i think its a bit too late for that, because the competition "can play everything", and its geting close price-wise (i mean the rog xbox ally normal edition, not the x version), this will help sell those games that get verified but not help put an spotlight on the deck, valve time is killing the deck/steamOS momentum.

but i still think microsoft is dumb for not puting an killer price like 100USD.

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they need a better quality control/polishment for the content.
some content is pretty beautyfull (or good in the case of the musics) other is not that much / bad.
i think the "adventure mode" should be a curated experience instead of the current mess, then the aditional content be treated as if it was Free DLCs or Mods.

i know they rely mostly on volunteers work, so im asking too much, but still...

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It's already difficult enough for both gamers and developers with the various discovery algorithms.

i dont see that so much as an issue, its much better to have tons of discovery algorithms than only one, with one you either get discovered or not, with tons you have multiple chances of geting featured.
what kill the industry is pay to win algorithms, but marketing already did that.

Now with this shittastic ai fuckery there will be "developers" pumping out hundreds of games with zero effort and even if they make a single sale for $5 it'll be worth it to them.

not really , because some stores charge more than $5 to publish an game, otherwise it dont even enter their QA or other requirement procedures, there is a reason why itch.io have more games than steam (they have no barriers), and its the same reason why most peope seek for games on steam instead of itch most of the time.

It's not really different from the asset flips we've been plagued with

many peope have issues against games that purchase assets to make their games, but even games like mario 64 used then, the issue is bad quality games not the fact that they used asset stores, but i understand that an person will look at the game graphics and think:

"this looks pro and this doesnt" and ignore an good game without giving it an try, and when its bad think the other must be even worse.
so yeah, asset fliping is an real issue.

now, for ai, its even worse, because it was trained with tons of stolen content, and in some cases it do over fiting, meaning the content generated isnt original buch an copy of some unknow art of an unknow artist... in other words, plagiarism.

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any game made using this engine will face backslash

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HD 2D ASCII art ...

im not sure if i love it or i hate it

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i misse the time i saw an anime game trailer and got excited, nowadays i just think , great here comes another gacha slop...

nowadays the only way to make me excited for an trailer is if the game start specifying it wont have mtx (micro transactions) , gacha or anybullshit like that, then show me the trailer.
but even that isnt enough, because many times an game that say that is just an bait and switch and change their busines model after seling a ton of copies.

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$1000. Delusional.

Throw in the lack of trackpads, confusing branding and Windows and I'd be surprised if these aren't dead on arrival.

we shouldnt under estimate how dumb people can be.

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they are stupid, they could put an ridiculous price like 100 USD and kill steamOS once and forever, but chose to be greedy and let the competition live one more day, enough time to kill then.

and even more stupid are the windows users who are disapointed on how microsoft treats then (with ads on the OS, the whole TPM issue, among other things) and still fall for that.

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ScottCarammell

supporting an platform has nothing to do with porting to it, it has to do with quality assurance.

(ok, it does have to do with porting , but things like proton solved this , what i mean is, the fact that they can do QA for a single hardware runing an single distro, dont mean they can do the same for the general ecosystem of hardware and distros.)

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Copyright law was already fucked up, but patent law seems even more absurd. How can you patent a decades-old gameplay mechanics you're not even the inventor!?

we need an new kind of patent that can only be used as an deffense, that is, cant be used unless you are attacked first, and to form a patent pool with tons of companies puting their defensive patents on it, to ensure no one try to sue no one, due to being afraid of the backslash counter suing.

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