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Improved the pause menu.
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@beardalaxy
>it is much easier to get the government to force companies to do right by the consumer (which is NOT EVEN THAT HARD BTW) than it is to just let them take away games that people have paid for and provide no alternate solution
Sure, but this assumes that the government cares about you, and that they care about video games. Most video game industry regulations these days only occur because a lot of aspects of the modern game industry like lootboxes can be considered "gambling". I don't know if politicians care about "preserving art".
>even going as far as putting legal on their asses when they try to do stuff like reverse engineering servers and getting money for their efforts
That's not a free market.
I think in a truly free market where anyone can create any video game using any franchise without being restricted by IP laws, live service games would be harder to sell because they would have to compete with non-live service games of the same franchise.
Why play the online only Diablo 3 by Blizzard when someone else can create their own Diablo that is playable offline?
Granted, it wouldn't be a perfect solution. There would probably still be some games as a service and some of them will pull the plug without providing any means to play offline/with dedicated servers, but a true free market without IP laws would probably make the situation better than it is now.
@bonifartius That guy is probably just a troll. His bait reminds me of hachi, but from a different angle.
@ube
>computer code is not political
It *can* be, but only if you have political motivations for writing such code. For example, if you are an ancap you may write software for some P2P marketplace, but the whole idea that all code in general being political is dumb and it's only there to sabotage projects.
@SuperSnekFriend @Seth_Wachhaltamittel Maybe this should be a sign that you should consider using a PLC if your home's electrical wiring supports it.
@gabriel Both the privacy and health concerns of Wi-Fi really make me want to use power-line networking but my place doesn't have the electrical wiring for that.
@beardalaxy See if anyone has written a script to convert RPG Maker maps to RPG in a Box maps.