Now if only they could more clearly communicate when games are playable offline.

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[–] 171 points 2 years ago (10 children)

"""gamers""" aren't a monolith

Some people clearly care bc they are currently discussing it

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Well to be fair, we're like 1% of all gamers. Most gamers don't give a flying fuck and will gladly buy these products anyway. So the companies don't really have much incentive to give a shit.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That's why it's a big disturbing banner where most gamers don't understand the text but know that big disturbing banner is bad. Will it affect the sales? Not at all. But it will raise the problem(mostly Linux anticheat) to the higher standing people in the gaming companies than before because now they require those top level managers to make a decision is it big disturbing banner or Linux anticheat.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I highly doubt this will do anything at all to sales. But I'm just guessing. Maybe it will. Hopefully! But I still applaud the change by Valve. I think it's great.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think the point is to do anything on sales. Valve profit from sales. It's to raise the problem so now the managers have to decide on a scale how much they abuse the players. Before it wasn't even a problem, now it's Valve: "maybe you shouldn't wink wink"

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Another “to be fair” - what do y’all reckon is the proportion of gamers who could define kernel? (not rhetorical)

    Edit: maybe not as good as a question as how many have any opinion on kernel-level anticheat, since you don’t need to be able to define kernel to be against the anti-cheat if you’ve heard it slows down games

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  • [+] -44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    “””gamers””” aren’t a monolith

    That’s why some people discussing it aren’t going to do anything to dissuade the practice

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    Games have been buried in negative reviews for less. We can't tell in advance.

    But implying you know, and can speak for all people who play games is just bafflingly ignorant and conceited.

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