Valve got sued by a patent troll over the back buttons.

Fuck SCUF and Corsair

This. Fuck SCUF and their owners Corsair

Back buttons are an obvious modification kf previous designs; they aren’t patentable.

Regardless of what Lemmy trolls want me to believe, I feel like a 2.5 year life span for a premium Sony controller was a rip-off.

No, you’re right. That’s a fucking ripoff

Drink another Mountain Dew Verification Can to continue playing

You can run them off SD cards. There’s a hit to loading speeds, but it’s not that mucn

They basically invented gambling for chlidren

The gambling sites aren’t owned by Valve

they actually are the one that have anticompetitive practice

Citation desperately needed, and not just the one internal email from 10 years ago that reads like a misunderstanding.

they take a huge cut of 30%

30% is standard across the industry, including itch.io and GOG. And given that EGS just laid off 1000 employees, it’s looking like 12% isn’t a sustainable business model.

Don’t forget that EGS has been using anti-consumer policies like paid exclusives from the start. Meanwhile Steam, GOG, and itch.io don’t force exclusivity, allowing an open ecosystem. Tim Swiney isn’t against monopolies, he’s just mad that he doesn’t habe one.

And let’s not forget that Steam has been investing in open source and Linux gaming for years. PC gaming are getting close to a point where making walled off gardens becomes impossible.

Do I think billionaires should exist? No. But when there’s one that’s actively building systems to keep digital ecosystems open permanently, I’m willing to make an exception.

But you’re clearly just some gullible jackass that fell for Tim Swiney’s propaganda hook line and sinker. You speak of cognitive dissonance despite being fully immersed in it yourself. Go touch grass; you desperately need it.

There wasn’t really a reason to boycott it anyway.

Yes there was. It’s called “fuck those monopolistic cunts at EGS, they don’t get my money”

Fuck off with your false equivalence bullshit.

EGS has used anticompetitive and anti consumer practices from day one, all because Tim Swiney is a petty asshole that wants to be at the top of the pile.

Meanwhile Valve has generally been pro-consumer and built a relatively good service

You know what this is called? A healthy and competitive market.

Yeah, I get there’s layoffs, but that’s mainly at AAA studios and is a symptom of a previously unhealthy, highly consolidated market. The job losses suck, but now diversity and competition is coming back, and that’s generally a good thing for consumers.

Huh. Just found out that Bandcamp isn’t owned by Epic Games anymore. It was sold off to someone else back in 2023. Guess I don’t have a reason to boycott it now

So, you made a claim with nothing to back it up, based solely on parroted complaints from other people, and now you’re getting pissy when someone asks for proof?

How predictable

You’re fucking nuts if this is your response. I never said anything about age.

And guess what? I played New Vegas when it was new as well. Loved the game, but the fact of the matter is that its gun mechanics are terrible, evem when you compare it to other FPS games from that same year.

Fallout 3 came out in 2008. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare released in 2007. Guess which one has the better gunplay?

Fuck off with your ageism accusation. You want to know why age is irrelevant to the conversation? Because I never brought it up, jackass

As it stands, you can’t even walk around your own ship while it’s underway.

I dare you to list 3 game engines that actually can handle that, while still having other ships and obstacles rendered outside of the player’s craft while the player is outside of the pilot’s seat

Tbh, their reply sounds like they’re making it up. Physical releases have been pretty notorious for not having the full game on disk and/or requiring massive day-1 patches the past decade

Except it wasn’t intended to be a remaster. They used Skyrim as a testbed to overhaul the Creation Engine to x64 to prepare it for Fallout 4, and by the end of it they effectively had a new, more stable version of Skyrim so they released it for free to everyone that already had the base game and DLC’s.

And this was mainly a project for the engine developers. All of the artists, level designers, etc. were focussed on Fallout 4 at the time.

EDIT: You also seem to be unaware that the USSEP is also notorious for taking artistic license with some of their “fixes”. Such as making the Warrior Stone apply to archery instead of the Thief Stone and changing the ores in Redbelly Mine from ebony to iron despite there being good lore reasons for them to be ebony

I’m willing to bet that you’ve never actually played Starfield, you’re just parrotting what others have complained about.

