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Kelly

@ Kelly @programming.dev

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  • Sometimes devs intentionally punish players for struggling with the game

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  • I don't see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

    They could be using player character state as a proxy for player skill.

    A player who successfully navigated earlier changes with such competence that they have an excess of health items might appreciate a more challenging final boss.

    You may have inadvertently put it into hard mode!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_game_difficulty_balancing

  • Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition

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  • Mojang’s asinine version numbering

    They do what now?

  • Nintendo Alerted After DHS Uses Pokémon to Promote ICE Raids

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  • The EU initiative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!

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  • I'm using the word "feel" because I'm not qualified to provide a legal opinion.

    It lasting 10 years doesn't mean much to the people who were sold the game in the last 6 months without any warning they were buying into the final hours.

  • The EU initiative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!

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  • Should they have announced and removed it as soon as the board meeting ended? How much earlier would that be in this case?

    My unsubstantiated theory is the the licences they signed for all the vehicles and real world content had a 10 year lifetime.

    Usually those contracts would just require that they stop selling the game, but they may have included something about the servers in the contract too.

    Either way they new something was going to change in 2024 and realistically they knew which of these possibilities were viable:

    • sign new deals with all licensors and continue business as usual
    • sign new deals with cooperative licensors and modify the game to remove the others
    • remove the game from sale and keep the servers running for current customers
    • remove the game from sale and kill the servers - tell people to buy the sequal

    I'd they waited until December of 2023 to have that meeting then that feels negligent.

    If they had that meeting earlier and continued to sell the game (until ≈100 days to EOL) without warning customers that feels fraudulent.

  • The EU initiative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!

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  • Call me crazy but I expect businesses to guarantee their products.

  • The EU initiative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!

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  • On December 14, 2023, Ubisoft delisted The Crew and its expansions from digital platforms, suspended sales of microtransactions, and announced that the game's servers would be shut down on March 31, 2024, citing "upcoming server infrastructure and licensing constraints".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crew_%28video_game%29

    People who paid around us$40 for the game on December 13 were being sold a lemon.

    Given that it was released in 2014 it seems likely that their licenses were given a 10 year duration and they always intended to shutdown in 2024 at the latest (of course if its user base failed to reach critical mass they could have pulled the plug earlier).

    Does selling a game in 2023 when you plan to kill it in 2024 legally qualify as fraud?

  • A Bubble Bobble roguelike? Bubble Bobble Sugar Dungeons announced for PS5, Switch, and PC

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  • It looks better than the art for the new snow bros game

  • Haunted Chocolatier will have a larger world than Stardew Valley, creator confirms

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  • Nintendo Switch 2 Backwards Compatibility issues update

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  • Its a pretty good outcome but the games with "resolved" issues are not all good news.

    Some examples (all from different games):

    • Remaining on the title screen for 30 seconds will cause an error to trigger and the game will close. Please navigate away from the title screen before the error occurs.
    • Inputting a particular sequence of controls in a stage may on rare occasion cause the game to close.
    • Slowdown may occur in some parts of the game
    • Screen distortion may occur in some parts of the game
    • When Nintendo Switch 2 players battle Nintendo Switch players online, Nintendo Switch players' character models will have distorted textures.

    Still, if they have identified these issues it says a fair bit about how though their testing was.

  • Nintendo @lemmy.world
    Kelly @programming.dev

    Nintendo Switch 2 Backwards Compatibility issues update

    www.nintendo.com /en-gb/Hardware/Nintendo-Switch-2/Compatibility-with-Nintendo-Switch-games-2786092.html

  • First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80

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    Open source maintenance fee

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  • Q: What if I don’t want to pay the Maintenance Fee?

    That’s fine. You can download the project’s source code and follow the Open Source license for the software.

    Do not open issues. Do not ask questions. Do not download releases. Do not reference packages via a package manager. Do not use anything other than the source code released under the Open Source license.

    Also, if you choose to not pay the Maintenance Fee, but find yourself returning to check on the status of issues or review answers to questions others ask, you are still using the project and need to pay the Maintenance Fee.

    I disagree vehemently! The community adds value and is a form of contribution.

  • Opensource @programming.dev
    Kelly @programming.dev

    GitHub - electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn: Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn

    github.com /electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn

  • TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"

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  • My workplace calls it "n-jinx", we know its nonstandard but its still what is understood by the team.

  • A Mysterious PS3 Emulator Has Arrived On Android | Retro Dodo

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  • I understand proprietary licenses and the business models they support, I also understand open source licenses and the business models they support.

    If they they published paid binaries and free source code I would support them (morally), or if they published free binaries and free source code and ran a patreon I would support them (morally).

    But to fork GPL code and hold the derived source ransom? Not cool.