If it’s not a bird, how come it has wings?

Ah yes, the duality of cat

No?! Have you read the title of this post?

It pissed me off when I went through the intro cutscene, and after jumping into the helicopter blades, it started the whole cutscene again.

What? No. If DLSS requires less memory, you can use more memory for other things. This means you can use a less beefy GPU, which is worse for Nvidia.

Less VRAM usage means you can use higher-quality models and textures.

This is the modern cat version of lion paintings in the middle ages

But that’s what’s happening, games like AC2 are being taken from people.

How the hell were people supposed to know that the game would be taken from them when they bought it? You are aware that clear communication on that issue is literally one of the objectives of Stop Killing Games?

Have you done any thinking & reflection on why people support the campaign? It feels like you’re desperately throwing arguments against the wall to see what sticks, even though nothing actually makes sense.

First, how the hell did you get that from what I wrote?

Second, do you really think art is this replaceable? “Oh, we don’t need old movies and music, we have better ones now, so let’s just take away the copies people have already bought”? What a sad way to look at art.

Ask someone what “Caniformia” is and most would probably think you’re talking about some region on the US West Coast.

You’re obviously talking about noobs who aren’t watching TierZoo 😎

Because it’s a massive time and money investment, because the market and gaming landscape has changed, because mechanics and approaches can be patented, …

It’s a game with a story. You can’t just create a literal copy of that story since it connects to the story of the games before and after it. Come on, this isn’t hard to understand.

It’s fairly common knowledge that SSDs outperform HDDs in both sequential and random reads, and while the file size & number of files have an impact, it doesn’t negate this difference.

A quick search confirmed that SSDs perform better in your scenario than HDDs. I don’t care enough to spend time finding proper references, because again - this is simply common knowledge.

Of course SSDs are still much faster reading massive amounts of tiny files than HDDs are. Obviously random read speeds are much, much better, but even sequential reads of tiny files are a lot faster.

If you disagree, please provide numbers or references.

Of course it’s ridiculous and untrue. You can’t “just” develop a game like Assassins Creed 2.

Yet HDDs were also much slower than SSDs

Soups would be great if they weren’t so wet

I’m not aware of really any small developers pulling stunts like Ubisoft is doing. And there’s always the option to limit new laws to bigger publishers, like the EU is doing with the DMA.

The art argument is not nonsense, not sure where you get the idea. Games like Assassin’s Creed 2 have influenced many people in their design choices for their own games.

And of course there’s something wrong when a company takes away access to singleplayer games you bought, just because they use always-online DRM and don’t want to pay for the servers. These games don’t take away space from new games, it’s a ridiculous idea that them dying off is improving the situation for new games. It’s also ridiculous to think “hey, someone can just develop a game like the old one!”.

How is it selfishness to want to keep the product you bought? To preserve things that contribute to art and culture?

I’d argue it’s a great indicator, as expenses are necessarily tied to the wages of the population. An example like yours simply doesn’t happen.

This means you have to come up with a representative example of how to calculate expenses, and I haven’t seen a better approach for that than median wage, which seems to correlate highly with expenses.