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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (22 children)

Does this game need client-side anticheat at all? It's not PvP, so if you're cheating, you just ruin the experience for yourself and maybe your teammates. But as far as I know, there are no rankings and not really any competition.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

fwiw, that screen is called "lock screen"

[–] [email protected] 123 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

If the live version is already broken, there isn't much to lose deploying the fix as soon as possible. Not sure what else they could have done here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can remove things from your watch history

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

This is it. Lemmy users are completely unaware of the extent to which they are not like normal people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That's kind of the point. There was a time in the 2010s when each new device could do something that they couldn't previously do. But it seems like the market has figured out what people want from their phones and that's what they are getting now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I also think that the task is unreasonable, but at the same time I can't imagine that this is of any use to the company. What are they going to do with a "LinkedIn clone" made in two days that they don't even have the IP rights to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

All console games have DRM that tries to prevent users from copying it or using it on different hardware

I don't like DRM either, but this misses the point about ownership. For example, if a law says your house may not have more than two people living in it, you can still own it, even if you don't like the limitations that it has.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It's incorrect in the sense that the statement implies that there is a kind of ownership distinct from owning a license that is denied to users. But this isn't possible. The only way to own intellectual property (games, books, music) is to have a license to it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This obviously falls into the "documentaries and essays" category

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Technically, we've never owned our games.

I don't understand why people make this point. You own the physical media and you own a perpetual license to the game. It's like saying you don't own your car because you have to follow the traffic laws.

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