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linrilang, do games w Day 351 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Honestly, every time I hear the Fire Temple chanting, I feel like I accidentally joined a cult — but hey, at least the music slaps.

neon_nova, do games w Day 351 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

What a great game! That’s a fun temple too.

Hadriscus, do games w Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

Nice. Life is short, play games

slaneesh_is_right,

*buy

Hadriscus,

buy, rent, pirate, whatever floats your boat

sugar_in_your_tea,

No, the Steam life is not to play games, but to buy them.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Elden ring night reign single player

It already supports single player.

It supports 1 or 3 players, which is why not supporting just 2 players was stupid and they are fixing it.

Jazsta, do games w Patient Gamers - Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

Noita. Got a good deal on the steam sale. Took a while to get over the hump of not knowing what the heck is going on and dying a bunch but getting better at it has been fun

mohab, do games w Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

Why do I play all these games? Because it's important that they're played.

Well, evidently not since you're actively ignoring about 77% of them 😂 And who boasts about their hyperconsumerism on fucking Lemmy of all platforms 😂

atomicpoet,

Wrong. Not ignored—not played yet.

Dyskolos,

Come on, none of us will ever play all their games. I’d bet around 2000 of my games on steam are some free keys or other incredibly cheap shit I wouldn’t touch with a 10m-pole. If I’d ever find them again in the library, that is.

But I admire your positivity and optimism 😁

atomicpoet,

Hey, I’ve played every game I purchased between 2012-15.

Dyskolos,

Hmm sounds suspiciously like one of those sane people who buy a game and then have thousands of hours of fun with it. Get outta here 😁

Dyskolos,

Playing for an hour to see how shitty it is? Or actually bought to enjoy for manymany hours, as intended? Thought so 😁 For us peeps with way more than a few k games, 20% actually been played would be already the big numbers I’d guess.

atomicpoet,

Hey, most games are not meant to be played for thousands of hours. And actually, most games I own can be completed in less than 100 hours. Especially if they’re not RPGs. Then there’s arcade games which are often not meant to be completed at all.

But then again, I’ve already said I’m not a completionist. I only complete games if they’re compelling enough to complete.

BurgerBaron,
@BurgerBaron@piefed.social avatar

My completion rate is obviously much lower, but I've played at least two hours of 628/788 games in my 19 year old Steam account. I guess I'm a bit pickier with accepting freebies or buying on sales.

That is the result of a deliberate effort. Two year long project to play at least 2 hours of every game in my backlog minimum before I can uninstall it. Until there's nothing let but the dregs. A YouTuber inspired me, except he had a time limit deadline for the video.

Backlog was 258 games, now 160. Really there's about 30 left worth at least looking at. A lot of old crap from the very first Steam sale in there.

Most recent from the backlog was Alpha Protocol with some pcgamingwiki fixes. Yep that's been sitting in there a long long time. Loved it so much I finished it!

Dyskolos,

Definately one of the more wiser purchase-guys :-) I went a lil nuts when inventory-gifts were a thing. You know, doing what the corporations all do: Exploit globalism to my advantage. But for many years I rarey buy anything anymore, only if i REALLY intend to play it. I’m old, not wise :-)

tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Not ignored—not played yet.

Journal, July 3, 2025:

The day opened with a round of https://store.steampowered.com/app/2478330/Barbie_Project_Friendship/.

I then followed it up with survival horror https://store.steampowered.com/app/1944430/Amnesia_The_Bunker/ from survival horror specialists Frictional Games.

Next on the list was gay dom/sub dating sim https://store.steampowered.com/app/2747220/Blood_Domination/.

Then hard milsim https://store.steampowered.com/app/1076160/Command_Modern_Operations/.

I wound down with some relaxing time in art toy https://store.steampowered.com/app/1418570/Zen_Trails/.

I have always been partial to variety.

atomicpoet,

The only game I own on this list is Amnesia.

But yes, during a weekend, I’ve been known to launch a few titles. 😆

Tudsamfa, (edited ) do games w Patient Gamers - Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
@Tudsamfa@lemmy.world avatar

OpenTTD. Trains go vroom.

Had it on my radar for a while, didn’t think I would like it this much. Boy was I wrong, my sleep is as badly scheduled as my trains.

cyberpunk007, do games w Elden ring night reign single player

You can play it single player, I played all the souls game single player, but more recently prefer doing bosses with others because I’m not a patient player and from software bosses require patience. Lots of it. Lol.

