I agree that they’re getting something from this (no way they just bleed money on it without a sound investment plan), but what do you reckon they actually get? Money directly from subscriptions can’t be enough to cover everything… is it just to build a walled garden ecosystem so they can “lock” people in and pick the fruits in a year or two? Although if something like a huge price hike happens, they will lose many customers
I have no cars in this race, but if that’s their aim I think it will be impossible to achieve it. Steam already did that years ago, making people too invested in their platform I mean, MS is late. No way enough people will leave Steam to move permanently to Game Pass. They might get some users, but I don’t think they’ll ever get enough to make a difference for Steam or MS themselves. Buy we’ll see. I don’t really care either way
What’s that about price parity? I’ve often bought games from 3rd party sellers like Fanatical, to name one, specifically because their prices were lower than Steam’s. What am I missing?
I see, thanks for the clarification. That does sound a bit shitty on their part, especially because when most people are asked “gaming on PC?” they answer “Steam”. Lower prices elsewhere might have given a better chance to other storefronts, although I don’t think that would have made a huge difference, since Steam is THE storefront
If they’re acting this way it means that either they’ve already seen a decline somewhere (or at least not as big of a growth) thanks to other storefronts (and maybe other companies’ launchers like Rockstar and similar), or anticipate things will get worse in the future. I get it, as a company they want to make more money YoY, but this is definitely an ugly move. Guess I’ll add another reason not to buy from them!
I was playing a game, alt-tabbing froze my system so I waited a bit and then rebooted by using the button on the case, since I couldn’t do differently....
Yes, I just learned I can use a different filesystem to avoid (or at least minimize) these issues in future. I tried formatting a portable HDD and I could only pick FAT, that should be OK since I picked “Linux compatibility” or something like that in the format wizard!
I’ll keep it in mind, but since I’m getting new, bigger drives I think I’ll just wait for and format them directly in the better filesystem. I tried formatting an external HDD and I think I could only pick FAT or NTSC (I’ll double check), hopefully on the internal drives it will be different!
Yes, I’ve basically moved permanently over to Linux and do 99.9% of the things on it. Had to boot Windows for the first time in days only to check whether or not my HDD died after I couldn’t mount it
I’m still in the process of optimizing stuff around Linux (e.g. media drive filesystem) but I’ll get there haha
Yeah, most options were greyed out. I’ll have to visit the wiki of my distro haha thanks for the tips though
edit: actually, just checked, EXT4 isn’t greyed out, but it says “internal disk for use with Linux only” and since it’s an external/portable HDD I didn’t pick that option
Nah, all Linux is good. I don’t really need to use Win and since all my HDDs are for media storage I have no reason not to use them on Linux only. They’re only mine and don’t have to hop from PC to PC. Thanks for the input though
Hey folks, just checking in to see what everyone is playing this week! Did you find a hidden gem or are you jamming on a classic? Let us know what you’re playing and what you think of it.
Hidden gem, The Witcher 3. Taking my sweet time to do everything I want, so I’m 120h in and I don’t feel like I’m too far into the main questline. That’s good, I’d like it to last as long as possible lol
I’ve been doing everything (except for Gwent) so I don’t know if I can fit a second playthrough, there are very few things I could do differently, for example focusing a bit more on Gwent, using non-witcher gear and upping the difficulty. I could also try it unmodded, but after playing with W3EE it’s unlikely that the original combat system would satisfy me. Well, it is too early to decide anyway, I estimate I should have more than 100h left, give or take haha
Modded combat adds so many layers to it and witcher contracts finally feel like proper boss fights, you need to prepare for each of them in a different way because without the right potions and oils it’s unlikely you can succeed (unless, I don’t know, you’ve beaten all Souls games with ease). The major downside of it is when you encounter large groups of enemies, because you don’t have the time to recover. Popping a potion or an oil after your first death definitely helps, though, but it breaks immersion a little bit haha
That’s what happens to me as well! I did a websearch for “lemmy defederation status” or something like that, and no defederation has happened between the two, in neither direction!
