Is this yet another one of these single-player games you need, for some reason, an online account for?

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Quoting: aaronIt would also explain their cozy relationship with Square Enix who also see it as the future.

Yosuke Matsuda wrote not one but two love letters to NFTs and is still pushing the scam. Even while he will be sacked as CEO soon, I’m convinced Square Enix will stick to the strategy.

Quoting: JuliusI hope game developers will realize what a racket EOS is and rather use a fully open-source and store independent option like Nakama: https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama [External Link]

So there is open-source alternative! You should make Romlok aware of this 🙂 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/prepare-to-see-a-lot-more-of-epic-online-services-with-epics-new-self-publishing/comment_id=240807

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Quoting: GroganWell... if they were to release a "next gen" Steam Deck too soon, it would ruin the credibility of the platform.

Right now, with Valve seemingly not rushing things, the Steam Deck, to me, feels like an investment. I expect to get years of entertainment out of this thing.
What I’m saying is this: Valve signaling long term support for the Steam Deck, instills confidence for the product in its users.
Maybe there is a better word than ‘confidence’… 🤔

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Quoting: ArehandoroNow, 'not true next-gen' well means that in a few months they could release a Deck with better battery life, with OLED, or SSD.

I was thinking the same when I noticed the clever use of the word ‘true’ in the response. Or maybe it could be that the respondent just carefully left a door open, so no-one can complain should Valve decide to release an updated version.

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Quoting: WMan22If you're implying that I dislike epic because of Tencent's majority stake in Epic, I'd be as much of a hypocrite as Tim Sweeney, since Warframe is my most played game.

I’m implying that I dislike epic for the stated reasons - besides other very good reasons.
We agree on everything else in your comment.
Sweeney is one of those hypocrites who think it’s ok to obviously and blatantly lie in public. These people make me angry in a special way.

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Quoting: WMan22I'm one of the seemingly few people who actually welcomes mod.io

mod.io is tencent

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Quoting: GuestPriorities differ...

True

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Quoting: GroganThat said, now I'm going to have to be careful and check to see that games are not using EOS, lest I go through the motions only for refund.

There is a Steam Curator called "Epic Games S*cks", where * is a vowel, who does this for you.

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Always having to opt-out of promotional messages after a giveaway on gog, makes me prefer steam (where 100% off really is 100% off). Just me?

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Quoting: Jeeves-2with USB 4 being possible with zen 4 and above, and the announcement of USB 4 2.0 doubling the bandwidth of PCIe tunneling, the dock for a deck 2 could be an absolute unit with either an egpu to boost performance on external displays with higher resolution, or a nvme slot for storing games you only play while plugged in

I like this concept/idea of fitting a successor with a really high-speed port and a docking station with an eGPU (or eGPU support) and a really fast nvme drive. As a handheld the Steam Deck already offers a near perfect experience, the possibility to beef it (storage space + graphics power) up while docked puts it in a place to potentially replace a desktop machine.

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