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Jagermo, do games w Steam turns 20 today: "We've had to try a lot of different things over the years"

Never forget how it started. In the beginning, steam was as hated as uplay, origin and epic combined

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Kichae, do games w Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag can’t be bought on Steam due to a “technical issue”, not an incoming remake, Ubisoft insists

Well, you see, the technical issue that's stopping them from selling it is called "canibalization of sales", which is technically an issue for their marketing department.

SkullHex2, (edited ) do games w Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag can’t be bought on Steam due to a “technical issue”, not an incoming remake, Ubisoft insists
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  • all-knight-party,
    @all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

    Probably because Black Flag is fucking revered and people would eat that shit up on the pedigree alone. It's an open world pirate game, which doesn't have much competition.

    AC3 stands to gain more from a remake, but it would require some good faith from the community to buy into it, and it's not as unique of an overall experience from the initial premise compared to Black Flag which instantly forms a picture in your mind of a free booting high seas adventure with some light assassination.

    Delusional, (edited )

    I’d kill for that game but more centered around pirating. Maybe have your own fleet with more ship customization and be able to take over and build a city on an island that becomes thriving over time and then have to defend from attacks by the British navy or something.

    ConditionOverload, do games w Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag can’t be bought on Steam due to a “technical issue”, not an incoming remake, Ubisoft insists
    @ConditionOverload@lemmy.world avatar

    Weird to think it was because of a remake. The game isn’t old and still holds up very well.

    GreenMario,

    Last of Us part 1 remake says hi

    mateomaui,

    Yeah but the original wasn’t on PC for TLoU

    Virkkunen,
    @Virkkunen@kbin.social avatar

    They didn't remake the game so they could port it to PC, they did it so they could sell more banking on the triple dippers

    mateomaui,

    Both is correct.

    I mean if you don’t understand that they’ve ported or remade their PS exclusives to PC because they also wanted a new untapped player base that didn’t own playstations, I don’t know what to tell you, brah.

    Endorkend, (edited )
    @Endorkend@kbin.social avatar

    It's not weird to think as the remake being in the works has been reported many months before they pulled the game from Steam.

    It's a decade old and big studios are creatively bankrupt, so they just love simple redoing old shit and reusing the old work.

    Skyrim wasn't the game that started this shit, but it sure was what popularized it with studios.

    Daefsdeda,

    It holds up well until you try to run it. Terrible issues on PC they never fixed…

    ConditionOverload,
    @ConditionOverload@lemmy.world avatar

    Weird, I don’t get those issues on my PC. I usually install it every year at least once to play through it.

    Daefsdeda,

    I think it can go one of two ways. Either it runs fine

    Or you need windows 98 compatibility mode, change some ini setting, set physx or whatever its called to off and be finally able to play.

    Then see yourself standing in your ships boundaries, unable to move. This all happened to me and I just stopped playing.

    It did play well a few years back but that was on windows 8.

    bionicjoey, do games w Tenebris Somnia is an 8-bit horror adventure with a flashy twist

    Any Matt Colville fans think of the Somnium Tenebris?

    caseyweederman, do games w Tenebris Somnia is an 8-bit horror adventure with a flashy twist

    Ooh. Will I find the front door key inside the jack-o-lantern?

    toxicbubble, do games w Google, Netflix, Apple and Amazon are the "barbarians at the gate" of the games industry, says ex-Sony boss

    i imagine Netflix games would end in a cliffhanger then cancelled before a sequel, google games will track your usage for personalized ads, apple games will eventually require accessories & dongles, amazon will slowly buy smaller studios & become the next EA

    dyma, do games w Starfield Steam Deck performance report: a frontier too far
    @dyma@lemmy.world avatar

    mods aren’t for everyone but the Steam Deck Essentials mod boosted me like 10 fps in most areas and I’ve had a pretty good time

    HidingCat,

    This is hilarious, a mod released within a week of the game's launch boosts it by 10 FPS. Why can modders do it but not the dev team?

    PutangInaMo,

    Because they’re free and can be counted on.

    dyma,
    @dyma@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m gonna give the devs the benefit of the doubt and say maybe they don’t want to ship compressed textures by default since plenty of people will need them to play on ultra settings, but a modder can cater to the smaller, dedicated fanbase on the steam deck. but idk I’m not a dev

    moogs,

    Most likely because it makes the game look more potato than the Devs were willing to allow

    Ismay, (edited ) do games w Starfield Steam Deck performance report: a frontier too far

    Too bad the performances are not the biggest problem with that game

    Sooooo boring, shitty interface, emotionless characters, the starting plot is dumb as f. I’m really happy to have taken the pass to test it, would have been a waste of money

    Well more time for bg3 and sea of stars

    nanoUFO,
    @nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

    That sounds like fallout 4 in a nutshell, a game that I couldn’t stand more than an hour of.

    aesopjah,

    The starting sequence is waaay too long.

