https://twitter.com/BangBangClick/status/1319305553454288896

Edit: Oh wait, this gets even better. This dumbass was the creative director for Assassin's Creed 3 (you know, the shitty one that tanked the series for a while), and once said that "women are too hard to animate" as a justification for only having male protagonists: https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/1319363853021569025

  • fx8690gii [he/him, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    In case any of you forget: any game in your library on Google Stadia can disappear on the publisher's whims. In other words, it's the ultimate form of DRM.

    As if anyone should care what shitty opinions these assholes have about intellectual property.

      • fx8690gii [he/him, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Well, yes and no.

        Yes, Steam has DRM, but it's apparently trivial to remove. And as far as I know, it is not possible for Valve to forcibly uninstall games already installed on your computer. I could go on-and-on about how Stadia is much more egregious then

        Besides Valve does have a relatively good reputation among the gaming community. I certainly have a good opinion of them because of the contributions they've made to the Linux community. Nevertheless, they are a for-profit company, and Steam is proprietary software; there is nothing really stopping them from turning evil (for lack of a better phrase).

      • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Steam's DRM is paper-thin, only really able to prevent the most casual of piracy. They can remove games from the store, but they can't remove games that are already installed on your machine.

      • ziper1221 [none/use name,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        No, I don't think so. Usually the worst that can happen is it gets pulled from the store, not from your library. The only egregious case I have heard of GTA 4 being patched to remove music that they had time limited contracts for.