Cutter wrote on Oct 24, 2019, 13:58:
Is there a Hong Kong map/mode for oppressing people who want democracy?

NKD wrote on Oct 22, 2019, 22:01:
I hope it's not an authentic university experience

Quinn wrote on Oct 17, 2019, 18:05:
Hmm read quite some criticism here. I'll pay 50 bucks just to experience the vibe. There aren't enough good westerns in gaming. At all.

Some of you should really subscribe to the Nit-picking Club though. Fucking hell.

jacobvandy wrote on Oct 9, 2019, 15:57:
At least RDR2 is a huge, super-detailed open world that shipped for consoles on two blu-ray discs... What's this game's excuse?

verybad1 wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 13:41:
If I could give them a golden star I would. Since I can't maybe I'll buy 2077 though.

The Half Elf wrote on Aug 21, 2019, 22:04:

Cutter wrote on Aug 21, 2019, 20:55:
To bee or not to bee, that is the question.

What ever happened to the Ant Simulator?

RedEye9 wrote on Jul 26, 2019, 15:11:
Would the last person out the door at Valve headquarters Please Remember To Turn Off The Lights.

eRe4s3r wrote on Jul 24, 2019, 12:53:
Leave it to Take 2 Interactive to bring actual gambling into gaming.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jun 6, 2019, 22:35:
Soo... free to play, but you have to buy like 4-5 DLC packs ? Of course there is a bundle, but still.

Beamer wrote on Apr 25, 2019, 18:46:

Kxmode wrote on Apr 25, 2019, 18:12:

Beamer wrote on Apr 25, 2019, 16:14:

Kxmode wrote on Apr 25, 2019, 15:36:

Bodolza wrote on Apr 25, 2019, 13:47:
People sure do have short memories. Steam is anti-consumer, monopolistic trash. I'd be happy to see the platform die ASAP. They're solely responsible for the death of right of resale for PC games. How rich that people complain about exclusives, when Steam itself already has tons of exclusives.

It's a privacy nightmare with the ability to track everything you do. It forces updates both for its own client and applications more frequently and forcefully than Microsoft ever did. It's a resource hog even when doing nothing. It's also full of DRM.

I personally try to use GOG for as many purchases as possible.

Third-party exclusives are the epitome of anti-consumer choice. Valve has never engaged in this on their platform. There's no justification for it beyond artificially building a user base quickly instead of building a better platform than Steam and letting it naturally grow through consumer choice.

The bottomline is EGS has NOTHING on Steam and Epic knows this. So the only way they can bring people to their platform is force them to. That's not sustainable.

Any game using Steamworks is a Steam exclusive. You can buy it elsewhere, but you're locked into Steam as a distribution model. Plenty of other games are also locked into Steam, if unofficially - there are literally tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of games only available via Steam.

That argument is NOT a valid comparison of the type of exclusivity we're talking about and you know it. Please don't grasp.

Functionally, it is. The result is there's only one service for you to use. You're just caught up in who is at fault, but the result is the same, so I couldn't be bothered to endlessly complain about it.

Rilcon wrote on Apr 25, 2019, 17:18:
I'm not sure when we collectively decided that buying a game off a retail store and then opening it to find just a Steam key, or a game installer that first installs Steam, was super OK.

I bought the game in a store, a physical copy, and the thing turns out to be 100% tied to Steam. I cannot play without steam, without installing their store, without having to log into their store and using their services and being tied to their terms of service and their extensive user and activity tracking. Even though it's a game on a disk I bought at a brick and mortar shop, it's a Steam exclusive and I now have to have Steam store on my system.

And we all have now decided that that was OK, but this, this isn't.