Nikls94, do games w Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

Did you finish all of them? Or at least play them for an hour? If you’re using steam for 20 years, that’s a game a day.

atomicpoet,

I definitely don’t complete all of them. My goal is to at least play an hour each, but not every game is worth an hour.

The most time I’ve ever spent on a game is around 100 hours.

BigTrout75, do games w Patient Gamers - Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

Mario 64. Never really had the patience before, I would rather play PC games. It’s pretty fun. Gameplay is where it’s at.

qarbone, do games w My statue Peebee (Mass Effect Andromeda)

The only asari I’ll ever truly accept is Dr. Liara T’soni, my OTL.

Brkdncr, do games w Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

How much have you spent

atomicpoet,

A few thousand dollars.

Never bought a single game at full price. Almost all the time, it’s at least 90% off. Lots of game bundles abound. And free games are given away all the time.

euAppleHater, do games w Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

Oh sorry sir you are not playing these games on a phone or tablet platform therefore you are not really playing true games, you are only consuming mindless entertainment.

You’re really busy posting on the internet for someone that has 7.000+ games to play with 77% of them in backlog, and a family to spend time with.

rigatti,
@rigatti@lemmy.world avatar

That other thread got weird and defensive real fast.

ChapulinColorado,

Tends to go that way when the take is so dumb and disconnected from reality. Might as well have shown dick pics with diamond encrusted micro transaction “rewards”.

atomicpoet,

Great idea for a future thread.

oji, do games w Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

I actually own

The funny thing is, you don’t own them.

atomicpoet,

Say what you will, every game I’ve bought—I can still play. And I’ve been buying Steam games for over a decade.

Meanwhile, none of my GameCube discs work on my Switch.

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

You can still play it but increasingly games are becoming very different from what you bought.

I’ve started noticing a disturbing trend. More and more games that are older being sold at steep discounts or “free to play” and simultaneously jampacked with invasive telemetry and/or ads/microtransactions. And since Steam won’t let you play older versions, those games are effectively dead.

atomicpoet,

Out of the thousands of games I have, not once have I noticed anything like you describe.

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

Oh well if you haven’t experienced it, it must not exist then 🤷

atomicpoet,

I mean, if it’s a trend, you’d think I would have noticed it by now.

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

And I suppose my experience doesn’t count? Or you think I’m making this up?

atomicpoet,

I don’t know, you haven’t pointed out multiple examples.

Hadriscus,

hmmm that doesn’t ring a bell here either. Which games do this ?

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

The most recent ones I’ve noticed are Riders Republic and Borderlands 2. Helldivers also introduced a bunch of new microtransactions years after it’s launch.

Dyskolos,

And what there is steam’s doing? Borderland’s a greedy IP from a greedy company. What do you expect?

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

And since Steam won’t let you play older versions, those games are effectively dead.

Dyskolos,

So it’s the fault of the delivery-device? Why didn’t you make a backup of an older version just in case? Besides, last time I checked, you can. With a bit more hassle. All not the case for a “live” online-game. Which borderlands wants to be.

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

So it’s the fault of the delivery-device?

…yeah? Of course it is.

Why didn’t you make a backup of an older version just in case?

I pay Steam to do that.

Besides, last time I checked, you can. With a bit more hassle.

Not interested.

All not the case for a “live” online-game. Which borderlands wants to be.

That’s exactly the problem.

Dyskolos,

If BL is “exactly the problem”. And GOG does it better. Why is it still steam’s fault? Use GOG then? Where is it the delivery-device’s fault? As BL2 offers online-coop, and is also the major selling point of that game, a fragmented market is impossible.

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

Why would you think another company doing it better makes Valve not responsible? I don’t understand the logic.

As BL2 offers online-coop, and is also the major selling point of that game, a fragmented market is impossible.

…no? It’s not. You don’t have to play it online.

Dyskolos,

It doesn’t matter if you prefer offline or not or that you CAN play solo, it is online coop. I never played it coop either, but that’s what it is and hence everyone has to have the same version. Simple as that.

Point with gog was that they do it better. Vastly so. Yet only a tiny fraction of devs choose them. Hence it begs the question whether it’s the platform’s fault per se.

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

It doesn’t matter if you prefer offline or not or that you CAN play solo, it is online coop.

Of course it does?

Hence it begs the question whether it’s the platform’s fault per se.

