I told myself "The OLED isn't enough of an upgrade... but I'll buy one if I can get my hands on the Limited Edition"... and then there was no shortage of limited editions. So now I have 2 steam decks.

I installed Hogwart's Legacy on the old one and put it in front of my wife (who was already done with the game and just casually doing the remaining sidequests) and she sort of scoffed at the idea.

She has now also beaten Overcooked and Overcooked 2 on the steam deck. Unfortunately, I don't think any games on this list would pique her interest. I have installed Stardew Valley to see if that would trigger anything.

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Did everyone see the new Rocket League racing mode? And by that, I mean the new racing mini-game inside Fortnite. Fortnite is no longer a game, and is now a gaming ecosystem of its own.
The exclusivity they buy with Fortnite money for EGS is not to benefit the gamers, but to "benefit" the devs (if your game reaches less people, but you get paid anyway, do you care?) and to draw customers in themselves. Tim constantly says it's better for the gamers, but it's not. So at this point I just assume anything Tim says is about a "better experience" and assume it means "will make us money."

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I wanted a mindless diving game. The restaurant minigame had enough complexity (or at least perceived complexity in the moment) that it made me put it down, because I didn't want to think too hard. Haven't picked it back up yet, though I intend to eventually.

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Quoting: Mal- Boardroom crooks push to ruin it with bad drop rates and real money action house

To be fair. The RMAH was NOT the broken part of Diablo 3. Most Diablo players prefer D2. D2 has trading, and thus an unofficial RMAH. Want to buy a Ber rune? Go to d2jsp.

The broken part was that in my first 200 hours of D3 at launch, I found 2 legendaries. And they were poorly itemized. A crossbow with int and a caster offhand with dex. The drop rates and itemization were broken. If they left the RMAH in place, and just fixed the drop rates then there would be no issue.

I've never paid real money in D2, because every item I would want is at least feasible to farm up. But the option is there. Having payments in a publicly traded game just happens. I'd prefer being able to publicly trade in D3 than what we have now. D2 does it better... The issue with D:I is that paying isn't an option. It's HOW you progress.

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I imagine that if they have hundreds of thousands, for a reservation that was $5, they will have a lot of people back out. So if they send out 25,000 emails today, that gives people until Thursday to say yes or no. If only 10,000 people say yes, then they have a whole batch of 15,000 leftover, which is large enough to warrant sending out a batch of emails for. I imagine any twice a week sends are based around people backing out, rather than increased supply (I imagine they would be able to predict an increase in supply, whereas they can't predict people backing out).

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Steamdeck is Zen 2. Currently limited to Zen 3. Hopefully they mean it when they say "we will support more in future after we verify the hardware and SBIOS functionalities"

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Can we also note here:

The Linux port was put on hold while TROY was exclusive to Epic

Epic's complete lack of Linux support means games don't get ported to Linux as well (Because why would you port a game to Linux if there is no way to ship the build or launch it, due to contractual obligations that says distribution must go through EGS which doesn't support that).

Steam's solution sucks for Feral (and anyone doing porting) but at least we get the games running on Linux.

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Quoting: DribbleondoWhy would they? If EAC and other acquisitions are to go by, they have no interest in locking SDK's and services pertinent to other game engines to their platform because if anything, it helps them. They indirectly benefit from contracts made by RAD and others.

You mean like rocket league?

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Hopefully this contains the esync/fsync changes necessary for GloriousEggroll to move past 5.9? Or is that still a core wine issue.

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https://www.protondb.com/app/327030 [External Link]

I had to use proton to gets Worms WMD to run. The native version was broken.

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