Steve Dice
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No, I think you deserve to be insulted because you are talking out of your ass about something you didn’t read. Again, this is about the price veto policy. This is not about Steam Keys (here’s me hoping italics help with your dyslexia).
And yeah, I thought you meant runescape on the EGS not on their site. It doesn’t matter because it has zero bearing on the discussion, I only addressed it because you didn’t read the thing you’re talking about.
Again, this is not about Steam Keys, it’s about Steam using shady contracts to bully developers into price parity on completely unrelated stores. Yes, runescape is cheaper on Epic, the incredibly broad nature of these rules that allows for selective wishy-washy enforcing is also part of the lawsuit.
If you see something I am missing from the lawsuit please let me know, preferably without the hostility if you can manage.
The whole thing because you didn’t read it and, given that you keep bringing up Steam Keys, which is not what we’re talking about, I’m skeptical that you can read at all.
Yes. That is exactly the issue. It’s not only Steam Keys either as some of the cultists would have you believe. Valve does require you to offer Steam Keys on other stores at the same price that you offer the game on Steam but that’s not all. Now, while they don’t specifically forbid you to offer different prices on stores that have nothing to do with Steam, they do reserve the right (do whatever the hell you want with this one simple trick!) to veto pricing on Steam for any reason. This has been historically used by Valve to block games that offer better pricing on competing stores. It goes something like this:
- I make a game and decide I want to make $7 per sale so I publish it on my site at $7.
- I want the game to be accessible to a wider audience so I publish it on other stores.
- Epic takes 12% so I price it at $8 there in order to keep making $7 per sale
- Steam takes 30% so I price it at $10 there for the same reason.
- Valve says $10 isn’t a fair price and refuses to elaborate why, reminding me that they reserve the right to veto any price on Steam for any reason.
- I make my game $10 on all other stores
- Valve magically decides $10 was actually a fair price all along and finally publishes the game on Steam.
I would actually recommend to also skip the 2nd one. They made some, ahm, unusual decisions, like having to meditate to drink potions meaning alchemy is basically useless unless you know when a fight is coming, which would be alright but the game also has a tendency to throw you into random fights right after a cutscene.
GreemDev’s fork of Ryujinx is pretty good. My R5 5700/RX7600 is able to perfectly emulate SV at 36 fps*. It also runs okay on the Ally X. It mostly stays at 30 fps but stutters hard when showing new animations, like when using a move for the first time.
As for the older Switch titles, I’ve only played Legends Arceus and it runs great on the Ally X. I also tried it on my Ryzen 5 4500U laptop and it runs pretty well over there too, so Let’s Go, SM and SS probably run great as well.
* Why 36 fps? Because the animations in the game are slow as fuck and tied to the framerate so you can’t go any higher unless you use mods but disabling VSYNC and capping it at 36 fps makes it run 20% faster, which is honestly a much better experience.
Welp. That’s another lie. Until very recently, if you wanted performance over NVIDIA’s 60-tier on AMD, your only options were the Vega 56, 64 or the Radeon VII, which were all trash. It wasn’t until the 6000 series that AMD was able to come close to NVIDIA’s 80-tier and they’ve come out and said they’re not doing that anymore, so we have a grand total of TWO high end Radeon cards. Your assertion that AMD has covered every price point below $3000 is pure fantasy.
Well, that’s just not true. I’ve been using AMD exclusively for 10 years now and they haven’t had a proper competitor to NVIDIA’s high end in since then. I’m willing to settle for less performance to avoid a shitty company but some people aren’t. It can’t make “less and less sense” to go with NVIDIA if they’re the only ones making the product you want to buy. More importantly, though: it doesn’t matter. The point is that people wanting performance above a 4080 are screwed because NVIDIA shat the bed with the 5000 series and AMD just doesn’t exist at that price point so the comment I’m replying to makes no sense.
Fucking Hitman, man. It’s not only confusing, it’s bullshit. I had Hitman 1 and 2 and there’s a process to transfer them into Hitman 3 so that you only buy the Hitman 3 content so I tried it and… it failed. It just did. No error or anything, it just didn’t transfer shit. I tried again and it gave me an error saying I couldn’t transfer Hitman 1 and 2 more than once. Fucking Square Enix (or was it IO?).
Troubleshooting Simulator. Hopefully, Far Cry 3 a couple of hours from now.
Edit: For anyone else who is having issues with the UPlay version of Far Cry 3 and hopes to find a sliver of hope here: I utterly failed. The game refuses to work. I even tried dxvk and vgvoodoo. The only “solution” I found (short of just buying the Steam version) is running it on integrated graphics (780M).
Sorry that my mean words hurt you more than Valve abusing you.