I don’t remember what it was like with the Deck but Index and now Steam Controller both went straight to shops to pick up without option for home delivery. Is this not something that is usually done in your conuntry? I can only wonder why Valve would prefer to leave the packages outside over them being in a safe place if it’s available

they let me choose a free game as compensation

You picked HL3, right? Or is that classified information?

I was there pressing the button when reservations started. Got the email on May 15th and it was shipped on 18th. It’s arriving today and I’m quite certain that it’s in a pile of other packages in a store near me.

Edit. This edit was typed with the “New! Steam Controller”.

Ghost of Youtei. I like to swap some games with my sister and this is still the best way to do it. And it’s pretty easy to resell story games here after you are done with them.

Disguising content mill garbage as reviews is just being human? Also theft and also promoting scams and keeping quiet about it. There was also the warranty stuff but that’s pretty minor compared to other things.

Well you could say that all hands are on the Deck

Oh neat. I feel like it’s going to be a good choice as long as people remember to use flairs.

Of course Quest will always be cheaper because it’s not their end-product.

Even more worrying that it’s not disclosed in Steam’s AI usage section on their store page:

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

During the development process, we may use procedural- and AI-based tools to assist with content creation. In all such cases, the final product reflects the creativity and expression of our own development team.

Unreal Engine 5

I might play it in 10 years when I have the specs to mask its flaws.

Kaldaien in need of more attention? How is this news?

To keep your hands clean? I can respect that.

I don’t see the problem here. Just because you upload stuff on Youtube doesn’t mean you need to be tied to every other service. This isn’t something like being a vegan where if you wear leather boots, you’re not a “true vegan”.

For a company like Valve, they are going to need greater adoption than what F-Droid has to be viable.

They really don’t. Valve is a private company and doesn’t need all of the money. Just 30%

Even with a small library of 100 games I wouldn’t want to handle data on a phone. Games have so many different attributes tied to them that even thinking about going through them on a tiny phone screen feels like a type of hell described in Dante’s unreleased poems.

Finished playing Elden Ring DLC. Started going through Kenshi in Japanese and continued MH Stories (in Japaneseas well).

I don’t even see the optimising problem as bad probably because I’m used to it. Evil Within for example ran terribly on launch but since then I have upgraded my setup and played through it. Checking the benchmarks just is something you should do on PC. Reviewers usually are pretty out of touch with rest of the world or average gamer just doesn’t care about drops and sub 30 framerates.

I feel like a worse problem currently is how games are made with TAA in mind or with forced TAA so you just can’t make them look good even with time and more powerful hardware. It’s either blurry mess with artifacts thrown in or something that doesn’t even look like 1080p on 4K resolution.

Sure it wastes your resources but the devs don’t need to do much so it speeds up their workflow. You are a sacrifice they are willing to make.

My favorite overall is Black Flag but it’s not really an AC game so Brotherhood. AC really died with Desmond

I wouldn’t even consider a headset that has under 120hz refresh. Huge downgrade