I saw a video where Call of Duty players fight a giant. I mean I personally like fantasy games like Guardians of the Galaxy, but I can understand if CoD fans want to have a CoD game and not GotG.

Money is money. Especially if its only porting over an existing game, that does not require too much money for, as it is in an engine made for this anyway. And it shows there is potential for grows. I don’t know about the numbers you just throw in, and how it compares in reality. So not commenting on that. Also the GAmes and Network Services, are these only Sony releases or are there third party games included?

But what we do know is, that some games like Helldivers 2 are far more successful than some other games they have. If the games were put day one on Steam besides the Playstation release, and without requiring Playstation account on first day, it would probably have made more money.

I wouldn’t dismiss this as just “nice extra market”. Otherwise why would Sony give up the exclusivity of their first party titles? Steam grows rapidly and is already bigger than the Playstation 5 user base will ever be.

Wait what? I thought Sony games on Playstation (Edit: Steam) all require a Playstation account. So this is no longer the case? How long has it been and did I sleep under a rock?

Can’t wait for the Playstation store and then Sony comparing how much money they make there. I would be fine with timed exclusivity to their store, but all their games should come to Steam. Without an account requirement or store front on top of it. Then Sony would get my money too.

It depends on the games you want to play. Maybe the Intel Arc B570 with 10gb VRAM is a good place to start: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/product/Yvbypg/acer-nitro-oc-arc-b570-10-gb-video-card-dpz4cwwp01 Although it seems only one shop has it for under 200 right now. Other shops have it slightly above, at 230 or so. At that price range, you could get a pretty good AMD RX 6600: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/product/NdvdnQ/asus-radeon-rx-6600-8-gb-dual-video-card-dual-rx6600-8g If you must stay below 200, maybe the Nvidia RTX 3050 with 8gb VRAM is an option: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/product/ZPP8TW/asus-dual-oc-v2-geforce-rtx-3050-8gb-8-gb-video-card-dual-rtx3050-o8g-v2 (note that there are 6gb variants of this card too, which are a bit cheaper).

Otherwise there is not much you can do. Maybe look at used cards instead.

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Germany. :-( But why?

That does not mean it never happened, we just can’t find the source. I had this with my own statements in the past too, sometimes it was true sometimes I was wrong. Therefore I cannot trust everyone in the internet. What I can imagine is, that GOG worked on the GOG API (the programming interface for other tools) to add access to the Cloud features in example. It might came out of a request from the Heroic Launcher project. So in a sense GOG would cooperate. But this is just speculation on my part here.

Still the Heroic Launcher is a separate project doing all the work on their own.

What type of support and cooperation? And where it is documented, so I can read about it?

it does not suggest PC and PS5. We don’t know what cross-buy refers to. It could be for their upcoming handheld and PS5 / PS6 maybe.

I told you that it does not address my issue. No need to be mad, I have no bad intentions. I expressed what issue I have and adding the game as a non-Steam game does not solve the issues I have.

This does not address the issue I brought up in my reply. Besides the brought up point, it would not solve all other issues I would have. I know the functionality to add non-Steam games since I am on Steam over 12 years ago.

I’m a fan of Valve and Steam too. But you cannot deny that Valve does shitty stuff too. In example Valve is the company who either invented or popularized Loot Boxes. And they don’t do anything about the Black Market for the item trading and selling, such as Counter Strike skins and so on. And there are other little things that could be done, but nothing else upsets me as this.

But besides that, for the most part I love Valve. The commitment to support on Linux is unmatched in the gaming world. As a private company, Valve can do whatever they want. I genuinely think that PC gaming wouldn’t be this good without Valve. If anything, Microsoft would have the power… which in an alternate universe people have to suffer.

I would buy from GOG too, if they provided Linux support in form of an official launcher. And if available also official Linux builds. Back in the days GOG did that, but they stopped doing it. And before someone comes after me, I know there are alternative launchers on Linux. But I don’t want to give GOG money for work others doing it for free. I don’t want support a company who only cares about Windows.

That’s debatable. There are many games I do not consider to be good, but sold many copies / licenses. Same is true for the other side, where lot of good games sold poorly. So therefore I wouldn’t say it’s bizarre. The game is just not for you (and me).

Still impressive that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe got sold so many, as it is only a “Re-release” on a single platform.

Thursday’s layoffs announcement arrives on the same day that Square Enix shared its intention to have the majority of its QA and debugging work handled by generative AI within the next two years.

Yes.

If I’m not mistaken, the voting are done ingame.

If the Steam Controller 2 is what I hope it is to be., I would probably buy 2 right away; one for daily usage, and the other as a collection unit that stays in package. The first controller didn’t work for me and certainly was not usable for all cases. But thanks to the Steam Deck, I am confident in the controller successor.

