Ulrich

Ulrich, 18 godzin temu

Those PS2 ones are fucking awesome, thanks!

Ulrich, 20 godzin temu (edited 18 godzin temu)

Delisted just means it’s no longer for sale, not that you can’t download it or play it.

Ulrich, wczoraj

it’s he said, she said, so nobody really knows.

Sounds like they both said he took time off from gaming to make films.

Ulrich, 5 dni temu

I can say this confidently: the most killer features on the Deck originated with the Steam Controller.

I have to strongly disagree. The killer feature is Proton (if you consider that a feature) 😀

Ulrich, 5 dni temu

Was it around before the Steam Deck?

Ulrich, 5 dni temu

Unless it was released with the Steam Deck…?

Ulrich, 6 dni temu

The “internet drama” exists because the product is a reflection of the leadership.

Ulrich, 7 dni temu

I don’t know why these companies think they can talk their way out of this. No one is buying your BS. Just STFU.

Ulrich, 9 dni temu

It’s complicated, and increasingly so as Nintendo succeeds in intimidating more and more projects into shutting down.

Ulrich, 9 dni temu

But they’re using USB

Ulrich, 9 dni temu

Saw a guy get a Switch 2 bricked and at the end of the video he was talking about getting another one 🤦

Ulrich, 10 dni temu

Great news on the same day the Stop Killing Games petition reaches 1M sigs.

Ulrich, 10 dni temu

I remember hearing about how terrible it was when it first came out and I pretty much never heard about it since so I assume it did not improve LOL

Ulrich, 11 dni temu

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.

Ulrich, 11 dni temu

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

Ulrich, 11 dni temu

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

Ulrich, 11 dni temu

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.

Ulrich, 11 dni temu (edited 10 dni temu)

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.

Ulrich, 11 dni temu

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

Ulrich, 10 dni temu

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.

Ulrich, 10 dni temu

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.

Ulrich, 10 dni temu

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.

Ulrich, 10 dni temu

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.

Ulrich, 10 dni temu

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”.

Ulrich, 10 dni temu

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.

Ulrich, 9 dni temu

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.

Ulrich, 9 dni temu

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.

Ulrich, 8 dni temu

No problem 👍

Ulrich, 11 dni temu

Why? Because her Android has Genshin Impact, Fortnite, Roblox, Candy Crush, Wuthering Waves, and Sky: Children of Light.

These games are all great examples of everything I hate about mobile gaming: full of incessant ads for microtransactions. Literally every mobile game I’ve ever played (outside of FDroid) is this way.

Plus you need a controller anyway, at which point you might as well just carry a handheld ging system.

You could buy whatever your favorite Anbernic device for $50 and have access to a library of thousands of fun ad-free games.

Ulrich, 12 dni temu

I want to upvote and downvote you simultaneously.

Ulrich, 12 dni temu

I can’t. No votes is the next best thing.

Ulrich, 12 dni temu

DON’T TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE. YOU’RE NOT MY REAL DAD!

Ulrich, 13 dni temu

What am I looking at

Ulrich, 13 dni temu

Okay so, not life then?

Ulrich, 13 dni temu

I really don’t think that qualifies as pedantic

Ulrich, 13 dni temu

No one is gaslighting. And no one is saying it’s not a valid concern. Just that the expectation to explain yourself is not valid.

Ulrich, 14 dni temu

I’m sure they can but I think they also see the growth in the PC gaming industry as a potential opportunity to capitalize with “XBOX OS”.

Ulrich, 13 dni temu

Correct.

Ulrich, 13 dni temu (edited 13 dni temu)

PS XBOX and Nintendo are all in the same market, along with Steam, Epic, GOG, etc. The video gaming market. MS will probably still sell an “XBOX”, it just won’t be locked down to the XBOX game store anymore. This is a win for everyone.

Yes it has a higher initial cost, but it will be lower in the long run. Finance that shit through Klarna or some shit and you’ll still come out on top.

Ulrich, 14 dni temu

Reminds me of DogFart productions 😅 If you don’t know what that is, don’t look it up.

Ulrich, 14 dni temu

Sometimes you just gotta ask yourself if the juice is worth the squeeze.

Ulrich, 21 dni temu

Ideally the creator has their own accompanying written version…

Ulrich, 22 dni temu

Who in their right mind is buying this?

People who don’t want to spend $500 on a PS5 to save $20 on a game.

Ulrich, 22 dni temu

They should have accounted for old games in their estimates though.

Ulrich, 25 dni temu

No, it’s exactly the same.

Ulrich, 25 dni temu (edited 25 dni temu)

No, but that is also not a function of Big Picture Mode exclusively, that’s a function of Gamescope, Steam, and Linux as well.

Ulrich, 25 dni temu

If you run Linux and Gamescope then yes, you can do that, although it’s probably not super useful to throttle a desktop processor.

Ulrich, 25 dni temu

You won’t be able to undervolt your GPU from Big Picture Mode. You can’t do that on Steam Deck either, you can only lower the TDP of the APU.