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• ⁨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"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Found themselves”? Wdym by that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ZeniMax QA workers have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft, paving the way for better wages and more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. Microsoft has been taking advantage of contractors for decades to avoid paying real salaries

• ⁨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:

  So… They stopped playing right? Because there are a lot of similar games without ads, so why would people just put up with it. Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NIMBY Rails has been insanely fun. Their tagline is politicians are wrong, you know what’s best for your community or something like that. Very fun to make the transit systems we should have, and very satisfying to see ridership on those systems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 release won't be delayed again now that it has a "specific date", assures Take-Two boss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if there’s anyone who knows when it will be done, it’s high level management

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A note about the security of your Steam account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying every three months, but after 5-7 years like me, it’s probably just a good idea. Who knows what devices have the passwords saved on it still

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A note about the security of your Steam account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate they took the time to do this. Still though, when was the last time you changed your steam password? Regardless of this it never hurts to update it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to change your Steam password? Data from over 89 million accounts has reportedly leaked to the dark web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Backend vendor access credentials it says, I am guessing everything in valve’s side is fine. That being said, when was the last time you changed your steam password? Probably time anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve announce SteamOS Compatibility ratings, an extension of Steam Deck Verified for more devices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a plugin for SteamOS that does this, I’m on Bazzite and it works very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocketwerkz's CEO alleges Unity are threatening to revoke studio's licence over apparent personal licence usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody should be optimizing to use unity anymore. I know personally devs who have worked there and confirmed this is their business now, just strangling devs for license revenue. They may open the gate a bit at the beginning to lock you in, but they’ll slam it shut eventually behind you. And god knows if your game is even remotely successful they’re going to go out of their way to get their hands on your money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta Force devs say Desktop Linux support is 'not part of our agenda in the future'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are several games working on proton with anti cheat. Saying no to Linux means saying no to me, so guess I won’t play that one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo - Legion Go S with Valve's SteamOS gets a price increase at Best Buy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can think of one big reason why …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with revolt is that they didn’t do federation, so every server is going to be limited to people who want accounts on that one, and discord has shown us that people want one interface to see all of their servers. So I’m not surprised. I like their UI, but they need to federate with other servers.

  As for hosting I understand what you’re saying. There’s a few options to host your own with a couple of clicks online, but paid of course. To test it out I’d say set up on a smaller instance and see how you like it. It’s rougher than discord for sure, but I’ve tried all of the others and it’s where I’m landing.