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- Comment on Massive Rainbow Six Siege breach gives players billions of credits 3 hours ago:
You can think of the companies what you want, ruining it for the players is a no go to me.
- Comment on I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get? 23 hours ago:
I don’t know if they said it, but if so, I can imagine they had some trouble with the publisher. And now the original developers maybe recommend not to purchase it. Just my guess if it is true.
- Comment on I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get? 1 day ago:
I would have suggested too, but it requires Origin client and it must run in the background while playing. And requires an EA account on top of it. The game is rated Steam Deck Playable, so not really the best experience on the Deck.
Which is a shame, because the single player campaign is so nice. I don’t know if the online component still works.
- Comment on I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get? 1 day ago:
The Winter Sale goes 8 days still, so you have plenty of time. Some games in example from EA and Ubisoft require additional launcher or an account to play them. I usually avoid them.
Steam Deck Verified: 5 games including Cyberpunk for total $47,8
- Cyberpunk: $ 21
- Ace Combat 7: $4.80
- Resident Evil 2: $10
- Subnautica: $8
- Disco Elysium - The Final Cut: $4
More interesting Steam Deck Verified games
- Hollow Knight: $7.50
- Stardew Valley: $9
- Maneater: $4
- Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition: $4
Also have a look at games that require additional account or launcher:
- Red Dead Redemption 2: $ 15 (Steam Deck Playable, Requires 3rd-Party Account: Rockstar Games)
- Halo Master Chief Collection: $10 (Steam Deck Verified, Requires 3rd-Party Account: Xbox Live)
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 day ago:
I understand the issue here. I just wanted make my intentions crystal clear, as you was not entirely sure. Although, I do not entirely agree. Why? Because it is in the right of not caring other what affects you. Unless someone goes out of the way trying to stop the “optimization” for low end hardware, its totally fine if someone says “I don’t care, it doesn’t affect me”.
I am against elitism too. In example on a different subject, but similar reasoning is emulation vs real hardware enthusiasts. Those people don’t like how easy we have access to expensive games and hardware (for free) and therefore they are against it. This is the definition of elitism. And this is a different issue than people with high end hardware not caring about low end hardware, because it does not affect them. Not caring is okay to me.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 2 days ago:
I don’t know how you can even get to this conclusion from what I said.
It depends on the optimization for low-end systems that is being done, if it will have an effect to high-end systems. All I say is, that optimizing a game for Steam Deck does not mean it will have an effect to high end machines (btw my system isn’t even high end…, I’m not an elitist). In other replies I tried to give a few examples of what I mean.
A very simple example would be having low quality textures added to a game, to make it run with the constraints of the Steam Deck (or other low end machines). If the game was already running well at 60 fps with high quality textures, then it will not benefit from option to set low quality textures. And just to make it clear: I am not against optimizations for low end hardware. In fact I own a Steam Deck and love it and my PC is not even high end, some may even say low… (at least the GPU).
- Comment on What game recently hooked you on the Deck, more than on PC ? 4 days ago:
Doesn’t seem like a controller friendly game at first glance, but it’s so well optimized that I cannot go back to PC with it.
Why don’t you use a controller on PC?
- Comment on What game recently hooked you on the Deck, more than on PC ? 4 days ago:
I might cheat a bit here, but for me its emulation with RetroArch since launch! I love the additional trackpads that give me features not possible on a regular gamepad. I setup my own menus and functionality. Can’t wait for the official Steam Controller (2) to launch, so I can use this on my PC too.
- Comment on Support For The Sega Dreamcast's Web Browser Has Ended After 25 Years 1 week ago:
I think they ended support prematurely.
- Comment on Lenovo is reportedly planning to release a SteamOS variant of the Legion Go 2 at CES 2026 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t even blame Lenovo for not passing over the savings of Linux. Because that means, they have a huge reason to sell Linux based systems, as they make more money from each unit this way.
