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- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 17 hours ago:
This escalated quickly.
- Comment on [Meta] This community has been renamed to Steam Hardware to include the newly annouced Steam Machine and Steam Frame 20 hours ago:
I think the renaming is the right move, in order to not confuse anyone. Congratz “on the upgrade”. And well done asking what the community thinks before doing this. I wasn’t a fan of this, if the name was kept. But this way, it makes perfect sense.
- Comment on [Discussion] Should this community also cover the Steam Machine and/or Steam Frame? 1 day ago:
I don’t think so. Because they are different systems with different goals and different needs. If the community was named “Steam OS”, then it would make sense. But this community is not about the operating system, but the device itself.
- Comment on Netflix’s new era of TV games starts now 4 days ago:
The big video game publishers have acknowledged that their competitors are not only each other but other attention-hoggers like TikTok and Instagram.
Only Microsoft said this. I also don’t want to buy and play games from a company who competes against TikTok. I want to buy and play games from companies who compete against other videogame artists and developers.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 4 days ago:
For what the system offers, its unlikely to be this expensive. Valve also stated the price will be on the “low end of self build PCs”. That’s a bit vague, but it does not imply 1000 Dollar. Given with what Valve achieved with the Steam Deck, and that they know how important the price is, it will be cheaper for sure. Some analysts also tried to estimate the price for each part of the system and they landed on something like 415 Dollar. Sure, that’s not all to it, but its far away from 1000.
I’m not an analyst. My price expectation is at $549 for 512gb model and $699 for 2tb. If I am off, it won’t be more than ±100 Dollar difference.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Pretty cool. I know consoles could do this already and always wondered if it would be possible on Steam Deck too.
- Comment on Doom designer Sandy Petersen alleges former Xbox boss Don Mattrick killed Ensemble Studios and its Halo MMO to protect his personal stock bonus 2 weeks ago:
We should not believe every accusation that sounds plausible, until its proven. Why? Because they need a boo-man, and whats better than accusing someone who is no longer in charge? It’s easy to accuse a person who is known to have done bad decisions. But that does not mean that every bad decision was by that person.
If this is true, man that guy sucks. But it sounds too easy and good to be true in my opinion.
- Comment on Battlefield's new battle royale is free-to-play and out now with 100-player matches 2 weeks ago:
You could read some comments in Steam review: store.steampowered.com/app/…/Battlefield_REDSEC/#…
- Comment on Battlefield's new battle royale is free-to-play and out now with 100-player matches 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how many are running to play a new Battle Royale in 2025. I mean, I have nothing against competition and I wish more Battle Royale (like PUBG) and Team Shooter (like Overwatch) would release. And I’m not even joking. But I wonder how many are interested into Battle Royale right now.
- Comment on Google says everyone will be able to vibe code video games 3 weeks ago:
Vibe coding isn’t coding. Change my mind.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 is targeting Steam Deck and other handhelds because players want more "freedom" nowadays 4 weeks ago:
I’ll play it on my Linux desktop PC anyway, even if I have a Steam Deck. But being able to load it up on the Deck is really cool. I don’t need to buy an extra copy of the game to play either on a high quality console (Playstation 5 Pro or Xbox) or be able to play it on a handheld (Switch), and the save files are managed from a single point of truth (Steam).
BTW did you know you can download your save files with your browser without installing a game in Steam? Your Steam Cloud: store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage
- Comment on Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code 4 weeks ago:
Ah, I wondered what the issue was why this new fork is created. Ai. OK, I mean its totally fair and understandable reason. I’m just glad there was no malicious intent or toxicity going on. This is just forking over disliking the direction, because of technical reasons. Gives me much more confidence over UZDoom now. :-) Especially given the reason “inserting untested AI-generated code”.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Earns The Steam Deck Verified Badge With Impressive Update 4 weeks ago:
One of the reasons why this is even possible is, because Valve sticks to current Steam Deck as the base. If they introduced the Steam Deck 2 already, then not only would this mean for developers more to test and optimize for, it also meant the new 2 would be the baseline and old Deck is forgotten quickly. Therefore even if lot of people ask for a Steam Deck 2, its crucial that Valve waits with the update. And honestly, its already impressive what we can play on it. I did not expect Dark Ages on it to play this well.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Earns The Steam Deck Verified Badge With Impressive Update 4 weeks ago:
When it comes to boomer shooters, DOOM is one of the best there is.
Petition to call boomer shooters “doomer shooters”.
- Comment on (Spoiler Thread) Your top 10 video game protagonist deaths 5 weeks ago:
I don’t look at the list at all, just wanted make sure the top 1 is correct. And yes, it is. And I accidently saw the last Crono, which was surprising back then too. I really thought Crono was dead back then. And because of this, later with Aerith I thought we will revive her.
Not looking at the rest of the list, because there might be spoilers for me. Have a nice rest of your day.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 has an epic launch bug where it fails to recognize that the game is already installed — EA boss suggests one affected user to ‘refund and buy on Steam’ 5 weeks ago:
lol
- Comment on It’s time for game developers to bring back the cheat code 5 weeks ago:
Mods are often operating system dependent and need executables to be installed sometimes, which I often do not trust. Sometimes mods require ton of space or are complicated to install or are not compatible to each other too. You need to do backup of game files, update the game and the mod if needed and so on. Also game consoles have a harder time to mod the games too.
I would prefer if some functionality was integrated, let’s say cheats or any thing other for that matter.
