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Who could have guessed that when game companies make their games available for sale, they will make money from game sales!?
Why does Steam generate any revenue for PlayStation?
I think they technically do, with stuff like Helldivers 2, Spiderman games, etc. I have Helldivers 2, but stopped playing it for a while in protest when they tried to make you use a PlayStation account for it, essentially cutting off a bunch of players in countries PlayStation doesn’t operate in.
The wording is a little weird, but it’s about Capcom finances. They make more selling games on steam than selling on the Playstation. So steam/pc is a bigger market than Playstation consoles for Capcom.
Ah got it
I hope more game companies will follow. Consoles are good. Consoles exclusives are not.
While it’s great that they’re doing well on the only truly open gaming platform, it’s a shame that they’re being rewarded for infecting their games with anti-consumer malware. Any company that uses Denuvo lacks moral fibre and deserves to fail.
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It exists solely to rob consumers of ownership of their purchases. It can, has, and will continue to result in people losing access to products they have paid for and to which they have every ethical right. Performance impact is beside the point. DRM is theft and Denuvo is the worst offender out there.
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A license is not owned, it is granted. A license is effectively a rental or lease. The words “buy”, “purchase”, etc are incompatible with the concept of licensing. If a thing is sold using words or terminology that imply ownership, then it is owned.
I am not talking about legalities, I am talking about ethics. Laws have been carefully designed to enable and protect corporate theft. Implying a sale while not conveying ownership is theft. Taking measures to ensure consumers cannot own the things they understand they have purchased it theft. Preventing consumers from using or transferring the things they have purchased however they choose is theft. Defending or excusing theft is as unethical as theft itself.
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Thank goodness you called video games out as being a luxury so everyone doesn’t notice you have no real argument for why it’s OK for DRM to exist. You almost looked really silly.
Yeah I noticed I don’t really care.
“It’s okay for corporations to steal from consumers a little bit. As a treat.”
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There are 2 schools of thought. Those that are against the entire concept of software that tries to control how you use it, drm/anticheat/etc in any form is malware to them. And those that accept it might be acceptable in principle (eg for anticheat especially), but believe denouvo and certain other drm programs go too far and cross a line (especially when they hook into the kernel or start tracking things outside the game that they have no business tracking).
Then maybe they should fucking optimise their PC ports.
To be fair performance was poopy on ps5 too
Still amazed how well Wilds sold after that dumpster fire of a demo.
I’d also recommend they open up the co-op more, but common sense multiplayer seems a bridge too far 🙄
I am one of the unfortunate ones for whom the demo ran perfectly, so I thought the full release would too. It did not.
The demo didn’t run perfectly on any systems, it is literally not optimized in the slightest.
I also have an awesome computer
Damn, you must have a beefy rig. Even setting aside the weird texture issues, FPS was all over the place for me. Knew it was a hard pass pretty quick.
I wouldn’t say it’s very beefy. 3080ti and a Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Ran at a pretty steady 70-80fps for me.
The demo, that is. The full game is all over the place for me too.
You have all that and you were getting 70fps and think that is optimized? Youre insane
I agree, but they have no incentive to do so when gamers buy it anyway. People need to vote with their wallets.
Call of Duty sales suggest this isn’t happening.
People need to vote with their wallets.
that’s why many companies seek to optimize their ports to work for mobile gaming. call of duty mobile -vs- cod pc or console is a case of that imo
People do vote with their wallets. They say it’s ok.
Fantastic, now when are we getting Steam ports of Viewtiful Joe and God Hand?
we’ve come a long way since the days of console exclusives with no pc ports to this. I remember feeling happy that more publishers started releasing games on PC, now it’s just expected.
I mean……… yeah
Of course it does, the install base dwarfs PlayStation. Go where the money is to find money. Business is not that hard.
The install base with hardware capable of running their main releases though is probably dwarfed by PlayStation.
