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Has to be. There’s no way the owners of the biggest storefront for pc gaming makes as much as EA.

What non-gaming revenue do both EA and Valve have? Do you think that EA makes surprisingly much or Valve surprisingly little?

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I think they’re trying to say that if it was total revenue, valve should have way bigger numbers

www.ea.com/games/library/mobile

Mobile games are huge.

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I miss that game.

Why? The game has not disappeared. You can just buy it. …steampowered.com/…/Fallout_3_Game_of_the_Year_Ed…

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We as Microsoft are the bastion of cross-platform releases. Our games run on Xbox and Windows.

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I have completely lost confidence in Bethesda.

What did you think would really happen when Microsoft bought them?

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I don‘t support Microsoft in any way but it is kinda funny that some PlayStation Users seem to feel personally attacked that Microsoft starts to do all the exclusivity shit that Sony has done for ages. Quit treating the whole thing as a team thing - a my team vs. that other team thing.

I don’t even own a PlayStation so why should I quit anything? In fact, I’m a PC gamer running Windows. I can make my dumb jokes as often as I like and when I want to make fun of the fact that both Microsoft and Bethesda claimed before the acquisition that it was not about removing cross-platform support for Bethesda games and Microsoft also claims to “❤️ Linux”, you cannot stop me, even if you’d like to.

I also find it hilarious that Microsoft apologists claim that “that Sony has done the same for ages” which is factually untrue. Sony hardly ever bought cross-platform games in-house for PlayStation exclusivity (maybe the would of they had enough spare money but they don’t). Sony also releases plenty of games for Microsoft platforms, including MLB The Show, Horizon, Spider-Man, Ratchet and Clank, God of War, etc. Heck, the recently announced Marathon reboot is confirmed to come to Xbox and not just PlayStation and Microsoft Windows. Much of my PC gaming in recent years was spent playing Sony games on Windows.

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Every other article about a new game seems to be a kick in the nuts to console owners.

Get a Steam Deck and every game release is a thrill ride of will the game run fine.

(Honestly, I love my Deck and stopped playing most AAA games because they annoy the fuck out of me with padding for length and ads for DLC and such.)

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Ease of use. Windows on such a small screen is not much fun. For more details, look up some of the plenty comparisons on YouTube.

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Has this writer never used Steam or is he just unaware how many people buy games they don’t actually play

Firstly: If you had ever used Steam, you’d know that Steam differentiates between “have game in the library” and “have previously played a game”. A bought game that was never launched, doesn’t show up in these stats.

Secondly: It’s clear you did not bother to read the article. “The numbers take into account players on Xbox, as well as those playing the Game Pass/Windows Store version of the game on PC.” The 25% number isn’t even from Steam.

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There’s an achievement in Minecraft for literally just opening your inventory for the first time but only 60% of Xbox players have it.

12,7% of Amid Evil players are in-game forever:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/07bc0ef6-1815-48b9-9bac-3c880cae6034.png

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Steam does not count games that have never been launched. For 12.7% of the players the game probably quit under a bit different circumstances: game crashed or they lost internet connectivity.

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In the Steam client, you have this box on the right:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a28d0cc8-b393-4ace-bf86-eee96ba92693.png

And when you click on View All, you get something like this:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/600d869e-6dfe-4858-8abd-a968cca4c648.png

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Wait, the mod removed the option to set a gender in the character editor? Why don’t these people just make a male character and be done with it?

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They turned off ads? Great. Can that be a standoff that lasts forever?

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Tower defense game, nothing to do with classic Heretic.

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If a Steam Deck from last year can play those, a 2023 device that costs three times as much better be capable of the same.

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Dedicated high end phone processors should have better thermal management than Steam Deck’s cut down notebook processor.

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at least until Godot 4 fixes some big issues

With Godot being an open source project, you could scratch your own itch and help remedy the issues…

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Made Starfield Development “Very, Very Slow,”

Should have upgraded their PCs, I guess…

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I don’t understand the people who spend a hundred hours on a game to then give it a bad rating, calling it boring. Why don’t they just quit much earlier and play Chrono Trigger or something?

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Chrono Trigger was the first example of a game that came to my head that’s just great. I replayed it a few weeks ago as well. It’s time better spent than playing a shitty game for 100 hours.

