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Jackcooper, w Titanfall 3 hopefuls are getting desperate as Respawn teasers continue: "This is ether god-tier trolling or a confession"

Halflife 3 memes can finally be retired

damnthefilibuster, w Sergiy Galyonkin (Steam spy) announces departure from Epic Games

Steam spy?

xrtxn,

TIL he made: steamspy.com

brsrklf,

I never used steam spy either, so I had that image of a guy at Epic whose whole job was spying on Steam.

Probably in a trenchcoat and a hat, mainly acting shady around Valve headquarters.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

You’ve certainly described a gamespy.

brsrklf,

I was barely aware of GameSpy while it was still a thing. It was just some service I’d never used.

…or so I thought, until Nintendo killed all its DS and Wii online functions because they were using GameSpy and the service was being shut down.

yads,

Yep, a “maker of” would have been helpful in the title

BlackEco,
@BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com avatar

It’s a tool that makes a survey of Steam games ownership and play times based on public information on Steam Community. It’s useful to game developers and journalists as it allows them to know what is popular.

Oh and Steam Spy has been developed and released before he joined Epic Games.

Xel,
@Xel@mujico.org avatar

steamspy.com

Steam Spy is a website created by Sergey Galyonkin and launched in April 2015. The site uses an application programming interface (API) to the Steam software distribution service owned by Valve to estimate the number of sales of software titles offered on the service. Estimates are made based on the API polling user profiles from Steam to determine what software titles (primarily video games) they own and using statistics to estimate overall sales. Software developers have reported that Galyonkin’s algorithms can provide sales numbers that are accurate to within 10%, though Galyonkin cautions against using his estimates in financial projections and other business-critical decisions. Due to changes in Steam’s privacy features in April 2018, Galyonkin had anticipated he would need to shut down the service due to the inability to estimate accurate numbers from other sources, but later that month revealed a new algorithm using publicly available data, which, while having a larger number of outliers, he still believes has reasonable accuracy for use. - Wikipedia

Affidavit, w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

Game is kind of ‘meh’ at the moment. I paid more for this game than any other in my life, yet I am disappointed in what it’s achieved.

The outpost mechanic is completely and utterly pointless, inventory management is a disgrace, questlines are forced and inflexible.

I will revisit in 6 months or so in the hope that modders finish making the game that Bethesda started. I have learnt my lesson to not buy a Bethesda game straight away though.

Astroturfed,

I waited for the reviews, and decided if I play it it will be a pirated copy…

chatokun,

I forgot I was paying for game pass, so that’s why I’m playing it now. I’m having some fun, but the revisit when mods finish feels pretty true. I only have one loaded atm, but definitely considering some others.

neokabuto,

The outpost mechanic is completely and utterly pointless

I’d say it’s worse than pointless. The only reason I can see to use it (outside of XP farming) is to make the grind for research/crafting easier, but it even fails at that since you can buy/loot any resources you need for less than it takes to set up the outposts. It can’t even make one of the other half-baked systems less of a pain to deal with.

kae, w WWE 2K22 servers will be discontinued as of January 3rd, 2024

For those curious, the game was released March 11, 2022.

Making the server support just over a year and a half of running the servers before pulling the plug. That’s not something I’d be spending 60USD (which is what it is on sale for today) on.

nanoUFO,
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

I think people who buy these games every year are just built different.

mindbleach,

Thin on bottom, with hard candy up top?

Peaty,

IDK who downvoted this brilliance but they should be ashamed.

Sanctus, w Thanks to a bug, players have found a 'realm of naked men' in Baldur's Gate 3
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

I fed Gale his robe when he was bitching about magic items once, had to have the whole deep.lore conversation with him suddenly naked. My point being Gale is a great thumbnail for this article about naked men.

GreenMario, w Thanks to a bug, players have found a 'realm of naked men' in Baldur's Gate 3

Truly a Forgotten Realm.

Blizzard, w Starfield Is Bethesda's Lowest-Rated Game On Steam

That’s just Steam. Perhaps it’s being held in higher esteem by the Playstation communi… oh wait.

Dangdoggo, w War Thunder user leaks restricted military documents for AH-64D Apache Longbow

This is getting outrageous. Do you think they'll hit a 15 streak before playing War Thunder is court marshallable?

