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- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 3 days ago:
Considering the increase in price, that turned out to be a very good deal. 👍
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 3 days ago:
Yes of course you could use it as a PC on a desktop with mouse and keyboard.
I just don’t think that will be the typical use, but more with a TV sitting in an armchair or on the couch.
Maybe I’m wrong.
The value in having the controller included default, would only be if the price is lower for the bundle. Since the latest retailed for $99, it obviously shouldn’t cost $100 as a bundled part. - Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 3 days ago:
I absolutely get that it makes sense that a new console comes without a controller, many people already have controllers.
But a controller is also pretty essential, and controllers get worn out too. So a bundling price of the 2 could also be more attractive for most. - Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 3 days ago:
Isn’t that more than 50% extra compared to when the OLED version came out, I think it was 2023?
- Comment on Steam Deck back in stock, with higher pricing 3 days ago:
I thought a controller was generally included with consoles?
- Comment on PRAGMATA Gets The Steam Deck Verified Badge To Show It's Great On The Go 1 month ago:
Wow a AAA that is praised for being actually good.
- Comment on Ubisoft shuts down any possibility of Rainbow Six Siege becoming playable on Steam Deck 4 months ago:
As I wrote they play it less. I never claimed they don’t play it. and I clearly indicated that the numbers aren’t stats, I made an example and a hypothetical based on it.
- Comment on Ubisoft shuts down any possibility of Rainbow Six Siege becoming playable on Steam Deck 4 months ago:
As I wrote it doesn’t mean they don’t play it, but it means they play it less.
- Comment on Ubisoft shuts down any possibility of Rainbow Six Siege becoming playable on Steam Deck 4 months ago:
The market they are missing out on is growing. If 4 friends decide to play a game, and 1 has Linux, those 4 will not play a Ubisoft game.
So even if Linux is only about 3%, it could mean 12% lower playtime on their games, and that will reflect in lower future sales. Where people will prefer to buy games they play more. - Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 months ago:
Sounds pretty stupid if you don’t know which platforms you want to target from the beginning.
If development really is that random and poorly planned, they are making extra work for themselves due to poor planning more than because they chose to support the Steam deck. - Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 months ago:
Of course it is, but it’s just the focus on how the UI is made that has changed, that does not inherently make it harder. It just changes some of the design goals.
I have fucking made UI’s from scratch in assembly on a pixel basis, that were better than a lot of the crap we see today.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 months ago:
It’s a moronic oversimplification, and making a different approach is not the same as harder.
Sad that such low energy effort without reading the article first is even upvoted. Lowest denominator rules here. 🤮 - Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 months ago:
exactly
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 months ago:
No it’s not just hard work, it is about working differently.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 months ago:
because the steamdeck is actually just a small PC
That is very contrary to what’s the point of the article. Supporting the Steam deck also means supporting the controller and the small screen format. Things that can benefit users of Windows based handhelds too.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 5 months ago:
Wush!
Way to completely miss the message. Which include how user interfaces need to be usable on the small screen, and to make optimizations for lower end hardware and not just focus on mid range and high end.The exception being that if you make a very high end complex game, it may be better to not support Steam Deck at all, because if it doesn’t play well, it shouldn’t pretend to work.
- Comment on Steam Machine 6 months ago:
I don’t understand the purpose of that, or how that would be irony.
Looks just like a dumb comment to me. - Comment on Steam Machine 6 months ago:
Of course I have, and Steam deck was priced very aggressively, but info on who makes this and how it will be priced is 100% absent here.
- Comment on Steam Machine 6 months ago:
There’s an LED strip, y’all!
Cool, I hope they keep that idea. 😀
Anyways it all depends on price/performance is good.
Previous attempts at 3rd party Steam Machines were not good in that regard. - Comment on Can't avoid native Linux version from GOG with Heroic on Steam Deck 9 months ago:
OK I’ll have to look into that.
- Comment on Can't avoid native Linux version from GOG with Heroic on Steam Deck 9 months ago:
You can always download and install manually.
To be honest I wasn’t aware GOG even had a Linux client! Maybe it doesn’t have proton like functionality, but they did make install scripts for wine once. - Comment on $3,000 Prototype Steam Deck 11 months ago:
Well my brain only working at idle power, when I saw prototype I thought it was something new, not released yet.
- Comment on $3,000 Prototype Steam Deck 11 months ago:
This is a 6 year old protype for the original steam deck.
- Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 1 year ago:
Sorry, there apparently was a second mail the joining party needed to confirm, works now! 👍 😎 😋
- Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 1 year ago:
I just enabled family share with my wife, but none of us has the games of the other?
And there is no hint of why? - Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 1 year ago:
Sounds fair enough, and not a problem here.
- Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 1 year ago:
OK sounds like we should try it out.
Funny you mention Oblivion, because that’s one of the games I don’t have, but my wife does. - Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 1 year ago:
Can I just declare my family member and then have access to that library?
- Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 1 year ago:
I don’t see how family share solves anything, I looked it up a few years ago, and it seemed pretty useless.
What exactly does family share do that is actually useful? - Comment on Has the Deck turned *off* any other Steam users? 1 year ago:
I agree that’s not a good way for steam to handle it.
Seems to me that as long as it’s on the same global IP address which indicate it’s the same household, it should be considered OK.
But I do understand why they don’t want to do what Netflix did originally, where people could share accounts without limit.