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Gaming (Mass Effect, Witcher, and too much Satisfactory)
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- Comment on This is basically me whenever people ask if I play videogames 1 day ago:
Trying to decide if this is hipster or gatekeeping. Or both.
- Comment on Nexus Mods acquires the popular community site SteamDB 6 days ago:
There’s something very wrong about a community run project that is bought by a company for profit. SteamDB would be nothing with contributions from us.
- Comment on How's the multi-user experience? 1 week ago:
Personally great. We have 2 accounts on our (Bazzite but it is using the SteamOS) and it works perfectly. Launches into Steam and asks who is using it today. I have my own account, but can access my partner’s games as they’re in my family. Switching is quick, click user and then switch profile.
Games do not need to be installed twice, there are some quirks though with a few games. Halo MCC had an error because it’s installed once, and it defaulted to my Microsoft account even though she was logged in via steam (makes sense when you think of it), so she had to log out of me and log into hers. Nothing horrible though, and very infrequent.
- Comment on Star Citizen spinoff Squadron 42 has been delayed yet again, citing everyone going gaga for GTA 6, even if it isn't coming to PC yet 1 week ago:
I keep seeing pointless engine upgrades and version bumps to dependencies. Every engineer knows at some point you have to draw a line in the sand
- Comment on Proton Experimental brings fixes for Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 1 week ago:
Who’s finally controllers patched in DAI! I’ve has to fix that manually for years!
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2: Nuevo Paraiso, the latest Mexico expansion mod for Rockstar's western, releases next month 2 weeks ago:
It’s a mod
- Comment on GOG have a great sale on shooters going on 4 weeks ago:
Good bot. Picked up all of Deus Ex for $12 bucks. Been working on getting my Drop instance working so this is perfect
- Comment on Marathon’s player base is collapsing, and Bungie’s future looks increasingly bleak as concerns grow around the studio’s live‑service direction 1 month ago:
That was the only thing I was excited for. When I heard it was live service o ly I just assumed that they didn’t want my money, elsewhere why would they make it?
- Comment on Valve aren't putting any exclusives on the Steam Machine because they see "the whole PC catalog as our 'launch exclusive'" 1 month ago:
What a painfully stupid article to write
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's standard edition is "is the full, complete experience", Ubisoft insist in response to Steam DLC furore 1 month ago:
We’ve seen your feedback since launch, and we’re reading all of it
Oh well, thank god they read it. Here that everyone, call it off, they read the feedback
- Comment on New Vegas devs Obsidian are reportedly working on a new Fallout game, and only Microsoft could make news I've waited half my life for taste this bitter 1 month ago:
Course not, they just fired them all. But they’re completely replaceable as corporate America has taught us
- Comment on Halo 3 may be the greatest release in the history of the games industry 2 months ago:
Halo 3 was pretty much the pinnacle of releases. Gaming-wide it was highly anticipated, the true completion of the trilogy. It was hyped perfectly, the trailers were perfect representations of the game, it came out exactly when they said it would. The extra editions were meaningful, I got the “Legendary” edition and it included the Master Chief helmet, which I still have.
Anecdotally we were in high school, and the hype was so high that we spent the entire weekend playing as a group. My friend and I played through the campaign in one night, and then we played multiplayer for the weekend after. It was non stop fun, there were no bugs we found, the experience was spot on. It truly was lightning in a bottle.
It’s something that modern gamers just don’t have or get anymore. Not only is everything live service now, but multiplayer is very isolating, it is meant to be played as a one-screen experience, no ways to have more than 1 player on a single screen, which essentially killed the LAN party. No reason to group up, bring your TVs and consoles together anymore. Agree with you, day one releases, updates, bugs, you just can’t do that anymore. I don’t think we’ll get another release like that. (However marketers desperately want people to be that hyped)
- Comment on Subnautica 2 legal battle ends with reinstated CEO stepping down, as Krafton and Unknown Worlds founders agree settlement 2 months ago:
Sounds like he stepped down, which I wouldn’t blame him after this.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 legal battle ends with reinstated CEO stepping down, as Krafton and Unknown Worlds founders agree settlement 2 months ago:
Read the same. He probably didn’t really want to come back either but knew it was the only way he would get them their rightfully earned bonuses.
