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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Pass Ultimate subs don't get DLC discounts any more, Microsoft confess, amid reports about Call of Duty sales cannibalisation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no you don’t understand. Somehow gamers should not only pay subscriptions, but also pay for the games. That’s real capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly a third of all gaming PCs are still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepare to kill it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about? I have an nvidia card I game on all the time. The only thing that hasn’t been supported for me is Gamescope, which is not required. It’s definitely a nice to have if you’re building a SteamOS type build where you want to boot into steam, but I’ve used it on PopOS perfectly fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’m not denying that it wasn’t a good value prop to you, but you individually one has to look back and decide did they play enough games and did they really get the value out of it then, and they will never want to play any of those games again

  So you got a good value prop out of it. Congrats. To others I don’t think it was. I don’t think as many people were as strategic with it as you were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly a third of all gaming PCs are still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepare to kill it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember friends, don’t just say “Switch to Linux”. Don’t be the neckbeard they all expect us to be, with a superior attitude. Offer to help them, word it like “I’ve been using an alternative to Windows that I’ve really liked, it’s like the Steam Deck, and it’s easy to try if you’d like me to show you sometime”. Give them an opening, let them come to you. Each of these moments is how we slowly claw market share away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For a year’s subscription was 180 at its best, which is 3 60 dollar games per year you could have bought instead, and still have them now to play. Instead that money is gone.

  So I’m not denying that it wasn’t a good value prop to you, but you individually one has to look back and decide did they play enough games and did they really get the value out of it then, and they will never want to play any of those games again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried telling so many people that and their answer was always either so what, or no it wont. Well, here we are. If you own a thing the price doesn’t go up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely not alone. For the music I’ve rediscovered record stores. They’re great ways to fill in the gaps of your music library while also discovering new music. I buy CDs and take them home now, happy to keep them on my shelf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Eurogamer] Skate Early Access review⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember they’re using anti cheat that blocks linux

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Circle / EA confirm again that skate. will not support Linux, Steam Deck or macOS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I confirm that again, as a potential customer who does but games like this, will then not be purchasing their product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher season 4 premieres next month, Netflix show off recast Gerry from the River and vampiric Morpheus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely agreed.i didn’t want some assholes version who didn’t like the source. I wanted the source material, on camera, with Cavill. That’s more or less what we got with seasons 1 and 2, that’s all we wanted to continue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher season 4 premieres next month, Netflix show off recast Gerry from the River and vampiric Morpheus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was enough to piss off Cavill it’s enough to piss off me. Netflix had something that truly could have taken on Game of Thrones and was too worried about offending someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far Cry series will push multiplayer "more predominantly" going forwards, according to Ubisoft boss⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only multiplayer I would ever want is co-op in FarCry. This is just sad, they’re so desperately trying to just make profit go up, while completely ignoring what made the series great in the first place. I played 5, and while it was fun it was so repetitive and boring that I knew unless they seriously went back to their roots I wouldn’t be going back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Atari handheld with retro controls is finally available for preorder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s amazing to watch corporate greed see a quality product like steamdeck and rush to make a shittier version

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fair reason IMO. However, knowing that it might be a few years out, then it becomes “is it worth the wait”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you can take a device like this and compare AAA titles on it, but even if we do then I think you can only compare it to other handhelds. Right now, checking the competitors they’re mostly on par right now for AAA performance. I stand by my other comments, if you’re looking for good graphics and good performance, a handheld is not the right device for you - you need to be looking at a desktop with an actual GPU and real power.

  Those are real tradeoffs we make by going portable, we expect lower performance so we can get a longer battery life. We cannot have a long battery and great performance in a portable, they go against each other. If others are able to pull it off then yeah go with them, but every bit of performance they add means consuming more battery life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your question depends on your definition of “can it run”. To me, as a portable device I get 45 fps on the witcher on medium settings and that’s very playable. If you want to use it as a desktop and expect that the next version will rival a 5000 series GPU, that’s unrealistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  By definition it cannot exist. You can have a powerhouse or portable. The fact that they made the deck as powerful as they did is frankly amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  See other comments, this was on purpose to make it more portable. The deck doesn’t need to be a powerhouse, it needs to be portable. We already have powerhouse desktops

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been a major annoyance I’ve had too with gamers. It was never meant to play games at 240fps with ultra graphics. It’s meant as a way to make “most” games playable on the road. A great low cost entry point, or something to compliment your big gaming rig. I don’t need an upgrade because it does what it does great, plays most games on decent settings well enough for the duration of a flight or trip. If you want ultra graphics, you will have to pay ultra prices and probably do a big desktop. Even “Steam Deck 2” will still probably only do 30-45fps games on medium, just newer games will be a bit more playable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fair ask IMO. Not wanting a newer shinier one, just one that fits you better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There you go, that’s the answer. Can’t just be happy with what we have, not even for a couple of years. Time to throw it away, get the new one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why people are so eager for it, the deck is great, it’s a great purchase. I wish I had gotten the OLED, but I’m very very happy with it. I don’t see that it needs to be replaced annually or even every 2-3 years. It’s like the switch, why not go 4+ years before hardware drives that a new one is possible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda planning a Starfield space gameplay revamp to make it more rewarding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m right there with you. Starfield was… meh. It was fun for about 25 hours and then dropped off immensely after that. I was so disappointed in the half-built systems. You can make your own spaceship! But you can’t really do what you want with it. You can assign members to different ships! But they won’t fight alongside you or help you in any way. You can colonize planets! But you can’t do anything there except a very rudimentary and limited crafting system. You can explore! But each transition to a new planet involves 5 loading screens minimum. Explore the future of humanity! Which is apparently only 5 real settlements.

  It was not the AA experience they promised us. Honestly it was closer to Outer Worlds for me - a fun game, wasted some time, but not worth the 8+ year hype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BioShock 4 Studio Reportedly Hit With Layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  2 years from now:

  Bioware 4 team shocked to have a 40% on metacritic and abysmal sales, plum can’t figure out why it wasn’t a smashing success

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025 livestream: watch all today's announcements here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  God what’s the point of getting hyped anymore? Half of them will be cancelled and teams laid off. Why should we be excited?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2K comment on reports Bioshock 4 is in trouble: "we have a good game, but we are committed to delivering a great one"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, all this gaming BS has taught me to never trust the official PR/marketing departments from these games. They will do anything to spin and hype, that’s their job. The truth is irrelevant.

  Also, why would marketing or PR be the people who would know how the game is doing? They are at least 6 layers removed from the people who make the game. In my experience as an engineer it’s rare I’d even be allowed in the same meetings as them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Found themselves”? Wdym by that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat, I have no shame in admitting I picked it up, I’ve never played any of these - but if someone tells me I can’t try something (or tries to block access because of prudish reasons) I want to immediately see what the fuss is about.

  So, anyone recommend one of these to start with? How would you recommend I try to run these on Linux? (It’s also my first experience with GoG, but seems neat!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Working retail and food service taught me even if you literally give something away for free, people will still find a reason to complain. “Free hamburgers today” But I don’t like hamburgers. “Today only, get a free 6 months to Spotify if you sign up for something else” But I don’t use Spotify.

  Just, okay? Like fine it’s not for you, it doesn’t matter, it’s free.