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- Comment on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is Steam Deck Verified 4 days ago:
I really love how SquareEnix is putting effort into making their games work well on Steam Deck.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Dev Apologizes for Mistakenly Banning Steam Deck/Mac players, will unban accounts 2 weeks ago:
Not really. EA sometimes made changes that broke Linux or Steam Deck support. It was Valve (and probably others to be fair) who fixed it couple of times.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals Dev Apologizes for Mistakenly Banning Steam Deck/Mac players, will unban accounts 2 weeks ago:
That’s so refreshing to see.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 1 month ago:
Agreed. I can’t access Twitter because its blocked (through some plugins). I think sotwe can display posts without using Twitter directly (not sure if this is a good site, literally just found it): www.sotwe.com/SadlyItsBradley
- Comment on Sony is reportedly working on a PS5 portable 1 month ago:
Depends on if it will be a unique system or compatible to the PS5 game library. I mean if a PC can do that, then a highly optimized console should be able to. However, I’m a bit skeptic, as the PS5 is a huge console that needs ton of cooling. If there was a weaker console version where the games day 1 has to be compatible, like the Series S, then a handheld would be much more attainable. That’s an advantage on the handheld sight for Microsoft.
Therefore I’m curious on a technical level. If its end up being a unique weaker handheld, then it will be easier to emulate. :-)
- Comment on Sony is reportedly working on a PS5 portable 1 month ago:
I appreciate the artist who created this image with the theme “Artist’s conception of God breathing new life into the sadly neglected PlayStation Vita. Credit: Sony” (from the article):
- Comment on Valve Steam Deck now have a new dedicated Official Bluesky accoun 1 month ago:
Hopefully they replace this link on the Steam homepage with a link to Bluesky. Does Valve actually have a Mastodon account?
- Comment on Leak: Valve is making a Steam Controller 2 and a ‘Roy’ for its Deckard 1 month ago:
Yeah, but its still rumor. A leak would be some evidence we can confirm. I’m aware of the rumors and talks about controllers and the Deckard. But so far, nothing can be confirmed as a leak.
- Comment on Leak: Valve is making a Steam Controller 2 and a ‘Roy’ for its Deckard 1 month ago:
I would put this rather on the “Rumor” category than “Leak”. We have no evidence, because this is just an article about someone stating that someone is stating it.
- Comment on Hori’s officially licensed Steam controller is coming to the US 2 months ago:
I was talking about the custom profiles with Steam Input layout created by the community. Not sure if any game has this by default made by the game developers. partner.steamgames.com/doc/…/browse_configs (the link talks about the Steam Controller, but the concept is the same on Steam Deck)
- Comment on Hori’s officially licensed Steam controller is coming to the US 2 months ago:
Steam itself has remapping functionality to extend any gamepad with customization. You can remap (and much more than just rempap) all keys and elements of a gamepad through the Steam Controller setup. People have uploaded their configurations, so you can download them. But this extended custom functionality is only for Steam.
- Comment on Hori’s officially licensed Steam controller is coming to the US 2 months ago:
I don’t care about rumble vibration, but the missing trackpads is huge. The trackpads from the Steam Deck are game changing. At least one would be good to have, so I can program it with additional functionalities or custom menus in Steam. I probably still end up buying it to replace the Xbox Series S controller, as the Hori has gyro integrated, has touch sensors on the sticks and has back pedals.
My hope is, this controller will be sold through Steam, as it is officially licensed.
- Comment on Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux 2 months ago:
Alternative video link from Invidious, which is an alternative YouTube client without YouTube or Google: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=LY6PGd8auHI
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 2 months ago:
I don’t think I make it to 2080, but otherwise agreed. :D
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 2 months ago:
Plans change and evolve. After the experiments looked good, more and more people got interested. Maybe the one guy who was successfull with previous hardware got involved and they started to see something bigger than anticipated. Its an organic growth. I mean I don’t have any internal knowledge or anything, just trying to think how it could have went.
