Agent_Karyo
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 days ago:
When you use steam, do you mail Newell the cash?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
How does that contradict what I said?
You think living in Ukraine, I would be aware of the exact scope of sanctions against russia (and the massive loopholes)?
- Comment on 2 days ago:
From the article:
For context, Steam currently doesn’t allow direct purchases by Russian players, in accordance with western sanctions, so Russian buyers have to make use of workarounds such as third-party key resellers.
Btw, I knew this before reading the article. Do a web search around how these workarounds operate (the example cited by RPS isn’t the only one,).
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I respect your reasoning and I agree that it would massively increase piracy in russia, but remember, russia is sanctioned; Valve isn’t supposed to be selling to russians in the first place.
Disagree on impact on global piracy rates. Pirated games were widely available via public russia sources such as rutracker.org.
You don’t even need to know russian as all titles have english headings.
Here is a link to Vampire Bloodlines 2, originally release on October 21st, with consistent updates since then, last one being on November 18th:
rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6761118
You don’t need to speak russian to figure out what “magnet-ссылке” with a magnet icon refers to.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I strongly disagree, the Workers & Resource DLC link can provide some insights on this; russian language reviews talk about “getting salo for the Ukrainians” and whataboutism about Palestine (like they care about Palestine, if anything most russians tend to support Israel). There is lots of anti-Ukrainian, pro-invasion russian language commentary on Steam.
We’ve lived in russia as an expat family for many years, we left as soon as our finances allowed us to (this was was before the russians invaded Georgia in 2008).
Then there is broader research on russian support for the full scale invasion; even using demographic splits (e.g. people aged 18 to 24, highly educated russians, high income russians), all demographic segments show at least majority support for the full scale invasion (with almost all segment groups showing at strong majority support and very commonly overwhelming majority support).
With respect to arguments that “people are afraid to show their true views”; there are multiple research pieces that specifically account for preference falsification. Some russians do hide their preferences, but this group is so small that even with preference falsification adjustments you have a strong majority support (65%+) for the full scale invasion. That’s specifically the full scale invasion (i.e. 2022), with respect to the annexation of Crimea, preference falsification was found to be not statistically significant with the respect to the baseline ~85% support for the annexation of Crimea.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
What’s wrong with Steam getting blocked in Russia? It’s not like Valve allows direct purchases by russian users.
Russian users losing access to their libraries without VPN is their own problem. They are responsible for their government, no one else.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
So Valve does not accept money from russian users directly (the roundabout methods are well known by russian users and Valve does nothing in this case even though it act against similar methods when publishers make the call), so why would they even care what Roskomnadzor? What can Roskomnadzor do to Valve?
I will note that Valve also does nothing about genocidal imperialist russian reviews on this DLC for support of Ukraine in Workers in Resources:
I’m from Donetsk. We have been bombarded since 2014 by the state in which I was born and lived. Declaring us enemies of the people. I am for the Russian SVO. Buy a dls only because of the Zaporizhia NPP, it is well made <3
You can check the number of civilians deaths in Donbas in 2014 vs 2022 to present and look at what happened to cities like Bahmut during the russian invasion. Not to mention the 1.5 million Ukrainians who had to leave just in 2014 (including my family members).
And yet we have to hear faux-libertarian polemics about alleged belief in “freedom of speech” and arrogant gibberish about “I am a free speech absolutist!” from individuals who know nothing about the value of free speech.
I said it before and I will say it again, American companies cannot be relied upon as a source of digital services. Both for systematic reasons (submission to the local oligarch/criminal regime) and philosophical reasons (a culture of ignorance and lack of desire to go beyond theatrical proclamations about freedom of this or freedom of that).
Let’s say you think I am being uncharitable in my attitude. Then tell me, why does Valve even read notices from Roskomnadzor (not to mention implementing their orders)? Russia is sanctioned and they are not supposed be able to make purchases at all. And yet Valve feels the need to follow orders from Roskomnadzor. What’s the logic here?
- Comment on The AYN Thor is looking like the perfect way to emulate dual-screen games 5 days ago:
Is there a version “made by” Soulja Boy?
- Roblox’s CEO calls moderation problems ‘an opportunity’ and platform gambling a ‘brilliant idea’ in unhinged interviewmassivelyop.com ↗Submitted 5 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on This brilliant Skies of Arcadia is 25, so here's the story of why a screeching noise and a sense of terror is the main thing I remember about it 2 weeks ago:
I am not into JRPGs (or console games), but this does sound interesting. I have always liked “flying ships” settings.
