I prefer real time + pause mechanic myself, but it's cool they are adding an option for turn based mode. I wish games with turn mode only did the same the other way.

I remember I thought back then real time plus (configurable!) automatic pause is the optimum between tactics and action.

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Perfect time for a revisit, and maybe this way I can carry over my saves and finally play the second installment!

I didn't (yet) succeed in carrying over the game saves to PoE II. :-(

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From what I gathered Bazzite is a very specific distro, it's not general purpose. So I'm not surprised it's more niche than general purpose Arch.

Not everyone uses computers only for gaming, I'd imagine majority actually uses them for everything, and gaming is just one use case among many.

@Shmerl: I think you missed the bit where this was a Steam survey - and Steam is primarily used by gamers, so unfortunately your argument isn't relevant here.

I'm using Steam and I'm using my (Linux) PC for many other things, and I bet that's the case for most of us. So yes, I think their point is valid.

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16GB demo....crazy lol.

It reads like they took the full game and just changed some variables. It's ok in my book. We do get to test it for free. (As long as you don't have some "data plan".)

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From Wikipedia's page on live service games:

"This often leads to games that work under a live service model to be called "living games" or "live games" since they continually change with these updates."

Living games. Riiiight. Contradiction in terms maybe?

I got the feeling that fits quite well the fact that they're dying some day...?

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edit: Oh it's some Patreon nag screen thing? I guess that's OK.

They have a ten seconds countdown nag screen IIRC. Bearable.

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No Tux, no b...
Ah wait, it's free! :)
Good opportunity to see if I could cope with the game and buy the full version.

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I think you all didn't read it correctly!

"AI-centric management system centered on Agentic AI" for "automating tasks while allowing employees to focus on creative activities and complex problem-solving".

They're going to fire the managers and the devs will be given even more space to be creative!

Right?!?

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For the first treatment of getting older and not being able to read as easy as in the old times anymore, they've got "reading helpers" (cheap glasses) in the drugstores around here, for five to ten bucks.

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Most text in most games is around the size of text on a phone or a paperback, or bigger. The OLED screen is marginally bigger than the LCD screen.

... and there's a Steam Deck verification category like "text hard to read".

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