EveningNewbs

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EveningNewbs,

None of these features are usable in SteamVR, or if they are, aren’t supported by any games, like HDR.

EveningNewbs,

Because support is missing from SteamVR, existing games, or both.

EveningNewbs,

I’m looking forward to Cosmic, but I’m curious if it will delay the 24.04 LTS release. 22.04 is pretty long in the tooth at this point.

EveningNewbs,

Nobody who packages debs are updating their applications for jammy anymore. Anything I install is several versions old at this point. Just the other day I tried to compile an application that uses Autocxx, only to find that it requires C++14 headers, and the jammy repo only had up to 12 or 13. I know I can add PPAs or get things other ways, but it kind of defeats the point of a package manager if I’m constantly hunting for things outside of it.

EveningNewbs,

Buying up game developers to make them exclusives and selling hardware at a loss to stifle competitors is the only “benefit” their money has produced. This is a net negative for VR as a whole.

Like 90% of what a modern VR headset is made of has come from their money.

Like what? I can’t think of a single invention they pioneered that’s used in their own headsets, let alone everyone else’s.

EveningNewbs,

I stopped reading when you implied that Facebook invented pancake optics. They have been used in cameras for decades. And while I agree they’re the way forward in the future, saying they let more light in is factually incorrect: they only let about 10-15% of the light through. This page has a good overview of why that is and how they work.

EveningNewbs,

What? I didn’t want you to list a bunch of things off the top of your head. I asked for one factual thing, and you instead you provided a bunch of assumptions. If you can’t provide actual facts maybe just don’t state guesses like they’re true?

EveningNewbs,

I wish people would stop parroting this. For the vast, vast majority of games it isn’t true.

EveningNewbs,

Most games have a day one patch, but the game on the disc is usually playable without it.

EveningNewbs,

“Could do”? I haven’t used Windows in a decade at least, but doesn’t it have ads in the start menu now?

EveningNewbs,

It’s not even a question anymore. Even if every single subscriber is on the highest tier, they’re not even close to making back their third-party costs to run the service, let alone server costs, cannibalized first-party game sales, and whatever else they pay to run it.

EveningNewbs,

Declaring Game Pass profitable right after they reclassified every Xbox Live user as a Game Pass user smells like creative accounting to me.

EveningNewbs,

This article could be about any year from the past 10 years. Why do people still believe these “promises”?

EveningNewbs,

Astroturfing is a very real thing that major companies participate in to sway public sentiment.

EveningNewbs,

Most of those were preexisting contracts they needed to fulfill. You’re the one who’s arguing in bad faith.

EveningNewbs,

Games that are Epic exclusive aren’t cheaper either. This is a nonsense argument.

Microsoft May Exit Gaming Business If Game Pass Subscribers off Console Don't Increase Enough by 2027 (wccftech.com)

Spencer said in no uncertain terms that Microsoft could exit the gaming business if this projection became reality. Microsoft needs the light green and blue segments (PC and cloud) to get much larger and much faster by fiscal year 2027, or it could opt out of the business altogether....

EveningNewbs,

People who have never launched the game aren’t counted in these statistics.

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