HornyOnMain

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These notifications are bundled together for some reason. So if I want to be notified when my subscriptions renew themselves, I have to also be notified of random games going on sale, too.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There's an app, and I'm sure others like it, called Tidy Panel that lets you block notifications based on the content they have. The free version let's you block a handful, but you need premium for unlimited. For you, the free might be enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TBH 6 was kind of a downgrade from 5⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, sorry to hear that, hopefully that was due to that being the early days of refunding on steam. They only started in 2014, and monster hunter world launched in 2018. Here's hoping my experience isn't just anecdotal and they've actually improved in that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TBH 6 was kind of a downgrade from 5⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam will still override developers preferences if they feel the consumer wasn't given time to make an informed decision. For instance I played Detroit Beyond Human for about 10 hours. The majority of that time was spent loading shaders and trying to fix crashes, I eventually gave up when a friend suggested to reach out to steam support. They asked no follow up questions and refunded it, despite the page warning me they would only refund under 2 hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gog will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam is great! But so is competition, and GOG has been one of the best of them. A healthy mindset and a strong focus on their relationship to the customer puts pressure on steam to do more than the bare minimum to stay in the lead. We're lucky in the fact that they're both mostly good companies to their consumers.

  They each have their own issues, and I do question the effectiveness of GOG's strategy here, but GOG doing well is also good for you as a steam user!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gog will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair points for both, we're on the same page for the first point. GOG should be doing exactly that to mitigate the issue, and hope they have been but haven't been as successful with that technique. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for it.

  For the second, I agree that the majority of the issue are the storage space themselves, the others are tangential concerns. To me, a company that struggles to limit their file size has a poor take on how they implement features, it's a red flag that there are likely much bigger performance issues with the code. One doesn't mean the other has to exist of course, but they show up together fairly often.

  I'm personally tired of game companies just throwing shit at the wall and not caring about the performance. They (well AA and bigger companies mainly) seem to have completely lost interest in doing anything other than the bare minimum. Does it work on the absolute latest hardware? Must be good to ship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gog will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you forgetting the files are also taking up space on the consumers drives?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gog will delete cloud saves more than 200MB per game after August 31st⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd more argue that the game company should be finding ways to reduce their save file size. 1GB seems ludicrous, though I don't know the system enough to know the technical reasons behind that. This is still a strange business decision for GOG as they don't have the market share to move the needle, the games affected will just sell less on their store until the game company doesn't even bother with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandai Namco Copyright Strikes YouTubers Showing Off Game Mods⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except no, they couldn't because of the Berne Convention which the US and Japan are both signatories on. Google complies with Japanese copyright in the US because they are required to by law. Again, complaining about the wrong thing is ineffectual, if you want change then you need to be informed enough to understand what needs to be changed in the first place.

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

  It also enforces a requirement that countries recognize rights held by the citizens of all other parties to the convention

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandai Namco Copyright Strikes YouTubers Showing Off Game Mods⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's not actually, and there's nothing YouTube could do to stop them unless they wanted to ACTUALLY get DMCA'd. Under Japanese copyright, bandai namco has the complete legal right to request those videos be taken down. This is ridiculous of course, but it's important to remember they didn't break any rules, it's the law that's broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoops⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The duality of man Heisenberg strikes again