The question is, what do you think would it cost? And what would be your limit? I think it would cost maybe 60 USD or EUR and I would even be ready to pay 90 (but then would buy only one and wait for discount for second unit).

They do.

The most played games on steam are multiplayer games that use some sort of anti cheat.

However, lot of the most played Steam games are well supported and never have an issue with anti cheat whatsoever: https://steamdb.info/ such as Counter Strike 2 and Dota 2 (2 most played games). There are also lot of single player games as the most played games. Therefore this is a mixed bag.

Those anti cheats often break linux compatibility when the game or anticheat itself gets updated.

They not break often Linux compatibility when game or anticheat is updated. That’s false statement. There are games, when it happens. But that is not “often”. I play games with Anticheat on Linux and they do not break, such as Marvel Rivals and previously Overwatch and Splitgate too (besides Valves own games, but that is self explanatory). This never happened. So the “often” part is misleading here.

Unfortunately these minority of games are actually popular games. I think GTA 5 Online no longer works on Linux too. There was more popular games doing that.

Unfortunately I don’t have a source. Hopefully this is not a thing of misinformation from me. Gimme sec… ah it was just rumored. I don’t know if this is true: https://wccftech.com/halo-combat-evolved-remake-ue5-blam-engine-gameplay-tweaks/

It’s not entirely in the Unreal Engine 5. They use it on top of their old engine if I understand it correctly. Probably similar to how Oblivion Remake was handled. But from the gameplay, it was not entirely smooth. On the other hand, this is still in development. If the rest of the game runs like this, it will be okay.

Looks pretty good so far.

We have no idea what they’re doing and have zero proof they are doing what’s asserted

That is exactly what I’m saying here. You can’t exclude or conclude based on your personal beliefs if you have no proof for or against it.

It still can be true, if Microsoft does an A/B testing. Some may get it earlier than others and this could result in different realities. Edit: Note, I am not saying it is true, just adding some spice that it still can be. I’m also skeptical about single unproofed claims, even if I don’t like Microsoft.

Slap the name Xbox on it, and call it a day. The Microsoft strategy “everything is a Xbox”.

How many of them were good games and original?

Another day, another record for Steam.

I personally don’t count multi-frame generation. That’s not just adding (fake) frames, but also real latency. I don’t care if you like it or not. People who don’t know what they are doing think this gives them more frames per second.

On Steam Indie stars are born. I can’t imagine how the videogame world would look like without Indies.

Isn’t this something everyone should do with every game? No pre-order, wait until reviews are out. If not really needed, then wait until patches are out, maybe with a small or big sale on the game price too. Almost all AAA games launch broken or unoptimized.

But lost sales for Black Ops was calculated from the beginning. The idea was in exchange the Game Pass subscriptions would go up. Nothing revolutionary here.

In all fairness, the prices of entire business is going up, including from their competitors, due to number of factors that has nothing to do with the acquisition. The question is, would Microsoft stay at the same price even if they didn’t purchase Activision-Blizzard-King? Would Microsoft layoff people and replace them with Ai, even if they did not buy Activision? What do other companies do? Would Microsoft change the Game Pass price anyway, because it did not workout well (especially without Activision library included)? What is the competition doing?

I can’t believe I’m that old.

I didn’t know this site, so looked more into other reports. It’s somethin’. Facing lawsuit, Blizzard argues female employees should have just acquired Anti-Harassment DLC from 2021

Well played, Maxx, well played.

“I have a few older regular viewers”, Curry said, “but most of them seem to be very young kids, children, and I’m not getting any feedback from them on the videos. All I get is ‘Hi grandma, I love you grandma’. That isn’t what I was spending my time on making and uploading videos for.”

What did she expect? I mean this question seriously and in no way being disrespectful. Maybe she should start a community forum if she really wants to deep discussions about the game, her gameplay and herself. No one can expect that from YouTube comments. Or she could switch to another game, say Breath of the Wild. It would give her a fresh start and this can be exciting for her and her fans too.

I wish her good luck with whatever she does next. It’s amazing that such a old person enjoys videogames and even gets fame of it.

What you talking about? Just because you read comments, does not mean others didn’t read comments? After watching YouTube comments and looking into others comments, its like with any other Remaster release. People are divided and you personally have a tunnel effect with an echo and you can’t see outside of it, because you don’t want to hear and remember anything else than your own opinion.

No, this looks like a cool new Remaster. They update it to current gen, update slightly the looks, they do what a Remaster have to be. The only problem would be, if the price is too high, I don’t know what it costs. And we need to see the actual release before judging if its a low effort or not.