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MH Knights posted:If Valve ever releases a non-VR version of Alyx I would play it. There's a mod that lets you play it with keyboard and mouse to completion but it's a bit janky. https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-alyx-novr
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MH Knights posted:If Valve ever releases a non-VR version of Alyx I would play it. Lol
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Gin posted:It's pretty successful. Development staff has doubled in the last year, and they are a month or two away from their new delivery cadence (a new 'Set' every 4 months). Crazy to me that Riot is once again one of the sole winners in a new genre gold rush, though I guess given their institutional knowledge it makes a sort of sense. *MOBAs weren’t new when League came out but League was one of the first commercializations of them and is one of the only PC ones left.
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imagining the type of guy to play that mod and walk away thinking "huh dont see what the big deal was"
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cumpantry posted:imagining the type of guy to play that mod and walk away thinking "huh dont see what the big deal was" I believe this has literally been an unironic post in the Steam thread.
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Orv posted:Crazy to me that Riot is once again one of the sole winners in a new genre gold rush, though I guess given their institutional knowledge it makes a sort of sense. likewise with valorant which is the only CS-alike that ever stuck the landing it hasn't killed CS by any means but it's the first time CS has ever had a real competitor
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repiv posted:likewise with valorant which is the only CS-alike that ever stuck the landing Yeah that’s also very true. It almost makes me curious to see how their MMO turns out but that’s a very dangerous path.
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crossfire (the blatant csgo clone) was pretty popular in asia, but valorant's probably gonna chip away at whatever marketshare it has left
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makes me wonder if CS2 would have happened if not for valorant muscling in on their turf
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possibly, yeah. the weird battle royale mode makes very little sense beyond as a reaction to the then popular genre e: it was only five years ago they went f2p, too
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:now that we've moved from layoffs to console wars can we swap thread names between this and the steam thread
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repiv posted:makes me wonder if CS2 would have happened if not for valorant muscling in on their turf I wouldn’t be surprised if not. I’m still kinda unclear to what degree Hidden Path is still a going concern after their failed survival game and the slowed updates to CSGO.
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kliras posted:possibly, yeah. the weird battle royale mode makes very little sense beyond as a reaction to the then popular genre the battle royale mode was unceremoniously killed off in the transition over to CS2 lol
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Orv posted:How is the League autochess doing? I feel like that was one of the fastest new trends to flare up to massive popularity and then almost immediately die out that I've seen in gaming. multiple regional riot run pro leagues + international events
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Orv posted:Crazy to me that Riot is once again one of the sole winners in a new genre gold rush, though I guess given their institutional knowledge it makes a sort of sense. They incurred some heavy tech debt in an effort to make it to market as fast as possible b/c they "knew" they had a fun game in a new-ish genre while it was in R&D. TFT was built using the league engine/architecture for that reason. I was a dev at Riot for a long time and I'm still astonished that they got the league engine to run on freakin' mobile phones as fast as they did, dev-time wise. (I don't think any of that is unknown knowledge plz don't sue me)
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I still find it funny that the first MOBA is possibly the PvP multiplayer mode of Future Cop: LAPD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L5DMVWP0AM
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HopperUK posted:Come on say what you mean. Steam doesn't give features? Steam definitely has a lot of „features”, in fact it keeps on slapping more and more of them, but they’re all awful superfluous bullshit that I don’t ever want to see. EGS ftw in the matter of being a normal store
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So... don't interact with them? It's fine.
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Oh no...there are just too many options for other people to use! It's awful. Why can't everyone else just be normal, like me, and not use any of those options?
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I’d say it’s more like 50-50. Multiplayer is good - I still remember the dark ages of every game rolling its own netcode - and some level of social network is an important backstop for that for any game with non-random matchmaking. A unified mod interface via the workshop is good, the ability to back-patch games to old versions is good. Gifting games to be auto-sent at a particular time (e.g. birthdays and Christmas) is good. The Deck (and the accompanying massive incentive for Linux support) is good. Personally speaking achievements give my brain the happy chemicals, and they’re a nice form of stat tracking for devs. Steam guides aren’t great, but these days they’re one of the only sources of guides that aren’t in video form. Streaming a game from my decent desktop to my potato laptop can be nice sometimes. Unified forums are 90% cesspools and 10% bug reports, but that 10% is nice to have. Tags on games would be useful if people weren’t so dumb about what they mean most of the time. poo poo like trading cards and stickers and community screenshots and notifications about what my friends are playing I’ve never cared about and I never will, ditto VR until we reach full holodeck.
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The guides are really nice to have because it's fully integrated into the steam overlay, so if I'm already in a game and I want a spreadsheet of some videogame bullshit, I can just open the overlay and surely one of the guides will have the information available. I use that a lot actually.
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Orv posted:Wasn't that done extremely early on in GOG's life before they really had much in the way of modern games at all? I imagine that's a fairly special case where you're not losing out much on the twenty people who bought the really bad, completely un-fixed-up Steam versions of early DOS games or whatever. I'm still amazed, that the copy of Might and Magic 6 you get with MMX on Steam is literally the GOG version. They didn't even remove the GOG executable. I guess that's why you can't buy MMVI without getting MMX, and they just assume no one ever looks in the folder.
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Steam forums are often the only place to find troubleshooting help for some smaller games in 2023
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Jack Trades posted:Oh no...there are just too many options for other people to use! It's awful. I will always care about having to install lovely bloatware.
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you have to install EGS also. im not sure how steam is bloatware but EGS isnt
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Andrast posted:Steam forums are often the only place to find troubleshooting help for some smaller games in 2023 Also the only place to find guides for smaller indie titles
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goblin week posted:I will always care about having to install lovely bloatware. I don't think you know what that word means.
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Please stop responding to the really obvious troll. Also, Steam is the best and EGS is poop.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I still find it funny that the first MOBA is possibly the PvP multiplayer mode of Future Cop: LAPD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkIGa_rUnGo
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goblin week posted:I will always care about having to install lovely bloatware. egs is the only launcher sincne the bnet one got changed thaht just randomly sucks up resources and will freeze/crash doing basic tasks. its genuinely the worst launcher by a large margin lol
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Stux posted:egs is the only launcher sincne the bnet one got changed thaht just randomly sucks up resources and will freeze/crash doing basic tasks. its genuinely the worst launcher by a large margin lol Counterpoint: the xbox thing you use to launch game pass games
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Andrast posted:Counterpoint: the xbox thing you use to launch game pass games Did they ever fix that thing where it would sometimes just refuse to uninstall a game and would gradually eat up space until you reformatted the drive?
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nope, had the happen last time I used it (hopefully the actual last time, gently caress that malware of a "store")
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And that's why you use LTSC branch of Windows.
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I just heard that a few speakers at unreal fest (starting tomorrow) were affected by the layoffs. Absolutely brutal to spend 2-3 months preparing a talk, practicing, getting all your slides ready and then being uninvited via a layoff. They had to send out an email informing everyone some talks have been changed, but that didn't say how many. Bit of a scramble for the conference organizers. I'm curious what the mood will be this week.
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Andrast posted:Counterpoint: the xbox thing you use to launch game pass games skill issue
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Jack Trades posted:And that's why you use LTSC branch of Windows.
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Jack Trades posted:The guides are really nice to have because it's fully integrated into the steam overlay, so if I'm already in a game and I want a spreadsheet of some videogame bullshit, I can just open the overlay and surely one of the guides will have the information available. I use that a lot actually.
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Personally since I use a Nintendo Pro Controller on PC, Steam Inputs is a godsend. The fact I can even add games to the client to make it work in non-steam games is even better.
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