Cutter wrote on Jul 5, 2020, 17:33:
What you idiots continually fail to grasp is the simple fact that this is just the beginning, overt and aggressive acts of racism and sexism. Next it'll be for things much smaller and inconsequential, bullshit like "microagressions" as you moonbats like to call them. Not too long from now regardless of anything you say or do if a woman, and god help you if she's black, says you did something she didn't like - maybe didn't laugh at her joke - and the mob will turn on you. You'll be the next white fascist male being fired, sued, and having his life destroyed. When you're the victim of this PC idiocy you won't be loving it then.

Come on now, they'll be protected because they have lived a life without sin! They have the evidence to back it up! But the court of public opinion will demand he be tested for being a sexist by floating or sinking evidence be damned.

That or they'll walk in on their married female boss, the city manager screwing the sewer dept. manager. at her desk. Then they get fired and demonized as a harasser. But hey, it got that female relative of mine a nice work place harrassment lawsuit settlement check when it happened to her 15 years ago!

RedEye9 wrote on Jul 6, 2020, 12:47:
Rule number one of the Entitled Gamers Creed, "If you don't like a games price, Steal it."

Remember kids, you are owed any and every game ever made.

And developers/publishers are entitled to their 88%.

"Satisfactory has sold 1,326,518 copies in total as of today, July 3. 958,917 of those sales have been on Epic, and the remaining 367,601 sales have come through Steam. Epic reached the 500k mark just under three months after launch, and Steam has reached 367k in under a month, so the game is certainly selling faster on Valve’s platform.

Community manager Jace Varlet attributes the speedier sales on Steam to a few main factors. First, “obviously, Steam is a goliath, so there’s just so many more people there. That’s gonna weigh into things.” Second, Coffee Stain’s take on building games has also enjoyed extra promotion with a 10% discount as part of the Steam Summer Sale – the first discount on Epic happened early, but not within the first month."

Meh. The Epic sale started in early May 2019, the game was released to early access on March 15th. The Epic sale was also the subsidzed one that dropped the price to $16.99 vs the Steam sale of $26.99. We still only have Coffee Stain and Epic's word on sales numbers. Though if the rumors are true, it looks like Epic didn't have to subsidize any guaranteed sales to the devs after the 1 year exclusive. If you don't count the $10 discount offered in the summer and winter sales anyway.

Congrats to Epic though on picking a good exclusive to go with early on to drum up the user count of their store. They're still clowning themselves with the whole monopoly arguement of Steam though.

jdreyer wrote on Jul 4, 2020, 00:01:

Kxmode wrote on Jul 3, 2020, 20:06:

necrosis wrote on Jul 3, 2020, 20:01:

Kxmode wrote on Jul 3, 2020, 19:33:

necrosis wrote on Jul 3, 2020, 19:09:
$20 on PS4 but $50$ on PC. For a 3+ year old game.

Then go play it on a PS4. Your entitlement to assume that all the time and expense it took the developers to port it over to PC to then sell it on Steam for $20 minus Valve's 30% is foolish. I own it on PS4 but as far as I see it, this is a new game for PC gamers.

Its the same assets. Same story. 99.99% of the game is already done! Why do we have to pay an extra $20 for a old game? PC users getting screwed over just like when PC games jumped to $60 for no damned reason other than "well we milked the console users for an extra $10 why not the PC users too!".

Because it cost them to port it. Decima is a proprietary engine made by Sony for Playstation. Then on top of that, according to the trailer, the devs added a bunch of PC-only features and enhancements, including unlocked framerates. I didn't think Decima was able to achieve that.

It's funny that the people who don't work in software think that a port is only 0.01% of the entire effort.

I might buy the argument if this was a PS3 port and not a PS4 one. Given the underlying cpu tech used in the PS4 being x86 cpus, its hard to say the effort is worth $50. Its better than $60-80 of the console release. But then I bought the disc version of the base game what, 2.5 years ago in Nov 2017 for $20 If I'd waited a year I would have been paying $30 or so for the complete edition instead. I never bothered with the expansion as I just wasn't in love with the game to warrant it.

If this was say, the Master Chief Halo collection where they are modernizing the games and putting in a working multiplayer mode I'd be more understanding. That game(s) has been $40 or less for 8+ months now.

