You don’t know a thing about Divinity or Larian if that’s your takeaway. XD

I only spent 99 DKK (Danish kroner) on a Switch 2 + Mario Kart World because a local company briefly fucked their pricing.

The system is certainly worth 99 DKK, that much I can say. Though… I find myself mostly still graviting to emulated MK8D.

The choice of CryEngine was because of Crysis, a game that was infamous for PC killing visuals. Roberts doesn’t just want a gran open universe, but also something that looks like real life.

Which is why on two occasions new ships were put off from development in order to competent overhaul existing ships to look better, as better graphics became the norm.

I’m surprised development hasn’t completely paused once again to overhaul everything for raytracing.

Well, some of those actors know him. Mark Hammel has worked with him before in Wing Commander.

But yeah, you’re right; same old Roberts.

Good faith, no. There’s about as much good faith as a silicon valley tech bro looking for venture capitalists.

I don’t think Chris Roberts doesn’t believe in what he’s doing. I genuinely think he wants to make what he’s promising because he’s been trying to do that since the 90s. But he’s also milking the development time/funds as hard as he can.

900 million USD and 13 years of development and they still don’t have the single player linear story game Squadron 42 released.

The visuals were absolutely crazy 10 years ago and are starting to look dated today. They’ve gone over and reinvented the wheel several times, including using a game engine that was never meant for online play.

The only thing that is keeping this level of incompetence afloat is the shit ton of money that people keep pouring into this. Previously Roberts had some executive that would kick him off a project if he got too… ambitious. But now he’s in full control of his project and… Well… For the first, and ONLY, time ever I take the side of the executives.

If you look into Chris Robert’s history you’ll know it’s not a scam. You’ll also know he should never be given full control of any project or it will turn into exactly this; something that never finishes.

I’ve gotten pretty much the entire Yakuza series through Humble Monthly. I’ve tried getting into it starting with Y0… Played a couple of hours… Then stopped…

I dunno… It just doesn’t really seem to grow on me.

“Waaaahhhh! Waaaaahhhh! Why is Steam such a good service? That should be illegal! Tell them they should be worse!”

That’s all I’m hearing from these other corpos.

Depends on how it’s used.

Right now it’s used to replace skilled workers, be them artists, actors, or programmers.

I can certainly think of a few good uses for AI in games, but to a Corpo CEO “good use” = wider profit margins at the cost of humanity. And so we need to be informed about such things when we spend money on something that is by all rights an artform.

Kingdom Hearts. The writing is equally sappy and edgy fanfic crossover slop. But there’s something so satisfying about the combat, especially after the introduction of the command deck.

That’s pretty darn cool, actually.

To those that typically play space sims, I tend to describe your game as “X4, but medieval”.

Hollow Knight. It’s the only one I actually played to the end.

At this point Gabe has a fleet of yachts and a large knife collections.

I’ve never heard anything about Gabe in connection with cars or large houses. Just knives and yachts. So I guess in the case if this guy he actually really likes yachts.

Simple. I’ll just download it. Back in my day you used to be able to download RAM too.

To add to the post title:

Devs actively support the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Fuck them.

I don’t understand the word “purchasing” in the context of “Sony product”. What do you mean with that?

“Hello chat! Today’s challenge is to make the Steam Deck lose 20% of its performance. I can’t wait to get started!”

Look at their website. It pretty explicitly states you can do with the Gabe Cube whatever you want. Including changing the OS.

Fans bothered making a custom server? All one of them?

Im not the ones ignoring definitions, and calling Valve a monoply is bad faith in the first place.

You mean those same “comprehensive” definitions that failed with my argument?

Other corpos who cry about Valve providing a good service.

I’ll probably use VR mostly to play sims. Elite Dangerous, X4, I also have a few racing sims.

But ultimately depends on the price. I’m not going to sell my organs for what is essentially a really cool immersive gimmick.

Depends on what kind of person you are. I know of individuals who practically live in VR.

Um… Yeah. Microsoft absolutely doesn’t have an OS monopoly, as much as they’re trying.

That has never been true.

You can even “buy” open source software on Steam that is available free from the home website.

You’re referring to the case with the developers of Lugaru, and they’ve been doing a great job of painting their fuckup as Valve barring platform competition.

So you’re saying Steam has a monopoly on the games people choose to buy on Steam?

…?

That’s not my definition. That’s just the definition. And you’re using a corporation that is actively monopolising the logistics market, even so far as breaking the law to kill any competition, as an example. Nicely done.

GOG is not a Steam competitor because they’re offering something different from Steam.

A customer that would buy a game from GOG is not a customer that would regularly buy something from Steam.

“Comodity controlled by one party”. Except it’s not controlled by one party.

Outsized market power, what left out are the actions taken to make such an outsized market power. Monopolies are not a passive that form all by themselves. They are created through expansion acquisition, and aggressive crushing of competition. Disney and Nintendo do these actions. Valve does basically… Nothing.

A single dominant seller, but again leaving out all the rest I have written above.

There is nothing Valve can stop doing to be less “a monopoly”. All they’ve done is provide a pretty decent service, and nobody else can be arsed to top that, even companies with the resources to do so.

That’s not a monopoly.

And where are those millions going, pray tell? Because they’re sure as fuck not going into the development of a good storefront.

Epic has enough resources to make competition against Valve. They would rather cry about how they can’t get away with being cheap.

Oh look, yet another person who doesn’t understand what monopoly means.

Likewise. I also passed around the message between my union guys; “don’t you dare buy GTA 6”.

They’re not competing with Steam. They’re offering different services.

Competition is like EA Origins or the Epic store.

No good competitors because they don’t have money? Excuse me? Are you seriously trying to paint Epic Games as some poor small underdog company?

Yes, Steam will eventually go to shit. But it’s not shit right now, and the competition can’t even be bothered to have a shopping basket feature in their store, something every online store already had since the dawn of online stores 20 years ago.

I mean… There are so many games that use Nexus as their preferred platform. And for older games Mod.db is still king.

Oh there’s plenty said about Valve, like their dirty skin gambling underbelly.

They literally never went a millimeter out of their way to negatively impact another competing storefront.

Valve’s success can be almost summed up as “does nothing, wins” because the competition to steam has been piss poor.