Company was ‘spending way more than we earn,’ CEO said in memo

It needs a genius to see that. All those contracts for timed exclusivity, all those games given for free. Most people just play free to play games on the platform and get the games for free. I thought the idea was to eat the cost and spend more money than to earn, so they can build a loyal customer base. If that wasn’t the entire goal, what was it then? Why punish the staff (holy cow its 870 employees!) by cutting them off the company now? The store and launcher of Epic games already struggle to get better.

Unfortunately I can’t read the article on Bloomberg, as it requires an account.

@Ashtear Exactly. The 100% rating is often misunderstood. It does not mean perfect game, plus every publication has their own standards. Therefore one 100% is not comparable to another 100%. And like in your example conversions from 4/4 to 100% (because it can only be 0%, 25%, 75% or 100%), is done so an overall Metacritic score can be calculated.

For the longest time I think Metacritic is a bad for the gaming industry, if they lean too much towards (in example bonuses for developers, if they reach a certain rating).

@OttoVonNoob I’m an oldschool Final Fantasy fan and the new FF16 looks not very interesting to me. The fights aren’t what I want it to be and the players reported the game has a much higher playtime on watching cutscenes. I’m just not very hyped about the game, and disappointed in the direction the newer titles are going.

But that does not mean it’s a bad thing. Game series change over time and not every game has to please me, such as going from FF6 to FF7 or to FF8, or the Zelda games several times. So don’t see my reply as bashing, just saying that a longtime fan of the series is not interested into it.

@NaoPb Hi, I just wanted report that the startup of Firefox is almost instant. I have a new modern PC build with a modern and fast M2 SSD and took the exact same Firefox profile over. Now running Firefox starts basically instant. The tabs are not loaded in however, so obviously the webpages would start loading once clicking the tab. But Firefox itself is now instant operation for me.

@uis I know about nouveau which is community developed. This is what I meant with the performance. It’s not near on the same level as the proprietary. For gaming, this is not an option. But I thank you for the suggestions you made.

The best benchmarks I found is for the 20xx series, but look at the results to understand how big the difference is: https://www.phoronix.com/review/opensource-turing-3d/2

Dota 2:

• Noveau gets 7 fps
• Proprietary gets over 100 fps

That’s the level of difference we speak about.

@uis GTX 1070. The new open source driver from Nvidia does not support the 10x series, if your question should lead to that. But does not matter, because yesterday all PC parts of my new build has arrived and I will set it up this weekend. AMD+AMD now. Finally done with these Nvidia frustration.

@uis Performance is the problem. I play games and there is no alternative to proprietary drivers.

@NaoPb Firefox starts in 2 seconds total for me on my 10 years old CPU, even with many plugins installed. While there are constantly 6 or more tabs open, most are not loaded in when starting Firefox, unless I click the tab itself. And opening a new private window is almost instant. I even use Firefox for reading PDFs, instead installing a dedicated application, because it is fast loading and does the job. All in all, it’s probably not far away from Chrome in starting up Firefox. And it probably isn’t that important, because the browser is open all the time for me.

As for the memory usage, I always thought Firefox is being bad here. Can’t imagine Chrome being worse. Are people happy with that?

@uis I didn’t blame anyone particularly. I am just upset about the current situation as a Nvidia user. And it’s a warning to anyone who thinks about getting a Nvidia card on Linux.

Not sure why Mesa. It does not have the proprietary driver in it, does it?

@yoz Most people aren’t idiots, they are uninformed. But they become an idiot ones you inform them… So most people are potential idiots. :D

@Gormadt They say Firefox is slow. Because in the past it used to, especially with the old engine and when Chrome was new, that’s true. But nowadays it does not matter anymore and the speed differences are negligible. If that is the only reason to not use Firefox, then people should reevaluate their decision.

Then there is the argument that people do not like Mozilla. But they like Google more? Even if you use a Chromium based browser by a different company, you give more power to Google this way, as the engine becomes a bigger part of the web. Am I crazy for thinking that?

I use Firefox since version 1 as my default. Occasionally I switched to a different browser, but always came back to good ol’ Firefox.

@hellvolution I don’t know what you are hallucinating, but my post was ranting about the Nvidia drivers. I did not choose to install all of them, they are installed and maintained automatically in Flatpak. But I chose not to install the KDE suite on my native system, because that always causes pain with other suites and installations. That’s the good part of Flatpak. There are a few reasons to use Flatpak.

But the Nvidia driver situation in Flatpak is ridiculous! But you know what, that does not matter anymore, because today my new PC parts will arrive and I can build from scratch. AMD through and through!

Nobody cares what Gamestop boss says, lol.

@skulbuny I do not use zen and get the dkms. But honestly, the twice-dkms installation (one for each Kernel) isn’t too bad. The real issue for me is with Flatpak. I’m currently in the process of choosing and building new PC. Wish I could afford 7900XT, but together with an entire PC building it gets too expensive for me. Looking forward to AMD!

@hellvolution I do not install the driver in Flatpak, it does it automatically. Each application can depend on specific driver versions I guess and that is how it ends up installing multiple versions. That makes it quite robust to be honest, because if a new driver version sucks the application can just request to use an older version in example.

Before accusing people not knowing what they are doing, maybe you should learn about the technology you talk about. There are reasons why to use Flatpak over native Arch packages. One reason is in example I have installed kdenlive, but do not want the entire KDE suite, services and applications installed and running on my system as well.

@ProtonBadger No, I have full download speed for my connection, so it’s not download speed. Everything downloads at full speed. The issue is, that so many driver versions are downloaded and updated. Mind you, this is not with every update so many. My point is, the entire update process could be done very fast if it wasn’t Nvidia requiring so many downloads and installation process. Everything else is done quickly.

@michaelrose Thank you for your help. Much appreciated.

@ProtonBadger The entire update process takes 20 minutes or so (never timed it), at least sometimes. I also had an alias before, but recently rewrote it as a script to do similar things, including pacman, yay, flatpak, rustup and a few other things. And from all of this stuff, most of the time its flatpak that inflates the update process time.

@elouboub It’s AMD. 100% sure. And the best part is, the situation with Nvidia is nowadays improved. So this is the current best case we have…

@1984 Unfortunately not everything is in the AUR or I do not want to trust everyone on the AUR. And there are other reasons to use Flatpak over native packaging (including AUR):

• kdenlive and Krita: I do not want to install the entire suite and dependencies of KDE.
• bottles: The Flatpak version is the recommended one by the devs and the only supported one I think.
• xemu: Yes it’s also available on, but I do not know who the uploader and manager of this binary is. While the Flatpak version an official package is.
• zeal: Same reason as xemu.

And that’s basically it (ok there is Flatseal too… but that does not count to our discussion). Everything else is installed through native packaging. So there is not much reason to use Flatpak and I just started with it recently. But there are sometimes reasons for.