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Customers aren’t professional reviewers. Paying customers are entitled to have their opinion at any time. Tiny Tina’s Wonderland immediately put me off with that lame overworld. I think I clocked around 3 hours and then uninstalled it. Never ever would I spend dozens of hours in a game where a significant portion massively annoys me.

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I see @GamerKick created a new account to promote their blog spam…

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Turks: keep electing someone who’s responsible for high devaluation of the Lira and stay calm

Also Turks: “Not my gaming!!!”

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Not when Sony magically created this “service” and is free to dictate the price at will, regardless of how much real value there actually is.

I agree that Sony is able to arbitrarily set the price to whatever they want. Online play and cloud saves are free on Steam and such, for example, so obviously Sony could just as well set the price to zero for at least the tier without free games. However, it’s not like the price increase comes out of nowhere. Sony probably makes internal calculations based on the US Dollar or the Yen and then converts to local currencies in certain intervals and since the last conversion the value of the Lira decreased massively because of Erdogan’s economic policies.

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Buggy and disappointing to a lot of people.

And here I am, thinking that it fits Game Pass with its “7/10, would not buy it but it’s alright if it’s on GamePass” quality games just perfectly.

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The author wasn’t selling DLSS

So NVidia’s DLLs for DLSS are not included? (Honest question, I don’t even own the game.)

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You can get the DLL very easily and legally

But I asked if the mod bundles it.

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No, Nintendo didn’t.

Tldr: Nintendo outsourced the work for dumping NES ROMs and developing a NES emulator for GameCube and that contractor added the standard headers to dumps they made from original cartridges provided by Nintendo. Someone saw the headers and drew conclusions.

Long read: resetera.com/…/tomohiro-kawase-mightve-been-hired…

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How else would copy protection get removed if the original source code was lost?

If mods are licensed in a way redistribution is allowed, it’s not stealing either.

I don’t get your outrage.

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The ethics are about releasing broken games and then not fixing them while still taking money.

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Well, if someone spray painted the door of my car without my permission, it’s vandalism but still my car. If it later turns out that it was done by Banxie and that “vandalism” is worth millions, I can still sell my car however I like and owe Banxie nothing.

Btw, freeware is a thing. Did those cracks ever get released without the permission to freely distribute? If not, those cracks may be used by the rights holder however they like. That’s not the problem. Releasing broken shit is the problem.

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So people go and fix that, for free. Now the automobile maker takes that free fix and sells all new cars with it. Is that ok? There, still a crap analogy but arguably better than yours.

OK, cool. Too bad you forgot that in modern jurisdiction buying a game is merely like leasing a car. So yeah, if a workshop fixes the car for free the actual owner of the car can make use of those fixes however he likes.

Maybe target your energy at the actual shitty thing Rockstar does: Selling broken games. The means how they removed Securom is irrelevant. The fact that the games are broken garbage is not.

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the moment when buying a game outright is no longer an option is the moment when I stop paying for video games.

That moment will not come. That would mean that every single indie developer had come under the umbrella of such subscription services and not one bigger actor would want to try to differentiate from the competition.

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Honestly never understood why they keep multiple publishing subsidiaries anyway.

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Everyone knows NVidia are the fastest in the business…

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In case anyone wants a direct link for the PC version: store.steampowered.com/app/…/Logiart_Grimoire/

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Good. Fuck Roblox.

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Google’s streaming tech is pretty good.

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Probably ease of use.

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Hoping for at least a public beta on tomorrow’s 11th anniversary of CSGO’s release.

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Why does avery modern game have a color palette like it’s aimed for preschoolers?

Because everything being brown and grey is boring.

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From their Kickstarter:

featuring branching narratives and RPG elements similar to games like Mass Effect or Baldur’s Gate

So not just a straight-forward campaign…

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Switch’s operating system is based on the OS from 3DS. The ARM architecture was already well documented and emulated. Tegra has documentation from NVidia.

With all that, making a Switch emulator was relatively “easy”. They took Citra, the 3DS emulator, and worked from there.

Xbox 360 is a different beast. Even its OS was only kinda Windows, so they couldn’t just take Wine and a PowerPC emulator and call it a day. Taking long is IMO not much of a surprise because of that.