I keep it running less & less since most of my friends moved to Discord if they want to reach me. At least Discord reliable warns me on my phone without sucking my battery dry which can't be said of the Steam app. Also the past few months I've done almost no Steam gaming - it's either retro gaming on my 20-30 year old retro rigs, or it's an off-Steam game and it just feels cleaner not having it active then.
Steam Play for Linux, which uses a modified distribution of Wine called Proton, celebrated its first birthday in August. When we talked about Steam Play for Linux last January, the community had reported that over 3,400 games were compatible. Today that number is over 6,500. This is all super exciting for us, because it means that users can realistically play a huge number of games on the platform of their choice, with no additional work required by developers. Proton continues to see improvements, further decreasing the performance overhead to gaming on Linux. Alongside these Proton changes, we also looked to improve shader compilation specifically with gaming in mind; this resulted in the release of ACO, a new Mesa shader compiler for AMD hardware. Not only has ACO led to a decrease in shader compilation times, but some promising initial results have shown that it could improve in-game performance as well.
Sounds like EA and also Ubisoft plus Sony for PSNow are increasing the pricing for certain regions which seem to be mainly Brazil and a upwards of 400% increase for some things.
Guessing that's some move to basically skip the region sales (Which would tank.) by combating gifting and importing and such stupid as that is as there's other regions with good pricing unless these publishers intent to basically screw over all of them just to go after these things for short term benefit and long term damage in terms of actual sales in these areas.
EDIT: Or possibly just upping pricing overall though I can't see why since a increase that doubles the price or more makes it hard for the affected titles to sell at all at the new price level.
Seems Ubisoft also increased some of the prices on a few titles in some EU countries which might be why some news site picked up on the change this time around.
I read an article from 1990 - 30 years old - where there was talk about piracy and the CD-ROM as the new platform. The article was about big publishers hoping piracy would drop and sales would increase because CDs couldn't be copied.
The person writing the article basically said "bollocks" and that people spend what they can and if something is too expensive, they just don't buy it. Everyone has a certain amount they wish to spend for something and it's only when there's zero alternatives that they might pay over the odds.
Spotify is a nice example here too. Before Spotify, you had a gazillion places to download MP3s - demand was very high since there were no true digital platforms (iTunes was evil as fuck and I don't count that) but the moment Spotify came as an affordable alternative, people swamped to that. Now the amount of illegal platforms has dropped massively because there's far less demand. The moment Spotify would make their platform for paying users only, you'd see people leaving Spotify in droves.
Spotify is a nice example here too. Before Spotify, you had a gazillion places to download MP3s - demand was very high since there were no true digital platforms (iTunes was evil as fuck and I don't count that) but the moment Spotify came as an affordable alternative, people swamped to that. Now the amount of illegal platforms has dropped massively because there's far less demand. The moment Spotify would make their platform for paying users only, you'd see people leaving Spotify in droves.
You ain't wrong, chap, you ain't wrong. Before Spotify you could find MP3s easy as piss, now it's proving increasingly difficult to find an MP3 ripped from an actual album and not some shitty Russian site just hosting Youtube rips (behind "Rapidgator" and other shitty hosts, no less)
Spotify is a nice example here too. Before Spotify, you had a gazillion places to download MP3s - demand was very high since there were no true digital platforms (iTunes was evil as fuck and I don't count that) but the moment Spotify came as an affordable alternative, people swamped to that. Now the amount of illegal platforms has dropped massively because there's far less demand. The moment Spotify would make their platform for paying users only, you'd see people leaving Spotify in droves.
You ain't wrong, chap, you ain't wrong. Before Spotify you could find MP3s easy as piss, now it's proving increasingly difficult to find an MP3 ripped from an actual album and not some shitty Russian site just hosting Youtube rips (behind "Rapidgator" and other shitty hosts, no less)
As someone who has a audiophile MP3/FLAC player I know that all too well. Usenet got heavily clamped down on - it used to be the best source of music for me. Now I have to use torrents and for more obscure music this sucks.
