Rose
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- Comment on ARC Raiders purposefully puts jerks in the same lobby as each other 21 hours ago:
Same here. I play strictly solo and it feels like about 70% or more of my encounters are with friendly people. Occasionally, people stab in the back or I get shot and killed on sight, then next game do the latter to someone else to mentally make up for the losses, but that’s not too common.
- Comment on Resident Evil Requiem - 3rd Trailer 4 days ago:
Resorting to the damsel in distress trope in 2025. 🤦 But hey, it’s Capcom.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 week ago:
Isn’t that part of the discussion? That Valve can just arbitrarily reject a game. Before the payment processors stepped in for example, which was also before the “ban” of Horses, Steam had games that had the four-letter r word in their description and Valve didn’t care despite being contacted by Collective Shout. One could argue they’re lying, but as someone who’s worked with most major publishers, I can believe them, because Valve is almost impossible to reach. In my experience, and based on what I’ve been hearing, most of the time they simply don’t reply to press requests.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 week ago:
GOG’s market share is around 0.5 to 1%. Steam’s is above 75%. So by comparison, GOG is tiny.
- Comment on An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores 1 week ago:
Steam is the one with monopoly power, and the Horses developer has said that publishes didn’t event wasn’t to publish the game if it cannot be on Steam. This argument isn’t applicable to Epic, let alone Humble, which ended up reinstating the game within the day.
- Comment on Valve responds as indie horror studio accuses Steam of 'censorship' for banning its game about nude human 'Horses' (Update) 2 weeks ago:
Not merely as sexual, but as “sexual conduct”. Valve already hosts a huge number of games depicting full nudity and sex, and before the payment processors complained, that included games with r*pe in their description.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 4 weeks ago:
Technically no PR. Their MO has been to let others do the work. Their games come from hired modders, with many skins made by the community. Their localizations are from the community. The game devs and publishers have to moderate their own spaces on Steam. The players do product promotions by using the social network of Steam. Valve is practically unreachable for the press, and their actual press releases are the rawest I’ve seen: infrequent, featuring no images and little information. Their press account is run by Kaci Aitchinson, the local Fox News host who was originally hired to present The International for Dota 2, but ended up doing a bit of everything, like many at Valve.
- Comment on Arc Raiders review - a smartly designed extraction shooter marred by one inexcusable decision 5 weeks ago:
I usually avoid PvP games and I didn’t like ARC Raiders at first, but it has grown on me.
Unless you use the starter kit, you’ll always have at least one safe pocket slot, allowing you to bring back at least one item (or a stack) even if you get knocked out. Moreover, so often my stash is full even after multiple expansions, so the game encourages using those resources to craft weapons, which again makes it less of a problem if you get knocked out.
Later quests are not easily completed, but you can focus on completing the daily tasks for battle pass progression. There will be simple tasks like having to open containers or doing damage to the ARC robots, so you can just go out with the stater kit and do those, not worrying about losing your loot. With that mentality, at least sometimes (though often in my case playing solo), you’ll extract and get a lot of loot on top of your XP and tasks progression.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 1 month ago:
I’d say a link stored in a network that is decentralized and independent of one central entity has more inherent value than a record of money in a bank. Link rot is a thing, but so is the Web Archive and its alternatives. It’s just that there have to be people who value that record in the same way the value money, but that’s not how it is. Nevertheless, it’s something compared to having absolutely nothing after Valve shuts down.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 1 month ago:
In one instance, you’d have indisputable proof of ownership, but only your word in the other. The former is not that different from money, which is not even paper these days but a record in a database.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 1 month ago:
AWS going down wouldn’t erase the NFT out of existence. Valve closing down would certainly remove every Steam market item.
- Comment on Counter Strike 2 update wipes nearly $2 billion off skin market value by making fancy knives and gloves easier to get [Eurogamer] 1 month ago:
NFTs are at least independent and won’t disappear if one corporation goes down. Other than that, they’re one and the same, and it’s insane that the same gamers who worship Valve are often the first to bash NFTs.
- Comment on Microsoft support for Windows 10 officially ends today, but a third of Steam players still use it | VGC 1 month ago:
Fair, but I believe it’s too early to think about that, as we still have a whole year of ESU. By then, who knows if Microsoft decides to offer another year for free if many people remain on it? Moreover, depending on one’s reasons to stick to 10, they may upgrade their hardware or change their mind about 11 by then.