Dear patient lemmings, I am in need of your help. I’m searching for games that have some GOD DAAMN OSTs and come with a great story or/and gameplay....
It very much depends on your taste in music, but Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice OST is absolutely amazing, especially considering it’s all original scores (I think). After beating the game I put the OST on repeat for several days
A lot: amazing environments and scenery, cool combat with great enemy boss designs, very immersive exploration and the actress did an awesome job throughout it. The “puzzles” bits were a little pain to beat, but everything else was top notch; story was also very cool and made me feel the burden Senua’s carrying.
Is it? During Covid lockdowns I gamed like there was no tomorrow. Sure, a little burnout at some point, but taking a break for a couple days usually fixed it and then I could start again to game as hard; I think that being able to go outside at will would help much more with the feeling of burnout, so I don’t see gaming during retirement being not fun at any point haha
Same here, haha, between my early days of game collecting and then Steam sales fever, I have so many more games than I’m realistically going to be able to beat. Plus I’m a bit of a datahoarder, so I have everything either on physical media, and the respective console to play it, or backed up on drives, and I plan to further improve my storage in the near future, so even if Steam or the entire internet goes down, as long as there’s electricity, I’m good
Totally agree! I too enjoy the time spent alone and with the few people close to me, while every other human interaction is unnecessary for my mental wellbeing haha absolutely not envious of those who need social contact to feel well
nVidia graphics card and PoP! OS. My monitor has very inaccurate colors and I mitigate that on Windows with custom color profile + nVidia control panel tweaks to get better colors, gamma etc.; on PoP! I imported a custom color profile, but there’s only an nVidia X something and it doesn’t allow to change everything that I...
Thanks, I’ll look into it! I think I tried looking through the settings but didn’t find anything, guess I’ll double check! Hopefully I can find it and it sticks with fullscreen applications because I’m having this issue in-game, where the nights in Win look dark, while in POP! look almost like day
Xbox spends "over a billion dollars a year" on Xbox Game Pass (www.eurogamer.net)
What is the best and the worst Linux distro in your opinion? Why?
Thirst trap rule... (lemmy.ca)
Gabe Newell ordered to make in-person deposition for Valve v. Wolfire Games lawsuit (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Rule ☢ (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
So... how to fix this? (i.ibb.co)
I was playing a game, alt-tabbing froze my system so I waited a bit and then rebooted by using the button on the case, since I couldn’t do differently....
What are you playing this week?
Hey folks, just checking in to see what everyone is playing this week! Did you find a hidden gem or are you jamming on a classic? Let us know what you’re playing and what you think of it.
not again... (feddit.de)
Any issues between lemmy.ml and lemmy.world? I can't access (zero search results and direct link returns blank page) a community on the latter with an account on the former
No body, all title...
Lemmy funny af rule (lemmy.ml)
Where to get hot trendy ideas? (lemmygrad.ml)
Games with absolute banger OSTs (and perhaps good stories / gameplay) (i.pinimg.com)
Dear patient lemmings, I am in need of your help. I’m searching for games that have some GOD DAAMN OSTs and come with a great story or/and gameplay....
It'll hopefully be a keyboard and mouse for me (lemmy.ml)
Why do you use firefox? (upload.wikimedia.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/2514293
I want to know how queer this place is rule (poll in the body text) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I come up with the best ideas only when I’m extremely sleep deprived...
A seemingly simple wish (i.imgur.com)
TikTok fined €345m for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts (www.theguardian.com)
Not exactly gaming, but related: nVidia control panel replacement?
nVidia graphics card and PoP! OS. My monitor has very inaccurate colors and I mitigate that on Windows with custom color profile + nVidia control panel tweaks to get better colors, gamma etc.; on PoP! I imported a custom color profile, but there’s only an nVidia X something and it doesn’t allow to change everything that I...