Yeah, my wife and I used to *adore* Usenet.. but it grew in popularity and ease-of-use so it got cracked down on big time :\ Hell, I still get friends asking me to find obscure albums and whatnot, stuff that invariably ends up being on Spotify anyhow, so I use SIDify to rip albums from my Spotify premium --- it's so much less hassle than trying to find working links
Most of the time they want standalone tracks for playing on a dedicated player, something that doesn't have Spotify, or they're just too dumb to work out things like SIDify
Spotify is a nice example here too. Before Spotify, you had a gazillion places to download MP3s - demand was very high since there were no true digital platforms (iTunes was evil as fuck and I don't count that) but the moment Spotify came as an affordable alternative, people swamped to that. Now the amount of illegal platforms has dropped massively because there's far less demand. The moment Spotify would make their platform for paying users only, you'd see people leaving Spotify in droves.
You ain't wrong, chap, you ain't wrong. Before Spotify you could find MP3s easy as piss, now it's proving increasingly difficult to find an MP3 ripped from an actual album and not some shitty Russian site just hosting Youtube rips (behind "Rapidgator" and other shitty hosts, no less)
I can still find loose MP3 albums floating around whenever me mum asks me to. 99% of it is in random blogs, some with files still up for years.
But it's boomer world music, maybe that's why it's allowed to live
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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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Though the regular not indie games and odd releases are ramping it up too having games where the trailer is basically just the touch mode thing from the PS Wanka version.
(Actually called a Vita but the thing basically being dubbed the "Rub Mode" across most of these titles was probably for more than just the screen touch mechanic.)
Though the regular not indie games and odd releases are ramping it up too having games where the trailer is basically just the touch mode thing from the PS Wanka version.
(Actually called a Vita but the thing basically being dubbed the "Rub Mode" across most of these titles was probably for more than
well looing at the old trailer
the game seems to be basically EDF with waifus ... + these weird modes
so at least there is actual game there unlike the meme thing
Yep it's a basic shooter with tons of fan service and then the new game here just went all out on the fan service with the actual game getting pretty mediocre criticism overall and the PC port seems to be a bit of a quick job and not without some issues of it's own.
Omega Dungeon pulled the same thing far as I know having to tone down the PS4 edition and then all out on the Switch release / sequel and then also the PC port with about the same trailer style focusing on said fan service.
(Nintendo changed a bit since the 1990's ha ha.)
It usually works though I suppose selling decent enough for the troubled Japanese home market and even international sales aren't the best, GUST pulled off a nice one with Atelier Ryza though without being as fan service heavy as Nights of Azure or the weird take on magic girls that Blue Reflection was.
Long as the game part is good though I don't mind too much although the handheld ports switching to these rub moments kinda clashes a bit though then darker moments and serious writing had that problem too clashing with lighthearted humor and mood swings in many other games also.
Execution differs a bit and the resulting gameplay mechanics I suppose and these games aren't exactly story heavy.
(Omega Dungeon or Labyrinth or what it was is about breast enlargement good luck with that core concept and a deep story. )
Anyways far as Steam goes I guess they're still a bit 50/50 sometimes letting stuff through sometimes hindering it but it seems that the content restrictions and what's allowed and can be censored or uncensored is lowered a bit again though with some content policies enforced more heavily now.
Suppose some of the VN stuff that flooded the store a while ago and these quick "games" still doing it kinda push it at times too making things less than easy for Valve trying to have some moderation of content but still mostly OK'ing lots of stuff as well.
Still better than the 1970's and 1980's I guess with all the weird games and clones of weird games and sequels to weird games rolled out one after another, nothing crashed this time at least although I suppose some of these indie quick turnaround titles are almost down to the same level of overall "quality" as back then heh.
