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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Found themselves”? Wdym by that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 won't cost $80, but EA aren't ruling out future price hikes "to capture the full spectrum of pricing"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Battlefield has always had a cheating and skill issue. Battlefield 1 got the closest to being okay, I’d get in, have some fun, get heads hotter a few times and drop.

  5 though was horrible. I’d have legit cheaters who could shoot me through mountains and people way higher skill than me. It wasn’t a place where I could just go and have some fun.

  So yeah, I don’t see me picking up a new one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s important to know that it may not be visa and MasterCard directly, but rather Stripe, a popular middleware that provides an easy API for developers to access the card networks. To a user it’d be more or less transparent if they’re just swapping them out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaign asking EU to stop publishers "destroying" online games hit by anonymous transparency complaint⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless he could have built up some legal protection and written proof that he’s not accepting any donations for this project, alleviating any future claims that he’s accepting money under the table - as they are now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaign asking EU to stop publishers "destroying" online games hit by anonymous transparency complaint⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He did not pursue funding against the better judgements of others because he “didn’t know how to handle it”. Now this is happening and I’m not surprised. If you get this politically active you pretty much need a lawyer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaign asking EU to stop publishers "destroying" online games hit by anonymous transparency complaint⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God he was told to hire a lawyer to manage funding and he didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, easy way to get me to put away my wallet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is now a Decky Plugin to use Lossless frame gen on Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupid question, but what how does this work on deck hardware, I thought framegen was only supported on newer GPUs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: MMO Developer ZeniMax Online Studios May Have Closed Most Of Their Locations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh come on, it’s Microsoft. They’re forced to use copilot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rumor: MMO Developer ZeniMax Online Studios May Have Closed Most Of Their Locations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean they only made one of the most successful MMOs to date, of course Microsoft is closing them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone know what this part is called?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems to run on some form of electricity!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft cancel Perfect Dark reboot and shut the developers down in the name of "continued success"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta love how they always have a euphemism available for “ruining people’s livelihoods so we can appear slightly better to investors”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 4's development is "more console-first", but don't worry, CD Projekt will still try and turn your PC into the sun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense. CP2077 they completely ignored at release that the game was unplayable on all the consoles the suits promised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s good context, you’re right the title made it sound like they were advertising KFC at startup. But, then again, an ads an ad.