Dyson Sphere Program. Played in early access few years ago. The game has changed a lot since, but with a toddler now I don’t think I’ll have the amount of time needed anytime soon, and by the time I have I’ll probably have something else
I get random friend requests from accounts in discord servers that I haven’t even viewed, let alone interacted in, for years - most have some sort of “live/laugh/love” bio blurb. Maybe I’m just an antisocial hermit at this point, but I ignore every single one.
In comparison, Steam seems a lot more genuine. You can always try suggesting discord for voice chat if you’re leery of installing an unknown program just for talking to that user.
Mouse-heavy games like Cities: Skylines, Sims 3, and other management games. Due to a chronic injury, I’m force to mainly play with a controller, and trying to play these games with a controller would be abysmal.
I have blocked 357 accounts that sent a random friend invite, where 302 of it were automated. I do have some stuff on my Team Fortress 2/CS2 inventory which attracts all sorts of scammers and bots, even though I’ve stopped playing both games for quite some time.
With that said, I’m cool with random invites from real people. There are lots of games where you can use more people to play with, regardless of how close you are.
I tried to get into MOBAs multiple times. Just reinstalled Dota 2 again (previously when I was still on Windows tried LoL). I don’t know what it is, but I just cant get into and play it. I like the idea of it though.
I’m actually very interested into Deadlock. Got an invite when the game was new and it is what I imagined SMITE would be. The game has actual hero shooter elements and third person shooter like Marvel Rivals*, paired with the genre I am trying to get into. The reason why I do not play it is, because I don’t like playing Early Access games and wait for its official launch.
Edit: (Overwatch is first person not third, but it doesn’t actually matter)
Damn, I was going to recommend Xenoblade and Monster Hunter, but seems these are the exact games that inspired you to make this thread in the first placr, haha.
There’s so many Nintendo games I wish I could play but I haven’t had a Nintendo console since the Wii U and I can’t really convince myself to buy a switch (1 or 2) especially now that the Steam Deck exists.
I’ll probably emulate at some point. But there’s so many games out there that I’m kinda just fine never touching Nintendo again. Especially with how they are as a company.
Most Switch games run well on the Steam Deck; I just wish someone would fix Starlink: Battle for Atlas emulation so that I can play as Fox, which can’t be done on the Steam version.
Also it’s kind of silly how people automatically blame Steam for this, even though Valve does not force you to use DRM to publish to Steam. It is the developers themselves that chose to add DRM or tie themselves to the Steam API so that the game can’t run without it.
So for example getting Dorfromantik or Citizen Sleeper from Steam or GOG is virtually equivalent in terms of ownership.
But Steam didn’t kill the idea of ownership of games? It never existed for digital distribution (or even physical with DRM), which existed before Steam.
Steam didn’t do that. Even when you bought a physical disk you didn’t own the game. Microsoft is the one you should be blaming for how software is licensed over actually being sold to you. It was them who really pushed for that shit in the fucking 80s.
Steam didn’t do that. Even Super Nintendo cartridges tried to claim in the Terms and Conditions that you legally didn’t own the copy you paid for. It was never contested, and thus we have the current software ownership debacle.
Dead Space 1 remaster. I categorically refuse to give any money to EA (even before the Saudi buyout), and that’s their only game I’m even remotely interested in that isn’t available through alternative channels.
I’d love to play games like Fortnight, PUBG, and League of Legends (I know, don’t judge me), but they don’t work on Linux, so they’re just a no-go for me. I used to play GTA V Online, but they added kernel anticheat to that too, and now I don’t play that anymore.
I have Windows, but I’m not booting into another partition just to play a game. I use it for compiling my software for Windows users, and that’s already too much of a pain in the ass. I cannot stand Windows. It’s a bloated mess, and I don’t understand how anyone gets any actual work done on it. Just navigating it feels like a chore.
I can’t even play Apex anymore because EA decided Linux players cheat, and therefore, must be categorically banned from playing. All they did was turn off that switch for Proton/WINE support.
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