r/steamdeck

txa1265: I did my tinkering in the 80s/90s/00s ... at this point my Steam Deck (original and OLED) are 'vanilla', and play only games from Steam ... and I play tons of games!

I've beat minesweeper 10 times... I'm the ultimate gamer thank you very much.

blusrus: That’s what I love about console gaming, works from the get go and no need to play about with any settings

ElDuderino2112: And as someone who can’t be assed to waste my little free time tinkering with nonsense like that, I thank you all for your service

el_americano: we're modern gamers. Game testers get paid for it

grammar_oligarch: Yeah.

That’s the new model for a lot of companies. Cut cost on testers, have an “early release” that lasts for anywhere from a year to as long as the game is on Steam, ask the community to report any issues, get them to mod to fix issues that can’t be patched, and reap the profits.

I’ve been an unpaid game tester for every Owlcat game that’s been released. I‘ll be damned if it doesn’t work.

We saw some versions of this (old Beta releases of games to dedicated fans), but it’s really kicked into high gear in the last few years.

Most big titles release and require a series of patches for many, many gigs.

I mean, Diablo 4 is jokingly finally coming out of early release; the next patch/update/whatever word they’re using now to describe them testing the game will probably fix major issues with the game.

So yeah, we’re all unpaid game testers. That’s a job market that’ll probably be dead by 2030.

ma_er233: Tinkering is more interesting for me than actually playing the games now.

jakellerVi: Tinkering with a bunch of games backlogged in my library, and then going back to the 8-10 games that I've been playing for the past several years lol

mikezenox: I personally spend a lot more time gaming than tweaking anything, and even then, it's mostly getting the controller inputs to my liking.

Since getting my steam deck, I've completed around 50 or so coop/single-player games, and it's really insane how many of these worked out of the box with no tweaking whatsoever. This is not counting emulated games that have all worked as well (with the exeption of that update that hroke parsing for everyone). 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R. anomaly' is just about the only game that I gave up on (error on startup), but I've since received some tips to use next time I feel like trying.

RieseNacht: … I spent more time and having more fun getting mods ready for TOTW and Fallout 4 than I’ve spent playing both of them . I like them a lot I just haven’t played them

Don’t yall judge me ! Yall do the same thing . It has to be ready JUST INCASE I want to … in the future… when I don’t have games to play 😂

The_Radian: Yeah, right up until a game is so good that it becomes the ONLY one you play. Happens all the time. It's not so much play testing, its looking for that ONE game.

Hinaha: Well.. Yeah. Seems like making things work on the go is the new hobby now

AlwaysTheKop: My life.

Just bought a Anbernic RG35XX, I’m going through the effort of flashing a new SD card for it with a new operating system, downloading gigabytes of ROM’s and BIOS files… even though I know I’ll only play the first 5 mins of any game I start to see how it runs…

xaviflo95: I spend most of the time testing games for 5 minutos than actually playing games on my steam deck lol

Emotional_Ad5833: im the same with porn. i test the video then move onto the next

holounderblade: Only 40%?

poweredbylight: I've been using my steam deck as a Helldivers 2 machine since I've gotten it, I don't know what you're talking about.

Alt0987654321: I spent HOURS getting all my switch games dumped, mods installed, and Yuzu set up properly for all my switch games.

Just to go back to Elden Ring.

vaikunth1991: i am fairly convinced this is just 5%

drsalvation1919: Game dev here, I can assure you, you are NOT a game tester.

If you were a game tester, I'd be having you jumping on the corner 500 times to ensure that jumping mechanic is not broken, and trying to get you to break physics in the character model while jumping. The fact that you added "optimize" in that list already means you're not a tester lmao, you'd be a modder at best, and that's still very low in the possibility.

regretchoice: personally I fried my brain trying to set up emudeck last night so i’ll just keep using my deck as a hades machine

Traditional-Bit2203: He's only wrong about the 40%, lowball stat. We all know the 92% of all stats are made up on the spot though.

qdtk: I don’t know about you guys but send me your settings when you’re done. I’m having a great time gaming!

Some-Other-guy-1971: I unfortunately resemble that comment.

TanguayX: I’m more of a hoarder/curator.

heathenyak: you guys have time for games? lol. I'm able to play like 30-40 minutes of games a day for the last year or so, it sucks lol. Bought a oled steam deck, cool, played with it for an hour, still haven't played a game on it, I've had it for like 2 weeks hehe.

MrZrazies: Wait. Are we supposed to tweak the game?

JonnyB2_YouAre1: Sometimes I only play one game for a month or more.

Grace_Omega: Definitely not the case for me. I used to be like that on PC due to some health issues that make sitting at a desk for long periods hard, but since getting the Deck and being able to play in bed I've actually been digging into games again properly.

lalolanda2: But how many of you are game lurkers? I read and watch things about games but never play or tinker with them

actually I don't even own a steam deck

Eceleb-follower: It's ok to stop gaming btw. Most people grow out of their hobbies at some point.

yellow-go: I mean, I’ve been used to being the test monkey and gamer for a long time now. Given that I play on lower to midrange systems, this isn’t that new to me, though it can get irritating sometimes.

Dragomier: I feel so called out

mattumanu: I mostly tweak games by changing the Proton version if they don't work as they should. Other than that, I'm playing the game.

onehundredcups: You know how nvidia’s GeForce experience has a scan games then optimize games? Why doesn’t steam deck have that? I just download and play the games, I should be changing settings? They seem to generally just work.

alex_de_tampa: I’m not a tester you’re a tester ! 😂

allisun1433: I don’t tweak things 😅 But also I’m not the most tech savvy person, and I just get on my SD (or insert other device for gaming of choice here) and go play the game 😅😂