Katana314
@Katana314@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam Workshop Has added support for paid mods 1 year ago:
The review bombing was the form of communication used to inform Valve of what I just described. The prime complaints were based around lack of authenticity in many of the mods that first requested payment - many mod authors saw their work stolen and reposted.
- Comment on Steam Workshop Has added support for paid mods 1 year ago:
The issue Valve had with this was that they weren’t willing to do the basic vetting needed to ensure a mod’s content is legitimately owned. For a full game, made from scratch in Unity, that’s not necessarily easier to verify, but the bar for entry (and to making something interesting for viewers) is high enough that a developer can be harshly penalized for breaking it. And of course, it has still happened, wherein a little Superman game is found to have been completely stolen from someone who put it out for free.
When you have a big complete game like Skyrim, and one mod only needs to do something silly like put Thomas the Tank Engine’s face onto a greathammer, it’s a low bar for entry for something some people might actually want, as opposed to shitty Unity asset flips. Still, the storefront needs to be sure that THAT developer owns Thomas’s face (they don’t) and that they put the work into applying it (they might have just pulled files from some obscure Nexus Mods entry and hoped no one noticed).
Ownership verification is tough. I seriously doubt they’re actually putting the time in.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 1 year ago:
When the EDF sale came around, I already owned 4.1 but decided to get back into it. Taking some references from a guide on what are the best weapons, I have a lot of fun as Wing Diver, and even finished a few missions on Inferno.
It probably helps that I got a new CPU since I last played the game. Handling hundreds of GIANT INSECTS on screen can’t be simple for old computers.
- Comment on EU court rules people can resell digital games 1 year ago:
This is an important observation; slowly, it becomes better for EA releasing their next singleplayer adventure to restructure: The base is “free”, and then you can buy passes to access the singleplayer world as microtransactions that are not easily transferred.
A lot of RMT content is not easy for a court to define resellability of; think things like orbs that increase a weapon’s stats through a one-time forging process. We don’t want to make that a safer vending process for publishers than full games.
- Comment on EU court rules people can resell digital games 1 year ago:
/s: By submitting an encoded JSON post request to Steam’s most overloaded server, users may acquire a sale ticket token, which must then be cryptographically delivered to another user, salted with their Steam user ID.
There are services that will do this for you, but…charge a 50% premium to provide that service, because no technology is free.
- Comment on GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles 1 year ago:
I’ll never be able to afford GTA 100.
- Comment on GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles 1 year ago:
The fifth Xbox being called Xbox Two is such a Microsoft move
- Comment on Lies of P Critique (Joseph Anderson) 1 year ago:
He once said Dark Souls wasn’t perfect which of course makes him pure evil.
- Comment on 'Great' games I didn't play this year due to requirements 1 year ago:
I’ve got a GTX 1070; I found the new Robocop game to look really cool, but the demo didn’t run so well for me.
The funny thing is, I would’ve believed that this card would’ve been too old years ago, but most games I still buy don’t need anything beyond what it provides. I enjoy visual appeal, but I don’t often play my games to count the pixels and inspect individual hairs on eyelids. The graphical plateau is real.
- Comment on Whats your favorite Main Menu music? 1 year ago:
Ori and the Blind Forest has a great track throughout, but the menu is definitely a highlight.
- Comment on Harold Halibut - Official Release Window Trailer 1 year ago:
The animation, art style, and music all seem fantastic. Doesn’t appear to be a very gameplay-drive game, but I could be wrong. Certainly could be very enjoyable for the story alone.
- Comment on Yum! 1 year ago:
I don’t know if there’s a reason to this, but on a lot of sites, clicking “manage” and then “save” seems to give some good defaults - like maybe they need an affirmative action to “turn on” eating your babies settings.
- Comment on What moment from a video game made you cry? 1 year ago:
Trails in the Sky, at perhaps two moments. They’re very long JRPGs, and I could argue longer than they need to be with some not so great moments - but the payoff for their better characters is really good.
It’s often cited as “establishing backstory” to the rest of the Trails series. 1 and 2 are basically one complete story; but even the first game sets up a villain and resolution well.
(There is a third that dives a bit too far into setting up “background lore for twenty more games and little else”)
- Comment on What moment from a video game made you cry? 1 year ago:
There’s three big moments in the game that I think got it for me; Amaurot, Close in the Distance, and The Dead Ends. But there’s plenty to feel more invested in, especially with all the side quests that focus on so many personal endearing struggles. Heck, even the Dark Knight job storyline has a great emotional payoff to it.
- Comment on Of the tens of thousands of lies told, I wish this one was true... 1 year ago:
Ancient history had a lot of instances of disliked people being exiled from a territory. Now that all land is claimed, I guess we can’t do that anymore.
I don’t even know which country would want Trump instead. Russia might not even find him useful from within their borders.
- Comment on Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam 1 year ago:
There may in fact be a few games where empty spaces and a sense of vastness actually contribute to the atmosphere and make for an enjoyable game. But NOT in a game that’s divided by fucking loading screens with not a single “vista” to look out at.