Bugs aside, but I am very unlikely to buy Civ VII, despite I own every single previous game of the franchise, dating all the way back to the first. But I absolutely hate the idea to force you to play a new nation whenever a new age dawns. It reeks of changing things for the sake of changing them. Yes, I get it that playing as the U.S. in 3000 BC isn't historically accurate. But I never heard anyone complaining about it.

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What Valve really should do about the anti-cheat situation is flat out telling developers that games containing malware-like components cannot be listed on Steam. Maybe Epic won't be overly bothered by this move, but as recent history has shown, developers cannot afford not being on Steam. Some tried and all came crawling back.

It would do Windows users a favor, too. They don't like malware any more than we do.

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You really wonder what's going on inside the head of people who'd shell out a lot of money to license Denuvo to protect two 20 year old games that are readily available on every pirate site on Earth. I have no experience wearing neckties, but do they interfere with the brain's air supply?

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Glad to hear that they came to their senses. I am so tired of every Tom, Dick and Harry trying force an extra account down my throat I neither need nor want.

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Steam Deck verified, but how well will it really run? That's the real question.

Or rather... can we read the text without a microscope?

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Seriously! I get the idea that no dev ever thought of their 2015 game one day running on a seven-inch screen, but interface scaling has been a plague in gaming since forever. Even games like SWTOR (which otherwise has a really good scaling customization feature) suffers from tiny mousepointer syndrome in 4k. I had to give up healing in this game because it's hard to click on people in your roster when you don't know where your pointer is 90% of the time...

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I lost interest in Obsidian when they switched to first-person only games. Shame, they used to be one of my favorite studios. Before MS bought them.

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Quoting: redneckdrowAs long as you only receive a license, things won't improve one bit! DRM-free or not, you still lack the ability to preserve it as an individual!:angry:

The biggest threat to preservation isn't the license issue, but more and more large studios putting intrusive DRM/anti-cheat systems on their games that are basically guaranteed not to run on any system 20 years from now on, combined with many popular games being online games or having online modes that won't run without the devs releasing the server software.

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When I read that I couldn't believe it was not available there for all that time. oO

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Quoting: jensWhy don’t you just apply for the role to fix this?

I don't like corporations enough to want to work for one.

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