And then there's the fun question of Sony's handling certain regions within countries where it offers service, which is what Chazore is particularly unhappy about, I think. I believe we (Finland) have one such region as well that sometimes gets 'special treatment', although I'm not sure how Sony handles it. Basically some regions within countries where Sony offers service don't work with the PSN requirement at all.

I haven't played the Delta Force yet, but I'm hoping to later this evening.

I had forgotten there's a new Commandos game coming out. I won't have time to play the demo, but whatever - I haven't played the earlier games in the series yet either, so I have plenty to play there if I ever get the time.

It's not really necessary to play the games in order. The only thing in common are the set of characters, there isn't really a story behind them.

And who knows, maybe the demo will still be available after the Next Fest is over. Sometimes that's the case.

True, true. It's just that I'm in no hurry to get into the new game, since I already have well-liked games in the series that I have yet to play. Might as well start with them, since the old game is probably not a problem for me. I mean, I've owned the earlier games since 2017, so might as well start there instead of getting yet another game or spending my time on something I'm not getting any time soon... And yes, I've been trying to go through my backlog a bit, which I've actually had some success this year. Games taking increasingly long to make isn't all bad!

You know what's gonna be incredibly sad?, AMD isn't going to compete with high end cards once the 5000 series arrives on the scene, meaning the mid to low tier AMD cards are going to end up relying heavily on their 1st gen AI upscaling tech, and it'll STILL make Nvidia look miles ahead.

AMD basically shot both their legs off at this point. There's no catching up for them, not this upcoming gen, not even by the next, they've got less ground and are playing 4 gen catch-up. What a shit-show AMD's GPU gens have been...

Sony: LET'S USE STEAM AND PUT PSN OVER THERE!

Like I've been on PC for a long, long time, and everyone I've seen come and go have always been relatively small-game when it comes to account creation and regional support, but MY GOD, has Sony proven to being that one company that wants to sell their games on other platforms, but wants to dictate how they are done in such a shitty way.

Like EGS are shit, not going to mince words, but Sony is literally hopping into Steam's taxi, and instead of letting Steam take Sony to their intended destination, Sony takes command of the journey and the destination, all of which isn't in the vested interest for those carting along with Steam, but at the same time being kicked out of that same taxi. 

Like I get it, I really do, Valve doesn't want to ever make enemies out of anyone on the planet. They would rather ignore EPic than to slam them down and give Epic and excuse to bitch about monopoly this or that, but my god, am I sick to death of Steam just keeling over like a nerd getting pushed around by a bunch of jocks and doing shit for said jocks without question.

Sony shouldn't be allowed free entry to just leech of a userbase they actively ignored for a long time, only to come to said platform and then rip this or that from it, enforce this and that, cram PSN overlay on top of Steam's, "you won't be needing Steam cheevos when you can have console-style PSN trophies". Like I'm just tired of how every big third party company or even first party just gets to treat Steam like a free lunch to fuck around with. I'm starting to realise that open platforms are a blessing, but they exist to just get dicked around with by those who hail from closed platforms or publicly traded corps. None of them know how to respect an open platform's customers the way they want to be treated (which is by not enforcing close-platform ecosystems on to of existing ones). 

You want to know something insanely funny?.

We have a GAME UK store here on my island, and it also sold Sony consoles FOR DECADES...

I was there for the midnight launch when the PS3 first came out, it was a cold ass night as well. 

Also I just remembered. one of my friends on the island owned a PS4 and he was able to create a new PSN account back when last gen launched, and that was on a Sony system, so my question is.... SONY WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FECK ARE YOU DOING?

It is truly amazing how much Radeon team cuckholds themselves when they have a good thing going. RDNA 2 made quite the surprising top down return to form after the launch of RDNA 1. While Radeon team was behind in key areas like Ai upscaling and Ray Tracing, their bet on giving people higher vram did pay off and they got a lot of good press. It put so much pressure that Nvidia had to put 12GB of vram on the 3060 and 8GB of vram on the 3050 which I am sure they were planning to cut those numbers by half like the mobile counterparts had. And the raster performance was up there with Nvidia's best. Even their drivers which was a shat show during RDNA 1 days was fairly stable during RDNA 2 days.

But then they put all their eggs in this chiplet nonsense while Nvidia simply improved on their arch and went back to TSMC instead of shatsung. 7900XTX/7900XT were joke of a product that competed against AD103 based 4080 while the 4090 was so far out of reach. They still relied on the garbage FSR for upscaling which is now more important than ever thanks to modern engines and their horrible optimization where a ton of AAA games are averaging around 720p-900p on current gen consoles. And the drivers were problematic as well as Radeon had to make an entirely different driver branch for RDNA 3 vs RDNA 2/RDNA1/Vega etc. And not to mention all the mini-failures in between like user accounts getting banned during the initial launch of anti-lag 2.

If they made a bigger RDNA 2 that competed with a 4090 in Raster and added Ai cores and Ai upscaling while being priced at $1000-$1200, they would have continued to be competitive and gained market share imo.

In the end, blind people will say that Nvidia is winning because of brand power and mindshare. The reality is Radeon is simply full of garbage leadsership and marketing. Most of the higher ups should be fired and I hope they hire competent people next generation. Radeon could have pulled a Ryzen but instead they pulled a xbox.

Feels like every other than a few goes through this "fuck you" phase when it comes to pc gaming. EA, Cuckbisoft, Activision, Microsoft, etc. It happens until it comes a point where the shit they have been throwing catches up with them and comes back to their faces. And now it feels like that it's Cucknoys turn. They could have had a really good thing going just leaving pc gamers alone. But no, lets do this PSN nonsense. Let me guess, eventually they gonna come out with their own launcher that will integrate PS+ benefits for pc gamers. So tired of all this nonsense. Just give us good games so we can play them instead of adding all sorts of bs to them.

Sony is obviously setting themselves up to remove their games from Steam if they want to at some point (if their strategy changes or something).

Remember they are free to do so, even from those who have 'bought' them.

Like remove as in can't play them, even after buying?  Seems risky, given I would never touch Sony again, including their electronics.