    Hey, I’ve got an idea for how to start our go-anywhere do-anything space exploration game! 8 hours of hand holding tutorial quests ought to be plenty of buildup, right? None of this exciting dragon attack starting sequence BS, let’s really bore the hell out of our players.

    BlinkerFluid, do games w Epic are hiring for a Fortnite open world survival game
    @BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one avatar

    What kind of survival game?


    Get out of here, Stalker!

    yelling at Darth Vader

    bfg9k, do games w Starfield Steam Deck performance report: a frontier too far

    I barely get 30-45fps at 1080p with an rtx 2070, not surprised the Deck is struggling.

    BruceTwarzen,

    That is just the Bethesda experience

    PeterPoopshit, (edited ) do games w Starfield Steam Deck performance report: a frontier too far

    As a die hard Windows hater that games (I haven’t had Windows installed on any pc I own since 2015) all of the AAA games always get absolutely dogshit performance when they first come out. It was like that with Cyberpunk and it was like that with Hogwarts Legacy. Today, those games play just as well on Windows as on Linux. I’m sure they’ll eventually work it out

    nanoUFO, (edited )
    @nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I remember seeing a video where they compared linux to windows starfield performance and it was basically the same on average fps but the 1% lows were less prevalent on linux so it might actually work better on linux.

    Ah here I found it www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC6fb889qo4

    PeterPoopshit, (edited )

    I bet it works fine on amd gpus right now. If you’re on a 10 series Nvidia card you’re fucked. If you’re on a newer Nvidia card it’s still kind of bad though but not every protondb report involving Nvidia 3xxx or 4xxx cards is complaining about performance. I suspect there exists some kind of performance fix for later Nvidia cards that is not yet well known.

    The latest driver is 537.13 I think. Most of the time they only bother to put every multiple of 5 driver version in Linux distro repositories. Someone that was familiar with how exactly the low level parts of this worked could manually get driver 537 working on Linux probably. No idea if that would work or not but I haven’t seen someone claim to have tried it yet.

    updawg,

    I get a lot of crashes on my rx 6700s, mainly when loading into Neon or The Well

    circuitfarmer,
    @circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    I’m on a 6600 XT and have had not a single crash. I wonder what the difference is. I’m using Pop! with the Liquorix kernel.

    updawg,

    I’m on Windows 11

    circuitfarmer, (edited )
    @circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    As someone playing on Linux desktop, yes. It’s fine*.

    *as fine as it can be, because it needs some general optimization

    Edit: and yes, I’m on AMD (it’s the obvious choice for Linux gaming; drivers are in the kernel)

    FrankTheHealer,

    To be fair, Cyberpunk’s performance was awful for everyone at launch, Windows, Linux and consoles.

    At one point I remember seeing someone on Reddit show that the game was less likely to crash on Linux than on Windows. In that regard, one could argue the performance was better for Linux users when Cyberpunk launched. Mind you, the games was still a buggy mess at launch too.

    circuitfarmer, (edited )
    @circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    Cyberpunk’s performance was awful for everyone at launch, Windows, Linux and consoles.

    But it wasn’t? There were a lot of bugs, to be sure, but PC performance was not among them. Hell, I was on a 970 at the time, and it was still fine.

    The console versions specifically were a shit show.

    But in regards to running better on Linux, a lot of it tends to come down to shader precaching. Lots of stutters on Windows are the first time a shader loads. That was definitely the case with Elden Ring.

    EarthlingHazard, do games w Starfield Steam Deck performance report: a frontier too far

    I don’t think anyone is surprised to hear that it does not run well on the deck. Personally I’ll be streaming the game with game pass if I want to play on steam deck

    FrankTheHealer,

    What do you use to stream game pass games on Steam Deck?

    I have a ton of older games in my Xbox library that I’d love to play on Steam Deck

    EarthlingHazard,

    Microsoft has a guide for it actually and it works pretty well:

    …microsoft.com/…/xbox-cloud-gaming-in-microsoft-e…

    singularity,

    I’m using Greenlight, which I find to be more convenient than the official way: github.com/unknownskl/greenlight

    Brunbrun6766, do games w Epic are hiring for a Fortnite open world survival game
    @Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world avatar

    So…the original game…

    stratoscaster,

    Iirc the original game was wave-defence. I remember hearing about it in 2012 ages ago, but they axed it soon after they released the battle royale

    TrousersMcPants,

    Nah they didn’t axe it, they just really limited development. You can still buy and play the game and it’s alright. Frankly if it wasn’t for the battle Royale mode no one would be talking about Fortnite today, I played the testing from before BR mode and it wasn’t that cool.

    Dagnet, do games w Sea of Stars devs working on DLC and next game as throwback RPG sells a year’s worth of copies in one week

    And that’s while being on game pass, so they technically ‘sold’ even more. Been playing it myself, very charming game

    lechatron,
    @lechatron@lemmy.today avatar

    It’s also on the PS+ game library. I just found out about the game today and was happily surprised to find it already available to me.

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