Quoting: FIGBirdWhat I find so amusing about this change is that every other company is *adding* forced arbitration and class action waivers to their agreements. It made me genuinely laugh out loud last night when I saw the summary of changes.

Same here. I tend to get wary about agreement updates. And I saw words like "arbitration" on the skim. Had to read it 2-3 times to be like "wait, this is the .... opposite thing?"

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I generally don't play vanilla minecraft. but I play a lot of big modpacks. It's funny how the modpacks often don't actually use anything from base minecraft, minetest would probably make it easier for a lot of the mods to work better. Combine that with microsoft slowly but surely killing the java (read: the only really moddable) version, and it feels like Minetest is the natural place that modded minecraft development should go. It almost certainly won't somehow. But if I could play AllTheMods 10 in minetest I absolutely would never look back.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Lots of comments about it "bricking Steam Deck" and otherwise being quite crashy. But I very much like the concept of not needing to limit the games you want to play to a single pack.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

For me, installing the DLC was enough to resolve this. Didn't even have to verify integrity.

Also, if all it is doing is checking if a file exists, and not the contents of the file, that seems like a terrible anti-cheat.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Would be nice if there was a way to disable it per game. I dont need this on for games like Cookie Clicker, but I do want it on for games like Elden Ring, For recordings, I find it important to be able to capture retroactively, so the "keep running always" is the only useful method, but I don't want it always running for every game.

Also, it seems to only be able to capture full desktop audio atm, so my recordings all have random snippets of shows in the background. There's a space for changing the audio device but it won't let me change it atm.

Overall, seems promising, and has a nice interface, but its still a beta. I look forward to what it becomes.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Tried just a bit ago. EAC still dead. Downloaded DLC. EAC perfectly happy.

EAC may still be having wider issues, but the "its broken EVERY time you start" is definitely a "not having the DLC" thing.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestOnce the DLC installed, the issue went away.

The game launches fine but tells me it's detected "inappropriate behavior" and I have to play offline. Which is fine. But also, I don't have the DLC yet, so it's very possible this is just a "EAC is scanning for the game signature with DLC, and is mad if you don't have it"

Which feels like a huge oversight for people who don't have the DLC. Doesn't impact me, if I were going to play multiplayer i'd be playing seamless co-op mod anyway.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: sonic2kkI would rather no anti-cheat and cheaters than invasive anti-cheat, if that was the choice.

At least Elden Ring still works without EAC. It's a single player game with a poorly tacked on multiplayer and the single player doesn't break without EAC. There are definitely worse implementations for single player games.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Ah yes, the company that made sure that you can install other game launchers, including competitor's stores, on their device that is restricting who can play what where, and forcing people onto their platform. And not Epic, who is bleeding Fortnite money all over their non-profitable dumpster fire of a store for exclusivity.

Valve is the de facto platform because A) it has the most features and B) it is one of the most open (among proprietary stores/launchers). I can add non Steam games to Steam. Naturally Steam is where I want to be. Valve hasn't trapped me. They have provided me luxury, and I have locked myself in because every other storefront is basically a dumpster fire.

I don't know how much EGS deserves, but it's less than Steam. They offer less features. It makes sense that Valve deserves more for offering more.

And I only bring Epic into this because this is the same kind of lawsuit they bring up all the time, and I would be not even 1% surprised if we find out later that this whole thing is partially backed by them.

Point #1 is a tough one. In the modern internet age expecting the price to be the same everywhere rather than have to shop around for the best deal is weird, but also nice. This doesn't mean "You cant lower your price" it just means "you can't lower your price elsewhere without lowering it here as well." Call of Duty Black Ops (the old one) is $40 on steam still. That's not Valve's fault that the game devs aren't lowering prices.

Point #2 is stupid. Because it's not entirely true. I can run modded games on steam just fine. I would bet that if I were to download a base game for steam and then install a DLC over the base game, when I launch the game, it would work... The tricky part is that there is no way to to install the DLC that way. That's on the game devs themselves for not providing alternate installation options. I also can't buy the Elden Ring DLC from the Playstation Store and have it work on my Xbox version of Elden Ring. TBH, I would love it if the "you just bought a license" part of life went away. if I could validly say "I own the right to play Elden Ring, buying it once gets me the ability to play it on any platform", but I can't. You buy a license to a single platform, and that platform's base game isn't compatible with the DLC from another platform. There are a lot of things wrong with this but Valve isn't one of them.

Point #3 I already ranted about at the top. If anyone has actually earned 30% it is Valve (at least compared to alternatives).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

The Steam support staff member replied

In the past, Steam support has answered things differently depending on which rep you get. Has this actually been confirmed with Steam in other ways, or are all the sources "Steam support said." ?

View this comment - View article - View full comments