And then of course AI is mentioned too, because you can't do anything without AI now being a thing.

I do see a reasonable use case here though...

AI could play through my pile of shame. :grin:

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I will consider it, i prefer gog instad of steam since steam is drm and you dont own those games. steam will never get a cent out of me.

*sigh*
Sure someone wrote an FAQ somewhere?

* You get a licence to use software, be it from Steam, GoG, your floppy disc box, or Linux.

* It is wrong to say "Steam is DRM". Steam offers a DRM system, and it offers DRM'd games as well as games without DRM. You can copy the latter games freely and use them wherever you want. (You might not be allowed to, but that's not what DRM is about.)

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What happens with games with a native version that Valve has set to default to Proton on Steam Deck, when I run them on desktop?

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If you're reading from the UK and still want a Steam Deck, act fast

I read Valve's statement as it should not concern the rest of the world?

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About the screenshot: The real reason why we're so deep into this bad state for the industry, is because you have people excusing that shit. Unreal.

I think a big problem is that some people aren't willing to pay more for a computer game than for their takeaway coffee - and some even prefer to get stuff for free without consent of the makers instead of paying for what they want to play. (Because that's one easy solution: If you do not like the quality of a game or do not like the price, feel free not to play it.)

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Let me ask you a question: Would you buy sort of mid range PC for the price of a couple years old car nowadays?

Sorry, this has got nothing to do with the question at hand. We weren't rich in the Eighties, and I could afford a game from time to time, if you were on this path.

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Compare it to now, when everyone and their cat has PC and/or console. The market opportunities are insanely better for publishers.

Yes.

But there's also much, much, MUCH more games on the market, new and old (equals cheap), than it is physically possible to play in multiple lifetimes.

... which makes the market opportunities insanely worse for publishers.

In this discussion we've seen that the situation is different from the Nineties in many aspects, sometimes allowing for lower prices, sometimes the contrary.

But I still fail to see the SCANDAL in asking for a price that in the end is less breakfast eggs than it was in the Nineties.

So, would I pay $80€ for another generic recycled gearbox schlock? Lol, no.

...but maybe for a great game?

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with modern tech you have basically 0 distribution costs;

Well... As far as I have heard, the distribution cost is about 30% of the game's price nowadays.

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Randy Pitchford might be not nice here... but he's so right. Games usually costed 100 Deutsche Mark in the Nineties. 100 DM in say 1995 would be - inflation included - 88€ nowadays. That's 100$. How come people know that stuff get's more expensive over the decades, but do not accept when computer games do... just the same?

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Now I want to pick that up again haha.

This one is on the easy side and dirt cheap right now:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/314790/Silence/ [External Link]

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