Nice to see even AA studios are greedy bastards.

But the new revenue streams needed to support those endeavours just aren’t there: Audience growth has been more or less maxed out, and digital marketplaces are already providing maximal returns on units sold—as Klima put it, “We destroyed retail, and we took all their money.”

So even though he admits that the AAA gaming industry has fucked it all up with their greed, his answer is more greed.

Well F’ that guy then, I’m a patient gamer and I can wait KCD III for a sale if that’s his stance instead of creating a game withing the scope of their budget.

You know, there are just days where one gets tired of constructive criticism of people who refuse to even take the first steps to help themselves and read a simple article.

Yeah, you really don’t want a unmatched set though so it’s understandable why they ask you to send in both.

Welcome to no supply and lots of demand with a cartel going on. Where you been?

I really don’t understand this use case at all. What would be the point of something like this other than because. I mean if you’re going to stream, which it makes it sound like this is what it’s supposed to be for, you’ve got all kinds of software already to do this without a 2K enclosure.

Seconded.

No worries, they taking proactive steps in suing every emulator creator left and right.

I also wonder if the advent of small form factor machines like the various decks, steam machine, more availability mini-ITX boards also served to fuel this uptick.

Yeah, that kinda crap has been around for forever, I know I ran into these same types of HR written BS requirements back in the 2000 when I was searching for jobs and .NET and Java was the latest hotness, been out for just a few years and was running into job postings requesting 5 - 10 years of experience.

And that’s why the last time I went and bought appliances, I had to ask/look up if the item I was looking at required an app or firmware updates.

It was not exactly an ideal experience.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1940161208330904

Definitely makes me a bit wary.

I hear you on that. It’s a chore that no one, myself included, never wants to do.

Well sounds like we have a volunteer to go through the commits and distill what’s been changed since the last tagged release!

U.S.C. § 1201 can be used against your physical goods too since it’s so damn broad about circumventing DRM.

This is why your physical good like the good ol’ Bambu labs was able to file a DMCA notice against OrcaSlicer fork.

Ouch. I recently had a set of 64 GB sticks of RAM go bad and I went through weeks of back and forth with Patriot to get it RMA’ed under their lifetime warranty.

Worth every bit of hassle but yeah, I shudder to think if anything else dies at this point.

Have you not been paying attention to the semi-conductor and memory market? Prices are absolutely too high due to AI at this point and is part of the issue of why this and every other thing that uses a electronics is expensive as all heck. There’s a reason why my 64 GB of ram I bought for 110 dollars is now 500 bucks.

Wages and taxes are a whole other topic that while also true, is a whole other discussion outside of the release price of a VR headset.

Agreed with the current market, obligatory fuck AI and fuck Trump, but there is a small, small point about the charger. That would not have broken any bank to have included that along with the controller straps. Even the Index came with controller straps.

A lot of people do have that. There are those who do and are willing to pay out the nose for tech toys to dull the pain.

I mean just look at the current sale of GPU’s.

Yeah, fuck AI.

As much as I would like to upgrade to this, the price is just too steep at this point for me.