Quoting: Salvatos

If in a game scenario you bargain, AI can remember this the next time.

Holy shit, they just invented persistent game states! Now I understand why everyone is hype about AI. Sign me up!

Imagine this: you buy an RPG game and the NPCs view and treat you depending on whether you bought it for a full price or on sale. If you bought it at -90%, your reputation is minimal and everyone sees you as a pariah. On the other hand, if your reputation is balanced, every cosmetic DLC you buy makes you more of a celebrity in the game's world.

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I like how they're labelling layoffs as "increasing resource efficiency".

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Doesn't look much like a bean to me... :whistle:

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What a nice idea. BTW do the skins fit both OLED and original SteamDecks?

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I gotta say, it sounds boooooring. :tongue:

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Very decent price in the age of indecently priced games.

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Quoting: williamjcmIn the case of point #2, I'd like to mention there's a British game that actually allows this: Talisman Digital Edition (by Nomad Games). You can buy DLCs for the game on Android, iOS, GOG, or Switch, and use them with the Steam version just fine, as long as they're registered to your Nomad Games account. And except for the Switch version (Nintendo doesn't like games accessing DLCs bought from outside Nintendo's system), same the other way around, too. Bought a DLC on Steam ? You can access it from the mobile game, or the GOG version.

And Valve has been okay with this for years already.

There is a lot of games that have in-game shop where you can redeem (externally acquired) codes for items or in-game currency, like Brawlhalla, Dead by Daylight, Dying Light, Smite etc. etc. I have no idea how they found that "problem".

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It would be funny if Valve, in reaction to these lawsuits, just stopped generating steam keys and called it a day. You want to sell your game for $50 on Steam and $5 on your website? Suit yourself. You don't want to pay 30% commission? Then don't (btw you had to pay 0 commission on steam keys, remember?). You want to allow people activating DLC bought elsewhere in your steam game? Well go on and start coding it in, we don't mind.

I wonder how long until the "exploited" publishers do a 180.

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"We believe Valve Corporation has been unfairly shutting out competition for PC games and in-game content"

I smell Sweeney. :whistle:

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The world has gone bananas.

PS. I'm still not installing it. :tongue:

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