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What killed it, well after reviewing some PS4 gameplay I noticed that it was having audio issues, like it would allow some sounds but not all. It was almost as if it was receiving a 5.1 audio output but was missing the centre channel. Even though the PS4 was set to stereo.

After trying various cables, configs, and boxes. I narrowed it down to this box. Not sure what killed it, whether it's just old, or that it's been powered on for over 5 years straight. But its long service will never be forgotten in the hours of Netflix and Disney Plus it passed through to my recorder.

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[–] Rabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Biggest evidence of that is Epic will give away games for free, but there will be people who prefer to pay for the Steam version over the free version.

That's the biggest evidence that piracy is a problem of distribution and goes against the idea that those who pirates are against paying for a product.

[–] coaxil@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] joemo@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Second.

I also waited out the release of some games that launched on the Epic store first. I begrudgingly bought them on Steam, and I hope enough others did to discourage other companies from doing that in the future.

[–] Crismus@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago

I do the same thing. I never got an Epic account, and really spend more money on GOG.

I enjoy the Epic exclusives because when it lands on Steam or GOG, it's usually feature complete and less buggy.