- cross-posted to:
- steamdeck@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- steamdeck@lemmy.ml
Neato ( @Neato@kbin.social ) 50•11 months agoThis was just more MS propaganda so they could buy Activision and consolidate. Further harming gaming competition. It shouldn’t be taken as anything but twisted truth for a profit.
Kbin_space_program ( @Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ) 15•11 months agoI’m conflicted. On one hand, monopoly is absolutely bad.
On the other hand, Kotick is an abusive, greedy asswipe who is directly responsible for some of the worst trends in AAA gaming; the sooner he gets the boot, the better we all are.
Rayspekt ( @Rayspekt@kbin.social ) 16•11 months agoMy conflict lies more with how Sony fucked up gaming with their exclusive deals for the last decade or so and now Microsoft is pulling the Uno reverse on them, where I as a PC gamer lean more towards Microsoft. That’s the part of this merger I personally like to a degree.
Kbin_space_program ( @Kbin_space_program@kbin.social ) 10•11 months agoTwo decades. There was the dead years between ~2004 and 2012ish where both MS and Sony played the exclusive game. Then MS realized they could double down and get PC exclusives as well as Xbox, but with PC they don’t have to eat the hardware costs
Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English1•11 months agoI still think it’s stupid Microsoft sold of so many studios they had, early on in the 360 era.
Neato ( @Neato@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agoHe’s reported he wants to leave. Because he’ll become an even bigger billionaire. But there’s no guarantee that we’ve seen, is there? He’s egotistical enough he may want to stay on.
MS has lately had a fairly light touch on their acquisitions. They just want their profits to be theirs and to use their IPs to push Xbox sales.
But even if he leaves, it’s unlikely MS is going to radically shift their games to be more consumer friendly. CoD and King already prey on children and make bank doing it. MS isn’t throwing that away.
GunnarRunnar ( @GunnarRunnar@kbin.social ) 2•11 months agoYeah this isn’t news.
interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) English41•11 months ago“So, what Valve invested in was WiNE, a protocol […]”. Ah, game journalists; the profession where sniffing glue will actually give you an advantage
Mars ( @Mars@beehaw.org ) English13•11 months agoIt’s amazing how so many people are falling into the trap and arguing against or even in favor of Microsoft’s CoD argument.
A single game of whatever size or importance is not the problem. But it’s in Microsoft’s best interest that the discourse keeps being this lacking in nuance and centered in aspects like this.
Mandy ( @Mandy@beehaw.org ) English12•11 months agoLMAO as if anyone needs that shit to have measurable success
- skymtf ( @skymtf@pricefield.org ) English6•11 months ago
Why can’t the steam deck run COD exactly? Is Microsoft trying to ship it as some alien UWP app
conciselyverbose ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 28•11 months agoMalware labeled “anticheat software” that wants obscene access to low level OS information and is a massive security liability.
Flaky ( @Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English23•11 months agoThe driver-level anti-cheat that was used by Genshin Impact and then later on ransomware should always be brought up on the topic of anti-cheat.
conciselyverbose ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 9•11 months agoA new whitepaper published August 24th to Trend Micro explains how the perfectly legitimate driver mhyprot2.sys was used, absent any other parts of Genshin Impact, to gain root access to a system.
I think maybe you should re-evaluate your definition of “perfectly legitimate”.
Grimpen ( @Grimpen@lemmy.ca ) 3•11 months agoJust like the
Mafioso“perfectly legitimate businessmen” who offer fire insurance and personal injury insurance door to door, after dark. Be a real shame if something were to happen. conciselyverbose ( @conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 6•11 months agoI can understand that bugs happen. It’s absolutely possible for well intentioned software to have a fatal flaw that leads to catastrophic security breaches.
But there’s no scenario where a game having that access is defensible. It’s gross overreach that can’t possibly be in good faith and you deserve all the hate you get if anything bad happens.
Contend6248 ( @Contend6248@feddit.de ) 1•11 months agoLet’s punch a huge hole in the OS and go from there. That sounds perfectly reasonable.
I could maybe somehow understand it, if it would bring you absolute safety from cheaters, the funniest part about this is, the cheat devs are still above them, so just throw in the towel of trying to destroy the safety of legitimate players devices if you are still losing anyway.
TrivialBetaState ( @TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz ) 3•11 months agoI am not very familiar with the gaming industry (casual gamer only) but, while the argument is true, the conclusion that the big players can apply monopolistic practices without constraints leaving smaller players unaffected, is simply false.
travir ( @travir@lemmy.nz ) 1•11 months agoZ. Zstd.