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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  CDs and DVDs are digital media. There is no degradation of the content when you convert a fragile physical disk into a dumped ISO, and the dumped ISO can be stored on an arbitrarily large number of devices. Stuff like physical books or analog media (vinyl records, for example) are worth caring about physical degradation for, but a “physical copy” of a PC software disc is just a more fragile way to store the exact same ones and zeroes that can be stored on actually resilient media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  release installers DRM-free online. No need to bother pressing plastic and wrapping it in plastic and wrapping that plastic in thinner plastic and then putting it in a box full of plastic to ship around the globe on giant cargo ships, to be ferried from the docks to sit on store shelves or the shelves of some amazon warehouse where they’ll get wrapped in more plastic and shipped in more trucks all so that you can install the files to your SSD anyway, and if it’s DRM-free you could just make backups instead of holding onto the plastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as spellcasting is still good and spellcrafting is still in. Magic was a complete joke in Skyrim and not just because it was terrible DPS compared to swords and bows. The spells were all so boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should we boycott games with loot boxes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just not buying something isn’t a boycott. Don’t buy bad games, and it’s a good idea to include dark patterns in the criteria for what makes a game bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it’s actually running at 720p30 and being FSR/framegenned into a blurry shimmery mess. There’s no way Nintendo managed to cram a chip powerful enough to render its own Switch 1 games at true 1080p120 into a tablet.

  Fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it’s actually running at 720p30 and being FSR/framegenned into a blurry shimmery mess. There’s no way Nintendo managed to cram a chip powerful enough to render its own Switch 1 games at true 4k120 into a tablet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Xbox 360 Can Now Be Hacked with Just a USB Flash Drive⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah. Game consoles are DRM-riddled computers shackled into being toys. Being able to crack one open and turn it into something that can be used in non-manufacturer-approved ways is a cool scene in its own right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Xbox 360 Can Now Be Hacked with Just a USB Flash Drive⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is “hacked” in the console modding parlance. It’s not about gaining access to someone else’s Xbox to do something nefarious, it’s about running software that Microsoft doesn’t want you to run on your xbox, including pirated games. “Jailbreak” is a synonym for “hack” or “softmod” in this scene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Responds to Leaks: "Not Official"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell that to the Gamecube and Wii U eras. Funny that those are also all-time peaks for game quality, Nintendo is better at making video games when they’re struggling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bioshock creator Ken Levine discusses the future of narratives in games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also just grammatical stuff that looks better in text. “In the future, it’s player driven” would conversationally flow perfectly well, but as written text the tense of “it’s” doesn’t line up with the statement being about the future. Hence the present tense being corrected to future tense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$250 Analogue 3D will play all your N64 cartridges in 4K early next year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Native 4k output instead of a crappy upscaler or a RetroTink which costs more alone than this Analogue product. N64’s native composite is laggy and hideous on a flatscreen TV, you need something like this or a retrotink or a CRT to make the games look good. Even if the Analogue couldn’t play ROMs off an SD card (it can, if Analogue’s previous products are any indication), you could just stick a Summercart in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rivals of Aether II | Official Release Date Trailer (October 23)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Work required for ROA1 level of “workshop characters” is exponentially higher in the new art style and engine. When/if this game gets Steam Workshop, it’ll probably end up with more “tweaked/cloned” characters than totally new wacky MUGEN stuff like ROA1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, there’s an oddly existential argument to be made that “funny” AI answers like this or adding a pot of Elmer’s Glue to pizza sauce to get the cheese to stick are valued. Simply because those are the posts I’ve seen from Google AI, and I’ve never touched the feature myself.

  By letting a language “speaker” learn from Reddit and forums, we created an approximation of “that guy who thinks he’s a comedian” because that guy is always there and always drowns in upvotes. Clearly, he’s a valuable part of the discourse!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My solo project roguelike tower defense game is having a free prologue⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of Heretic’s Fork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hades II - Sign Up for the HADES II Technical Test⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, waiting on Hades 1’s full release was easy since it was EGS exclusive for the entire early access phase. This one’s gonna be harder to dodge until it’s done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the EGS phase was just glorified beta access like Hades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pirate it. There’s no DRM. Buy it if you like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OLED is nice and all, but the upgrade I really want is this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Returnal supports dualsense advanced features, you just have to plug the controller into the PC and disable steam input.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonus XP, early Black Friday discounts, and new weapons to test!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pof for $7.50 is utterly absurd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most “retro” games have been backed up but the definition of retro shifts all the time. You don’t even need to go that far forward: the PS3 and X360 have a ton of missing stuff - games yes but especially DLCs and update versions.

