I really felt cheated that no one was insulted, no rants were frothed, no theories conspiracied in this nfo. All we got was relevant information and kindness.
I'm kidding obvs
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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I love that pirate groups still use ascii text art in their release notes. It’s like a little piece of the world that hasn’t changed in 30 years.
I need to find out how to make these. Mostly just cause I like it.
it's typically just a kind of pixel art with monospaced fonts¹. any characters you see that's not typically shown on your keyboard (e.g a filled square) can be found in a character selection program in your OS. anything else related to texts, templating and line breaks you can probably find a program somewhere on places like crates.io or gitlab or write something of your own without much trouble.
¹ a monospaced font is a font where every letter and character has the same spacing from each other, and are the easiest to do ascii art. (ascii is just one character table, but you can also gather unicode chars all you want)
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To be fair it's the exact same bypass as any other Steam game. Any steam emulator would work.
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I would think that it's cheap availability on GamePass and likelihood of frequent updates would make for a muted response to this one.
Plus I don't think it was protected to start with for modding purposes. People will be flying around in Thomas the Tank Engine by the end of next week.
For these reasons, I'd rather buy Bethesda games. As a company, they aren't assholes. I'd hate for them to get bought out by ea or something like all the rest.
Yes, that would be terrible for them to be bought by somebody like MS.
While you're absolutely right to point out they have already been bought by Microsoft. I think we can all admit MS has had an unbelievably better track record with acquiring studios than EA.
Pretty low bar you've set there...
You forgot Fallout76 and their own shitty launcher, well and the fact that Microsoft bought them already...
And horse armour.
And all their attempts at turning modding into a walled garden they could control and profit from.
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My only beef with them is their complete disregard for QA but, in the end, they're right.
We'll do it for them.
Well, and watering down the social commentary in their Fallouts to an absurd degree.
Can't wait for Fallout 5 to say "AKSHUALLY, it was all China's fault and capitalism is based and Vault Tec was justified. Join the Brotherhood or die, trash."
Triangle For Enthusiastic Yes Square For Nod Silently
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As is Bethesda tradition.
WTF?! The game is not even released on steam yet? Are they cracking the preloaded version?
AFAIK the digital deluxe edition allows you to start playing 5 days early.
There is no "play 5 days early". The game launched on 1st of September. But those who can't afford to shell out 100 Euros have to wait 5 more days. Microsoft did the same bullshit with Forza. I didn't like it back then, I won't like it now.
Why would you want to play a Bethesda game 5 days early? The best time is several months after release, when the community has had time to fix the bugs.
Can confirm. Started playing this morning.
I was playing it last night on steam. I needed a new GPU recently and it came with a code to download it. 🤷♂️
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“Pirates? I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the gazillion sales we're about to make.” —Bethesda, probably
*Already made. They've got like 200k+ $100 deluxe version sales already, the base game hasn't even officially launched
The extra cost "early access" stuff just encourages piracy. I'm paying for gamepass, so I'm already paying for access in four days. I'm still tempted to pirate it. It's probably going to be a better product than dealing with Xbox crap on PC, but I could also play now.
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Eagerly waiting for the videos of every Starfield's fade-to-black screen transitioning back into Skyrim's opening
Hol-eee shit. My GTX 1070 doesn't meet minimum requirements...and it just won't boot? Oh wow.
Who the hell are they expecting is going to play this game? Only trust fund kids?
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Wonder if the cracked version crashes when starting a new game like the steam version does...
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Did starfield not have denuvo drm. I thought most Bethesda games did.
None of them do. It would fuck with people's ability to make mods for them.
True. I guess I thought that because "ghost wire Tokyo" and "redfall" do. But makes sense for a game like starfield to not
redfall
Best copyright protection for Redfall is that the game is shit and nobody wants to play it.
Which sucks, because Arkane was one of my favorite developers before the quality of their output fell off over the past five years. I loved the Dishonored games, and Prey is the single best immersive sim ever made. I was looking forward to DeathLoop, but it ended up being kinda meh, and Redfall has been so universally panned that I haven't even bothered to try it.
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Yeah those games are only published by Bethesda, not developed. Their in house games never have DRM, unless you count steam.
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Bethesda Game Studios games don't have DRM like Denuvo. BGS and Bethesda Softworks are two different entities. ID, MachineGames and other Zenimax studios tend to have DRM, not BGS.
On the other hand, didn't Denuvo come out after Fallout 4 launched? So what would they even protect, 76?
And even it's cracked from I won't be able to play it thanks to my old as system and my lack of will to purchase a new one untill it dies.
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Well, that was quick!
Is RUNE or IGGAMESCOM trustworthy?
Thats nice. One question tho is rune codex now? Since I saw on elamigos that rune/codex refere to the same people
Awe as a dev this kind of bums me out a little. I wonder that they used for DRM. Those sales go directly to the devs in way of raises and retention.
Granted this is not EA where i worked, but if you enjoy the game, i encourage you to buy it.
Also NOTE: I DO NOT SUPPORT DRM, just the pay checks of the devs as i was one for quite some time.
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Can anyone give me a full guide on how to get this to work on Linux(Arch btw), since I have absolutely no clue on how to do this stuff.
It's super easy. I just added it as a non steam game in my library and it worked. It also works on Lutris using a default wine context. I've been playing it and I'm on EndeavourOS (Arch)
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