Don_alForno
@Don_alForno@feddit.org
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 3 days ago:
It’s supposed to guarantee you can always catch up with them.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 3 days ago:
Anything that needlessly makes me repeat content I already beat or similarly wastes my time. Some examples are:
Fixed save points in general.
Unskippable cutscenes between the last fixed save point and the boss fight.
No autosave or fixed save point after a boss fight.
Preventing me from backtracking after I stumbled into a cut scene and/or boss fight because it wasn’t obvious which path led to a point of no return.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 week ago:
Clair Obscur was all anybody gaming related talked about for weeks.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 week ago:
Why would they sell any hardware at a loss at all? Console manufacturers do it to lock people into their ecosystem and sell them games at a premium, Valve doesn’t need that, people are already overwhelmingly favoring their store.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 week ago:
Games used to be sold as a physical object containing the game files.
I can do that today too. I can buy from gog, download the installer an burn it to a DVD. I now own a physical object with the game files that gog or the game publisher can not easily take away from me. I’d still just own a license, not the game, and the license can be revoked. They just couldn’t really keep me from playing the game even after it was.
You need to understand the difference between having something in your possession and having the rights to it. You never owned any video game, even in the days of cartridges, they were always licenses.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 2 weeks ago:
to be a communist he would have to have been a dictator who seized power with force rather than democratically elected.
Communism and dictatorship have nothing to do with each other.
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 4 weeks ago:
In BG3, when I accidentally released the breaks on the windmill.
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 4 weeks ago:
That one is so much more fun once your buffs last all day.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 still has secrets fans haven't found, says director 1 month ago:
The main character isn’t who you think it is.
- Comment on What's your test for people? 1 month ago:
Waiters have told me to please not stack the dishes because it messes with their carrying technique.
- Comment on We are helping 2 months ago:
Both things can be true at the same time.
- Comment on No brainer 2 months ago:
Can i summon it anywhere without going there?
And do you create matter from nothing or do you relocate preexisting gravel? I see a way to virtually free unlimited energy here with the use of gravity batteries.
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 2 months ago:
He made it on his own. 40 Million copies even at 10$ and with steam taking 30% is still 280,000,000$. I honestly don’t think you need to worry for ConcernedApe’s financial situation.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 3 months ago:
designed to give customers more choice.
They are surely going to feel a sense of pride and accomplishment.
- Comment on Are you fucking kidding me?! I hate anything that requires verification and codes! 4 months ago:
Step 1: take card out from wallet Step 2: profit
Also, saving payment info on your phone and then refusing to use some bare minimum security measures, it’s like your asking to be stolen from.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 4 months ago:
Wisdom is knowing when to say “fuck it” to save yourself the pain.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 4 months ago:
Enshittification is the process of squeezing money out of the customer base you built with initially cheap subscriptions / good service.
First the service is great for consumers (and likely bleeding money). People flock to it.
Then they use that consumer base to lure more suppliers to the platform. Phase two. The service is great for suppliers because it means easy access to a big customer base.
When both a lot of customers and a lot of suppliers are using the platform they start making changes that redirect revenue from both sides to the platform itself. Prices increase, fees for suppliers increase or their cut decreases, maybe they have to sign that they won’t sell under a certain price elsewhere, customers can’t use all things on the platform anymore without paying extra, they introduce ads, maybe exclusives, that stuff. Customers won’t leave because they are used to the platform, there are network effects (all my friends use it), sunk cost fallacies (I have paid them x dollars over the years and if I leave I keep nothing for it) in the case of gamepass they have maybe stopped buying games elsewhere and wouldn’t have a library at all if they lost access. Suppliers won’t leave because the customer base is huge and they have no other simple way to reach those customers. Both are the literal frog in slowly boiling water. “What’s a few more bucks a month, what’s a little additional ad before my game loads, what’s a few more % to MS when the alternative is losing all those customers”. That’s the enshittification part.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 4 months ago:
This is stupid. We pay other people to do things we can’t or don’t want to do all the time. That’s what economy is.
The fact that people who order takeout could also cook at home instead doesn’t diminish the impact of the inflation spikes that began with Putlers invasion. You can’t fix the problems of neoliberalism on an individual level.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 5 months ago:
Oh, Daeran must be one of my all time favorite RPG characters, even though I hated him initially. Regill and Ember are great too.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 5 months ago:
Owlcat can pull this off, at least from the storytelling side. The shooter gameplay is something I haven’t seen from them, so let’s hope that’ll work out.
I’m hyped.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 months ago:
Ok, but which? Can you sue them if Galaxy, a free tool that they provide for convenience and that isn’t required for the actual service, doesn’t work, or if it breaks a game? Name one thing.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 months ago:
I have lots of free games from GOG. You don’t have to be a paying customer to use galaxy.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 months ago:
Galaxy is free and not required. If it doesn’t work you can download games from the website.
Buuut it also reinforces my point. The free open source solution works better than their in-house one.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 5 months ago:
I genuinely don’t get the “don’t pre order just buy the day it releases” thing.
Nobody ever said the second part.
Don’t pre order, wait for reviews a couple weeks after release, buy if reviews are good and no major bullshit is discovered.
What do you think you’re winning?
Avoiding the major bullshit.
Also, even if you did just buy day one: If developers have a lot of pre orders they know they’ll sell anyway they have less of an incentive to deliver the highest possible quality.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 months ago:
So does Galaxy?
Let’s say I have not yet had to do a full reinstall of heroic and multiple associated games because something got unfixably borked during an update.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 months ago:
Even fewer people game on Mac than on Linux (judging by the Steam survey). I bet it’s not that they can’t they just don’t care.
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 5 months ago:
Heroic works better than Galaxy does in Windows. They should just pay the Heroic devs for their work and make that their official launcher.
- Comment on Game of Thrones: War for Westeros | Cinematic Reveal Trailer 5 months ago:
Doesn’t look like wood to me.
- Comment on Game of Thrones: War for Westeros | Cinematic Reveal Trailer 5 months ago:
Why would the sword shatter but not the shield?
- Comment on Self insert power fantasy recommendations? 5 months ago:
Also, no 3rd person camera, so you’d only see your character in inventory screen.
That’s why you ride bikes, d’uh!