CarlBar

This so much. The game reflexively trained people to focus on objectives and work together, thats a monster you never want to point at yourself.

Helldivers 2 was, (may still be if people haven't changed their reviews yet), the game with the 4th most negetive reviews on steam ever. Only counter Strike 2, PUBG, and DOTA had more total, and they've been out way longer, have way more total reviews, and are free to play. It was heading towards the biggest negetive PR event in gaming history at freight train speeds.

As noted this is all on the Sony side, the community manager and CEO have both come out and said they flat don't want this, apparently Sony doesn't even read the official discord or reddit for the game. The two most active parts of the community and Sony doesn't care at all what they have to say. There's also speculation the region lock might be Valve covering its own ass against being party to distributing a product that cannot be used. Which honestly is a sound move, also if you go via the tech support rather than refund ticket system they're issuing refunds. I think the comment i've seen thats most funny is about how the games major order system has pavlovian trained a huge part of the player base to move as one on goals, and then Sony did something guaranteed to turn that monster against them.

@IkeaGnome I came here from reading about it and seeing reactions elsewhere, (primarily reddit and steam) but they hadn't seen this yet apparently, so when i skipped to reading reactions ignoring the OP i missed that. Sorry. That said a lot of other people at the time i made the comment your responding to also hadn't heard this. The anger now appears to be focused more on Sony, apparently the way Sony has changed some of their website wordings might also be running them afoul of GDPR. Someone in the US is allready putting together a class action and theres talk of another being put together over the GDPR issues from a quick look.

Add me to the list whos never seen that as far as i recall. Thats just a theory, no ones confirmed it. This isn;t going to stop me playing, but it is annoying. And i am perfectly happy with the large segment of people who refuse to deal with non-steam accounts getting extremely mad at the bait and switch being pulled. They're completely entitled to be mad as far as i'm concerned as none of them would have bought the game if they knew upfront this was going to be a thing.

Yeah i think this falls firmly into "Fuck Around, Find Out", or possibly "Do Stupid Thing, Win Stupid Prizes".

I don't recall changing it, but i may have at some point, will have to look into making it save more. May have mistaken it for something to do with something else. EDIT: Thinking about it, it's probably an inherited setting from before i migrated my install, (done when i built this system ears ago, moved from a small SSD to a 1TB model). I had severe drive space issues with the previous drive that caused a couple of crashes and made me limit a lot of what windows would put on the main drive.

Yoink and done. I think from looking at it i have the latest drivers from my chipset but i'm now noticing a lot of metadata errors in the event viewer, (I tweaked the view to show only warnings), just did a quick google and seems to be related to a windows update breaking somthing in the registry. Windows update did install a bunch of stuff during 2 restarts i did sorting out my phone connection and audio issues. Precise error is: "Metadata staging failed, result=0x80070490 for container '{A86B4130-F81A-5260-B848-E2F95600B873}'" 041924-35671-01.zip

Ok, will do, and yes X470, couldn;t remember exact number when giving you a quick specs, checked since.

2700X on an As Rock Taiichi , 32GB of ram, 2080Ti, one HDD and one SSD, (the boot drive). No XPM that irecall though i'd have to double check, systems been built and stable for several years now.

Out of the blue, (pun not intended), i've had 4 bluescreens in the last 24 hours or so. The first one occurred after i had to uninstall my android phone driver and do a restart, a few hours later i got a random crash, at the time i just put it down to random chance, i can't seem to find anything in the event log beyond the "restarted without shutting down properly" error. Since then however i had a few more, in order of occurrence and what i can tell about them: Bluescreen after having to troubleshoot an audio issue that caused the headset control app to lockup, (this produced an error that indicated one of my logical processors failed to handle an exception when i googled it). Specificlyl bugcode "The bugcheck was: 0x00000101 (0x000000000000000c, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff8063dadc180, 0x0000000000000000)." Then like 10 minutes ago whilst playing helldivers 2 it crashed with zero warning, i forget the exact bluescreen text, something about a Stop_Watch? This was followed by an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (google says drivers), on the restart. Event viewer has nothing on these two crashes other than recording the "restarted without proper shutdown", there does seem to be a mention in the log of a failed crash dump. I'm kinda concerned, not sure if i just hit a run of random bad luck or if something is actually wrong, and if it is not sure if its hardware or software, the former is what's really worrying me. Assuming someone can explain how i'd be willing to share my event viewer log. p.s in the process of fixing my audio issue and the phone issue i did do a manual restart twice which ha resulted in a bunch of windows update stuff happening.

Yeah most likely an earthquake would make that sand undergo liquefaction. Bye bye any ground support. Though TBH most diagrams i've seen of tall tower construction have had the piles tied together at ground level by a slab anyway, the piles provide the support, but the slab distributes it around the building.

Not just that, those fabs are so valuable to so many that China would be taking on every developed or developing nation in the process. It's why Chi9na is trying to get it's own chip manufacturing up. It can't really touch Taiwan unless it can somehow wean the rest of the world off TSMC. As for the OP. This isn't a suprise, i expect we'll see more and more tightening of the restrictions as time goes on. It's just an inevitable effect of the geopolitical climate.

Didn't Silksong get within a hair of releasing before the unity mess hit and now they're having to start from scratch on a new engine? Also it's GTA6 how much is a year going to add to the timeframe since GTA5 released.

I've heard a few different specific values stated elsewhere and haven't had chance to check them myself but i've seen multiple claims that the fine amounts to a few percent of Apples gross profits last year within the EU. Compared to Apples total income it's small, but it's not remotely small compared to what apple actually earns from the EU. They're also facing several more cases about how they're planning to do things under the new rules the EU's bringing in which could see multiple additional fines of a similar size levied. And of course if apple doesn't comply with the ruling much larger fines as a percentage of their profits will be imposed.