Agent_Karyo
@Agent_Karyo@piefed.world
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- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
Fair point, with Steam sales, I don’t really feel the need to resell.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Corrupt:
That’s just the annoying American style of corruption (I say this as someone who is not American but who has lived in North America for ~10 years).
Dishonest:
https://www.thegamer.com/tim-sweeney-grok-controversy/
Specifically:
This is a vile lie by PC Gamer. I criticized a government official for pressuring Apple and Google to block a speech app owned by their political opponent, deplatforming 500,000,000 users on the pretense of stopping a small number of users from distributing disgusting content.
This is clear bullshit aimed at local (i.e. American) degenerates.
When Elon Musk went on a crusade against texty (a tiny Ukrainian new source), did genuine free speech believer Tim Sweeney care? Of course not, because polemics about alleged beliefs in free speech are bullshit. A comical joke (I say this from living there for 4 years).
- Carcass Clad is less story-heavy than Mouthwashing, but 'a lot of thought' has gone into it: 'We haven't discovered how much we can push it'www.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 1 week ago:
So far, in France, the only political party to have taken Russian money
Do you know how international financial shemes work? Without a web search can you explain what a dutch sandwich is?
News in Ukraine would never report on Mélenchon’s commitment to russian genocidal imperialism over a period of ~10 years? Right? Why would they even mention it?
No wonder western “leftist” always fail.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 1 week ago:
If you bothered to read russian military policy text (as far back as from the 90s) on management of international attitudes, you would understand it is shilling.
But chances are you don’t even speak russian and don’t know what you are talking about.
You western “leftists” are such an embarrassment. No wonder you always lose.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 1 week ago:
You can’t leave someone stateless
And when it does happen (de facto or de jure mind you)?
We have to deal with our own trash, even if it’s polluted from afar.
In principle, I agree.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This is not copium, this is propaganda.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I am not a Valve fanboy.
They are only sort of OK when viewed in comparison to other American technology oligarch groups. I even hesitate to use the term “OK” in this context.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 1 week ago:
Yes, a fake leftists.
Western countries would really benefit from cancelling the citizenship of supporters of russian fascism and deporting them to russia.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 1 week ago:
That’s really too bad, he is a fucking russian shill.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Sweeney is such a dishonest and corrupt piece of shit, a very typical retrograde American oligarch.
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 101 comments
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
I was talking about data storage on optical discs, not DRM free installers. :)
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
That may be true, I just don’t see the point of storing the DRM free installer on a disc, something like an SD card which can be easily updated seems like a much better fit.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
No, physical media is not useful for PC games, you want a DRM free installer (preferably with all relevant patches applied, both game patches and compatibility DLL/mods for older games), not the physical media (which may or may not have DRM).
This ship has sailed a long time ago on PC (~15 years ago).
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Didn’t know it was that low, I knew it was smaller share, but I thought it would be double digit percentages.
That being said, many critically acclaimed games are indeed DRM free on Steam.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
I would just a get pirated copy.
I haven’t pirated games in a very long time, but this seems like a fair thing to do in such a situation. If the game is cheap and/or I like the studio, I would probably just rebuy on GOG.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Why do you need physical release on PC?
You need a DRM free installer (preferably with patches built-in) not physical.
Mind you, I am no Valve fan, they lean towards typical American oligarchical behaviour and they made a massive contribution to developing loot boxes. But in comparison to all other large American tech companies, they are not aggressively terrible, still nowhere near “great” though.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Many steam games are DRM free and would work even if Steam shuts down. It’s been like this at least since 2011 or so (that’s when I discovered this, it could be earlier).
I guess the impact would depend on the types of game which one buys on Steam.
- Comment on "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" 1 week ago:
Yeah, a lot of people don’t know that a decent number of games on Steam have no DRM and you can just archive the installation (make a portable copy so to speak).
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
Even without a game being popular, if you sort of know what you are doing, you can “patch” it yourself via relatively easy to use tools:
https://github.com/elishacloud/dxwrapper
There is even a patch to enable 16 bit emulation support on x64 Windows (sometimes needed for installers or some weird Windows 3.1 game ports to Windows 95).
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 1 week ago:
I don’t get the fascination with physical disc for modern consoles, it seems like the worst of both worlds.
The only way to own your games is to have a DRM free installer on a platform that has backwards compatibility as a goal/feature (so not MacOS).
PS2/PS1 discs sure, but from my understanding modern discs don’t function like they did back in the day.
- Comment on In development: Survival game set in the world of Against the Storm 1 week ago:
I actually like that they are using the same (updated) assets and visual style.
Would have been cool to see some gameplay though.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures 3 weeks ago:
To be honest, this was to be expected.
That being said, this is more like a marathon than a 100 m sprint.
And the industry now knows that their leverage in not strong as they thought it was.
I am sure they thought it would never get this far.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 75 comments
- Wonky witch fable 1666: Amsterdam is the kind of sexy nonsense I want from Assassin's Creed: Hexewww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
CIG shares stats from which you can derives their average concurrency; it’s about 5,000 average for 2025. So somewhere ranked #150-200 in the Steam concurrency rankings (which often exclude MMOs and/or 1st party launchers).
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 67 comments
- Phonopolis Review: Cardboard and constructivism collide in Amanita Design’s masterful marriage of story, puzzles, and hand-crafted aesthetic in Phonopolis.adventuregamehotspot.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments