I've never been of the crowd that get annoyed with registering more accounts (though no shade thrown to those who do), but what honestly bugs me the most about this whole ordeal is that it's caused folks in a lot of places to be completely denied access to these games on PC. Like, it made some sense when the explanation was something to the effect of "you need to be able to buy a Playstation" or whatever it was, but really even when that was the case it still didn't make much sense. If you can build a PC and run Steam on it, there should be no reason why you can't buy a Sony game and register a Playstation account, it's baffling.

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I'm a bit confused, you pointed out that it doesn't have a "built-in battery" but also said that it can do 12 hours on battery via bluetooth.

As for recommendations for folks, I'll repeat the one I shared a few months back when this was initially covered and say that the Gulikit KK3 Pro offers multi platform support (Switch, Android, PC and their low latency dongle), decent battery life, gyro, rumble, and most importantly hall effect sticks and triggers. The Pro version also comes with attachable back paddles in two styles. It's not necessarily cheap, but versus potentiometer joysticks, hall effect sensors are more likely to give you a longer use period without worrying about stick drift.

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Not bad, good to see some big and small releases in here.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Are you currently having issues you want to see solved?

The notification bell popping up for things that you've said you don't want to be notified about is still super annoying, and has been super annoying since they introduced the notification bell.

Preach.

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I've been a fan of Siri and Mechanism (Deckmate originally) since he put out the add on of the same name a couple years ago. Such a handy accessory, and the CableMate is lovely too. While I don't plan to pick this one up for a good bit, I can wholeheartedly recommend the Inventory Sling Bag for anyone who wants an upgrade to the baseline Steam Deck case. If nothing else if you're looking for a laugh feel free to take a look around the Mechanism site, they have a habit of including at least one gag with every item.

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Quoting: JustinWoodI kind of thought GoG was supposed to be the old game library of Alexandria, at least to some extent.

I'm not familiar with these times but wasn't the library free to access? So, something more like this [External Link]?

Yeah, GOG is a bookstore by that logic.

My point was more towards the Library of Alexandria's status as one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world, or in other words, I thought the point of GoG making available all these old games was to preserve them which it seems like they in some cases are unable to do. I'm not saying Steam is any better, it's just hard for me to accept the justification of releasing only on GoG as being done from a preservation standpoint.

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My wishlist:

Please, for the love of God, let me disable notifications for people on my friend's list coming online or starting up games like I can on desktop. I only want notification bells for achievements, comments, sales, trading cards, stuff like that.

Honestly it's getting to the point where I'm almost considering sending a support request in because I feel like it's a bug and somehow Valve staff just missed introducing it like a year ago or more.

Also, time zone sync based on network. If my phone and tablet can do it, surely my Deck should be able to, right?

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Y'know, it's hard to take their desire to preserve these old titles seriously when every Delta Force title was removed from every store front back in June. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/so-much-for-preservation-the-classic-delta-force-games-are-getting-delisted/

Like, yeah it doesn't happen often but the point was that it shouldn't happen at all, right? I kind of thought GoG was supposed to be the old game library of Alexandria, at least to some extent.

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I will continue to not forgive Ubi for what they did to Watch Dogs Legion, and giving it to me free as one of Canada's "biggest Watch Dogs fans" still feels like a kick in the groin out of nowhere.

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It boggles the mind that Sony continues to push the PSN restriction. Like, I appreciate that I can get trophies on PSN now and that it makes whatever executive comfortable enough to allow cross play with PC, but I just don't see the benefit in propping up their PSN account numbers like this, to the detriment of sales in other regions. It's not like having more PSN accounts = more money coming in, whereas with sales in more regions, it quite literally means more money coming in with each sale.

And really, they were doing things just fine with rewarding you with early access to cosmetics in Returnal and Insomniac Spiderman for signing in with a PSN account, but not forcing you to do so.

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