Iverion

Smart. Sometimes it feels like companies are desperate to hype the living daylights out of what they have only to end up shooting themselves in the foot.

Then there's this, which to me is them throwing everything to see what might stick. CDProjekt's response This feels incredibly petty. I won't feel bad if the author only gets stuck with lawyer fees after all this.

Bethesda looks at Disney as a role model it would seem. Oh well. I'm already steering clear from EA & Activision games, I disagree with their actions, ideology and treatment towards consumers and refuse to support them. Bethesda just made that list. Shame that companies are behaving like this.

Sega released their Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Classics on Steam with 54 titles on it. Atari has Atari Vault with 100 titles, also on Steam. With the Genesis Classics I've replayed a lot of childhood games on it and could see myself revisiting them again later on. Why is it so hard for Nintendo? Or better question, why are they so dead set on their old ways?

Also this. I very much agree with this

I forgot about demographics. I find it funny that when it comes to laptops and desktops it's ok to download from their website via a browser but it's feels like a completely different mentality when it comes to "mobile". Honestly "mobiles" have essentially become a light version of a pc. Thing is that there will always be that risk even if Epic stuck with the Play Store. Most adults don't give kids enough credit. Most aren't downright idiots, but rather just naive. If someone hears of an app that can give them free v bucks or some other thing they'll download it regardless if it's on or off the Play Store. It doesn't help when android makes it easy to install non-market apps. When you go to install an apk android will tell you that the option is set to disable in the setting and it'll take you to the setting to enable it.

It should be enough for Epic to release a statement that only downloads from their website is official and all others are fraudulent and possibly harmful

This is only news to people that know nothing about tech and sensationalist media. This is nonsense & a non-issue to anyone who even knows a little about tech. No offense to the op. If someone is playing a game like fortnite I'd like to think most would know better than to just start downloading things all willy nilly like everyones relatives that only know the absolute basics about tech

Sources: Softpedia MSPowerUser Microsoft is pushing Windows 7 & 8.1 "important updates" that are part of their telemetry. The articles state it seems all PCs that get the updates will part of the data collection regardless if they are part of the Microsoft’s experience improvement/usage analysis programs or have opted out, contrary to Microsoft's statement. My thoughts: I understand the importance & usefulness to collect data. It helps to fix, optimize, innovate, etc. However I firmly believe that it should always be on a opt-in/opt-out basis. I find it strange that Microsoft is pushing data collection on Windows 7 & 8.1. Could it be that they want accurate numbers on how many are still hanging onto the now aging OSes? Do they want to more user information to better sell it? It might be the cynic in me but I find it to hard to believe Microsoft here. To me there has to be more reasons to force data collection further, especially when this time it's outside of Windows 10.