Excellent trailer although I think I actually preferred finding out about this little by little by playing the first act of the game. They do have to tell something to get people interested of course and it seems like they did a good job. I have really high hopes for the game, the writing in the EA release delivered and the world was really interesting. I wish it was out already.

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Quoting: RussianNeuroMancer

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThat is something that Steam, Humble, Greenman, GOG, etc will NEVER NEVER NEVER do because, unlike G2A, they don't understand how the real economy works outside their bubble...

Actually you can pay on Steam and GOG with Yandex.Wallet or QIWI Wallet (Russian electronic cash wallets) and you can pay with Bitcoin on Humble Store. So they do support local payment methods besides usual VISA/MasterCard/PayPal, but probably not for all countries.

Steam supports Bitcoin directly nowadays. Sadly I don't think Humble store does anymore unless they've flip flopped on it once again.

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Haha, I just love the OpenRA streams. Nice and accessible game.

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I still don't think these kind of sites are an inherently bad idea but the way G2A has handled this has convinced me this is a Shady outfit and it would be better if it didn't exist.

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Bah, Star Citizen is the one of the BC3kADs of our time along with No Man's Sky, a game that promises everything under the sun and probably can't deliver. I'd advise people to tune down their expectations for it until they see what it's ultimate form will actually be. Much more reason to be excited by Torment or any good title that doesn't promise the moon.

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Quoting: GrazenLinux isn't mentioned in the Steam store and it's not available for early access.

It's been known for a long time that EA would not be on Linux. GOL asked them and they said they're planning to release it simultaneously when it's actually released though. As always if you're thinking of playing it on Linux right away I'd still hold off until it's actually released but there's no real reason to see what you said as a warning sign at this point.

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Huge fan of the writing in this game after playing the first act in the beta release. Probably my most anticipated game in years.

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Gotta love the response. I wonder what the tooltip for the "Closed borders" and the third options give as the description.

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Quoting: numasan

Quoting: GuestThe problem with VR is that most of the games are just "tests" and "minigames". I'm not buying a 900€ gadget if i cannot play big games like Rocket League, Skyrim/Fallout, Tomb Raider, XCOM... That's the thing.

Thing is, games have to be made for VR and not just ported over. It is true that VR currently lacks a "traditional" AAA-like title, but they are being worked on. Still they won't be directly comparable to what we are used to, and shouldn't. It is a paradigm shift, so developers have to re-learn what works and what doesn't, hence the tests and minigames. I think sooner rather than later we will see a "Super Mario 64"-like game changer that paves the way for how to do VR games right, and make it more than gimmick. The price right now is an issue though, I agree, but it's no different than the first PCs, laptops, mobile phones, etc.

Lastly, the thing that makes the biggest difference with VR for me, is the sense of scale (and height). No other medium have given me that, and it is really effective.

While made for VR certainly has the chance to be even better, ports can be great. Right now with the small VR userbase ports are the only way you're ever going to get the production quality that a budget of hundreds of millions (or even just millions) of dollars enables. You only get big releases right now by someone like Oculus funding it because they don't mind blowing of the money to boost the platform. I think ports have their place and I wish there were much more of them.

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Quoting: iskaputt

Quoting: AnxiousInfusionNot directed at you. Just the inevitable responses to any time this number goes down.

Thing is, Valve isn't particularly clear how those numbers come to be.

Just recently someone on reddit told me that there was apparently a steam dev or something talk about this once. Some data, including the OS shares, are coming from Steam's telemetry. Things like hardware distribution on the other hand is extrapolated from the surveys. I didn't watch the talk, but that's what I was told.

That would mean that some numbers are pretty accurate, some are less so. But unless Valve puts this information on an about page for people to link to, you'll never get rid of this notion of overall inaccuracy (maybe there is a page I don't know about?).

So you're saying the survey results would include some data gathered from everyone instead of just the survey? That would mean this kind of a miniscule change might actually be meaningful... Any idea where this talk could be found?

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