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- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 4 days ago:
1000 hours in Alan Wake is impressive. I assume you played part 2?
- Comment on PlayStation Uses Safety Concerns To Defend Steam PSN Account Requirements 1 week ago:
We will find out in the next hack.
- Comment on Stable Diffusion 3.5 — Stability AI 4 weeks ago:
I like how their first image is a woman laying in the grass after their SD3 fiasco.
Did anyone try it? How does it compare to Flux?
- Comment on Until Dawn Remake Is Being Criticized For Looking "Way Worse" Than The Original 1 month ago:
I played a few hours on PC yesterday and if somebody is saying it looks worse than the PS4 version I’m questioning their sanity.
On the other hand, raytracing, HDR and frame generation are all completely broken and it is a disgrace to charge 70 bucks for a remake of a 9 year old game and not even do basic QA on their PC port. You also need a PSN account to play your singleplayer game.
- Comment on Nightmare House: Reimagined - Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
In Sound Mind (same developer) is fantastic by the way.
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 months ago:
I would argue that even restricting sales to your own store is anti-competitive tying. You’re avoiding competing on the merits of a store using exclusive licensing of a creative work.
A creative work which you made yourself, which you can sell wherever you want.
Should you sell it everywhere so as many people can play it as possible? Sure. Do you have to? No.
Again, not a fan of the tactic, but they are trying to break an entrenched monopoly with a ton of network effects which is near impossible.
Let’s reverse the roles for a second: EGS is the big player and Steam is just getting started. EGS suddenly starts paying all publishers to only publish on their platform. Does that sound like competition to you? You don’t break a monopoly by using tools used by monopolies.
Their launcher is perfectly fine.
Fine? Yes. It does the bare minimum of being able to buy a game and start it. Does it do everything I expect a modern game launcher to do after existing for almost 6 years? Nope.
But they are. They’re not losing that much money, even with a tiny portion of market share. Valve having far more market share means they should be able to do it for an even smaller percentage than what epic is using, especially since Valve has 21 years of infrastructure to lean on.
They are “not losing much money” while providing a fraction of the services Steam does. They say 30% is too much, we can do it in 12% and yet they severely lack in social features, have no modding support, no VR support, no in-home streaming, no Remote Play Together, no Big Picture, no Family Sharing, a barely functioning Steamworks alternative, no Steam Deck support, no Linux support and absolutely zero open source contributions. That’s just the obvious stuff I can think of right now, every single menu you open in Steam you find a barebones menu in the EGS.
They don’t even need 21 years of infrastructure for most of these, they just need to fund development of it. Which they seem to be unwilling to do so.
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 months ago:
I’m not saying you should, I’m saying it doesn’t make them villains or a bad company.
But it does, paying third parties to not publish on your competitors platform is the oldest anti-competitive behaviour in the book.
It would have been completely fine if they started out with actually funding development of new games and only releasing them on their store.
I would have even given them some slack for their bad launcher since they were new to this.
Instead we are here, almost 6 years later. Their launcher is still trash, their exclusive deals were a complete money sink, EGS is still not profitable, they burned all bridges to Valve and are not one step closer to their claim that 30% is too much and they can do it with
8%12%. - Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 months ago:
They should have spent those millions to fund development of a store that can actually compete with the competition and studios that produce games, which they then can sell on their own platform.
Instead they snatched up every new release on the way to Steam while still not being able to provide the basic necessities of a modern PC store front.
So why should I bother purchasing something from them? They have nothing to offer and actively make it harder for me to play games through their store with their anti-Steam Deck stance.
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 months ago:
Great to see that Epic didn’t snatch that one up.
I love Remedy and their games but their publisher choice is always atrocious.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 2 months ago:
I still remember how confused I was when story DLC was announced for a game which I considered to be complete story wise.
Turns out the story was not complete.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Outer Wilds 2 months ago:
It’s a hard game to get into. Played for 2 hours on my first run and didn’t know where to go.
After 2 weeks or so I tried again because everyone was recommending it to me. Now it’s one of my favorites, even though it took another 2 hours before I had any idea what I was doing.
- Comment on [Discussion] What is your movie setup? Large OLED TV, beamer? Which kind of sound system do you use? 3 months ago:
I have a Sony VPL-XW5000ES projecting onto a 133" screen in my living room.
For audio I have a Denon AVR-X2400H in a 5.1.2 configuration. My front speakers are Klipsch, the center is a ELAC UC52, the subwoofer is a SVS PB-1000 and the rear and height speakers are by B&W.