Corkyskog,
@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works avatar

Is War Thunder even a good game? The only time I hear about it is after these leaks. Then it’s like viral marketing and I think “this game must be awesome if people are committing crimes to get minor Stat changes” then I forget about it for a few months until the next leak.

yata,

It is a free pay-to-win shooter. It is designed to get certain types of people addicted to it, to most other people it is boring as hell.

blazera, w Counter Strike 2 is surprisingly awful on Steam Deck right now
@blazera@kbin.social avatar

I try finding out what the 2 is even about, and im seeing stuff like...improved smoke grenades, and ability to refund weapons?

What happened to the number 2 man, that used to be a big deal.

oxhead,

CS2 is on Source engine 2. Hence the major version bump.

priapus, (edited )

It’s a new engine, which is more than enough to warrant a new title imo. CS has been practically the same game many years and has been incredibly successful all that time. The community does not want major gameplay changes, just minor improvements. CS as a series is not like COD or Battlefield.

CS2 has much more advanced and consistent smokes, vastly improved graphics, more advanced netcode, competitive improvments alongside a new competitive mode similar to FaceIT, and loads of quality of life improvements. I think this is more than enough to be considered a sequel.

elliot_crane,

I’m pretty happy personally that the community server browser no longer looks like it was made in 1996. The new one actually works on my ultrawide monitor, so I can find servers on my own now. In CSGO, I had to have a friend find a server for us and then I’d just join him.

priapus,

Yep i’m also a big fan of the new browser. Although, I do wish it opened in the overlay instead of a completely separate window.

dudewitbow,

The difference between csgo and cs2 is similar to cs 1.6 to cs source. Its a major change of engine with brings in other changes with it.

Psythik,

Why is it called CS2, though, instead of CS4? I mean, it’s the fourth game in the series, isn’t it?

  1. CS
  2. CS:Source
  3. CS:GO
  4. CS2???
dudewitbow,

because source wasn’t a sequel to them, just an engine port. Why counterstrike 2 is called 2, imo, just because Source 2

Being a new game in a series doesn’t necessarily mean that its the next numbered game, especially to valve. Technically speaking, the other counterstrike project (Condition Zero, single player content) is also a thing.

Psythik, (edited )

They should have called it CS: Source 2, then. The game hasn’t changed enough to be considered a sequel. They made the same amount of improvements to this one as they always have in the last. Doesn’t make sense to call it a full-blown sequel.

They probably figured that if Blizzard could get away with calling it Overwatch 2, despite being the same game, they probably could too.

Skwerls,

Wait until you hear about call of duty

Indicah,

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  • dudewitbow,

    Hence “to them”, not to people. They did make changes. But that doesnt stop what they think. Your opinion doesnt change what they think.

    AstralPath,

    Why so aggressive?

    silentknyght,

    Because calling it CS4 would mean admitting they made a “3”.

    anonymoose, w Far Cry 7 Reportedly Due Fall 2025 And Will Use The Snowdrop Engine
    @anonymoose@lemmy.ca avatar

    Hoping that they bring back some of the Far Cry magic instead of just making another copy-paste sequel 🤞

    manapropos,

    Lmao, you’re probably better off playing FC2 with mods

    anonymoose,
    @anonymoose@lemmy.ca avatar

    MFW

    Edit: wow, didn’t expect that image embed to be so huge lol

    Daefsdeda,

    Honestly, fc4 was the last one I enjoyed. Maps got bigger but content stayed the same afterward, so you just fly to places.

    When they introduced flesh and armour bullet in 6 I was ultimately done.

    anonymoose,
    @anonymoose@lemmy.ca avatar

    Yeah, the games have been stale for a while. I really enjoy the gameplay, especially the liberation mechanics so I got elthe new games even though they just seem like copies.

    On the other hand, each new game does look gorgeous, so there’s that.

    CryptidBestiary, w As the WGA writers' strike looks set to end, a massive video game strike could be just around the corner

    Good, I hope so. Heard a lot of horror stories of working conditions for game devs.

    ProfessorProteus, w Game prices are too low, says Capcom exec
    @ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world avatar

    As the great Jerma985 once said, “Fuck Capcom!”

    ezures,

    You listening to a psycho?

    Gabu,

    Over a company of psychos? Probably.

    Jaysyn, w Game prices are too low, says Capcom exec
    @Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

    If the market could support higher prices, they'd already be charging them.

    I honestly don't care what Capcom does. I couldn't tell you the last time I bought a Capcom game.

    Gabu,

    Capcom lives off of their good IPs from the 90s and Devil May Cry, nothing else.

    EmperorHenry, w Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly
    @EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Fuck epic games!

    mojo, w Unity: disappointed at how removal ToS has been framed. We removed it way before the pricing change was announced not because we didn't want people to see it.

    We broke the law you just weren’t supposed to see it!

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