Steam's hardware survey gathers a narrow set of hardware info, shows you what it finds, and asks permission before sending. It is completely ~~transparent~~ forthcoming and optional. That is not hoovering up your data.
Friendly reminder that Klei is now owned by Tencent, in case that's important to anyone here.
I'm not sure what purpose this blog post serves other than promotion. The official list covers more clients and filters by more features:
Every step Intel makes toward parity with established gaming GPUs makes me hopeful that we'll soon have competition driving down prices.
FWIW, it's not fixed. The screen shot may very well be recent.
(The post in question was still bad reporting, though, for the reasons I detailed in my other comment here.)
It's a decimal floating point specifier with a precision sub-specifier.
Sounds like an opportunity to be the shepherd of change that saves the company money.
Beware of one-trick database admins (if you have those) and salespeople who earn their living fighting such changes.
I doubt that a good game studio can remain good for long after being acquired by EA, Activision, or similar.
Thanks for the fun, BioWare. We'll miss you.
~~How~~ What do you call these games
I call them management sims, but I'm sure there are other names for the genre, too.
Rimworld is one of my favorites.
Mindustry has been getting a lot of praise. I hope to check it out soon.
Cities: Skylines is popular, and Cities: Skylines II is due soon.
Satisfactory is good (although the Steam version used Epic Games telemetry, which has been called out for being rather invasive, last time I looked).
Depends on where you are. It's a must-have in parts of the world that don't have enough IPv4 addresses.
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The story I read was that they didn't collect or report anything, but just flagged a user if the cache contained a known game hack site, and that they stopped doing that years ago.
Not comparable to what Epic was caught doing, IMHO. Still, if there's an article with more detail, I wouldn't mind reading it. (Maybe it was part of their anti-cheat system of the time?)