My setup evolved over many years but I pretty much have no complaints about it now. Everything looks and sounds perfect.
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 3 months ago:
There’s the famous DNS haiku: i.imgur.com/eAwdKEC.png
- Comment on No Rest for the Wicked - The Crucible Update Trailer 3 months ago:
I bought the game on release purely to support the studio and I would definitely recommend waiting.
It’s an excellent game being made but you can really tell that they didn’t quite know where to go with this game. They pulled together mechanics from various genres that don’t fit together that well.
The waiting mechanics are a non-issue since you are usually playing “the real game” while side stuff is happening in your town.
Graphics, art and music are all fantastic, as expected from a game by Moon studios, but performance is an issue. Greatly improved since launch but still not where it should be.
They are listening to feedback though and I’m sure they can get everything in proper order in a year or so.
- Comment on Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy will come to Game Pass on August 8 according to reliable source 3 months ago:
Damn, it’s 20 bucks now? You have to play a lot of different games to make that worth it.
- Comment on I asked what your fave controllers are, now. What is the worst controller you have used? 4 months ago:
Yeah, I’m also on my third controller RMA. First the stick on the left controller started drifting, then the right controller’s plastic started peeling off and finally the right controller stopped working altogether.
At least they did the third RMA for free way out of warranty.
Had to buy a new headset cable on my own though when the display started flickering after 2 years. They also sent me a new plastic clip for the cable on the back when the old one broke and a new left speaker when it started crackling instead of requiring me to send in the full headset so that’s pretty cool.
- Comment on don't use ladybird browser lol 4 months ago:
Also, abusing a Github issue as your personal Twitter timeline is not going to persuade anyone.
The comments in that issue are atrocious.
- Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Announcement Trailer 5 months ago:
What for? It’s not like any more updates are planned.
- Comment on Stable Diffusion 3 Medium — Stability AI 5 months ago:
Pretty disappointed so far, almost none of the prompts I tried came out better in SD3. It also completely botches anything humanoid.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 1 (4K) | Coming 2025 5 months ago:
Definitely will wait for the full soundtrack to release before checking out the game. That trailer music sounded pretty weak.
- Comment on Nine Sols 九日 - Official Launch Trailer 5 months ago:
You can also give Kannagi Usagi a try to see if you like the formula.
It’s free and pretty much a 1:1 copy of Sekiro bosses.
- Comment on Like a Dragon creator talks about Sega “flat out rejecting” the first Yakuza game thinking it wouldn’t sell 5 months ago:
If you want to play the main series as well, they regularily go on sale for 35 bucks for all 7 games.
Yakuza 0 goes on sale for 5 bucks pretty much all the time as well. I’m on Yakuza 2 right now and so far they all work fine on Steam Deck.
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 6 months ago:
That’s a shame because ionity is absolute trash.
0.69 EUR/kWh is a robbery and requiring a subscription to fill your car cheaper is a scam. They are doing it with taxpayers’ money as well.
Imagine a publicly funded gas station with those conditions and people would lose their mind.
- Comment on Bethesda Quietly Removes Denuvo DRM from Ghostwire: Tokyo 7 months ago:
It’s twice as funny in this game because they added Denuvo a year after release. Meaning all pirates got the game DRM free on day one while paying customers got Denuvo patched in.
Absolute waste of money.
- Comment on Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut PC cross-play and system requirements revealed 7 months ago:
It does, but Sony didn’t go through the crash and burn phase on PC yet so they need to add their own fancy overlay before killing it in a few years.
- Comment on Horizon Forbidden West is now available on PC 7 months ago:
Isn’t anyone excited?
The excited people are playing the game right now instead of shit posting on Lemmy. :D
- Comment on I'm guilty, lol 8 months ago:
Same :)
I also get unreasonably annoyed when an application replaces my ASCII emoticons with emojis.
- Comment on [Discussion] What's your "this has bothered me for way too long" movie moment? 8 months ago:
And then the Indonesians become the headrest: youtu.be/ErrRhXItBWc?t=1m44s
- Comment on The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing 8 months ago:
Played most of it on my Deck and it ran well, enjoy. :)
- Comment on The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing 8 months ago:
I also got the Yakuza Collection just now after finshing Yakuza 0 a few weeks ago. 35 bucks for Yakuza 1 - 6 seems like a steal.
