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Lurdiak posted:There is currently no way to tell Steam you don't want people on your friends list to be able to voice call you. Nothing like getting a voice call during the middle of a cutscene in a plot-heavy game. You can just set yourself to appear offline if you really don't want to be disturbed.
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Lurdiak posted:There is currently no way to tell Steam you don't want people on your friends list to be able to voice call you. Nothing like getting a voice call during the middle of a cutscene in a plot-heavy game. There is a way to tell those people to gently caress off
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May 18, 2017 20:08
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PantsBandit posted:You can just set yourself to appear offline if you really don't want to be disturbed. Sure sure, there are ways around it, but it's a basic functionality that really should exist.
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May 18, 2017 20:09
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Jay Rust posted:Life Is Strange feels suuuuuper manipulative to me in retrospect, it's like one of those stories that end with having to put a dog down It's very much from the "spend 90% of the game telling the player to do something and then the last 10% telling them to feel bad for having done it" school of video game narratives, which I really didn't like about it. There's a lot of things I don't like about it honestly, but I think it's bad in a fun and interesting way and I think another game by the same devs could be equally interesting and maybe I'd like it more. I hope the new story and new cast idea is what they go with!
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May 18, 2017 20:10
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Grapplejack posted:isn't battle.net like, hilariously terrible compared to steam though? you don't even have voice chat iirc it's got a chat system and a cooked in voip and an overlay but even with all those similarities comparing it to steam is a very apples to oranges thing. the blizzard launcher supports something like 6 games in its entirety: hearthstone, heroes of the storm, world of warcraft, diablo 3, starcraft II, and overwatch. they all fit on the sidebar simultaneously and thus are displayed even if you don't have one or the other installed. there is no storefront, or community pages, or anything, because it is just those 6 games.
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May 18, 2017 20:11
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Lurdiak posted:There is currently no way to tell Steam you don't want people on your friends list to be able to voice call you. Nothing like getting a voice call during the middle of a cutscene in a plot-heavy game. What are you doing, we're only allowed to poo poo on Steam's competitors when they get mentioned, not Steam itself.
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May 18, 2017 20:12
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exquisite tea posted:The dog is your misguided belief that you live in a fair and rational world. the dog is the singular binary decision that you make in your entire irl life
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May 18, 2017 20:14
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It took a decade to get the ability to open steam pages in a new window
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May 18, 2017 20:17
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Ometeotl posted:What are you doing, we're only allowed to poo poo on Steam's competitors when they get mentioned, not Steam itself. where were you when there was like 3 pages of discussion on how steam is a cutthroat capitalist monopoly bleeding anyone and everyone who touches it dry in pursuit of the almighty dollar
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May 18, 2017 20:19
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You know how people make fun of "the Citizen Kane of games" Gabe Newell, the person, is basically the Citizen Kane of games
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May 18, 2017 20:22
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The White Dragon posted:the dog is the singular binary decision that you make in your entire irl life I think a lot of people were under the impression that Life is Strange was going to be one of those games that had all these various permutations and were disappointed when it didn't end up being that. It's also kind of a downer ending. But I felt like the plot was well-established by everything leading up to the final episode, I could see where things were going and to me it was actually quite beautiful. There's a lot that I could say about it but I'd rather not other than hell yeah Life is Strange 2!!!
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May 18, 2017 20:22
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i didnt even know until right now that steam had voice chat
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May 18, 2017 20:22
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May 18, 2017 20:27
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In Training posted:i didnt even know until right now that steam had voice chat unless it's been updated in the past couple of years it's not super great
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May 18, 2017 20:28
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In Training posted:i didnt even know until right now that steam had voice chat i didn't either and this is a good thing as far as i'm concerned
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May 18, 2017 20:29
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The Steam voice chat ring noise is the exact royalty free phone sound effect that most tv shows use. I know this because I watch a lot of bad cop shows.
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May 18, 2017 20:29
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Cowcaster posted:where were you when there was like 3 pages of discussion on how steam is a cutthroat capitalist monopoly bleeding anyone and everyone who touches it dry in pursuit of the almighty dollar Watching people try to present that while others screamed about how Origin killed their dog and that a Steam monopoly is a good thing.
