ROUTINE. 🔥🔥🔥
runs great through proton.

also been continuing to play arc raiders, which is also continuing to be great fun, even when my friends and i are getting rinsed.

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Quoting: kuhpunktI think people should know better now, yes - and that's still not the argument that was made. Pete claimed that Valve negotiated with publishers like EA or Activision to lure them back... when we have no indication of that ever being a thing.

As if Valve said "Hey EA, if you come back, we start with a 20/80 share, pretty please."

it's fairly obvious this is exactly what happened. from liam's article above -

It's a smart move, one I expected Valve to do at some point given how bigger studios and publishers have been leaving Steam for their own launchers.

there's a reason EA and ubisoft and activision all stopped selling games on steam for several years and have been coming back since this change went into effect. valve didn't decide to give successful games a better deal out of the goodness of their hearts.

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Quoting: kuhpunktI'm just wondering where Pete is getting the "developers can negotiate the cut" from. I'm not aware that anybody can negotiate that. Everybody has to earn it.

just a turn of phrase, sorry for the confusion.

"negotiation" in the sense that if you're EA or activision and you pull your games from steam, valve is happy to drop their cut to bring you back.

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Quoting: kuhpunktAnd they have RECENTLY begun refusing keys? That change happened almost 3 years ago. It just comes across as disingenuous.

wanting to put their previous game in a bundle does not seem disingenuous. some developers can still get steam keys for other stores and bundle purposes, clearly, so when the language was changed doesn't seem super relevant.

i think steam is incredibly good for consumers in many ways - refund policy, proton, steam input, recording. it's a really good platform and it's obvious why many people (including myself!) aren't overly upset about consolidating their entire library on it.

it provides SOME value to developers. does it provide enough for the 30% cut valve take? maybe, but i don't think it's at all unreasonable to criticise them. they are not good for developers in the same way they are good for consumers - especially smaller developers who do not get to negotiate down the 30% cut.

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Quoting: GuestI read their post, and it seems like there is a scene in the game which depicts a young lady being led around as if she were a horse while she is naked. That sounds pretty dark and terrible, with depictions of abusive and coercive behavior at the very least.

not singling you out, but there's been lots of misunderstanding of the content.

the game features censored (pixellated) adult male and female nudity. there's slavery, sexual violence, and a good bit of other nasty stuff. (there's a more thorough content warning on the store pages and when you start up the game)

according to their FAQ, the early build rejected by steam had a scene where a (clothed) girl rode one of the nude horse-slaves, as you would a horse. the final game does not have any children in it.

while it's true that steam or any store does not legally have to host every game, it's worth remembering that steam does host the entire "sex with hitler" franchise, and epic will explicitly make exceptions to allow AO rated games if they feature blockchain/NFTs. :)

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having played the game, while uncomfortable and sometimes upsetting, the actual content is not really substantially pushing any boundaries, even in AAA videogame context!

the steam delisting is stupid but consistent with their policies. the epic delisting is genuinely concerningly dumb, given they apparently did a sudden re-review of the final game.

anyway, i'd recommend it if you're interested. doesn't outstay it's welcome, and definitely has interesting things to say.

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real heads know this is a reference to the (incredibly underrated) dead free to play game, veiled experts.

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checked it out briefly before, they seem to be making very good decisions generally.

if they get the licensing sorted with valve for people to do standalone releases, i think you'll see a hell of a lot of general uptake.

especially devs still using unity, which i would imagine apart from inertia is mostly for first class C# support, and the many good editor UI/UX decisions (which s&box seems to be fulfilling very well too)

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whipped €5 their way. wild, the leaps and bounds in the past few years.

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this is a fantastic shooter, one of the all time greats to this day. highly recommend picking it up if you haven't played it before!

hopefully the videos will work without too much fuss in proton :)

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