I was going through my own comment history, sorted by “controversial”, and found this. Wish I saw it at the time it was relevant, we could have had a conversation about this.

I stand by what I said, but I might not have said it very well.

There’s no reason why League of Legends could not have a “capture the flag” or “king of the hill” mode. There’s no reason why DOTA2 could not have a deathmatch mode. There’s no reason why Super Monday Night Combat couldn’t have any of these. And there’s no reason why Halo or Unreal or Call of Duty could not have a MOBA mode.

The fact that nobody has done it is not evidence that it cannot be done.

They could literally just copy steam, add their “we take less of a cut” thing, and be in a good place.

Instead, using their storefront sucks, their customer service sucks, they lack features you’d expect of a major platform, and they’re pretentious dicks about it. Instead of fixing these obvious problems, they’re bribing devs for exclusivity, pumping their marketing with bullshit, and litigating apple over their app store (actually that last one is kinda great). The epic store today would be competition to steam if steam was still as it was 20 years ago when everyone hated steam.

epic can have a seat at the table when they actually start competing with valve in terms of features and customer service.

100% of $0 is still $0.

I’ll spend my money on platforms that have proven to respect their customers.

leaving reddit was easy. i only had to move myself.

leaving discord will be almost impossible, as I’ll have to move a dozen or so normies whom it took years getting them onto discord in the first place.

sane companies “leak” their upcoming games to influencerson purpose as part of their marketing strategy.

nintendo, once again, chooses to treat their most dedicated fans like shit.

I’m talking about normies, not gamers, and not power users like yourself.

Normies touch their pc for less than one hour a day, because everything they could want is in their phone. Many normies don’t even have internet connections in their home because they exclusively engage with the internet through their phone. I’ve talked to normies who don’t have pcs at all because their ipads do everything they could possibly want.

It’s a fact that there are certain games that simply do not run on linux, because of drm or developer stupidity or any number of reasons. As a separate argument, I’d argue that those games are not worth playing. I used to be a hardcore gamer, I’ve gotten old since then and become a casual. I don’t have time nor energy to dedicate to figuring out why game x won’t run on pc y with configuration z. If the big green play button doesn’t work, I refund the damn thing, and in my almost 2 years of linux usage I have yet to need to do that. Another separate argument is my disdain for AAA games, the lack of ethics in their creation, and the abysmal conditions in which they always launch in these days.

So as to your actual question, can I convince you to switch your gaming pc to linux? No, and I’m not even going to try. If you insist on playing the latest AAA slop that the megacorps shovel at you, then you must have windows and you must continue to allow microsoft to continue to rape your digital existence in order to have crappy entertainment that I wouldn’t dignify with the time of day.

How long has palworld been out? getting a patentnow shouldn’t mean dick about palworld.

if you’re on Linux mint, check to see if mint itself is out of date. When I installed mint, the only install media I could find was 2 versions behind. Getting to the current version fixed my warframe problems.

i remember it as “the last version of windows you’ll ever need” and they were absolutely correct.

I switched to linux full time almost a year ago.

I have been thus far entirely unsuccessful in convincing anyone else to make the jump. Normal people do not give a fuck, will not lift a finger to improve their digital lives. I’ve been telling friends and family about adblockers for YEARS, and not a single one ever bothered to do it of their own volition. If I don’t do it for them, then they just sit through ads like complacent sheep. None of them are going to change operating systems if they can’t even install a browser extension.

also no hotseat multiplayer

Civ6 still isn’t in a state that I’m happy with playing it over civ 5, or even civ4. What makes them think I’d give civ7 the time of day?

are they still working on it? yes? then it will come out when it comes out. There’s enough content in my backlog to keep me occupied for another 5 years at least, and more new games release every day. I can wait.

steam tags for genres are completely useless. for a good laugh, look at what’s gets the “strategy” tag these days.

It’s weird that a corporation is able to and continues to offer a good product at a reasonable price, do so in a way that is convenient for the customer, and somehow hasn’t enshitified yet.

People like valve because valve earned that trust.

I did an upgrade last year. Not really sure what I upgraded to because it doesn’t matter.