I'd guess its money at this point. One rumor I've seen is that he was talking with other streamers about going to a new streaming network starting up.Supposedly run by Google/Alphabet via Spotify. It could be just youtube gaming. That or maybe he was going to take an offer from Facebook gaming,

Monster Train... my new card game addiction. Its replaced slay the spire, for awhile anyway.

ChopperDan wrote on Jun 1, 2020, 20:18:
How about a Shopping Cart?

Come one, I mean who buys more than one game at a time during a sale? Thats just weird.

The Half Elf wrote on May 5, 2020, 22:05:

Darks wrote on May 5, 2020, 21:38:
I had, Ill say it again,I had this on my wish list, then I read the reviews and saw what this game was all about and immediately removed it from my wish list. this game is garbage to the max. the devs better do something real quick or this game is going to fail fast. A whole over haul of the game is needed and removing that fucked up timer needs to go first.

Go watch some Twitch Streams (which are almost all sponsered by the Devs) it's pretty fugly.

I logged into twitch last night and several streamers I watch had been playing it but a dev went crazy and said they were breaking their NDA time requirement, except they weren't according to the publisher. Apparently the game wasn't giving a good impression anyway. These devs seem to be shooting themselves in the foot if the steam reviews and forums are any indication.

Slick wrote on Apr 30, 2020, 16:48:

WitcherOntheProwl wrote on Apr 30, 2020, 15:46:
Too bad about using Epic Trash. I will have to wait a year for it to go to Steam. If it doesn't come out on Steam than I guess Ubisoft is finally shooting itself in the foot. With the Release of Cyberpunk 2077 in September (if the date holds this time), than a lot of people will be too busy playing that and Zero Dawn Horizon from the summer release also.

You want to buy it on Uplay.

If you need a practical reason, you have to launch Uplay anyways. For the life of me I have no idea why people buy a Ubisoft game on Steam.

The three main reasons are, social media/friends interactions on Steam and for me, the most important reasons, easy backups of games and the ability to move the game around your drives easily.

jdreyer wrote on Apr 8, 2020, 14:42:

RedEye9 wrote on Apr 8, 2020, 12:59:
This will be a true stress test of the servers.

Probably not. They'll be tripling their users yes, but only from 3 to 9.

Brutal but true.

GoG ftw. Snagged Shadow Warrior classic and Postal and a couple of old Ultima games.

Cutter wrote on Mar 5, 2020, 18:31:
Anyone play OTC? Any good?

A decent quick econ/colony sim. Average game lasts 30mins or so.

The Pyro wrote on Mar 4, 2020, 11:59:
And it's still never been on sale. Not once! I've been waiting so long to buy it at a discount that I've just about lost interest, lol...

EDIT: My brain must be weird or something? I'll literally wait over a year to save $10 on something like this, while simultaneously considering shelling out a few hundred bucks for a PlayStation to play the new FFVII game. I don't understand myself sometimes.

I think I've seen it discounted on Humble Bundle store if you are a monthly member. Anyway, Rimworld has been drm free for awhile. You can buy the game on the dev's website and get the game also added to your steam account.

Good to see the game on GoG though. The base game is worth it. Not sure about the new dlc yet.

Bumpy wrote on Mar 2, 2020, 13:26:
Oh, it's an experience alright.

I hear it delivers quite a lot.

Offworld is a pretty good econ colony manager. Average game is 30 minutes or so.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Jan 30, 2020, 21:33:
No scope corn shot!

Ahh, a classic.

I eagerly await new tower defense maps and maybe a dota or two.

jdreyer wrote on Jan 22, 2020, 14:51:
Or you could, you know, MAKE EU5 ALREADY.

Jeez.

They're working on CK3 this year. EU4 has always only made sense buying into one of the bundle deals that are offered every year unless you have to have every little bit of fluff dlc.

RedEye9 wrote on Jan 21, 2020, 12:35:

phinn wrote on Jan 21, 2020, 11:42:
Another middling GPU from AMD. Move along.

What’s not to like, 2060 performance for LE$$.

Except that Nvidia dropped prices to $299 for the 2060 and most of the new 5600 cards are $289-309 with a few at $279 and a few at $320-339.

If this card came out 2-3 months ago its not so bad. Its just more of the same with this generation of cards over the past year or so. The 2060 and 1660's are almost a year old now. The 1660 Super is cheaper at $230 on top of it.

This whole generation of cards is just overpriced and not that exciting.

Its useful if you want to track speed while downloading and testing any internet speed issues. More useful is the software tracking bandwidth usage.

Thanks for the netspeed monitor link.