- Comment on Lenovo is reportedly planning to release a SteamOS variant of the Legion Go 2 at CES 2026 1 week ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title 1 week ago:
No no, this time it is really for real!
- Comment on Steam Replay is out, share your deck stats 1 week ago:
The only part I want to share is this:
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
But its not true in all cases. Let’s say a game is vastly optimized to run on high end hardware. There is not much to do, but they can optimize to run it on low end hardware with low resolution textures and other settings to make the game run on handheld. This would be optimized for handheld. And it won’t change how good the game run on high end already.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
You count specific optimization strategies that affect everyone. But not all optmizations or in the case of our discussion, making the game run on Steam Deck, won’t affect everyone.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
Neutral does not mean its a benefit. And not losing something was not the point of discussion or what i was talking about.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
Low tier optimization does not mean its running cooloer on higher tier systems. In example if a game requires 16gb of VRAM for high tier setup, then developers optimizing the game alongside for low tier handhelds that have less VRAM will not change the fact for high tier. Therefore not everyone benefits from it. Similar to RayTracing or other features.
Not everyone benefits from games making run on Steam Deck.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
You make some assumptions about who will benefit. And those are not “everyone”.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
But optimizing for low hardware does not mean its a win for everyone. For lot of people who have strong enough configuration does not care the performance at the portable level. There is no real benefit for them.
- Comment on Witchfire director says “everybody should attempt to support” Steam Deck as it just makes games better for everyone 1 week ago:
I don’t think it makes it better for everybody, but I agree every developer should support the Steam Deck.
- Comment on Russian children flood Kremlin with complaints after Roblox ban 2 weeks ago:
I wish Roblox was banned worldwide. Its an unsafe and uncontrolled place for kids.
- Comment on Valve looking into 3D support for flat games on Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
You have a point. I also fell sometimes for jokes, because I think they were meant seriously. BTelling people its a joke is kind of not funny. But I get your point and will try to make sure its clear next time.
- Comment on Valve looking into 3D support for flat games on Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
I’m well aware. My reply was meant to be a joke, because VR is displayed on flat displays (ok maybe curved a bit).
- Comment on Valve looking into 3D support for flat games on Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
VR is also flat…
- Comment on Splitgate 2 returns with a new name this month "after extensive redevelopment" 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully it will support Linux on launch. Splitgate 2 not functioning on Linux at launch killed the momentum and hype for me and I never tried it again. I really liked the first game and hated it that they took it away and what I read about Splitgate 2. It’s great they listened to the community and reworked the game in a meaningful way! (Unlike Concorde…)
- Comment on Russia blocks Roblox over distribution of LGBT "propaganda" 3 weeks ago:
Roblox is known to have child predators. But LGBT, oh no, that goes too far.
- Comment on Getting Star Citizen Running on a SteamDeck - Complete Guide 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have any tips, because I do not play the game. I assume its heavily CPU limited. So settings that affect CPU should be lowered and for the graphics side, lowering resolution with FSR would help too. DLSS is not available on the Steam Deck and I wonder which FSR is supported. I’m just curious, more than anything else.
- Comment on Getting Star Citizen Running on a SteamDeck - Complete Guide 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if there is upscaling used and at what resolutions this is played on.
You’ll need to increase the swapfile on the Steam deck to use a small portion of the built-in SSD as some slower RAM.
Usually the swapfile is only used when no RAM is left, so the PC does not crash and can continue working. Using this as the base for the game to run is impressive! Shows how fast SSDs have become.
- Comment on Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future 3 weeks ago:
The entire operating system is? I mean its like asking what the difference between Ubuntu and SteamOS is. One is optimized for a specific use case. You do a lot of other stuff with a phone. Even the controls are different from a gaming device or PC. The display is much smaller. Why don’t you think we have more phone based operating systems like Ubuntu for phones?
- Comment on Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future 3 weeks ago:
Also you cannot really hide activity in an open source project.
You could, if the person was not known to work for the company.