- Comment on Microsoft support for Windows 10 officially ends today, but a third of Steam players still use it | VGC 1 month ago:
True, but I assume most people here wouldn’t need to be on an Enterprise version of Windows, unless it’s for work.
- Comment on Microsoft support for Windows 10 officially ends today, but a third of Steam players still use it | VGC 1 month ago:
Here.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 hits EA’s highest ever concurrent player count on Steam, beating Apex Legends | VGC 1 month ago:
That doesn’t say much though, as many of the other games on the list came to Steam after months and years of being available on Origin, so the highest concurrent player numbers were probably seen on those platforms. A newly released game always attracts more players than an older one.
- Comment on Microsoft support for Windows 10 officially ends today, but a third of Steam players still use it | VGC 1 month ago:
No need to turn to piracy when there are free ways to do the same.
- Comment on Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game partly due to ‘political concerns’ | VGC 2 months ago:
The only games I can think of where you fight back against racists as a Black person are Mafia 3 and Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry. It’s wild that there isn’t more after so many years of video games. It makes the news of the cancelation incredibly sad.
- Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is richly authentic, intriguingly written, dripping with brooding atmosphere, and… not very fun to play, unfortunately 2 months ago:
I believe the developer has practically no experience with action games, so the combat being subpar wouldn’t be unexpected. I definitely wouldn’t be playing a WoD game for its combat though. I’d want a good story, characters, and the right aesthetics.
- Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is richly authentic, intriguingly written, dripping with brooding atmosphere, and… not very fun to play, unfortunately 2 months ago:
People put too much hope into it. Personally, as a big WoD fan, I don’t care if it’s mediocre or worse. Thanks to Paradox, there have been many new games of the universe, so it wouldn’t be much of a loss. I don’t mind them being text-based either. It’s a lot better than nothing, which is how it was for many years.
If you’re looking for a fix of Bloodlines, just play the last Deus Ex games if you haven’t. They’re the same thing but without vampires.
- Comment on Valve's CS2 Update adds Paid Skin-Offer-Gambling - YouTube 3kliksphilip 2 months ago:
If Valve were any other company, it would get crucified for its practices, including that it was the first in the West to popularize microtransactions with its Team Fortress 2, long before the likes of EA. It’s just that gamers have a blind spot for Valve.
- Comment on After current events I'm now replaying this gem. Forgot how fun killing Nazis actually is 2 months ago:
If this were attributed to your real name, you’d be doxed and fired in no time.
- Comment on After current events I'm now replaying this gem. Forgot how fun killing Nazis actually is 2 months ago:
Check out Carmageddon: Max Damage.
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 2 months ago:
I’m not big on comedy in general, let alone when it has toilet references, so those parts were hit or miss.
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 2 months ago:
My favorite is BL3. It made the shooting feel less like cardboard compared to most games and had a great cast of characters.
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 2 months ago:
If you asked me to recall the story of any of the games, I’d not be able to. I don’t think people play the games for the story. It’s just a fun looter shooter, especially in co-op, which is how I played BL3 around its Epic launch. Revisiting my technical review of the game from then, yeah, you’re right, and I documented various reports of issues, though there were quick fixes deployed or workarounds available for the biggest issues. That seems commonplace in the industry though.
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 2 months ago:
I played through BL3 on a 2016 PC and it was OK. Not perfect, but perfectly playable. Looking at that PC Gamer article, I don’t even understand the complaint of being unable to run the game at 120 FPS. Seems like an unreasonably high bar. I’d take 60.
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 2 months ago:
Because the previous ones were great and this one has glowing critics reviews. For me though, the system requirements are too high, so I’ll buy and play it sometime after a PC upgrade.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 4 months ago:
Not necessarily. Valve says they haven’t heard from Mastercard directly. Is there evidence of Itch.io having been approached at all? It seems to me that they just made the move to delist and investigate to be safe in the wake of Valve’s rule changes.
- Comment on Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same 4 months ago:
I think the part about exclusives and other claims is just a way to fight the cognitive dissonance of seeing something good but having spent so much time and money on something else. Always being in attack mode distracts them and others from focusing on the problems of Steam.