They are welcome to do both. Immediately stop selling and after a X number of days allow refunds at the publishers expense.

To be fair, that was likely some first level support reacting to you trying something that is not supposed to work, as in not supported (playing on Linux).

How the strategy pans out after those talks we will see.

Steamdeck + Dock and you can game on your TV AND on your travels.

The Venn Diagram of “people still spending that much money on a game” and “people that are easy to please” seems to be a circle. Maybe something to do with a sunk-cost-fallacy coupled with the “social proof” stuff?

But I don’t know the game. Maybe it’s okay.

The underlying fallacy might be the same, but the target is not. That makes a huge difference. Especially with the power discrepancy corporations (the big ones at least, and most others too) have compared to singular humans.

Your point with the DRM is valid, but I could just replace it in this argument with more aggressive anti-cheat. Still, it’s a good point.

I didn’t know that for Beacon Interactive. Maybe I did stumble on the other one. For me, this wasn’t even on the second page of results. My search was indeed inadequate. I blame filter bubbles. And a very stupid naming similarity. Good that you found this though.

I do see Saber (and Beacon) in a better light now, my overall attitude to corporations however won’t change. Maybe I’ll do more research before commenting. Maybe.

No idea what you want to say in the first paragraph. I understand that you think it’s toxic to have a different opinion? Pretty sure that’s not what you meant.

There is a big difference between corporations and people. Bigotry against people cannot compare to bigotry against corporations. And then there’s a difference from that to an industry. Most notably there’s something called “industry standard” which (most often) the market leader sets and the competition copies in an attempt to catch up. To resist this means to potentialy lose money, something only few companies want or tolerate.

I can recommend searching for Cory Doctorow’s idea of “Enshittification” to get an understanding why companies might use costumer favourable policies at their beginning which they revoke in favor of more money later. It’s what made Amazon big, or Facebook. I’m sure you won’t, but there might be readers of this dialogue that might be interested.

No, I don’t know Saber’s internal politics toward this, and no, I don’t share your chipper attitude towards their intentions.
I do recognize they were nice to their customers, which is a good thing. But they were recently acquired by Beacon Interactive which doesn’t even have a wikipedia page. The future remains unclear. I don’t know where their path will take them, neither do you. You trust them at your own risk.

It is incredibly toxic, do you think that I do that? Over a “Why the over specific denial”? Seems a bit harsh. Are normal people that harsh?

It’s a lived example of the “one bad apple spoils the bunch”. There are quite a few bad apples in the publisher space, some on the developer side. Do normal people just not recognize patterns in an industry? Are normal people apathetic about how an industry treats them?

What, so the only promise is a statement from Saber? Nothing official? Okay

That sounds like something I can see them do. Engage the haters (me, when talking about denuvo) with the bright minded people that weren’t tricked often enough, for more publicity.

They do when lied to often. Doesn’t need to be the same source, just the same ballpark.

I’m sharing my distrust in the communication to the players based on shit that happened in the past. But thanks for the personal attack disguised as concern.

The “at launch” part in the article, right there. But you can trust the nonbinding FAQ.

Yes, that “at launch”. But you trust that FAQ, not like I want to do anything about that.

No, it’s the “at launch” part that was added.

…why the overspecific denial? Will it be involved at a later date?

I’m really sceptical an insurance app can do that. And even if it does work, what’s stopping them from taking the photos from the mail (Don’t start with data protection, if they really want to they can give me a link to upload stuff; or a key to encrypt the mail)?

I agree that an app would be a better user experience. If it would refrain from sending any kind of data other than the photos. Also the photos need to be only the pictures, no EXIF or other stuff.

Also LIDAR in phones? I need to read up on this.

Edit: ah, apple only. Welp.

What about the Bored Ape?

Fuck those people. Still not worth getting infected by a rootkit.