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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a chance but what is he convincing them of? That they should take a non-existent exclusivity deal with Steam? They already have the data that exclusivity with Epic does not work and Steam doesn't do exclusivity deals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That's what I mean by artificial exclusivity. There are games where the developer or publisher decided it's the only platform they will release on but that kind of "exclusivity" is not at all the same as Epic paying developers or publishers to not release on Steam. Valve/Steam doesn't prevent those games being released elsewhere, the developers/publishers themselves don't want to.

  I could understand smaller (I'm talking literal solo devs or studios with less than 10 people) choosing to be exclusively on Steam. Supporting other platforms can have huge overhead costs for them. But for a studio the size of Gearbox there's no benefit to being exclusively on Steam. They have enough support staff to manage multiple stores. There maybe be suits wondering if it's worth being exclusively on Epic but there are no suits sitting around wondering whether to be exclusively on Steam or not, the answer is obviously not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are people taking this even remotely seriously? This is Pitchford doing marketing for BL4. BL3 already showed people don't want Epic exclusivity and there's no such thing as Steam exclusivity. They can choose to release exclusively on Steam but that's just artificial exclusivity because nothing about Steam prevents them from releasing on Epic or GOG.

  It's a pointless poll made by Pitchford either to keep BL4 in the media cycle or to just shit stir, possibly both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't think it eats away the faith. Capcom fixes the performance and endgame before the next release, everyone remembers only the final product. Capcom releases a poorly optimized game with bad endgame. It's a massive hit. Eventually people start complaining. Capcom fixes the game and the cycle continues.

  People could've learned from the launch of World but people remember only the final update and final update World is great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 4 may happen eventually, but not with Larian Studios⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Larian probably wouldn't have turned it down if Hasbro hadn't fired pretty much everyone who worked with Larian on BG3. Sven Vincke (CEO of Larian) seems like the kind of guy who would take such an action personally, which is probably why he doesn't want to work with Hasbro again and rightfully so, fuck Hasbro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marathon is delayed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  to somewhat defend Bungie, you can't own an art style. The person whose work Bungie ripped off has a case for the specific assets that are clearly her (I think the artist was a woman?) work. However assets that are inspired by her work but aren't exactly her work is completely fair.

  But that actually makes Bungies situation even worse because they don't even know how many artists they might've ripped off. Could be just this one, could be five, could be a dozen. They don't know. IMO serves them right because they clearly don't learn from their mistakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite metroidvanias?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm going to throw a shout out to Environmental Station Alpha because I think it's an excellent game that flew under the radar of a lot of people when it launched. It makes some bold decisions with the story that some people might not enjoy but the gameplay is solid and the backtracking problem (which most metroidvanias have) is solved by having the level get harder as you progress.

  It's cheap, it's not at all hardware demanding and it's very heavily inspired by Metroid. If you enjoy metroidvanias and you haven't played Environmental Station Alpha you definitely should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I've had a similar response.I was kinda ready to accept the new price but then they started pushing an even higher price so I got an opposite reaction where stars would have to align for me to care about any game over 60 and even 60 is pushing my willingness to pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Them: "we don't set the price".

  You: "I'll buy it if you set a lower price".

  So people don't even read the headlines anymore?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was coming here to mention Dark Souls. It's an excellent example of how to make a tutorial not feel like a tutorial. Either you take the time to understand what the game is telling you or not, up to you. Don't care about going through the entire tutorial area? Just beat the boss and start the real adventure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven't read the new TOS but if this review is correct it looks like a GDPR nightmare for them. Good luck to them explaining why they need to collect all that personal data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can skip some fights by running past enemies, but if you're struggling with combat the best solution is to take some time to optimize your builds. The game incentivizes glass cannon builds where you generally kill mobs before they can even attack. If they can't attack you don't have to worry about dodging/partying. I won't give any build tips, those take too much effort and IMO it's more fun to figure them out yourself. But I will give some tips to make combat easier.

  If you have defensive pictos/lumina equipped swap them for damage or AP.

  Don't be scared to use color of lumina (for more lumina points) as you can get hundreds of them throughout the game. Trust me, having more lumina equipped will absolutely make the game easier

  Also don't be scared to use recoats to respec your characters, you can get plenty of recoats. Try out different skills as some of them are more useful than others.

  If you're struggling to strike first in combat equip first strike lumina on all characters. That lumina pretty much becomes mandatory in late game as even with all the speed modifiers stacked you still might not start first.

  Also invest points into agility. Agility is the main stat for speed and speed dictates how often you can attack.