Exactly. And Vmware's calculus is that as long as it has a dozen gigantic clients (governments, huge enterprises) that it can charge whatever it wants, then the small fish aren't worth it.

Agents don't cause attacks. People running agents do.

The people who ran the agents were negligent at best but I have an alternate theory.

If they knew the technology could go sideways and hack things then they effectively executed those hacks intentionally.

If not they are only negligently ignorant which is not generally a crime in this context.

They like it when they are the ones with exclusive access because they feel special.

They don't like it otherwise but rapidly forget they paid to be fucked over.

Go back further and you'll see he wasn't like that until Obama got elected.

Racism broke his brain.

Also the entire GTA series is filled with games that people tend to replay so it's an relevant objection in this story

Validate my claim? Learn to internet, noob.

They've told us it's going to require a connection.

That is pretty fucking weird, what better way to convince PC users to cancel your service?

Well given you compared it to an online multiplayer only game, and then a second game that is also multiplayer, if I seem confused it's only because I am replying to someone writing confusing shit.

But hey let's go with your updated definition, let me change my post:

GTA VI is OFFLINE ONLY you idiot. They are launching a single player campaign based game *which requires no continuous online connection to play*.

Which part? The bit where he incorrectly claimed it's an online game instead of the offline single player game without any multiplayer component? The bit where he incorrectly claimed that streaming is pay per use instead of pay per time? The bit where he claimed there's no interest in consoles, despite the game very much coming out on xbox consoles?

Come on man. You're better than this. You can post stupid shit without simping for other stupid people.

At 80W TDP for a fully loaded RTX Spark (which this may not be, they didn't specify which Spark they are using) you're not going to be heating much more than your lap.

Not sure if you know what this is, but an RTX Spark is at the high end of a low power ARM core. It has a TDP not dissimilar than any other workstation laptop crossover CPU ranging from 45W to 80W depending on which Spark this includes.

Worth nothing literally every laptop CPU is thermally limited. Heck these days most desktop CPUs are as well. 2.5x the thermal performance likely means well above 2.5x performance boost over the previous gen (which wasn't an efficient ARM chip).

WTF is a Joule anyway?

A unit of torque, obviously.

I thought you could stream the Xbox service to PC. Did I imagine that or ate they just not going to allow PC users to stream this title?

because there is no disc to "authenticate your ownership" to the Xbox, so it will attempt to reach some remote server to look at your "account".

You can play it offline. But only on one console. Xbox has the concept of "home console" or "primary console". You can download a game to it and as long as the console checks in every so often (once a year or so) the license will be valid on it.

All other consoles you log into must be online to validate the license.

So it's not truly offline play but you could play the campaign offline as it doesn't need to do a license check on your primary console. Note that this only works to keep that console offline - you put it online and it'll refresh the licenses you have so if it got transferred it'll stop working. Or after a year, which ever happens first.