Quoting: neolith

Quoting: KROMYeah, but I can't even see the store page and wishlist it, so I don't forget about it. :/

Yeah, I am quite disappointed in that, too. That game is on my list of things that would like to give a try.
Does anyone know if it's possible to gift it from another account? If so I might be tempted to spend some money on a VPN to try and get it... :unsure:

If there's going to be a retail version, you usually can order it from Austria. So far I never had problems activating keys for games that are blocked. Works with digital keys too.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: KROMNot even released and already unavailable in Germany. :neutral:

To be fair, since it's not even released it's unavailable everywhere else too. :grin:

Yeah, but I can't even see the store page and wishlist it, so I don't forget about it. :/

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Sounds awesome. Hope they add Cyberpunk soon, having to use Nexus for it is a pain. :smile:

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Not even released and already unavailable in Germany. :neutral: Looks very fun, never played the original, which I think is srill banned here too.

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Wonderful game, which flawlessly works on my, admittedly beefy, rig. I'm just happy I don't have to buy a PS these days to experience games like this. :smile:

After a couple, I thought I might want to try to stream it to my deck and from there output to my TV, but boy, it's a mess.
With Steam Remote Play my controller won't work in the game. With Sunshine, which I've tried for the first time, Resolution is messed up, Controller connection is flaky at best - for whatever reason - and quality isn't up to par.

If Valve had to fix two things with the deck it would be Remote Play and those god damn download speeds when transferring data from my main PC to the deck - I gave up and am installing it directly on the deck now. :neutral:

But, again, wonderful game.

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Quoting: F.UltraHow would a sales ban protect the industry? I've always seen the strict age thing in Germany being connected with your long history of conservative Christians in the politics.

That's a quite difficult for me to explain, more so in English.
It's not about sales bans, but age verification in itself. There are so many areas where age verification isn't required at all, like e.g. YouTube, TikTok, X, you name it, but when it comes to explicit things, our institutions are very serious about it.

They, for example, demand the well known video portals to require German visitors to pass a real age verification - not talking about the "Yes, I'm 18+" button, but a real identity check.

While one can argue that this is a good thing - I don't think it is - it is only enforced when it comes to this kind of stuff. My take is, that it's not about protecting minors but about protecting the local industry, which has no other choice than to obey to these rules, as our laws directly apply to them. That puts them at an disadvantage compared to companies outside of Germany, so they are lobbying that those rules/laws that apply to them, should apply worldwide to anyone catering German users. This is just wild, IMHO.

Don't get me started that there were talks to try to force *international* websites to show explicit materials to German visitors only after 10 p.m. local time, because kids are (should) be in bed by then. That's just not how globalization and the internet works, that's just some crazy mindset by German bureaucrats.

So back to Steam. Why can any (German) minor buy any game, regardless of its rating, but nobody, no matter the age, can buy explicit (or what our institutions deem to be explicit, where a lot of that is laughable) games? There is some broken logic there. Now, when one thing is blocked already, it's easy to have the other thing blocked as well, if they seem it fit. It's just one more step, as the first step was already made.

In the end, it all wouldn't matter that much if Steam would offer some sort of one-time age verification for accounts. That my account in itself is older than 18 years doesn't seem to count. :)

I just don't want our institutions to go wild and force Steam to block any 18+ games in the future, regardless of their topic, for us Germans. It's not super likely, but I wouldn't wonder. We had some crazy stuff going on here already from the BZKJ in the past <insert "I've seen things" meme here>. That's why this is a sensitive topic to me, I just don't like any kind of paternalism.

Sorry for the rant... :)

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It just sucks. All the explicit games are already banned in Germany, because there is no proper age verification in Steam and our institutions demand this - to protect the children, they say, to protect the "industry", I say.
Explicit games are 18+, yet I can buy and play pretty much any non-explicit 18+ game - for now. It just makes no sense.

Thing is, they could also extend this to pretty much any 18+ game, cuz laws and I'm unable to prove to Steam that I'm over 18. I'm just pissed to be a grown up man and being told by our institutions what I'm allowed to play, directly or indirectly. *sighs*

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Quoting: drjomsGot first one and did not like it.

Monotonous, did not find char skill/progression interesting.

Speaking for me, it made me buy my first console ever, a PS4 Pro, just to be able to play this gem. I absolutely love it and was pretty much blown away by the story behind it. Admittedly I'm a sucker for such settings. :)

If Sony wouldn't release this one for PC, which fortunately they do these days, I would have had to get me a PS5 just for this game. :)

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Works pretty well for me, both on SteamDeck and Desktop. But on desktop I have the strange issue that I frequently need to delete the shader cache after updates, or performance will tank very very badly - not sure why, this is the only game where I experience that.

I find the base building very interesting, although I'm more of the "4 walls, a door, floor and a roof" builder. It's an interesting game where one can spend quite some hours, but I'm personally not sure if the current gameplay loop is fun enough to keep me interested more than 20-30 hours - as of now. Building/Equipment progression is walled behind quests - you get a quest to do something, come back, build something new, get a new quest, rinse repeat. Fighting is fun, though and exploration is too, somehow. I hope they improve on the gameplay loop and maybe add base raids or make it even more interesting.

Overall another game that is perfectly playable on linux on release day, what a time to be alive. :)

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Quoting: Vasya Sovari

Quoting: KROMHopefully with the next Proton Experimental, but I guess GloriousEggroll will be first.

I finally got a new graphics card capable of ray-tracing and restarted Cyberpunk with patch 2.0, only to find out that RT will crash my computer *sadpanda*

Same. But I also found RT tanked performance for very little observable improvement. The in-engine lighting is so damned good it barely matters. Unlike, eg, Control where RT on is a *completely* different experience

Yeah performance really tanks with RT (until it crashes), pretty unplayable without FSR and even then it's barely playable. :|
But good to know that Control also has RT. I think I still have an unfinished savegame, now I have a good reason to finally finish it. :)

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