Lfrith
@Lfrith@lemmy.ca
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 2 days ago:
–launcher-skip
And I’m talking about launcher the type you have to log in again.
Example being Ubisoft games where you get it from Steam or Epic and then have to install UPlay and then log into UPlay.
I’ll even use Finals as an example which isn’t DRM free. You install on Steam and go on playing with no login or separate launcher. Or you install from Gamepass with no login or separate launcher.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 2 days ago:
Think It’s the complaint is where a launcher is required on top of a launcher. Like if you buy Cyberpunk 2077 from Steam, GOG, or Epic it doesn’t required another launcher on top of the launcher you bought it from.
Good thing is that it does seem like majority of games don’t do that. Even EA is moving away from it.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 4 days ago:
Video games is my cheap alternative to vacations and everything is getting more expensive like eating out or movies so becoming harder and harder to do usual social activities other than sports at the park.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 4 days ago:
Yeah, Minecraft gets my creativity going trying to build stuff and redstones working to automate tasks.
- Comment on Fairgame$ Has Been Canceled, Too, According to Michael Pachter, Who Says Sony Has ‘Lost Its Way’ 2 weeks ago:
Saddest Sony generation with a weak exclusive line up due pivoting towards failed gaas instead of single player exclusives. PS4 backwards compatibility ended up being the most noteworthy thing about the PS5.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
What stands out most from the article is that the 18-24 demographic has a 25% drop off compared to other groups with a 5% drop off.
Not a great sign for the future if cut backs isn’t simply due to deciding to be fiscally responsible, but overall money problems for every day expenses.
Reporter Rachel Wolfe concluded that contributing factors to dropped spending included a difficult job market, student loans, and a particularly high credit card delinquency rate among those aged 18 to 29.
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' 1 month ago:
I understand why a company and the people who run it want to be pieces of shit. I also don’t give a shit about what they want.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 month ago:
At that point only solution is for Steam to become their own payment processor, since I don’t see any huge company choosing to lose money by abandoning mainstream methods of payment customers use.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 month ago:
Doesn’t even need crypto support. Steam sells steam gift cards so they could just take the Pokemon approach for games where it can only be redeemed with credits.
- Comment on LIMBO and INSIDE are being delisted from GOG on July 17th 1 month ago:
Yeah I don’t think GOG has removed delisted games from users libraries.
Unfortunately it did happen to Oxenfree on itch instead of letting people who could it retain access to keep downloading it after it is delisted. pcgamer.com/…/another-reminder-that-your-digital-…
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 1 month ago:
Must have gotten an update since I last used it. That’s a nice change.
- Comment on Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' 1 month ago:
Yeah it’s like for Gamepass if you decide to play mainly old games it’s not worth it. If you don’t finish new games fast enough it’s not worth it.
But, if you play new games and finish it fast enough it is worth it. Or for people who usually buy COD annually.
Gamepass is like one of those things where unlike the Netflix model it can be hard to consume that much content to make it worth it. Much easier to watch a lot of TV shows and movies. And being a PC gamer it’s not like I need gamepass to play multiplayer so can view it like an add-on the way PS+ people do with their subscription.
And I guess enough people feel that way since I’m always amazed to see gamepaas games be top sellers on Steam. So people choosing to buy over subscribe.
- Comment on Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' 1 month ago:
I’d rather buy a new AAA game which I don’t than do than get it through Gamepass, since usually you can get those from like GMG for 10-20% off.
Main reason is that AAA titles that I’d even be interested in are ones like Red Dead Redemption 2, which take me half a year or longer to get through that paying $12 a month for it would end up being more expensive for me. And I don’t even keep to keep access one the subscription ends.
I just don’t go through that many games at that high a quantity to make Gamepass worth it for me.
You are trying to convince the wrong person on how Gamepass is a value. I’ve done the trial, and I’m just not drawn into AAA being must play at launch and dropping 60-70 on it. I have many other games to play.
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I set up heroic launcher to play some games from GOG, but achievements didn’t work when I tried it and save sync was kind of buggy. So for GOG just stuck to playing on Windows, since I do want my achievements and time tracked.
I wish other big platforms tried more in trying help escape Windows instead of just being bystanders and not even bothering with Linux launchers themselves.
- Comment on Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' 1 month ago:
Monetarily it doesn’t even make sense, since it’s just cheaper to buy the game then rent them through gamepass lot of the times. Like I got Yakuza 0 steam key humble bundle and it took me a year to finish. Renting that on Gamepass to playthrough would have cost me 12 times the cost of what it cost to buy the Humble Bundle monthly that had Yakuza 0, and unlike Gamepass it is still in my steam account and not continued payment to retain access.
pcgamesn.com/…/yakuza-0-the-division-humble-month…
Why would I spend more renting and something that just stops working immediately once my subscription is up even if I don’t “own” the game on steam? Just bad money mangement.
- Comment on Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' 1 month ago:
They immediately lost me with props to the Microsoft store with what a pain it was to even access the game directory in the past. And even if it is improving is something that just locks you into having to use Windows OS as opposed to being able play the purchased game on other OS.
Hell with stuff like recall and Windows moving to trying to force OS online accounts compared to how clean Winows 7 used to be they just lose credibility for whatever they are trying to argue.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
There’s people who will explain why it is done, and use it as an excuse why it is okay because that’s the rules of the game. Seen it way too many times from apologists. Heck the comment I responded to went about how they give this guy credit and can’t blame the guy for doing it.
That goes from explanation to excuses once they started providing an opinion on the behaviour. So even you noone is making excuses isn’t right. My comment in response was in regards to usage of explaination being used to slide into an excuse and props.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
I’ve just heard so many of the same excuses for even scummier people over the years of always shifting the blame to justify whatever is necessary to get the bag. The excuses seem ever less convincing.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
To his credit, at least he admits this. It’s not like he’s hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.
I’m sick of that excuse. The whole I’m dumb or I don’t know or it’s for the algorithm excuses people make to try and deflect criticism. I give no credit. That itself is an underhanded strategy.
- Comment on Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode? 1 month ago:
I’ve always gone for performance mode. 60 fps at the minimum is what I want.
- Comment on A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes 2 months ago:
I wish portable devices went back to being made with tooless battery swapping in mind like the old game boys.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 2 months ago:
Obsidian is my main notetaking app, so I use the kanban plugin to keep a list of games I’m playing, plan to play, and finished.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 4 months ago:
I picked up a Nintendo Switch because of it being a handheld. I wouldn’t have picked one up otherwise, since I had skipped generations of Nintendo consoles preferring Sony due to Nintendo games being too high. But, with the Steam Deck where I don’t even need to repurchase “Deck versions” of games the handheld component isn’t a selling point of the Switch to me anymore.