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- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 1 week ago:
You can accept every company is only out for their bottom line and still prefer the companies that are offering you the best deal. Companies that are actively making games more expensive, locked down and requiring a paid subscription for online play are not offering you the best deal right now.
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 1 week ago:
I mean this is emulation, just in an official capacity.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
Also Blu-ray players/drives need regular updates for the encryption keys, it’s why the PS3 gets updates every couple years still. Sony will stop updating them some day.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 3 weeks ago:
That is bad but so far Players in sanctioned countries can still play on Steam, just not make purchases. Countries like Russia and Iran still have Steam players as long as their governments aren’t blocking external internet.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 3 weeks ago:
Publicly traded companies can’t compete long-term, if there’s a well funded private competitor
That’s why these companies love the idea of purchasing half the industry or using their resources to operate at a loss and squeeze out private competitors.
If they can’t compete, they can consolidate.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 4 weeks ago:
You can’t crack a required server-side download
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 1 month ago:
Luckily, GOG games don’t have those extra DRM launchers
- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 1 month ago:
Easy anyi-cheat is a different team to the Epic Store, so the effect of that hiring is indeterminate.
- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 1 month ago:
The APIs are all undocumented and reverse engineered for Legendary. Chances are a major re-write like this could change the APIs.
- Comment on Ubisoft Shuts Down Two Studios in Canada and Serbia, Hundreds of Employees Affected 1 month ago:
They reported a €1.3 billion loss for the past financial year, so clearly not many are opening their wallets for them.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Rocket League supported modders and mappers before, even having Steam Workshop support. Since Epic got involved, they’ve only cut down on mod/map support.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 2 months ago:
What’s crazy is the numbers are basically double the pre-Covid numbers. Meaning half the players on Steam today weren’t there before 2020.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 2 months ago:
Publishers used Steam for physical releases because Valve takes no fee for CD keys, so it was cheaper for them.
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 3 months ago:
the number of windows pc users has been plummeting lately, and it’s not in favour of linux but mobile os’es
Non-gaming PC/Windows users are going down, but PC gamers are at all time highs and still growing.
- Comment on Fewer People Playing Fortnite Is Just One of Epic's Many Problems, Analysts Say 3 months ago:
How they managed to spend billions on a store/launcher, without bothering to make it a good experience is kinda of impressive.
- Comment on Sony Faces $2.7 Billion UK Lawsuit Over PlayStation Store Monopoly Claims | TechPowerUp} 4 months ago:
Does Valve refuse to allow third party stores to sell Steam codes like PlayStation is doing here?
- Comment on Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025 4 months ago:
In the US maybe, $100k is several years wages in many countries.
- Comment on Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value 4 months ago:
The profit line being stable isn’t good enough, the line must go up, forever.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 4 months ago:
Idk if they had the time or money to quietly release it and ramp up over time, Tencent was likely asking where’s their return on investment after years of funding and live service games kind of depend entirely on launch success to springboard future development.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 4 months ago:
Marathon seems pretty good imo, it’s problem is it’s trying to be a more hardcore extraction shooter than the ones that already exist which is gonna make it too niche to sustain a large US-based studio like Bungie.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 5 months ago:
How is sending someone a file gonna help me access their games?
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 5 months ago:
Can you use Heroic with multiple accounts? Because if not that’s meaningless.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 5 months ago:
See that’s kind of my point, when we’re on the 100th “oh just use this other external service/software”, most users (myself included) are just going to stick to the simple solution that just works.
Being able to just access family and friends games straight from my library without wasting all that time having to ask beforehand, manual downloads and file management/transfers and lack of cloud saves like it’s still the 90s is worth whatever moral cost you associate with using a piece of proprietary software.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 5 months ago:
For most people, that’s not the case if the alternative solution is worse or less convenient.
Every piece of free software that has ever attained some level of mainstream success and popularity has done so by offering a better product, not something worse with the excuse of “well at least we’re not proprietary”.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 5 months ago:
You don’t just pass the exe though, modern games are huge with a lot of files required. With Steam it’s a 2 step process:
- I look in the tab in my library for games in my brother’s account I have access to with family sharing.
- I download a game from the list.
That’s despite the fact my brother lives in the other side of the country, and it offers me all the Steam features I make use of like cloud saves as if my account had bought the game.
With GOG it’s
- Find the right webpage for my brother’s games (you can’t see them from within the GOG client for some reason.
- Ask my brother to download the installer
- Get my brother to send me the installer file over discord
- The installer is too big
- Say nevermind just give me your login info
- I try to login to his account with the GOG client
- Ask my brother for his 2FA authenticator code
- Finally login, and can download the game
- Remember to turn off cloud saves so you don’t override your brother’s cloud saves.
Based on a true story btw.
There’s probably things we could’ve done that would’ve made it easier and less steps, but it still wouldn’t have been just as simple as what Steam does, and I’m missing cloud saves and I’d have to do several of those steps again if I wanted the game on say my Steam Deck as well as my PC.
then you either use a third party remapper or you simply add the shortcut in steam
If I’m just going to use Steam or extra software to compensate for Steam features, I might as well just use Steam.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 5 months ago:
Family sharing isn’t just for your local machine, I have family who live in the other side of the country.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 5 months ago:
Offer a good service and people will buy from your store, most customers either don’t care about DRM or care somewhat but don’t want to inconvenience themselves with a worse product for it. GOG have to catch up to Steam with stuff like family sharing and controller support for me to consider buying stuff there.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 5 months ago:
IIRC it still requires an EA account for online play, but not if you play offline.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 5 months ago:
It Takes Two actually removed the EA App in a patch a while back.
I think they allow studios they only publish for and don’t own like Hazelight the freedom to remove the EA App DRM now, but EA won’t pay for the dev time for their back catalogue.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 5 months ago:
People aren’t playing or paying for stuff in Skate. The player count drop off has been substantial.