Nor public movements to do with it either. They’re certainly an interesting company…

That’s Doctor House to you!

It’s only savings if you’d at least considered paying the full price. Otherwise, it’s just a price.

Uh-huh, sure it isn’t, Cockstar, we believe you

They sure are. That’s why they can naff off asking for charity. I don’t recall seeing their efforts on the SKG initiative so I don’t see much reason to be charitable. My and GoG’s relationship shall remain a “money for goods” arrangement.

Exactly this. I had been hoping that Benzies going his own way would be good news but I suppose this tells us a lot about the behind the scenes of R* instead.

Not so much paranoid, more desperately looking for excuses. Sabotage couldn’t make a game turn out that poorly unless every non-saboteur was fully asleep at the wheel. It’s poor direction plain and simple.

Ah. Firmly putting that one on the “hell no” pile. Even with a pre-patched bootleg I don’t have to pay for the privilege of risking giving up full access to my computer at the very least. Thanks for the info all the same.

Tell me more?

I wonder just how many incentives it included to update…

Complete with child exploitation?

So who and when do those users get to sue for negligence?

I have to admit, not a route I’d expect, certainly not one to become a norm given different use cases or the steeper buy-in.

And the enshittification will continue until they have true competition.

I also generally agree with this. With my original comment, I had specific games in mind. For example, I’d love a new American McGee’s Alice that doesn’t feel so darn clunky. That kind of thing.

It’s simple; let EA die. There are some IP I’d love to see get sold off to people who will make something with them instead of IP squatting

That’s just good old imposter syndrome. The only way to get past it is to just jump in.

I dropped off quickly from the last couple because I didn’t find the things in the map to be all that engaging. Large maps tend to come with the Ubisoft formula of ‘content’ but rarely anything fun, in my experience.

The problem isn’t that I “couldn’t be bothered.”. The problem is I don’t care to believe such claims until I’ve seen the finished product. Is that better now? Or shall we keep assuming things?

What about having things to do in it? We’ve done the song and dance of “biggest ever” before and it’s rarely a positive thing.

But what about the pool?

Then keep enjoying your irrelevance. In the meantime, I want Sony games to keep getting ported so I’m going to throw in my 2 cents in the hopes that something/someone somewhere is bothering to gauge interest and hope they pay attention to the fact that any salesperson who can’t read and adjust to their market isn’t a very good salesperson.

I miss being treated like an adult and being able to view the game pages I’m easily old enough to view. Steam is slowly dying for me now.

I can still view the page for 18+ games with gratuitous violence but the moment there’s risk of seeing something everyone’s got, that’s somehow a step too far. Fucking conservative pearl-clutchers. Fuck OSA and fuck Steam for implementing such a stupid verification method.

It’s not irrelevant if their sales figures aren’t where they want them to be, it proves they’re wrong about something one way or another.

True but unless I’m missing something, they’ve only got numbers for old games because they wait so long. There’s obviously going to be much less interest in paying full price for a game that came out years ago. They’re pricing themselves out of the market due to wanting to enforce an archaic concept such as platform exclusivity.

Some, yes, but I’ve got a couple for what I’d expect to pay on Steam sale

Oh god, I hope this isn’t the end of the ports. I was looking forward to playing Ghost of Yotei in like 4 years. Maybe they should look into the gap between releases for why PC ports presumably aren’t selling well…

AMD once again showing more of a pro-consumer stance than Nvidia. Good on them.

That’s… a bold stance

I find it much harder to put stock in these kinds of statements after GOG dropped the ball on their support for the Stop Killing Games initiative. Actions speak louder than words

Those looking to censor and the ignorant letting it happen.

The lack of forethought when casually allowing broad censorship.

PS: I’m really surprised by the amount of downvotes given the platform we’re on so I have to assume my meaning wasn’t as clear as I first thought.

Ignorance is bliss on both sides of that foil-wrapped turd coin.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think anyone ever considered it was a dev decision. Every comment I saw on the matter was cursing Paradox specifically.

“CEO veers off-topic into existential crisis.” Cool but what about some promise of people actually owning their games, Randy?

Yar har har and fiddle dee dee, see shit like this aboard a ship I’ll be 🏴‍☠️

One thing these companies seem to fail to realise is that such a genre doesn’t appeal to the 100% market share they want, no matter the coat of paint they spray on it. The one that stood the greatest chance of appealing to me was cancelled before it was even announced and it was a very specific coat of paint that made me interested so nothing else will ever manage to hook me.

On fucking Roblox of all places, one of the most predatory games against kids. Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

A hypothetical one, of course

Given the popularity of the Steam Deck, the Xbox handheld would have to come free with the purchase of any Xbox exclusive game to stand a chance in that sphere, I think. The fact that it’s Win11 immediately turns me off and I say this as someone who still uses Windows.