Does Starfield have problems? Yes. But anyone who goes “hurr durr ancient engine” clearly hasn’t played a Bethesda game since Skyrim

The gun play in Fallout 4 was actually good. It’s 3 and New Vegas where it sucked

The gun play is fun ads hell, just like any Bethesda game

You must not have played Fallout 3 or New Vegas. The gunplay was pretty bad before Fallout 4, to the point where you were better off using V.A.T.S. most of the time.

That being said, the gunplay since Fallout 4 has been pretty good. Especially the auto-lean around corners when you use ADS

Starfield’s main issue is that it isn’t fleshed out as much as the other Bethesda games. And there’s a lot of mods to do that for Elder Scrolls and Fallout. The issue is that it didn’t capture enough attention to get as much TLC from the mod community

didn’t fix shit for any of the re-re-re-re-releases of Skyrim

Skyrim Special Edition was built for x64 architecture (the original was on x32), is significantly more stable, and supports 4096+254 plugin files (vs 255 in the original). The modding scene has only gotten better frome the update. And let’s not forget the VR support.

You have no idea what you’re talking about. They didn’t change any of the gameplay because 1: the base game is still fun to play and 2: people already mod the hell out of it to fit what they want

This. Bethesda cheaped out on environmental storytelling and fleshed out characters (which is unfortunate since that’s their thing). But the systems they’ve built up in Creation Engine have gotten really good

You’re a fool. If you’ve actually played their games over the years you’d see how capable their engine has gotten, but you clearly haven’t

The problems with Starfield aren’t from the engine. The problem is the lack of detail in the world and characters

Well aren’t you a big bundle of sunshine and rainbows /s

I wouldn’t recommend Pop!_OS at the moment. They just added their new desktop environment (COSMIC) and there’s a lot of bugs.

Also, if you’re wanting to play newer games that need driver updates you may have to wait due to the slow update cycle of distros based on Debian/Ubuntu

They were also pretty novel in their controversies.

They were the main ones throwing a hissy fit when GeForceNow wanted to automatically let you stream to any game you already purcgased on Steam. The game’s devs wanted GeForce to require everyone to purchase an additional copy just to stream it through their service.

The game devs also started selling DLC while the game was unfinished, which is also shitty. And we’re not talking skins either.

Good. Let them burn and maybe Timmy Tencent will finally shut the fuck up

They never gave Omarchy money directly from what I’m aware, just gave them shoutouts. Still not okay though

Yeah, I’ve seen screenshots and their comments were pretty disgusting

that you don’t necessarily own the games you buy on Steam.

That’s the case for nearly every storefront. Besides, there’s a lot of games on Steam that actually are DRM-free, it’s just not advertised.

Of course, Nintendo is almost certainly never going to bring their games to PC. I am a sucker for Zelda or Metroid, so I usually have a Nintendo console of some sort.

There’s always emulators

User at the top said they didn’t like the game, despite giving multiple tries.

Then you come in below them going “oh but ackshually it’s a masterpiece”

It’s the worn out story of the fanboys never being able to let other people dislike their favorite thing. If you can’t understand how that’s shitty, then it’s a you problem. Fuck off.

Says the person being nasty in the rest of their comment history.

Get over yourself, hypocrite

No. The kind of Mean Girls esque “polite assholery” of the previous comment needs to be addressed and called out for what it is.

The people that make those kinds of comments think they’re being nice when they really aren’t. If nobody points it out to them in a way that sticks out they’ll just keep doing it

Dude, just let them not like the fucking game. “Oh no! There’s a piece of criticism about the game! I must make a long-winded reply to make sure to balance it back out”.

Just stop.

Part of me is really confused they’re called “Endings”.

It’s just the writer being a pretentious twat

I thought it was shit overall, and was about 3 “playthroughs” in by the tine I finally dropped it

Warframe makes a point of making everything earnable in game, always.

Well… There is one famous exception to that (Excalibur Prime), but that’s because the people who got it literally saved the company from tanking

Palworld weren’t forced to make those changes. They did it to avoid injunctions from stopping sales during the precedings.

Also, the majority of the cases are still ongoing. Both in the US and in Japan

And, somehow, fucking won.

No, they haven’t won a single patent case yet. And there’s still ball throwing in the game, but only for captures. The summoning via ball throwing was removed so that Nintendo couldn’t file an injuction against Pocketpair to stop their sales during the case.

If Pocketpair wins the court cases, they can undo the removals.