  The pre-online era was “easier” - find each revision of a Donkey Kong Country cart and your job’s done. Now, every game has 12 versions and casual pirates that “just want to play the game” only bother sharing the oldest and newest ones. There’s content locked behind promotions and account bonuses. There’s patches that alter or remove content (or patch important speedrun tech out of games). And the presence of online in otherwise single-player games is always going to be something inherently opposing preservation of the original experience - you’re not going to ever get the same experience playing Wind Waker HD with Tingle bottles that I did because either the feature is dead or it’s been reimplemented through something like Pretendo. And with a reimplementation, the source for the community posts is no longer casual fans taking selfies with bosses but instead comprised exclusively of tech savvy users who bothered to install a fake Miiverse on their hacked Wii U / emulator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only You Can Prevent The Game Awards Hype Cycle - Aftermath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t last year’s TGA the one where having the tab open in the background entered you into a drawing for a Steam Deck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Wanna Maker has released on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a maker game, so there’s no reason to believe you can’t make easy levels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So use a tool like this for call of duty multiplayer lobbies, not globally. Who cares if people “cheat” in single player games?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Their plan for when Fortnite stopped pulling in money was for their Epic Games Store (that they propped up by paying devs lump sums just to not launch their games on Steam) to actually make Steam levels of money because surely exclusives and freebies will make people spend money on their store. Turns out there’s a lot of people that will never spend a dime on EGS, either because they won’t install it or only use it for the free games.

  So all that Fortnite money they used to pay devs to not release their games on Steam ended up being a failed investment, and they’ve had to change their incentives from “we’ll give you a huge lump sum that’s about equal to what you’d have made with a successful Steam launch” to “well we’ll give you a better revenue split if you launch exclusively on our store that guarantees you get 10% of sales volume compared to Steam”. Turns out 60% of 1m sales is better than 80% of 100k sales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo® IV is coming to Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People would have to buy and refund this one to bomb it, versus overwatch which was f2p. It’ll probably settle at “mixed” or “mostly positive” until blizzard does something to try to squeeze more purchases out of the playerbase again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine Equipment Templates had slots for all equippable weapons ...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’d need to open a menu and fiddle with the UI to switch from axe/axe to sword/axe on soulbeast, that saves nothing over the current situation where you open the inventory menu and fiddle with the UI to swap weapons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New bug: if ONE guy in a squad is blocked by you, you don't see the entire squad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah. That’s pretty bad.

  That was already how it worked if you had the commander blocked, you would still be able to see and join the squads of commanders that blocked you but not people you chose to block. Backwards-ass functionality. Hopefully if they fix this bug they also let a commander’s block list prevent people from /sqjoining or clicking in from LFG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Updrafts and spirals are back on the menu!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Now we just need a way to toggle (or hold a key to disable / enable) the ley-line mastery

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unity would like that though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some quick maths on the wizards vault and some concerns about the IG-Economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am also concerned, because the game giving raw gold for low-effort (or zero-effort) farming is uncharted territory. Previously, it’d give value in laurels (t6/t3 materials) and mystic coins - when a player wanted to turn those into anything other than stuff directly crafted with those materials, they’d need to permanently remove gold from the game by using the TP. The only sources for meaningful chunks of raw gold (not valuable materials) have always been tied to time gated content like metas and instanced content, and it’s almost certainly how this 10 year old game has avoided inflation issues.

  There’s a third type of login farmer between the “get 5aa” and “do weeklies” ones - the one who does the stuff that doesn’t require leaving a menu, like salvaging 10 items, identifying gear, AFKing in the daily activity, viewing a Vista, or some of the combat ones that can be done without leaving lion’s arch like breaking a bar (training golem).