Kelly

Yeah they manage both distribution methods.

I'm just highlighting at least one example where they have regrettably left the standalone as a 2nd class option.

I had a situation with The Saboteur.

When installed manually with downloaded installers it had configuration issues, IIRC it was limited to 1280x720 and the in game option to modify it didn't work.

But when installed with Galaxy it defaulted to 1920x1080 and the in game options worked.

At that point my game was working and I didn't investigate further so I don't know if it was downloading different installers, or performing post install tweaks to my game config, but from a functional perspective the game was broken when not using Galaxy. Ideally whatever the "magic" was it should be included in the standalone installers!

I had a think about this scenario and I think that if Steam was going to present this argument they would need to document and support this workflow. At the moment the fact that it sometimes works is more of an accident than anything (essentially it's all just files on a disc and sometimes the files still work if you move them somewhere else).

But if they document that you can transfer the install data to another location, and identify which titles that applies to? Then I can see a reasonable argument that they qualify.

This article seems to say that it covers only digital items that have an always online requirement.

https://www.gamefile.news/p/california-ab2426-crew-call-of-duty

So i think offline games don't need the warning, but online games, steaming movies, etc do need the warning.

Edit:

I looked a bit further and found the bill text:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2426#99INT

(4) This section does not apply to any of the following:

[...]

(C) Any digital good that is advertised or offered to a person that the seller cannot revoke access to after the transaction, which includes making the digital good available at the time of purchase for permanent offline download to an external storage source to be used without a connection to the internet.

This exception clearly allows for user downloadable installer for a game with offline functionality. But consoles, steam, etc where you don't get a standalone installer, they look like they will need the warning on all titles.

Some videos are linked from here but they don't have Howard The Duck

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Marvel_AR

It can be interesting to see the questions that make it to hot questions.

Its a little sample of the various communities.

https://stackexchange.com/questions

In Australia they've bumped it from au$25 (with periodic discounts to au$12.50) to au$60.

Thats a 140% increase!

No mention of the recent changes to classify simulated gambling R18+.

Thats going to cause some titles to cut content to avoid the higher rating.

It had a public github repo so I would expect there to be copies in the wild.

Average score was 76 placing it in the 63rd percentile.

https://opencritic.com/game/16790/star-wars-outlaws/charts

Its the kind of middle of the pack results that show its not bad but its not great either. License fans with realistic expectations will probably have a good time.

Yes, that kind of packaging is exactly what he is fighting!

I had assumed they were a one and done appliance that would be replaced if under warranty with the faulty unit going to e-waste.