- Comment on It’s time for game developers to bring back the cheat code 5 weeks ago:
I agree with the second part, not first. Cheat codes are cool to have. Its basically integrated modding for fun. No need to mod a game for that. The nostalgia is also about how cheats was discovered and shared, they are more than codes, its gaming community. It was exciting to discover and share and discuss, in a world before internet (or before it got mainstream).
For old games, we can also use chat modules and integrated cheat systems in emulators, that’s also nice. I wish modern games would allow that too. They are too closed. Also lot of game developers don’t even allow modding and makes it hard or even go against them.
- Comment on It’s time for game developers to bring back the cheat code 5 weeks ago:
Accessibility options shouldn’t be hidden or a cheat.
- Comment on SteamOS on my gaming PC? 5 weeks ago:
I have not used it myself but you should be able to run typical linux desktop software with steamos.
I just want to confirm, yes you can, and shortly explain limitations. SteamOS on the Steam Deck (because SteamOS is not released as a general install for desktop) has a desktop mode you can switch to. The gaming mode is fullscreen gaming like a console controlled with controller. In desktop mode, its literally the KDE desktop.
The only caveat is, that the system is locked down by default. You can unlock it, but after system update, the changes to the system (system package manager installs in example) will be reverted. But Flatpaks are installed by default and the preferred method of installing additional software. You can also run any binary from user space without changing the system. And SteamOS has official builtin support for Nix packages. Meaning you can actually install packages from Nix repository on the Deck, sticking permanently in a dedicated directory.
- Comment on SteamOS on my gaming PC? 5 weeks ago:
SteamOS is not available as a general install media for your PC. SteamOS from Valve is based on Archlinux. There are many different base Linux systems other operating systems / distros use them and build a new system around it (just like what Valve did with Archlinux into SteamOS). In general, SteamOS itself does not integrate GOG or any other launcher out of the box. You would need manual installation in desktop mode (normal PC mode) and add them into the Steam as non Steam game. Its just like on your regular PC. But as said, that does not matter, because SteamOS itself is not available for general PC.
But there is Linux distribution that aims to fill that gap, called Bazzite: bazzite.gg Its base system is different from SteamOS, but it is gaming first oriented. It’s quite popular. And integrates other stores as well:
Own games outside of Steam? Lutris (Pre-installed) and other launchers can not only run games from most game stores, but cleanly integrate them into Steam Gaming Mode, including: Xbox Game Pass (via battle.net), EA App, Epic Games Store, GOG.com, itch.io, Rockstar Games Launcher, Ubisoft Connect, your dad’s old CDs, and more!
There was also one called HoloISO, which was much much closer to SteamOS. But that one did not see any development since over a year, so I would rule that out.
- Comment on Does anyone have tried minecraft java edition on mobile? 1 month ago:
I can’t help with how trustful this is. There is also MojoLauncher, that is based on PojavLauncher: mojolauncher.com There is not much information and I would be very careful. It’s not even on F-Droid.
I found Cuberite on F-Droid: f-droid.org/en/packages/org.cuberite.android/ , it’s website: cuberite.org and source code on Github: github.com/cuberite/cuberite Is this trustful? Looks more trustful than the others. I’m not sure if this is the kind of app you are looking for, it’s description is " A lightweight, fast and extensible game server for Minecraft Java Edition ".
- Comment on Heroic games have stopped launching, any ideas? 1 month ago:
Which game? Or does no game work?
On the Github Issue Tracker github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/…/issues I don’t see any raised issue for the launcher itself. I personally don’t use Heroic Games Launcher, so cannot assist with detail or otherwise look into.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
Right, there are lists for: steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games and pcgamingwiki.com/…/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games…
I can find Slay the Spire in the second list.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
Today I purchased 4 games on Steam sale in one go: Elite Dangerous: Deluxe Edition, DOOM Eternal Standard Edition, Hades and Slay the Spire for 18,34€. I don’t need to repay to play them and “own them forever”*****(big asterisk, i know!).
The part of Game Pass that gets the the wrong the the most is, if I stop paying monthly, then I loose access to all games I played so far too. Yes, that’s the point of a subscription and I dislike it. To be honest, the price of Game Pass was really good in the past. But I usually focus at max a few games in a month anyway, including free to play, so having such a big library to choose from is not that big of a deal.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 1 month ago:
Alternative clickbait title: Gaming industry in trouble
- Comment on Just in case you've been living under a rock: The Crew is playable again! 1 month ago:
My bad, I should have looked into it before commenting. It’s a community project and not affiliated with publisher Ubisoft, right on the first linked page. So this has nothing to do with “Stop Killing Games” at all.
Little bit offtopic, but still ontopic somehow: I’m not sure why this is a grey area at all. There is a project for Nintendo games/systems providing community servers and services called “Pretendo Network” (fantastic name, BTW). In example Nintendo is aware of Pretendo, even warning in the public, but do not send their lawyers against it: nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-warns-against-usi… (sorry, I have access to Twitter blocked, so I rely on quotes and blog posts):
“We have confirmed the existence of unauthorized services that replace functions such as online play for the Wii U, which ended service on April 9, 2024. Please refrain from using such services as they may pose unexpected security risks.”
So, if even Nintendo doesn’t do anything against it, then it means its legal. xD
- Comment on Just in case you've been living under a rock: The Crew is playable again! 1 month ago:
Thanks for reminding me that I live under a rock. On the sidenote, nice comeback. Don’t kill games imitative seem to left its mark already.
- Comment on We Finally Know How Much the Xbox Handheld Will Cost 1 month ago:
Compared to other handhelds with similar hardware, the price is not even that bad. And this might be the first Windows with an optimized handheld version, but that’s just a rumor yet. Fun fact: every new handheld is free marketing for Steam Deck.
