, which Valve than C&D altogether.
valve had 0 problems with the project, other than a very specific implementation they did with source engine, was asked to fix it, but chose not to do it.
the face value market foe the devices is Local AI, as you can get 128 gb ram/vram using strix halo. the only other alternatives are the mac studio, and the unreleased nvidia digits computer.
unless you want to shell 9000$ for a RTX Pro 6000 96gb gpu.
i mean you could have shortened your description by saying it is an alt france mario rpg/mario and luigi/paper mario.
the mario rpg series is basically a jrpg with timed dodge and parry mechanics that existed decades before souls, with several entries.