- Comment on Amid Steam Machine performance scrutiny, Valve removes '4K at 60FPS' claim, opting for a safer and more believable claim instead 2 months ago:
Yeah, I do 4k gaming and have a beast of a rig, and even then I barely get it up there. Cyberpunk still struggles years later.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC 2 months ago:
Yeah I want to see this next to the CEO complaining that no one wants to buy anything on his store
- Comment on Microsoft reportedly only announced Ninja Theory's new game at Summer Game Fest to try and attract a buyer for the studio 2 months ago:
Perfectly summed up. It also pairs well with the fact that it’s a creative item vs everything else that has metrics and facts. It’s why it’s crazy for them to assume that since last game was this popular that that one should be even more popular, that it must be wildly popular. It’s not, it’s a creative work, some will like it, others won’t.
They keep trying to apply Azure business metrics to a creative field
- Comment on Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games 2 months ago:
Hell I would buy physical copies from retail stores if they still let me, but they’ve decided that they don’t want to anymore. The GoG. Then Steam after that.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney throws shade at Valve / Gabe Newell for Steam Deck pricing 3 months ago:
He’s always been jealous, this is just his jealousy ahowing
- Comment on "We will probably get some flack": Subnautica 2 may feel polished for an early access game, but it was important for the team it launched unfinished 3 months ago:
Its only important because if it releases early the corporate entity who bought them has to pay put ludicrous bonuses, which they should not have promised but already did. Since then they have tried shady firings, legal, and even asking chatgpt on how to weasel put of paying the bonuses.
So yeah normally I’d side with you, but in this case if they get it the suits stand to lose…many millions of dollars I believe. Working people frontlineswill get a payday.
- Comment on California bill pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns "doesn't reflect how games actually work", ESA assert 3 months ago:
Right? Or at least release the source code so others can. SKG is surprisingly reasonable in what they ask. They know you can’t run servers forever. So release a dedicated server client. Or peer to peer. Or just the source and the community will build a new one. We’ve had enough of the excuses.
- 15 year software engineer who definitely knows it is possible.
- Comment on Some speculation on the Steam Controller and scalpers 3 months ago:
I think it’s important to remember that the last steam controller did not do well financially. It’s very likely that this is a first run to test the waters a bit with actual orders before ordering 2 million controllers where 90% end up in warehouses.
Also we know that they’ve been struggling with manufacturing and everything overseas is completely fucked right now. Could be that the wanted to get something out the door now vs indefinitely waiting longer.
- Comment on SteamOS 3.7.22 4 months ago:
Ah so they’re patching copyfail I see.
- Comment on Former PlayStation head isn't sure how Sony can recoup those big budgets without first-party games coming to PC 4 months ago:
PC is the largest it’s ever been. PC gamer since the 90s and it’s absolutely nuts how big it is. It’s a shock they’re willing to throw a way what is absolutely double digit percentages of players.
- Comment on Amazon Luna rips out game stores, game purchases and third-party subscriptions 4 months ago:
Cloud gaming. You own nothing and it can and will be taken away from you.
- Comment on Epic's mass layoffs left a programmer with terminal brain cancer without life insurance, but Tim Sweeney says the company will "solve" the problem 5 months ago:
Companies only care when there is pressure. When I was laid off there was a woman literally in Africa at the moment of the layoff adopting a child, and she had just bought her home 2 weeks prior. Absolutely no notice, 2 weeks severance. Everyone rallied behind her, suddenly when we threatened to go to the press they “found” that they could afford to give her 6 months severance.
Fuck these executives. Absolutely no shame or morals.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 translator claims Warhorse have laid him off in preference of using AI going forward 5 months ago:
This is where tech and business are fundamentally different. Us tech people are like “wow it will speed up work like translation so much! You can have it do the first run, so the overworked translators can simply be a double check and sanity, checking for nuances”
Suits though only see “let’s lay them off” with no nuance
- Comment on "At this rate, why make game art at all?": Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood boss 5 months ago:
Honestly the amd 6000 and 7000 ones are pretty legit
- Comment on Finishing a video game can trigger “post-game depression,” study finds 5 months ago:
Mass Effect is the best/worst when it comes to this. It’s such a good game, and you join up and befriend your squad, you go through so many things to get to the ending, and then it’s over. You put down the headphones, you get up, and stand alone in your kitchen for 20 minutes, realizing that it is over.
- Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next 5 months ago:
Sounds like maybe you should apply