There is no question. GOG is proof that you can do it. Therefore if others don’t do it, it’s their fault.

Once again, all of this is beside the point. The point is that those games are effectively gone.

Dyskolos,

It only matters in the sense that you’re allowed to not purchase online games.

Otherwise we’re circling here.

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

It only matters in the sense that you’re allowed to not purchase online games.

Virtually every game in existence has some sort of online element. But what you seem to be unable to grasp is that many of them have single player modes that don’t require any internet connection.

It’s as simple has having a server that checks the version of the game installed before allowing access to online services.

Dyskolos,

Oh wow, thanks for making me understand games and how software works. If only I knew earlier…

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

No problem 👍

Hadriscus,

I have to say I never played those. Do these microtransactions lock content that was previously available out of the box?

Dyskolos,

That is what firewalls and sinkholes are for. Stupid telemetry.

Yet I never noticed such a “trend” in direct combination with steam. The whole industry goes to shit, but it’s not steam’s fault.

Ulrich, (edited )
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

That is what firewalls and sinkholes are for. Stupid telemetry.

That shouldn’t be necessary and is beside the point.

The whole industry goes to shit, but it’s not steam’s fault.

  1. Steam has the clout to fight back against this
  2. As I already mentioned, it is partially because they don’t allow you to run older versions of games.
skulblaka,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

[…] because they don’t allow you to run older versions of games.

They do if the dev makes it available, I’m looking at four different versions of Terraria in the beta menu right now that stretch back four major versions. I’m pretty sure a couple games in my library somewhere have their entire update history in there, though I can’t think of one to name off the top of my head right now, that’s not a feature I use very often. [Edit: Rift Wizard is one that does precisely this, I knew I had at least one in here]

This is not true of all games, but it could be, either directly by game devs without Valve even having to care, or via pressure by Valve by just making older versions available whether the devs want it or not. I think the latter option is probably the better move, but there’s technically nothing stopping the former other than the game devs themselves.

There’s also a valid argument that making downpatching very easy would be a huge boon to piracy. This is a reasonable talking point no matter which side of that fence you sit on. It would also probably benefit modding as well, which I think is a more objective good but some game developers or more likely publishers would probably disagree.

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

They do if the dev makes it available

That shouldn’t be their decision.

I’m looking at four different versions of Terraria

Literally never seen that before. I think I see if the dev pushing their 4th update that day and now I have to wait a half an hour to play the damn game.

downpatching very easy would be a huge boon to piracy.

Not my problem. Guess I’d better just pirate the game instead.

Dyskolos,

Firewalls and especially sinkholes are VERY necessary, far beyond silly game telemetry.

They don’t allow this for a good reason. Imagine 1 million clueless gamers running an older version of their game because they’re too lazy too update. And, of course, then complain about a buggy game and the tech-support will drown even more and review would end up more badly. nothing worse than a fragmented game-world. how should online games work if every Joe and Jane got their “own” favorite version? the average user is a total clueless (pc-wise) person.

Also, you can install an older version. Just with more hassles. Also you could by GUI with many games IF the Dev wants you to be able to. Like a select few versions, if you’d prefer an older state. But, of course, only indie devs do that.

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

Firewalls and especially sinkholes are VERY necessary

You misread my comment. I didn’t say they weren’t necessary.

Imagine 1 million clueless gamers running an older version of their game because they’re too lazy too update.

  1. GOG already does this and it’s not a problem.
  2. It updates automatically but you can choose to roll it back at any time.

how should online games work if every Joe and Jane got their “own” favorite version?

Not talking about online games. Besides, the how or why do not matter, the point is the games are gone.

Also, you can install an older version. Just with more hassles.

I pay Steam to deal with the hassles. I am not a software engineer.

But, of course, only indie devs do that.

Valve has the power to enforce this system-wide.

Dyskolos,

Gog does it, but Gog only offers a mere fraction of what Steam has. Also your example of BL2 is not on gog either. For that reason.

Sure, Valve could enforce that, but…as said…why? They already offer the option for different versions. If the devs don’t use that, they will have their reasons. The biggest one i mentioned before: Fragmentation and the resulting nightmare of customer-support. On steam’s AND the dev’s side. Look at the Android or Windows-market. Someone complaining “my windows sucks”, but still uses Windows Vista. Or people screaming for support because “my favourite app doesn’t work” and use android 10.

