I've never understood why refresh rate and frame rate were separate settings.

But, man, this update is a long time coming. Of course Valve has never been one to rush development.

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I will be shocked if this game releases as anything but an unfinished, bug ridden mess that will need years of updates to get into something approaching a playable state. I'm expecting something along the lines of the infamous Battlecruiser 3000 AD.

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Not being familiar with the game, I read the headline as 84 people were banned and blamed it on Linux and the Steam Deck.

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Games like these make me realize how bad I am at interior design.

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I'm still waiting for all of these awesome new features to come to stable. :sad:

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I sometimes miss the good ol' days when you could just install a game and play it without having to worry about launchers.

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Meanwhile, the pirates will continue to download the DRM free offline version and won't have to put up with any of the nonsense paying customers are subjected to.

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Quoting: eldarion

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: JarmerFunny enough, it was Paradox's predatory scam dlc behavior

What what? Predatory how? A scam??

Paradox are one of the few publisher's with a well established, regular, value add DLC regime. They support their games YEARS after release. Stellaris, for example, released over 7 years ago, but some of the DLC modules released are just £9 yet add swathes of content.

I wish other publishers would take note instead of trying monetise micro-transactions.

I'll take properly thought out DLC any day over cosmetic shite, Battle passes and "Seasons".

Depends on the game. Remember their flagship, GalCiv? They are constantly remaking the same game, but releasing the next iteration with a skeleton of the features of the previous game and then releasing DLC after DLC to catch up feature wise with the last game. Don't pretend that it's not to earn more money.

Galactic Civilization is made by Stardock, not Paradox.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Mountain ManThe problem is not capitalism, it's human nature.

Meh. It's like the nature/nurture debate--the two both operate. Human nature exists, kinda, but societies are not all the same and how human nature is expressed is different depending on the social environment. Even within the broad system of capitalism, the broad umbrella of "the West", and the narrow confines of the present day, Finns seem to act quite different from Americans in how they approach economic life, despite both being human and presumably heir to the same "human nature".

Really, IMO invoking human nature is a bit of a dodge. It means nobody has to be responsible for anything and nobody ever has to try, because if anything is shitty, well, that's just inevitable because human nature. That's not how trade unionists won the weekend.

It's not a dodge at all. It's simply pointing out the fact that every economic system is vulnerable to the same greed and deceit that people often mistake for the "evils of capitalism".

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The problem is not capitalism, it's human nature.

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