I do, and always will. Hopefully more studios will split into smaller ones and start making small, simple games for $15 that will sell like hotcakes. Creative talent is simply wasted on this AAA slop.

Oh it’s never about that. You can’t milk a game that lives for free. Although they pay for publicity (ads, etc.), getting it for free means less cash flow, means less numbers on quarterly earnings, means less investor money.

It is always about the number on their bank account, never about you, me, or anyone else. They don’t give a flying fuck, they’d happily let us burn in a house fire if it meant just a teensy bit more dollars.

Fuck Sony, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, ActiBlizzosoft, and the rest of them.

Open-source and source-available are used interchangeably. Releasing the source does not mean the license will allow any form of redistribution or recompilation.

If you decompile the game yourself you can infinitely distribute the game as well. This is not an argument.

True, TT’s B&B was great. Shame the TT standalone game lacked that charm and any meaningful engame.

Let’s be honest, the only story missions we ever cared about were those starring Handsome Jack.

I’ve been using Grayjay for some time.

Finally got into Deathloop, it is not super long, but pretty cool concept with enough storytelling to not overwhelm but satisfying enough.

I also love squeaky clean, ad-less internet. In this timeline, sadly, I get to enjoy both, while only half of that would be enough for me.

Blessed uBlock.

Stable coins on the rise, buy while they are cheap!

Depends, the best source for running games is https://www.protondb.com/

For games that are not on Steam, you can try Lutris.

Good news, it actually is and had been for a few months! https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3#reimage

Anything works really. Mint, Gentoo, Fedora, Arch all work - usually just need to install Steam and done, possibly install drivers using your package manager if it doesn’t come pre-installed. Hell, you can even do SteamOS or something like Bazzite or Nobara if i remember correctly.

Alright, so no review bombing going on then, as Twitter is full of dumbfucks anyway and can burn to the ground, and who the hell goes on Discord to review a game? It seems like it was about harassment, and not review bombing.

Review bomb where? On their page they link to Steam, where they have one released game (95% positive) and two demos (one unrated, second 90% positive).

Even worse, he is a narcissistic lying piece of shit with high ego. He would never admit a slight mistake, and thinks of himself as all-knowing. Think ChatGPT - confidently lying all the time, but always doubling down.

And the only digital store so far that directly allows sharing your collection with your family (yes, I call my long time friends a family). I mean, it am sure they are winning the long game.

Meanwhile EA got their like third remake which STILL sucks, Epic trying to buy exclusivity in PC market, Ubisoft launcher is just a shit stain that nobody wants to use directly and is forced on them, and the rest (Bethesda, Rockstar, Battle.net) are not really worth considering as a store, rather than just DRM-checking slop nobody really needs.

Is there a way to obtain such treasures in one clean swoop? Asking for a friend.

Am just gonna like yours to show my split opinion.

That would require having a platform worth something. Currently, they sank millions into the community - but in the wrong way. The client still lacks basic features and yet they spend money to buy exclusivity.

Fuck them, they don’t deserve shit - praise or money.

66.6 would be a banger for that

Increase the broadness and narrowness of an interpretation enough and you could fit any narrative you want.

Is FIFA a Nazi simulator? Well the nazis wanted only the “perfect” humans, and in FIFA you want the best team.

Age ratings were and are gonna be shit. Big corporations shitting on the small ones. Fuck PEGI it can burn straight in hell.

The cloud is just someone else’s computer.

Well, due to huge success of F:NV, we are going straight for F:NV3

Especially detachable controllers and their games supporting them. You can have two per player in a 4 player game, or 8 where each holds one. I quite liked the feature and found it novel. I am not sure if you can do the same using emulators - or at least do it as seamlessly.

The only way there is emulation. Sure, you won’t get to use the cool features of their hardware, and you might get to play a buggy game a year after release, but you are not supporting a shifty company - and that counts.

Paul Tassi joked that we were gonna have a gun called Hawk 2A and a fellow dev asked me if it was real and I wanted to put my hand down the sink grinder.

As long as it didn’t scream “Buy muh crypto” when shooting, I would’ve loved the inside joke.

Fuck PEGI, their ratings always sucked and weren’t useful at all. Full blown swearing? 13+. One cigar through 500 hours of gameplay? Adults only. Never cared, never will.

Not, the problem is that kernel level ACs are a security and privacy risk, a violation of what I do and what I am willing to share, and a bullshit way to enforce fair play. They already suck at detecting cheats, it is a cat and mouse game, and the mouse has always been ahead.

Next thing is they will require for me to stream my face, hands, and feet to ensure I am not cheating…

Depends which path you take, it could also be your local hospital for letting these hacker be born.

If DLCs count, sunk about 100 hours into Factorio Space Age since it’s release .

Wouldn’t it be possible to emulate these new instructions? It would definitely hinder the performance, tho.

And for those tech-savvy, or with tech-savvy family members, you can put Win11 on basically any PC. It may run like shit, but all the requirements can be disabled.

At this point I am just expecting Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Part 2

At least that lesson cost mere £50 and not thousands of pounds if he won and wanted to chase that dopamine hit of winning.

Worst thing is, with any systemic rule change, the change js not instant. Allowing something like that would wither cause a spike up in crimes, or we’d feel it down the line. On the other hand, banning them doesn’t make sense, either.

Oh, completely forgot about my Steam Deck, it is just that seamless.

I also hate the other side of the coin that is against both Steam and EGS. Citing Steam doesn’t “deserve your loyalty”. Why not? I can’t really pinpoint any particular fuckup in the 15 years I’ve been using it. Sure, some delays in games, updates, and other minor shit - but imagine if like game ratings broke, I am sure they’d get fixed in an hour.

Steam absolutely deserves our loyalty.

I kind of cracked up at “Steam does very little”.

Hell, Epic does not have any social features, didn’t have cart, refund process through support only, very basic search, I am not sure about cloud saves and if they don’t break completely when you play offline (is there even offline mode?).

Steam, on the other hand, is constantly adding and improving features - like the new beta family sharing which is finally what an easy way to share with my GF and sister.

The only things that Epic has are free games, exclusivity, and lower fees - and that’s about it. All three, as you can see, are not really hard to implement for the developer team, but easy to throw large sums of money at for a quick boost so they can boast numbers.

Fuck Epic, seriously. Money can solve lots of stuff, but not by throwing it at the wall. Meaningless.

I cam vouch for Snapdrop/Pairdrop or whatever it is called nowadays. Requires opening a browser and being on the same network. Snapdrop does support sending files over the internet, but I couldn’t get it to work last time I tried.

Holy shit, he said that? What a legend.

Meanwhile Terraria: “So we are releasing this last final update, but you can expect bugfixes for the next two years, and a last last final, followed by finally last last final updates in the following two quarters”