I have a Pixelbook and love it, but ChromeOS is still predominantly used on fairly weak machines that aren't really suitable for gaming. I suppose that's still because of Chromebooks having a past as very web-centric productivity devices that can't do much other than running a browser. Not sure about Europe, but over here Chromebooks are quite popular in education because they're lightweight and affordable. But these devices tend not to be powerful enough for gaming, at least I don't think I'd want to play Crysis on them! :D
Whether or not ChromeOS can make a dent in the higher performance segment where having Steam could be more relevant, remains to be seen. In the meantime, I now can play my Indie game collection on my Pixelbook, so that's great! :)

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EA doesn't care about anything that's not Windows or console. It's just not in their culture and I actually doubt they have the needed skills in that company to support anything outside their little box. I mean let's be honest, Origin doesn't really work even in Windows, and the new app seems to be just as bad a piece of software as Origin was. These people aren't really good at what they do. EA thrived all these years not from making great games, but from a handful of strong IP franchises such as FIFA and NHL, people keep buying because of the license year after year, not such much because the games are good.

The only real hope is EA's competitors finally realizing how weak EA's games are and finally find the courage to directly compete with them. Like how Cities Skylines wiped out EA's Sim City line after EA ran it into the ground. I am waiting for somebody to pick up the Sims, too. And since FIFA pulled the license from EA, there is some hope for the sports game genre, too. Let's see!

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I'd love to see a well-stocked asset store. Right now Godot seems to be very popular among smaller studios and developers with a more coding than art-oriented background. A place to find/buy assets for Godot would be great.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: tgurrIt always really amazes me to see games like Victoria in such lists as I personally can't image how you can play such a an input and text-heavy game on a rather small screen. Games like Persona 4|5 on the other hand are a perfect fit from the start. It would be really great if we'd have some additional details from each game about how many users use an external connected screen and their playtimes on each in the form of native deck screen vs. external screen connected.

Well, I imagine plenty of people are playing some like that Docked. It's still on the Steam Deck, but you're not limited to the small screen :)

That was my first thought as well, but isn't it safe to assume that in most situations when you can dock, you'd be near your main gaming device (PC, laptop etc) as well, and could just use that?

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Quoting: akselmoJust stop using twitter.

It's not that easy, at least not for everyone. If you are a person who has to maintain contact with the general public, you can't just NOT use what is one of the more important channels to reach them. It's like companies can just NOT say no to Facebook for similar reasons.

It's rather yet another example why we need stronger and stricter regulations for organizations like Twitter.

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We need more replacements for EA games. :)

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And that's why devs should have ZERO choice in whether or not EAC is enabled on all platforms.

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Good riddance. Yet another dead product that (almost) nobody asked for, and that got hyped as the future of all things when it clearly wasn't.

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To be fair, as awesome as the game otherwise might be, I expect to be able to play -any- PC game at least reasonably well with mouse/KB. I wouldn't have appreciated having bought the game only to find out I can't really play it. While I bought a Steam Controller for giggles back then, I am still utterly not used to this kind of device and couldn't seriously play with one.

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because EA are apparently terribly at naming.

Looking at Origin, they are terrible at coding too. Knowing EA, that stuff won't even run properly on Windows... :whistle:

Personally, it won't affect me too much, as I have no interest in EA's games other than the Sims, which really has no need for anti-cheat. But I don't like the trend to apply band-aid solutions to cheating issues instead of designing the game to be cheat-resistant from the get-go. Particularly not when said band-aid solutions behave just like malware....

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