I would still be using an fx9590 with a gtx970 if stability issues weren’t driving me up the wall, because it otherwise ran everything I cared about just fine.

sounds like I’ll have a great time with this in 10 years when I do my next upgrade.

Warframe. trying to get my noob friend up to current content so we can experience 1999 together.

If steam goes down I’m sailing the high seas from then on.

as a warframe player, it boggles my mind that bungie can’t figure this out.

if nintendo actually did it, I’d expect them to fuck it up in the most nonsensical and uniquely nintendo way possible.

If I buy something, decide I don’t want it anymore, I can refund it within 2 hours of playtime or 24 hours of purchase (I might have the exact numbers wrong, but whatever). I’ve only ever used this a couple of times, but this is a reasonable expectation if you think of a video game as a product that you purchase much like any other product. I’ve never had problems with refunds, ever.

One time I bought a game on nintendo switch, and discovered that I couldn’t play it because it required joycons and I didn’t have any of those. I attempted to refund the game, but nintendo won’t let you refund a game if you’ve downloaded it.

I still buy games on steam. My switch though, I gave that away.

fuck yeah. does chaos mod still work? I miss a good grappling hook.

holy shit does that look like a lot of money for not a lot of machine.

While this won’t affect me as I don’t currently run nvidia hardware, I am excited to see what new and interesting ways they’ll make the software suck ass.

Alive and well in the indie scene. HoMM specifically has two spiritual successors I’m keeping an eye on in Hero’s Hour (fun and absurd, but doesn’t work on linux), and Songs of Conquest (haven’t played it yet, looks very promising).

people keep making this comparison and I just don’t see it. The art style, sure, but the mechanics of the games are completely different from each other.

more competition in the space is always good, helps keep the devs of my preferred game from getting complacent.

I’m laughing though because I keep hearing about how bad a time helldivers players are having, despite the new content, like their devs/publisher keep learning the wrong lessons from the successes of other games.

laughs in warframe

I was interested until I heard that it’s a shooter/moba.

when will studios figure out that moba (like battle royale) is a mode not a genre? Congratulations, you made a shooter with only one mode and probably less than 10 maps.

Remember when unreal tournament shipped with literally hundreds of maps on disk back in 1999? Peperage Farm remembers.

What’s a work of fiction that you care about? Possibly something formative to your childhood, or something that was just really damn good and you love it?

Now imagine the author/artist/dev/whatever making some boneheaded decisions that make this thing you love worse in petty and annoying ways that don’t really matter but they should know better since they’ve been doing it longer than you’ve been alive.

If you can imagine this scenario, then you understand why zelda fans are upset, again

Launchers also generally act as advertisements for the publisher’s other games.

While your statement is correct, it is also irrelevant to the current subject.

I am a genre pedant, probably more of one than you are.

Vampire Survivors is not a bullet hell, nor is it a survival game. It is a “survivors” game, called as such because Vampire Survivors is the game that inspired the genre. There are some elements in common with bullet hell games, hence why survivors games can also be called “bullet heaven”. It’s not that confusing.

When it first started, there really wasn’t that much to it. One “map”, a couple characters, a handful of weapons/items some of which had interactions. Barely even a video game.

Since then, there’s been systems added and fleshed out, more characters, more maps, more modes, more everything. Now it’s a fucking video game.

speaking as a warframe player, i disagree with your first point.

Thanks sony for helping me not spend money on things I don’t need.

The game isn’t out yet. The fuck are they talking about success for?

it’s yet another open world survival craftathon with fortnite building and a gimick. If you like the gimmick, then good for you, don’t let me tell you not to like the thing you like.

I’ve seen a number of these games come and go. Ark survival, raft, conan exiles, rust, and more that I’ve forgotten the names of. Obviously there’s a demand for a game like this, but none of them stand above the rest. If you ignore the aesthetic, then they’re all the same. Play one and you’ve played them all, and to me that’s boring.

It is a statistical fact that people who pirate things tend to buy more things than people who never pirate anything. Furthermore, people who exclusively pirate are a minority. It is also a fact that the majority of pirates would rather pay for things if the service provided is a superior experience to that of piracy.

Gabe Newell said “Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.”