I wonder if we’ll ever see a proper pc port/remaster.
- Comment on Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, why is it so hyped? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a great game but definitely flawed in places. I will agree that the world building really carries the game. By modern standards the open world is rather small (and some parts look like they simply didn’t have time to develop - the hotel in downtown), but it works really well.
I will pick a less commonly chosen favourite; you get to meet the creator of the zombie movie genre and help him out.
And I love the Hollywood map music track (and this just excellent track among many).
VTMB2 sounds like an action game that’s lacking in RPG elements, so it’s not for me.
I might get it at as some point if the game + all DLC are available for under $10. If not, no problem, there are more than enough games to keep me occupied.
- MoviePass emerges from bankruptcy to run a fantasy filmmaking [crypto] game called Mogulwww.techspot.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on New World will stop receiving updates following Amazon layoffs 4 weeks ago:
I think this is due to the broader “move towards AI”, gaming was big around COVID, now it’s in massive decline, at least in terms of employment and investment opportunities, if not actual revenues.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft is a criminal organisation that thrives on corruption (no real action being taken with respect anti trust proceedings is still relevant today).
Crime isn’t only about someone stealing your phone, extracting many billion of dollars via oligopolistic methods of limiting competition and leaving people with no other option than to use their products (irrespective of price or feature consideration) is also criminal activity.
They are not going to fight the US administratorion on this.
- Comment on Celeste Mountain art 4 weeks ago:
Cool art, but yeah this is spam.
- Comment on 'Mask of the Betrayer: the last of the boomer cRPG classics' - Warlockracy 5 weeks ago:
“Boomer shooter” refers to old school FPS/shooters in the sense of boomer = old? Never knew that
I always thought it was because of the more fast paced styles of the older games and emphasis on explosive weapons.
Most people who played Doom / Unreal / Hexen when the games were released were early millenials or tail end “Gen X”. From memory, FPS games weren’t really that popular among people in their 30s and early 40s in the 90s. It was all young kids, teenagers and (I am assuming) university students.
- Comment on Day 465 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Have yet to play the remake. Played the original on PC in 99 or so. It was a very novel experience at that time (I had mostly played cRPGs, RTSs, city-builder/tycoons etc.). A lot of the puzzles were challenging for young brain though.
- Comment on Day 458 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
I think it should be less than $30 in my region (we get very good discounts).
I will just wait for a nice discount.
- » Life Off the Grid, Part 1: Making Ultima Underworld [Looking Glass Studios retrospective]www.filfre.net ↗Submitted 1 month ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Day 458 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Never heard about a zombie version of RDR.
Checked out the Wikipedia page and they even have a PC version.
Went to steam and found out that the game costs $50! That’s really too bad, but I will be on the lookout if it gets discounted.
- Comment on New trailer for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has a rather bald Borg crew member 1 month ago:
This is a adventure sim video game.
- New trailer for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has a rather bald Borg crew memberwww.gamingonlinux.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to startrek@startrek.website | 5 comments
- Comment on King of Dragon Pass, making you feel like a bronze age tribe chieftain 1 month ago:
This is a very unique game both in terms of setting (and how it relates to gameplay as highlighted in OP) and overall fusion of genres.
One issue with KoDP is that it can become a bit min/max focused. The gameplay isn’t as organic and open ended as I would like.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I don’t have any issues when loading the page on Firefox Mobile with UBO. It looks fine, no popups or scam style hijacks.
- Comment on Genshin Impact is introducing a Roblox-like games creation platform October 22nd | Massively Overpowered 1 month ago:
Does Genshin allow you to play as Winnie the Pooh (doesn’t have to be the US version, the Fyodor Khitruk version looks cool too)?
- Genshin Impact is introducing a Roblox-like games creation platform October 22nd | Massively Overpoweredmassivelyop.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Anyone try the demo for Tavern Keeper on Steam yet? It's....... yeah. 1 month ago:
This short discussion thread has feedback from a person who tried the latest demo and they were impressed.
I tried the demo from late last year and I thought it had potential. I liked the setting and the customization options.
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 32 comments
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Star Ruler 2. If you choose a map with ~450 systems, it plays more like a space economic strategy game, as opposed to the RTS/4X hybrid of the default map settings.
- If Peter Molyneux had a time machine to remake his cursed cube game, 'what you would give, now, would be a cryptocurrency thing'www.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 7 comments