Charzard4261

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nope! Just jump right into 2's single player mode and enjoy the ride.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Obviously he doesn't spend enough time causing issues for his own companies and country, that he has to try and stir shit across the pond to cure his boredom.

How about doing something good with that spare time for once?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I used to really love this game. It has so much potential to be more than a battle royale, but it took like 4 years to get a permanent non BR gamemode. Battle passes only work if your players don't get burnt out... And don't get me started on collection events 2: electric boogaloo, this time with more gambling!

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a casual who didn't start playing shooter games until late, if it wasn't for SBMM I wouldn't be playing them at all.

The real evil is engagement based matchmaking. I don't want to beat players even newer than me every time I haven't won in 20 games, and I certainly don't want to be steamrolled by players who have been playing their whole lives when the same happens to them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Steam continues to be the best platform for your game. In an industry that almost prides itself on not listening to customers, Valve really is a miracle.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (21 children)

Ah yes, Europe never had to deal with such far right-wingers. We'd like borrow the term you guys came up with to describe them in case we ever face such violent fascists. What was it again?

Oh right, Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Had the day off work to attend my sister's graduation in this heat, only to hear the lads in the (lovely air conditioned) office essentially had a day off due to this. Can't believe my luck today 😢

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget about moving their possessions. I don't know if houses in America come fully furnished, but there's no way you could sell all your furniture for enough to buy it all back in a new state.

Also people surely have things that they would not want to sell, for personal or practical reasons, right? To pretend the only thing people need to move is themselves feels a little heartless.

And we've not even talked about people with families yet...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can get the transfers between friends part, but why between platforms? That makes zero sense from a business standpoint.

The only way that would work is to have game companies manufacture and distribute an external storage medium themselves, because platforms sure as hell won't say "Oh you bought a license on another store? Sure, you can use our CDN for free!". And now we've almost reinvented game CDs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

We may joke about valve not making games, but they do have a large amount of people working on various titles.

They also do a lot of R&D for hardware, like the Steam Deck and VR headsets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Don't let any TF2 fan hear you call Deadlock its successor. It appears to be Overwatch gameplay mixed with Moba style map layouts.

But yeah HL:A was indeed amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Side note: Valve isn't doing the thing Unity tried to do. Unity tried to charge you every time someone installs the game. And you're not even hosting the game's data on Unity's servers.

Steam takes money when you purchase, then will let you download it for free, anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Completely different.

Back on topic: It would be really interesting to see the actual server and bandwidth costs for hosting and distributing all those games. There's no way it's super low, or any of the competition surely would have caught up by now.

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