This is the first game published by Sony that I can see and buy from Steam in my region since the Helldivers crap last year. Timely, as this is the only recent game of theirs I'm willing to give them money for :smile:.

I was hoping ShiftUp would be self publishing, or get anyone else but Sony for the PC release (like how Death Stranding is published by 505 on PC), so the game would have regional pricing, since that's not something Sony does, all their games are selling for incredibly unreasonable pricing here and they're losing money not offering them as per Steam's regional pricing guidelines.

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I think this speaks more about how these Eastern game companies and specifically NetEase operates. They want their games to work on as many phones (or in thus case, PCs) as possible. It's a smart strategy to increase the chances of paying users and whales, and it's unlike what similar devs think, especially in the west.

There's also a general culture in these Eastern F2P games to always appeal to the community and make them happy, because that's your audience and client base that's keeping you afloat. That's why you wouldn't usually see game enshittification happen in these ludicrous Asian games.

Still really good news regardless.

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I don't think using RE Engine for open world games was a good idea.

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Mind numbing. How can you say we blocked linux and added additional security measures and then say so linux is why we saw a reduction in cheaters.

Exactly. Blocking a whole platform from playing, and adding new security measures (which I'd bet is what's doing the heavy lifting here), and after all of that, only a -33% decrease in an already established downward trend, AND it went up again not long after? Not impressed at all.

They tried their best to make this sound like a victory, and that Linux is to blame, but even through their bullshit talk one can clearly deduce Linux doesn't actually have this supposed cheating problem all these incomptent devs are using as scapegoat when they run out of ideas.

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I will continue to champion The FINALS as a beacon of peak Linux multiplayer gaming.

I'd add in Marvel Rivals as well. Even better there as they use their own in-house solution, so I expect more competence there. Also, they're not western devs so I expect higher standards as well.

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Complete and utter bullshit. They're saying this to save their ass "See? we did something about the cheaters!".

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Steam Store experience because — it's pretty rough. The UI as a whole is generally on the buggy side even on the best of days, this is something Valve would seriously need to put some dedicated full-time effort into sorting. This just wouldn't fly for the masses that go for living room consoles. The Xbox, PlayStation and Switch are all incredibly streamlined. Compared with the experience on the Steam Deck, it's just far messier.

I won't comment on the deck experience itself because I just realized I never actually bought something once through it. But at least with my time on the PS4, the store experience there is not at all "incredibly streamlined". It's in fact so abysmal, slow and barely functional that I really have to point it out here, lol. Naturally Valve will have to step up their interface if they're thinking of Steam Machine 2, but I'll just say the competition isn't that good either on that front.

A better game Verified system.[...]

Absolutely, and can I add to everything that was written that I'd love to see some sort of legally binding agreement from devs going froward regarding Proton support. This can take whatever form to make it happen, the important thing is that they'd insure with every Verified game that A: it actually works of course and B,the big one: Allow refunds when they void that warranty in future updates.

I say this not just because the recent trend of previously-Verified games getting borked after the fact, but specifically the way game devs and publishers pretend like they never affirmed the verification themselves at their discretion without Valve involvement. So I don't care if it was never 'official' to begin with, if a game dev/publisher posts a "We're Verified!" article in their game's News tab on Steam, they should be held liable if they break their game in the future, with providing refunds at the very least. If not, then stop making those fucking posts acting like you cared about optimizing for Deck users, if you're just gonna break that shit later anyway.

Availability too is an issue. It's not good enough to be just available on the Steam store, they need to partner with some retail stores. This is something that holds back the Steam Deck a bit. At least they can finally ship to Australia now though. You need regular folks to be able to just walk into a store and pick one up.

This, a million times over. I simply don't want to purchase Valve hardware directly from Valve going forward (unless they start selling in my country but that's never going to happen).

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Once a year?!? Even if they only say "Yes, we're still working on it in 2025."

In the case of Silksong, a teamcherry dev did post on social media just a few weeks ago saying exactly that. I don't have twitter to bother bring the post up here unfortuantely.

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The voice cast has me very interested in this game now. To the wishlist it goes.

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and they've already said the hardware even for a Steam Deck 2 simply isn't there yet for a generational leap — so don't expect a home console from Valve any time soon.

I must add that what they meant by this is that there's no compelling hardware at the power/battery level they're targeting, not that there's no hardware in general, so this can't be used to rule out a Steam Machine release.

This "rumour" is of course bogus though.

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