GammaGames

@GammaGames@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve posted a statement on the New York lootbox lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A few points from the reply:

  NYAG proposes to take away users’ ability to transfer their digital items from Valve games. Transferability is a right we believe should not be taken away, and we refuse to do that.

  They probably don’t want to remove it because they get a cut of each sale, but I do appreciate the option to sell old items.

  And, what people actually care about:

  The NYAG also proposed to gather additional information (beyond what we normally collect in the course of processing payments) about each game user on the off-chance someone in New York was anonymizing their location to appear outside of New York, such as by using a VPN. This would have involved implementing invasive technologies for every user worldwide. Similarly, the NYAG demanded that Valve collect more personal data about our users to do additional age verification—even though most payment methods used by New York Steam users already have age verification built-in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨waooooo⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  okay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[TheGamer] Slay The Spire 2 Fans Are Worried Silent Is Too Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re probably tracking how players play anyway, they would see this in the stats if it was a problem. And now that there’s been a spotlight shone on it, it’ll definitely be a problem lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic are hiking Fortnite V-Buck prices to “pay the bills”, because those server farms don't run on peanuts⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The price is doubling! I guess it’s a good of time as any to tech children about enshittification

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performing Right Society (PRS) sues Valve over video game music⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PRS directly mentioned the likes of “EA SPORTS FC™, Forza Horizon and Grand Theft Auto” and how Valve “has never obtained a licence for its use of the rights managed by PRS on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers”.

  So fucking stupid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fortunately the qualifiers aren’t necessary, they’ve hit just over 525k concurrent players this weekend and launch day was still over 300k. They’re the most popular roguelike, deckbuilder, and roguelike-deckbuilder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, 330k concurrent players is no small feat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony will no longer release their biggest PlayStation games on PC, claims report, starting with Ghost of Yōtei⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the “no exclusives” talk got to them, but I think at this point most people that wanted a ps5 already have one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And there it is: Highguard is shutting down next week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brotato gets a DRM-free release on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None on steam as well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archive Today (archive.is) is Down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Up for me, though I don’t know why you’d want to participate on a site that tries to ddos people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a good feature, Apollo had it too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kiss goodbye to 8K as support from the TV industry 'dwindles'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The main difference to me is that I can completely disable anti-aliasing on higher resolutions, jagged pixels just aren’t as much an issue when there are so many more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Animation Studios are now funding Blender development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People: companies should support open source!

  Also people: companies supporting open source is bad, actually!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG now using AI generated images on their store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that was a dumb idea

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve reveal all the Steam events scheduled for 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been sharing them publicly since at least 2022, though they didn’t really start doing the big compilation updates until last year

  You can see them all in their community! store.steampowered.com/news/group/4145017

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dev of Steam game 'Hardest' will delete it after new girlfriend made them realize AI is bad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah this is based af

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dev of Steam game 'Hardest' will delete it after new girlfriend made them realize AI is bad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah this is based af

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA announce a native Linux app for GeForce NOW⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it a game streaming service? How would you play games off their servers without a login?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US delays announcement of China chip tariffs until 2027⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TACO Tuesday!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL idiots, great way to push people to use open source runners though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m expecting something like Desk Job

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl just got a huge free Stories Untold upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this will boost sales of Stories Untold, the game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian want to release Divinity in "three to four years", and they're making limited use of generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Placeholder assets that appear final will slip through and make it to release, it keeps happening. Can see the slideshow uses but some of it feels like it could be dangerous for fan goodwill.

  Also, lol:

  Schreier also paraphrases Vincke as saying that there have been no “big gains in efficiency” as a result of the AI push.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Game About Feeding A Black Hole, out today, is exactly what it proclaims to be, and surprisingly tranquil⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gooo Aarimous and Thornity! 🥳

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic revealed - a KOTOR "spiritual successor" RPG led by Mass Effect's Casey Hudson⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  👀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout co-creator Tim Cain's rejoined Obsidian full-time to work on a mystery game, but plans to keep his YouTube chats going⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a good fun Friday! I was wondering what was up with the boxes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayerUnknown wants to listen to your Prologue: Go Wayback feedback, just not all of it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyway, forget about all that hogwash I just said, Brendan, if you’re reading this change the game’s name it really is an odd one.

  At least the community can agree on one thing 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s CEO says r/popular ‘sucks,’ and it’s going away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Namely, we’re limiting the number of high-traffic communities any single person can moderate.

  Good change, long needed

  we updated how we display community size. We switched from Subscribers—which was really just a measure of age—to Weekly Visitors to reflect actual activity.

  Also a good change for the larger subs, but small communities could suffer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie admit to Destiny 2 having an audience problem, as they try to figure out how to not make a "dead live game"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the issue, Green thinks, is that Destiny 2’s expansion The Final Shape, which essentially wrapped up the main story Bungie had been working on nigh on a decade. They found that those that played it felt satisfied, but “the big [downwards] spike in population [came after]. That happened because we ended the saga. So you get what you pay for, right?”

  I played a lot when 2 released on Steam and even completed the first few raids. Years later, my partner and I were casual players for a few months up to this expansion’s release. It came out, the menus shifted around, then it was… just over.

  We played the free stuff but didn’t buy the dlc since we mostly did PvP. Apparently a raid happened and some epic story shit went on, but we never saw any of it and dropped the game soon after. It was a very whelming completion of a 10 year arc.