The thing that irks me, is that EA is actually being smart about this, but the rest of the other clients aren't.

Ubi is still pushing for users on PC to sub to their client and use their network, despite the fact that it is still smaller than Steam, still less used than Steam, and then you have Epic trying to get devs to enforce "crossplay", which in turn has a good chunk of games on Steam enforcing stupid online requirements for that crossplay to even perform it's function, and in some mistaken cases, require an EG account to run.

I just wish every other client got the memo and stopped trying to enforce and just let us buy what we want, without having to make multiple accounts for data gathering purposes (because that's all it ends up being at the end of the day).

Sony making PSN sign ins optional is an alright start, but I really hope they do not eventually reach that path, where they will start enforcing it, or worse, create their own "launcher" that will attach itself to Steam and require it to be installed, just to launch games on Steam (much like Ubisoft and R* and even 2k require now). 

We shouldn't need extra launchers from a publisher within an existing client, those pubs should know that race was over and done with 10+ years ago. Steam isn't going anywhere, stop trying to move us to a smaller, more inferior garden, that offers next to no benefits for being herded into them. 

Valve re-uploaded the video but instead of including Yuzu, they switched it out with Portal 2

Nintendo lawyers ain't having any of that

Considering some rumors about the stocks of NVidia and the state of the second hand market, this could take until the end of next year before Ampere stocks are finally out.

And if AMD could manage to undercut NVidia by a more substantial amount, this could get even worse for them.

People in the twitter just scared Valve off in October, Nintendo doesn't sue Valve over Switch emulation anyway lmao

Yea we will have to see. The main thing about Nvidia is they don't like to sit around and take the L. They will respond if they see something that can hamper their leadership. They won't ever undercut AMD cause they know people will chose them due to their feature leadership that AMD won't be able to catch up to so they have 10-20% pricing above AMD leeway based on what we have seen with Ampere.

And AMD isn't exactly a charity either these days. With their Guidance being down by $1 billion (Nvidia has also lowered their guidance this year by a lot), the investors won't be too happy if AMD massively undercuts Nvidia as well. So most likely, AMD will see Nvidia's prices and maybe lower by 10-20% even if they could potentially go down by 30-40% below Nvidia thanks to their chiplet design.

Attention, guys. This could be of interest to some of you:

2K Games and Rockstar Hacked, Malware Sent to Gamers
https://www.techpowerup.com/299646/2k-games-and-rockstar-hacked-malware-sent-to-gamers
Late September, the customer support system of 2K Games and Rockstar Games was hacked according to the game studio. Both studios are owned by Take-Two Interactive. This support desk had access to every gamer registered with 2K, and so the hacker was able to use the vast mailing list to send out malware to gamers, which could steal credentials and compromise their security. 2K discovered this hack, and is sending out e-mails to gamers warning them about the incident, to apprise them of what it's doing, and to help them avoid this malware. 2K Games in the e-mail to gamers said that it's working with Law Enforcement to identify and bring to justice the people behind this hack. In the meantime, they warned gamers not to click on unknown links in e-mails and to use reputable antivirus programs.

Eventually companies will continue to discover that letting Steam handle being the launcher for 30% will be less costly than them managing their own launcher with security holes and other shat.

This is precisely why I dislike using other launchers within an existing client, because often than not, those companies hardly bother with higher security values, they often care more for data harvesting so they can boast about that shit on twitter (like "look at how many players killed X enemy/completed Y missions).

I would love nothing more than for this to reach court case status, so R* and 2k can drop their shitty launchers (ubisoft included) and just go back to what works: Steam, or hell, better yet, GoG.

I shouldn't have to change passwords and sort out scams via my email inbox, because a multi million dollar company is incredibly lazy and selfish as fuck to not care about customer security. 

I do find it funny though, how R* went so damn hard to find that minor who leaked GTA VI shit, but they aren't going well out of their way to find the hackers who constantly compromise their security for their client/launchers. I find that the minor who leaked GTA VI is less damaging than millions of accounts being fucked over, personal bank accounts and social details included (which could lose you millions more if a court case was ever taken up, because the EU *will* side with the consumer in that fight).