Yes, it's fixed both on their tech upgrade backend and naturally(with slight player count decline. )

I wonder what happen to just plain old player trades? Aka, join same server lobby, invite to trade or drop on the floor to show the stat and then specifically agree to give to another player in a trading window.

Right, the devs gets nil in this type of transaction, even though it could really help players engaged.

I can almost guarantee that if a dev include a "tip the developer" option(no dark pattern, basically you buy some premium credit and use it as tip with minimum amount like a quarter), people would be guilt tripped to the moon and have to press that button once in a while. (Basically like the wikipedia funding request, I got guilt tripped easily. )

As AMD owner that has experienced this issue, the black screen crash is manageable for some symptoms and very likely not AMD's fault. And it's NOT just 7000 series, it's happened to Nvidia card as well if you search for the "Nvidia black screen crash".

Disclaimer, not all crashes in that link you posted is related to the same cause, trust me because I did my home work when my 6800XT experienced the black crash. Specifically, mine is the monitor sleep crash(can't wake monitor up anymore but can hotkey reboot and sometimes goes into boot loop after a system critical error(have to cold shutdown unplug psu power cycle and then reconnet) usually around mid night update time.

What I found how to fix my issue is that there is an old version of driver that does not have this issue at all. Use that for quite a bit of time until someone else report more stability for a different version of driver then I tried again. But then I got tired of stuck at older version driver and experiment around, found that don't put screen to sleep and don't "lock" your windows(keep the windows at desktop and not lock it remove that black screen crash issue that I have. ** important, this is very different crash than the playing game and crash to black screen, which is much easily addressed as most that run into this(that I saw during my hunt to fix my issue) have bad component or PSU not good enough. **

And, my new rig also full amd setup does not suffer the same issue at all with desktop lock or monitor sleep after 15mins.

old rig: 6800XT amd stock, auros master MB, 3900X new rig: 7900XTX Merc, msi B650 MB, 7800X3D

Yes, I've done firmware updates and everything. You might be wondering, why I said it might not be AMD's fault after I said there is a version of old driver that does not have this issue. My reasoning is like this. The older version of driver probably did not implement some more modern power saving or whatever inter device communication protocols that leads to the crash thus aren't triggering it. The why it's seems so wide spread is because it could be triggered and happen when one of the component can't return and communicate with the system properly. That means, in my case more power management related issue:

• the MB bios regarding power policy issues.
• windows driver/kernel that manage power policy( I don't think I've seen any post that have this black screen crash on Linux)
• monitor bios and the connections
• display driver and protocols responding to the requests(windows have to go through GPU to ask monitor to go sleep)

See how many points of failure this could happen? Now think about how most people use their hardware and upgrades? ie.

• how many people upgrade their graphic card and then check if their MB/Monitor firmware is up to date??
• how many people keeps delaying driver updates or windows updates??
• how many manufacturer stops updating firmware for their older MB/Monitor?? (I pretty much suspicious of my Acer 144hz 4k IPS panel for causing the crash, cause at the time I was investigating, the monitor's firmware is already old enough, from 2021, just went back to check again and still the same version.)

I hope my information show that it's manageable and not a hard problem to get around. And actually running into this is pretty rare as there aren't a lot of thread and not really "wide" spread.

Believe it or not I had that and the logitech ones. The index/middle finger track ball is a bit less precise due to how our fingers are built and it's a pita to clean them for both the ball and the rolling axis and the housing(since it's a concave shape). Eventually I caved to the modern censor mouse since no cleaning is required. (well, except those pads adhesive attracting dust etc. )

make sense but it's unfortunate Dreams didn't take off like LBP series were.

The difference(if the article is trust worthy, see last paragraph) is made up by what some live service games on PC are pretty big money maker.(Valve's games, LoL, and some live service are really PC focus or PC only.) Fortnite is cross platform and here is a comparison from it's revenue source, and live service game are aiming more competitive not graphically more advanced. If you compare games like say Assassin's Creed or Jedi Survivor or say MWIII by pre-orders console vs PC, there will be a big difference. There is a reason why developer are focusing on console quality/performance first, because if you do cross platform, that's where you make most of your money from. But if you are doing a competitive FPS, then developer will focus on PC build cause that's where most competitive players are.

Look at best of steam for 2022, notice the lack of big selling console titles? That's why. Probably not valid source now, but before Psyonix bought by Epic, they released their Rocket League player by platforms, PC takes about 21% on 3rd year(2018) after switch version is released. First, second, third, they don't release new numbers after year 4. And you can run RL on potato laptops before their mandatory DX11 update. Most cross platform games will bias toward Playstation since Series X/S aren't as dominant this gen. but usually it falls around 70~75% on consoles and 25%~30% on PC.(if game also release on switch, PC shrinks further.)

Lastly, the article you linked if you read the info or sourcing carefully, they are some sort of report/forecast survey data selling company. They don't really actually have the numbers in terms of global revenue. Yes, public company have financial reports, but Valve is not public company which will distort the result quite a bit, and use survey means if your sample pool is bad, your extrapolation will also be bad. One of the graphic shows their sample amount. (with about 42k samples, with no mention where or how they get those number)

edit: minor edits for better reading

extra big edit: I went and look for playstation game division revenue for 2022 and found this article with links to actual financial report, 24.4 billions. Where the best I can find for steam(which dominates about 90% pc sales market share) is about 8~9 billions in gross revenue(including game sales/mtx/etc). I don't feel confident linking the articles as I don't think they are really reliable, but multiple of those "survey company" probably estimate it from source like steam spy or steam db data. So playstation along make 3x more revenue than steam. Like yeah, I know it also includes PS5/accessory sales etc, but we all know that console are selling almost at cost or slightly below to drive game sales. Sony sold "19.1 million PS5 during fiscal 2022" doing some paper calculation it's around 9.5b if all consoles sold are at 500USD. Actual number would be much lower as Sony don't get those sale money directly compare to PSN, they get it after the vendor/shipping split. And I don't know how much they get from console sales but look at the chart I linked it's way below 1/3rd. So even with worst case calculation Playstation still make 2x more in terms of software sales.

I think they have but the exploit probably also generated a new uuid. (I have no idea how they implemented but I believe they can track down all the items. )

It can happen at any stage where transistors are involved. So for important thing just ecc memory is not enough, I saw a video where newer space craft basically have a voting system, so 3 or 4 subsystem calculating exact same instructions, and the "majority" wins.

don't buy it. I will just wait until all 3 released, and someone else put together a "no commentary/reaction" Youtube(or other) just to look at the cinematics. Then if I am really itchy at playing(which I won't, honestly), buy if off a huge sale later.

well, it has to follow the system cause it's a licensed job. However, it does not stop people from modding the game however they feel like to. A good frame work with proper modding support will last this game for years and years. (like a DM mode, random encounter with randomized party/scripted events during battle, etc.)

gaming laptops are pretty much scam anyway, as person "once" fall for such scam.

• they are really heavy, not really good with travel.
• they are also power hungry, might be less than your actual tower rig, but significantly more than common "business laptop"
• the battery won't last with degradation where you constantly plug it in.( to gain the boosted frequency where you can play games at higher settings/frame rate)
• your upgrade path is very limited and they won't have the parts after like 2~3 years.(so anything broken you have to try find it on ebay/amazon/aliexpress)

for portable gaming during travel, your best choice is consoles. So switch, steamdeck, heck, even PS4 slim is better than gaming laptop.(hopefully PS5 pro/slim is made into form for easier box/travel format.)

reminding me I need to manage to archive my data off reddit. XD And ready the kill script on June 30ths to delete my posts.