Don’t get me wrong, personally I’d value the freedom of choice. But the vast majority of people are clueless (and still use those devices) and need to be “guided”. Every system gets dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. That’s why apple does so well (besides the “brand”-shit ofc).

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

Gog does it, but Gog only offers a mere fraction of what Steam has.

And that matters for the purposes of this conversation why?

Sure, Valve could enforce that, but…as said…why?

I explained why in my first comment. It’s why we’re talking in the first place.

Fragmentation and the resulting nightmare of customer-support. On steam’s AND the dev’s side.

I don’t see it. Neither of them have to support old versions.

But the vast majority of people are clueless (and still use those devices) and need to be “guided”.

No they don’t. If people are clueless, they don’t need to utilize this feature. It’s call an “option”.

Dyskolos,

Just because YOU don’t see why support on both sides hate fragmentation, doesn’t matter. They do nonetheless for very obvious reasons unless you are very alien to tech.

And yes, people do need guidance. If they’re not forced to update, they rarely do. And then they complain shit’s not working. People don’t read manuals, FAQs, guidelines and also they don’t update unless forced to (or strooongly motivated or just nagged to death). I’ve been in this industry for nearly 4 decades now. From all sides. The average Joe or Jane is the worst.

And yeah sure, it doesn’t matter at all for some games. You play the version you want and it’s all fine. But either you offer this option (which steam does BTW, as mentioned before) or you don’t. If you don’t, maaaany devs would be going to use another platform. Maybe fucking EPIC. That’d be grand.

smeg,

FYI if seems you can access older versions of Steam games, it’s just a bit hacky

Ulrich,
@Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

If I want hacky, I’ll go pirate the game. I pay for them so I don’t need a computer science degree to play them.

smeg,

You can still play them on your GameCube or Wii though, or take copies of the discs and play them on anything that runs Dolphin

kadup, (edited )
@kadup@lemmy.world avatar

While you’re not wrong, by that logic, it’s actually fairly trivial to take my Steam downloads drive and run it on any computer even without my Steam account.

smeg,

Does that work? I always assumed games with DRM wouldn’t work if they couldn’t authenticate to your Steam account.

kadup,
@kadup@lemmy.world avatar

It works in the same way that dumping your GameCube games and running them on Dolphin works… It’s quick and easy, but it’s against the ToS and requires breaking DRM.

Steam’s DRM is weak, and in some interviews some Valve developers even gave hints that this is on purpose. Many Steam games will simply run without Steam if you just double click the .exe in the install folder, and the vast majority that only rely on Steam’s DRM can be opened by running a free “Steam Emulator” software that pretends to be an active Steam account with a correct license.

sugar_in_your_tea,

A lot of Steam games don’t have any DRM, and most of the rest are pretty easy to strip.

Give it a shot sometime. Completely quit out of Steam, turn off your internet, and try running some of your older Steam games directly from the Steam folder.

I do this somewhat often when my kids are on my other computer playing games on my account and I still want to play something. It’s a little trickier on Linux since you need something to run the Proton/WINE layer, so I mostly stick to Linux-native games in that pretty rare case.

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

Family share is actually great for this now.

It used to be that if anyone in the group was playing any game it would lock you out of playing anything else on the main account without kicking them off.

But they eased up on it now so you can both play at the same time as long as you aren’t playing the same game at the same time.

So just make a burner account for you or for your kids and family share the library to it and now you don’t even have to go offline unless everyone in the house wants to play BG3 simultaneously.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Really? I haven’t tried that since they revamped the sharing thing. I have three accounts, one for me, my wife, and one my kids share, and they’re all linked. Most of the time my kids use my account, but I can easily change that if it’ll allow simultaneous play (on different games).

Thanks for the tip, I’ll try it out!

Dyskolos,

But the vast majority can be played without steam. Mostly by force coughcough but still. I know, still no legal ownership.

etchinghillside, do games w Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

23% average game completion rate? Or “has been loaded at least once”?

atomicpoet,

Unapologetically, I’m a non-completionist.

Only complete the games you’re compelled to complete.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Exactly. I have something like 10-20 “complete” games because they either give 100% completion for rolling credits or I really enjoyed the game and ended up completing the achievements anyway. Of the rest, I’ve probably rolled credits on 80% of my “played” games, because sometimes I just lose interest before I reach the end, while still enjoying my time w/ it.

Games should be fun, and if they stop being fun, move on.

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

They said they “played” 23% of the games, not “completed.”

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