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 2 months ago:
You would be surprised how much companies experiment behind the scenes, that you never see. Prototypes aren’t actually the most expensive thing, so its totally doable, especially if you have lot of engineers hyped for that. Given that the teams at Valve produced hardware before, its only normal to get money for new experiments. Also the structure at Valve is a bit different than most companies.
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 2 months ago:
That’s me. Also it was based on Linux, so its not a waste of hardware, because I know a Linux operating system works well with it. I wasn’t even expecting it to play new AAA games developed for the newest console generations.
- Comment on SteamOS 3.6 Is Now Released With Performance Improvements, Mura Compensation, and Much More - Steam Deck HQ 2 months ago:
- Modified files in /etc are now migrated to new OS versions based on a whitelist
- Additional whitelist entries can be added via config fragments
- Up to five previous snaphots of /etc modifications will additionally be retained in /var/lib/steamos-atomupd/etc_backup/
Now, this is an interesting feature! Reminds me a bit of NixOS inspired.
- Comment on You Can Rate How Well The Steam Deck Runs on The Steam Deck On ProtonDB 2 months ago:
Actually this makes sense. Because Steam Deck has its own operating system SteamOS 3. You can have an operating system that does not run well on a machine or are problematic, maybe through or before updates. Steam and Steam Deck (the OS) gets updates on its own. So rating the experience might look funny, but makes actually sense.
- Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia 3 months ago:
This has nothing to do with forcing to buy. Scam prices are prices, because they take advantage of a situation in need and inflate them for more profit. And defending any scammer makes you part of the problem. I grew up with imports of videogames since the 90s and know this kind of problem well.
My reply was about your nonsense sympathizing reply:
those sellers should just eat the import duty and sell it at a loss
Which you fabricated it for god knows what reasons. It is not about selling it at a loss, dumbass. Man people are sometimes stupid.
- Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia 3 months ago:
You obviously never heard of taking advantage of such a situation. multiple $100 more is more than the import costs. Can’t believe how you are sympathizing with the scam prizes.
- Comment on Junk Store (for installing Epic and GoG games on the Deck) is hopefully coming to Steam store 3 months ago:
Ah that makes much more sense. So I completely misinterpreted the reply. :D
- Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia 3 months ago:
Those sellers should be ashamed to charge few $100 more and taking advantage of this situation.
- Comment on Valve will finally sell the Steam Deck in Australia 3 months ago:
The Year of Australia.
- Comment on Junk Store (for installing Epic and GoG games on the Deck) is hopefully coming to Steam store 3 months ago:
But Heroic Game Launcher and Lutris are not on Steam. So there is nothing Valve lets stand at the moment, there is no game shop on Steam to my knowledge. And if they were allowed to do so, its actually amazing.
But I wonder how this works, because people can purchase games from that launcher and not give any money to Valve, even though its on Steam. This is unheard of. Usually on any other game launcher if you buy anything from an app, regardless what type of app or game it is, then you have to pay to the shop 30% (or less). That’s how it works usually.
- Comment on Junk Store (for installing Epic and GoG games on the Deck) is hopefully coming to Steam store 3 months ago:
Yet again another reason why Steam as a monopoly is not even hurting. If anything, Tim from Epic Games store would take it down rather than Valve.
- Comment on Could someone please try installing this? I'd be really curious to see what Windows 7 on a Steam Deck would look like! 3 months ago:
You don’t need a Steam Deck for this, it can be installed on regular Linux distributions on PC. On Steam Deck it would exactly the same. Look at the screenshots on the link you gave. This is how it will look like on Steam Deck.
- Comment on Could someone please try installing this? I'd be really curious to see what Windows 7 on a Steam Deck would look like! 3 months ago:
Why don’t you try to install it?
- Comment on Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.6.16 Beta: End of the Line 3 months ago:
You can follow news in this hub store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200 . Each post contains the highlighted changes and updates.
- Comment on The Plucky Squire recently came out, and used the Steam Deck to represent PC 3 months ago:
Where did I say a special version of games is needed??? I’m well aware of what and how the Steam Deck, its operating system and underlying technologies work. I didn’t say it NEEDS a special version.
