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- Comment on 11 hours ago:
With regard to number 2. Just because a company isn’t abusing their dominant market position today, doesn’t mean they won’t tomorrow when ownership changes.
It would be preferable that market competition forced valve to be pro consumer instead of just GabeN’s good will
- Comment on Is Starlink even good for online gaming? 1 day ago:
You are probably thinking of ping times on the old satellite internet services. Those were terrible , barely better than dialup. Starlink is LEO so ping is much better
- Comment on Anon wonders what went wrong 3 days ago:
“If you don’t use it, you lose it” was true?!??
- Comment on So hungover and so horny 3 days ago:
Did Violet 08 make a new account?
- Comment on New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games 5 days ago:
Because Xbox provides the only populated servers for the games I want to play. I’m not happy about it either
- Comment on New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games 5 days ago:
I just want Xbox live without having to pay 120 a year. I could care less for any games
- Comment on https://kotaku.com/marathon-content-farm-discord-reddit-posts-bungie-fake-2000682208 1 week ago:
It stole artwork. It took established IP and shoehorned it into the trending genre instead of its own genre. It doesn’t support Linux, it is a predatory microtransaction filled “live service” game
Plenty of non conspiratorial reasons to hate Marathon.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 2 weeks ago:
Gamers could collectively boycott NVidia cards and it would barely make a dent in their bottom line. It’s time for gamers to show nvidia that they are unequally important to us as we are to them
I haven’t bought a nvidia card in over a decade. Start buying APUs, handhelds, or just keep your current card and turn the graphics down or start playing your backlog. And for the love of god don’t pay for GeForce now.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 3 weeks ago:
You would think that I would do some basic fact checking…
I missed when Vince Z went from Respawn to Dice LA. I retract my claims of AI
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 3 weeks ago:
You would think IGN would have budget for basic fact checking but this article was probably written by AI
- Comment on World’s Biggest Gaming YouTube Creators (2025) 3 weeks ago:
Markiplier did not invent Let’s Plays lol. Let’s Plays were nearly dead by the time he created his channel. He just was the first person to make FNAF Let’s Plays popular (I would assume, I’ve never watched anyone on this list because I’m over the age of 30)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Pretty good at not being Reddit which is my number one reason for using it.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 5 weeks ago:
The PS5 Pro is way overpriced and the regular PS5 doesn’t really have many exclusives over PS4 so it’s not a big surprise they can’t move consoles
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 5 weeks ago:
I don’t have a single exclusive for PlayStation 5 that didn’t also come out on ps4. So idk, I’d probably say Astro Bot is PlayStation’s game
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 5 weeks ago:
Playstation: we have one game
FTFY
The generation has been hell
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 5 weeks ago:
Then they know their audience. Source: Nintendo customer
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 5 weeks ago:
Phil was probably the last thing keep Xbox from fully imploding. You could tell he was an actual gamer that cared about the Xbox as a games console and not whatever Frankenstein they are going to turn it into.
It’s sad but Xbox had a really good run. Xbox won’t exist beyond the next console generation, it may not even make it that far before it just becomes gamepass.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 1 month ago:
I thought the steam deck would have been priced higher than it was as well, so I thought that they’d probably surprise us with a $600 machine. $800 made sense for the specs (Now I expect it to be $1000)
Once GPU prices super inflated 6 or 7 years ago, I got out of PC gaming for new titles. I built a top spec machine for $1200 in 2012 (when I had disposable income and no kids), that barely gets you an entry level today. I guess PC gaming, for new titles at least, will forever be out of my budget.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 1 month ago:
I was gonna upgrade when the steam machine came out but with the likely price hike taking it to $800+ I think I’ll just keep playing 20 year old Call of Duty: United Offensive
- Comment on Which is it?. 1 month ago:
As long as it is roasted in salt and olive oil, the whole thing is good
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 1 month ago:
Maybe that’s they point, people want to play Morrowind but they don’t have a platform that can actually play it
- Comment on Xbox Hardware Sales Plunge 32% YoY as Services Keep Gaming Division Afloat 2 months ago:
I recently got an Xbox One S to play my 360 games via remote play but $10 a month for Xbox live is ridiculous
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 2 months ago:
I mean steam adds a convenient way to keep your games up to date instead of having to manually patch them. I also was on the anti-steam bandwagon for the longest time until I finally gave in and decided to buy Modern Warfare 2 in 2010. I ended up repurchasing the rest of the Call of Duty games because it was so convenient not needing the discs and not having to locate patches.
Steam is the one launcher I don’t get pissed about having to use because it has so many value add features.
Unlike epic/origin/uplay
- Comment on Good question tbh 2 months ago:
One of my favorite comments I ever read online was from someone who said they did this dance at the club and got thrown out
- Comment on Good question tbh 2 months ago:
- Comment on Good question tbh 2 months ago:
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 2 months ago:
Fake- anon talks to another person Gay- anon goes to therapy
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yet again, pirates get the better experience than the paying customer
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 2 months ago:
I have yet to play half life 2 (waiting on my son to get the motivation to help me beat decay, I’ve beat the other expansions)
But I can’t imagine that half life 2 doesn’t hold up when the first game is a masterpiece that holds up better than pretty much any FPS released after it
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 months ago:
I agree that if you completely take away their agency that it only makes the slop look more attractive but I also disagree that sentiment that “you can’t”. Technically it’s true. But that doesn’t mean we ought to give in to slop as parents. Low effort slop has been around since before AI. Find ways to teach the importance of genuine creative content and cultivate a preference for the real creative works with your children.
