cottonmon
@cottonmon@lemmy.world
- Comment on God of War Ragnarök PC system requirements revealed 3 months ago:
Note that because of this, it is not going to be sold in any regions that don’t officially have PSN
- Comment on Sequel to Star Control 2 - The Ur-Quan Masters 6 months ago:
There’s 3 days left for the kickstarter for anyone that wants to back this.
- Comment on Ghost of Tsushima, on Steam, will be unavailable in countries without PSN 6 months ago:
It’s kind of weird too since they sell PS5s in regions where PSN isn’t officially supported.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 7 months ago:
Are there rules here regarding self-promotion? Seems like OP is just posting his content.
- Comment on Ides of March 8 months ago:
I guess the guy doesn’t consider roman senators to be rogues. Probably gave advantage for the surprise attack though.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide 9 months ago:
Honestly surprised that people seem to have forgotten about the harassment. It was really bad for some streamers and was inexcusable. It’s like how gamingcirclejerk tried to deny that the harassment even happened.
- Comment on Fuck Ubisoft. 9 months ago:
Yeah, they’re a pretty shitty company. Weren’t they one of the first companies to implement always-on DRM?
- Comment on Fuck Ubisoft. 9 months ago:
Definitely greed, Ubisoft did the same thing in 2019 because they didn’t want to pay Steams 30% cut.
- Comment on Veteran Videogame Analyst: Subscription growth has flattened [in video games] 10 months ago:
Aren’t demos kind of making a comeback? I’ve played lots of demos on Steam.
- Comment on New guide on Ico dropped on Gamefaqs 10 months ago:
I really hope Gamefaqs continues to persist. I still think it’s one of the best places for guides.
- Comment on Awesome Games Done Quick starts tomorrow! 10 months ago:
I liked the online events because it was easier for them to get runners from around the world to participate. Also, I think the rhythm game showcases would have never happened without the online-only GDQs.
- Comment on Capcom caught adding Enigma DRM to older titles, for no good reason 10 months ago:
I’m guessing this is still related to that time where a guy running a tournament had his nude Chun-Li mod on.
- Comment on Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? 10 months ago:
Only write-ups I could see was for the description of the award. I don’t remember if the games had write-ups during the voting period though.
- Comment on Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? 10 months ago:
Most people probably didn’t even recognize the other games. I only know about Shadow of Doubt (which I think should have won) because Yahtzee made a video about it.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award 10 months ago:
Or being one of the few games that require you having an SSD to run properly lol.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award 10 months ago:
Best guess is people voted it because they didn’t know any of the other games and didn’t bother to check.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
I think the quote from Jane is pretty telling. Some people at Valve only help out when a project starts “getting pretty cool.” It’s probably the cause of a lot of inertia in game development over there. Also, just an interesting detail, Jane Ng is from Campo Santo and she stopped working on In the Valley of Gods to work on HL: Alyx.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
It’s not just that though. A lot of people have already pointed out that Epic appears to be actively hostile towards Linux by removing compatibility for games that had it before. People have also pointed out that turning on Linux compatibility for EAC is fairly trivial, but they refuse to do it. For some games, Linux users have to go through extra loops just to make it work. So when it looks like a company is treating a certain demographic as something that’s worth less than shit for no apparent reason, I’m not too surprised that they’ll have a negative attitude towards that company.
And say what you want about Valve, but they have pushed Linux compatibility and it’s not surprising why Linux users have a more positive view of them over Epic. As I’ve already said, your argument reinforces this point.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
I looked it up and apparently Gray Newell doesn’t work at Valve, so it’s actually unlikely that he’s going to be the successor.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
Not the person you’re replying to, but from what I’ve read before Valve is kind of notorious for this because they do encourage people to work on what they want. The problem with this is that it also means it’s hard to get support for your project. For example, in order to get Half-Life: Alyx pushed out, they had to suspend that policy of working only on things that make them happy.
Here’s a quote from the wiki article about HL: Alyx’s development:
Valve abandoned episodic development and made several failed attempts to develop further Half-Life projects. Walker blamed the lack of progress on Valve’s flat management structure, whereby employees decide what to work on themselves. He said the team eventually decided they would be happier if they worked together on a large project, even if it was not their preferred choice.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
First time hearing about this. Hope it works out.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
I understand that it’s normal, but the argument still doesn’t make sense for the purposes of this discussion. For people who do use Linux, it is worthless since they can’t use it. You’re just reinforcing that Steam is a better option for them.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
Has there been any news at all on who the potential successors are?
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
I really don’t understand this argument. Aren’t you basically pointing out that Steam is better because they cater to a demographic that most companies won’t consider because of the small market size?
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
It’s kind of funny. I feel that the rebranding was because those launchers sucked ( a common marketing tactic.) The thing is though, the EA App still sucks so it doesn’t do anything for its reputation.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
They also supposedly have a plan where everyone will still have access to their games in the unlikely event that Valve shuts down.
- Comment on [Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale? 10 months ago:
Hope you enjoy it!
- Comment on [Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale? 10 months ago:
I suppose you could say it’s story heavy since what you’re doing is piecing together what happened on the ship. The story is that you’re a insurance investigator and trying to find out what happened to every person that was on the Obra Dinn. It’s a great game.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
I meant with crowd funded games. I’m aware that they still buy exclusivity though from what I know they pay indies less compared to what they used to pay.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
Yeah, this caused A LOT of controversy back then. As far as I know, Epic has stopped doing this and has pivoted a bit more into funding game development (i.e Alan Wake 2.) That being said, that gave Epic have a terrible reputation when they initially launched EGS.