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- Comment on Mina The Hollower Is Now Metacritic's Highest-Rated Game Of 2026 13 hours ago:
I think people give Metacritic too much credit. Better look at OpenCritic in my opinion, where Mina The Hollower and Schrödinger’s Call are the highest rated games of the year with a score of 93. One of the issues of Metacritic is, that it weights certain sources higher than others. And OpenCritic includes sources that Metacritic would not want to have.
opencritic.com/game/19213/mina-the-hollower and opencritic.com/game/20596/schr-dingers-call
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 days ago:
Omg xD that’s actually horrifying.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 days ago:
A small, but important detail. :D I always try to use the correct decimal separator for the unit.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 3 days ago:
919,00€ for OLED 1TB model in Germany.
I have no hopes for Steam Machine price now…
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 days ago:
Wow, the 1TB OLED model costs 919,00€ in Germany. Man this is depressing times.
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Songs of the Past Announced - CD PROJEKT 3 days ago:
If everything goes to plan.^^
- Comment on A chill gaming community for the 30+ crowd 4 days ago:
Fits in with the age verification thing… I’m not a big fan of excluding and discriminating people based on age (if its gaming related), but I understand why it’s being done here. Requiring Discord is a bit unfortunate to me. We can’t even search the web and get the results like in Reddit. Not a fan of closed systems.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 5 days ago:
- that does not proof that Steam pays developers to use Steam as a DRM,
- that is a decision made by the developers or publisher
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 6 days ago:
I ask again: Where did you get that idea from? Any source other than “trust me bro” statement? Valve did not, unless you can proof your extraordinary claim with an extraordinary source.
- Comment on Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater) 1 week ago:
While I agree with you this should be illegal, on the other side they have my sympathy. Also I think cheating in online games ruining others fun and the company should be illegal too. I mean why is that not illegal still is beyond me. It’s not even illegal for companies developing and selling this shit. But to comeback to your point about the illegality to brick hardware through a videogame, I agree with you.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
Where do you get that Valve pays publishers to use Steam as DRM? And therefore forces them a kind of exclusivity deal? No, Valve does not do that.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
Steam / Valve doesn’t do exclusivity deals.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
Steam didn’t do exclusivity deals.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
Also the peak record 3 days ago and today are reached at the same time on the clock, which is Germany local time 16:00, and a few hours around it in Europe in general. That is 10 AM in the US I think (we live 6 hours in the future). That means the numbers might even go up further at later day; just checking again store.steampowered.com/charts/ … oh yes, it is! Even my new Edit is outdated, lol. Can’t keep up.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
The power of open platform
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
Understandable. Have a nice day.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
Celebration of things people care brings people together, which in turn brings topics to talk about; be it smalltalk or sometimes revealing interesting details. I’m doing this or responding to others posting this since years, even before Lemmy, on Reddit. It’s a fun topic and I was just surprised no one brought this time this specific peak number into a discussion yet. That’s all.
No one is angry, no one is mad, just having fun talk and discussion. Everything is fine. This is a fun topic and sometimes not everything needs to make sense for every one else. I give you the benefit of confusion or not able to communicate well and not bad intention. My hope was that we get to some peaceful end, but it didn’t work out. Have a nice day.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
Monday is national holiday in Germany too. Together with the weekend, I am curious if we see new peaks. About the Paralives game, to be honest I didn’t heard of it before. Maybe because that’s not the kind of game I’m looking into and therefore didn’t appear on my radar. It has 179,445 followers according to Steamdb (a third party site tracking Steam data). I think it would have been better if the game came out right at the start of the weekend. We’ll see how it performs. Looks quite nice.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
You’re pretty angry about someone providing an opinion and reasoning dude.
Just because I disagree with you does not make me angry. Or are you angry because I do not agree and assume others are the same? No need for personal attacks. I don’t know why you think I’m angry. The entire time you tried to tell me how useless it is to talk about this, and if I go to school or work and tell everyone about the population every day. Which is clearly a misrepresentation of what my post is, because 1. its not every day, 2. its a highscore peak of a subject we care
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
You do not provide any alternative or useful perspective. You just say its not worth talking about this, because you do not care. Which in fact means I should stop talking. And yet, you still talk about it. Looks like this post was more useful than you initially admit it.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
You mean exactly why this hasn’t been brought up until now by you?
You just took my quote out of context. I said I do not care bout the school or day population you said earlier. Here the full quote in context:
Do you go into work or school every day and pronounce that population of the world went up again?
No, because I do not care about that.
What do you mean by:
You seemed surprised people weren’t talking about, you have your answer now. You answered it yourself.
??? What did I answer? I’m surprised no one brought this new peak of concurrent users up. Usually people are quick to bring it up. That happened in the past often.
People just don’t care, for reasons stated above, you’re free to do what you want.
You don’t care. I do. Some people care, some don’t. If you don’t care, why do you even reply and discuss here? If you don’t care, just move on. I like talking about new high peak numbers. Block me.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
No, it’s just not exciting or worth talking about every day.
Then don’t talk about it and let people talk if they wish.
Do you go into work or school every day and pronounce that population of the world went up again?
No, because I do not care about that.
Steam is free and doesn’t cost money, that logic doesn’t work the same.
As said, other stores are free to install and yet they do not grow like Steam.
I will post and talk about new peaks and its interesting what discussions this brings up sometimes. Even this our very discussion how useful or useless it is is interesting to me. No one forces you to talk about subject you don’t care.
- Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026 1 week ago:
With that logic all other stores should break new records too, not just Steam. Just because the entire population of humanity grows, does not mean that everything in the world grows too. Especially with the current economy in the world.
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- Comment on Destiny 2: Every End is a New Beginning 1 week ago:
Let it die, let it die, let it shrivel up and die.
Why? As much as I do not like this company, let games NOT die. I hope Destiny 2 will be playable forever. Games should not get lost. Also there are still players, let them have their fun.
In fact, the best that could happen is if they allow for players to host their own servers. And even better if the game becomes playable on Linux too. I personally wouldn’t play it any more, but for the preservation reasons it should not die.
- Comment on Destiny 2: Every End is a New Beginning 1 week ago:
It’s a bit too late, as I would have needed Linux support years ago to play with my friends. I would rather play something else and pay for a different game instead supporting this company again.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Just because I don’t like something does not mean its gatekeeping. I have my own definition of “Fun”, “Interesting” and “what a game is”. To me Mixtape and Cookie Clicker are not real games.
However as I noted already, I understand why these games are popular. And I am not stopping anyone from playing them.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Thanks for the refresher. That was a period when I didn’t read much news and missed the details. So buying the game is okay then. :-) Will put it to wishlist now.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I forgot who are the bad guys.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
- Mixtape: Not even a real game.
- The Sims: I never played it, but it looks boring like a TV show simulating real life.
- Most MMORPGs: Just a grind fest and you pay every month to be able to “play”.
- Cookie Clicker (and similar “games”): What even is this?
For the most part, it’s not like I wouldn’t understand why these games are popular. I mean I see why Mixtape and Sims are popular in example. I get it. So this is not literally “I can’t understand”.