Though it might be the bigger publishers and push for ever higher profits and shorter development times and online stuff that causes a major shakeup this time although then again it's working for the mobile market and the earnings and aggressiveness on some stuff there is quite something else.
EDIT: Guess the upcoming changes to the Steam store and other enhancements will also allow for filtering these types of titles out and other sorting and browsing methods, I just view the daily releases but it is fairly slow and much of it is kinda meh but you get some occasional interesting things too.
Though the regular not indie games and odd releases are ramping it up too having games where the trailer is basically just the touch mode thing from the PS Wanka version.
(Actually called a Vita but the thing basically being dubbed the "Rub Mode" across most of these titles was probably for more than
well looing at the old trailer
the game seems to be basically EDF with waifus ... + these weird modes
so at least there is actual game there unlike the meme thing
funnily enough, my elder brother LOVES this game! He's crazy about it and plays it to death His missus is less than thrilled by the "drilling" segments in the game, haha!
EDIT: Guess the upcoming changes to the Steam store and other enhancements will also allow for filtering these types of titles out and other sorting and browsing methods, I just view the daily releases but it is fairly slow and much of it is kinda meh but you get some occasional interesting things too.
i would say its already pretty easy to sort them out
Min and max price sliders wouldn't hurt to sort out the 0.99 stuff and the " " store listings that appear but aren't actually out so they don't have a price listed at all.
Though the tags work fairly well although a core group of non-user set ones would be a improvement over tagging stuff with funny things but I suppose there's always extensions for browser scripts for how long until Valve adds more functionality and there's whatever is going on in the "Steam Labs" or what the beta section is called.
And some of it is AI recommended and auto tuned so sometimes two entirely unrelated games get grouped together but eh it happens and overall I suppose the store has improved and Valve is adding a ton of other features and enhancements into the Steam service overall.
Guessing it can't really be done what with all the numerous publishers both bigger and smaller and Valve isn't exactly The Boss like Microsoft or Sony or Nintendo can be on their respective platforms but a Steam Pro subscription model would be entertaining to see how that'd go down.
EDIT: EA, Ubisoft (Sorta) and others also kinda returning to Steam now is telling too for how well things are going, former EGS titles also appearing trying to have some enticing deals and discounts too.
Metro Exodus should be returning soon and I guess for the bigger exclusives Borderlands 3 isn't too far off now.
And Bethesda with Fallout 76 which is still going even if it's not quite as smooth as how Elder Scrolls Online managed things hah.
EDIT: Oh and can't really forget.
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funnily enough, my elder brother LOVES this game! He's crazy about it and plays it to death Very Happy His missus is less than thrilled by the "drilling" segments in the game, haha!
Might take some time and check a video walkthrough or something once I've dealt with this backlog thing / eldritch monstrosity ha ha, well it's getting there bit by bit.
Hah yes even with cutting down on new purchases there's still a ways to go, trying for 3 - 5 games a month but thanks to sales and factors like waiting on patches or just shelving a title until later I built up quite a backlog although it's improving.
Mixed in a few walkthroughs of console exclusives as well and some of the older titles and things are progressing nicely though the backlog is still quite sizeable even if I've cleared quite a number of titles and did some cleanup which cleared a lot of the early access / greenlight projects which seemingly had frozen or been abandoned with no real sign of ever being finished.
(Unfortunate but expected and I was kinda over optimistic initially to how this would work though I avoided some of the worst of it somehow too but not everything.)
Games being these long-term projects now is also changing it up a bit but fatigue and over saturation and samey concepts and formulas has at least forced some bigger publishers (Ubisoft? Ubisoft.) to re-consider the strategy a bit and however that will work out.
And for Steam itself well not much I can complain about it's fairly minor and a ton of it is also down to weird implementations of the API on the game side of things with the client having it's troubles but Valve is doing a good job with it overall.
Most of the rest is minor usage stuff and being a bit old so I liked it simple without the extras but it's not really any actual issues with the software or website directly.
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