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May 18, 2017 20:29
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Well, just logged into battle.net for the first time in years to make sure everything was still good. I'd rather launch Destiny 2 from Steam by whatevs. I imagine the clan chat will happen through discord anyway
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May 18, 2017 20:33
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Ometeotl posted:Watching people try to present that while others screamed about how Origin killed their dog and that a Steam monopoly is a good thing. ah so you're just upset you're not the loudest screamer in the room
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May 18, 2017 20:34
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May 18, 2017 20:43
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I'm honestly surprised at the number of people who are gonna play Destiny 2 on PC and don't already have Blizzard's launcher installed. I kinda would've expected there to be more overlap between the Destiny 2 audience and the Overwatch audience.
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May 18, 2017 20:55
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i would've thought there was very little overlap between the destiny 2 audience and pc gamers at all considering the first was a console exclusive, but here we are
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May 18, 2017 20:57
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Poops Mcgoots posted:Destiny 2 on PC...Blizzard's launcher Wait what
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May 18, 2017 20:57
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Most of the people I know who love Blizzard games don't even own consoles and Destiny basically did not exist for them
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May 18, 2017 20:58
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i mean it's basically borderlands 2 with less memery right
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May 18, 2017 21:00
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Cowcaster posted:i mean it's basically borderlands 2 with less memery right idk i thought destiny was some kind of bad mmo and the only similarity between it and bl2 is that you play as a shootgunsman
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May 18, 2017 21:08
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I think the only person I've ever heard talk about Destiny was Brad Shoemaker, which speaks volumes.
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May 18, 2017 21:10
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It makes a lot of sense that Blizzard gets a third party game on their platform. They have an insane ammount of users, they were basically wasting free money not selling more games on their platform. It would be cool to have actual capable comeptition to Steam.
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May 18, 2017 21:13
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Palpek posted:It makes a lot of sense that Blizzard gets a third party game on their platform. They have an insane ammount of users, they were basically wasting free money not selling more games on their platform. It would be cool to have actual capable comeptition to Steam. in the official press release they explicitly claim that this is a one and done deal and they have no future plans to add more third party games to the client, so it remains really weird in my book
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May 18, 2017 21:16
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Activision games are not third party for Blizzard, hell, they spent some amount of time implementing a half-arsed version of exotic equipment in Wow.
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Palpek posted:It makes a lot of sense that Blizzard gets a third party game on their platform. They have an insane ammount of users, they were basically wasting free money not selling more games on their platform. It would be cool to have actual capable comeptition to Steam. Indeed. Money is the only language Valve has spoken since the release of HL2 anyway.
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Palpek posted:It makes a lot of sense that Blizzard gets a third party game on their platform. They have an insane ammount of users, they were basically wasting free money not selling more games on their platform. It would be cool to have actual capable comeptition to Steam. Activision and Blizzard are the same company
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Blizzard titles also being on their own platform don't have to play the deep discount game, their consumer base is huge and will pay full price well after release.
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Healbot posted:Activision games are not third party for Blizzard In Training posted:Activision and Blizzard are the same company
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Palpek posted:Ah ok, that makes more sense I guess. It is strange though, they try to keep Blizzard a very distinct Brand so its odd that Destiny 2 is going to show up in that same storefront
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May 18, 2017 21:38
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Some CEO is probably very happy about winning that battle.
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Putting Destiny 2 on the blizzard launcher is a good move to help wean WoW addicts off of MMOs.
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The White Dragon posted:idk i thought destiny was some kind of bad mmo and the only similarity between it and bl2 is that you play as a shootgunsman It's pretty much just replaying a handful of levels from Halo over and over on different difficulties. One of the most cynically grindy and repetitive games I've ever played.
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http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/news/?d=2017-5#181745quote:Does this mean other games are going to come to the Blizzard platform too?
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spudsbuckley posted:It's pretty much just replaying a handful of levels from Halo over and over on different difficulties. so like vermintide or payday 2 then?
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