People forget that Steam does have a OFFLINE mode that can be activated anytime and you CAN even force it to be permanent.

Gabe has said that if there was ever a situation where Valve went under (end of world as we know it, lol), then they can toggle a offline switch at their end to make it persist.

Of cause at that point will everyone have internet to receive it? fortunately there are apps to do this already that 'mostly' work.

The issue is that games with multiplayer stuff are often running on Valve servers so that 'app' 'code' would also need to be open-sourced in such a event to people can host and play their select games still at least in LAN.

LOTS OF THINGS to consider.

BUT GUESS WHAT! Only Valve has put in effort to actually consider these situations, every other retailer except maybe GOG has told customers to go eat a bag of dicks... and yet, all these activists ignore them and only go after Valve.
Bad actors perhaps...

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bloody expensive service I tell ya. At least IMO and in Australia ($20mth with lots of limits)

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EA just going to keep breaking this shit. Their like Bethesda, every update MUST break compatibility! Like its the whole goal of the updates to begin with!

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More collaboration in open-source is always welcome.

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Hell, it's about time... /saidwithcigarinmouth

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China's CCP with UK overtones. That's what this all is becoming.

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No info on the sort of Graphics chipset? Obviously its integrated into the CPU package.

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Welp lets see if in time games like Stalker-2 can maybe run without that %37 performance penalty. I think we really shouldn't be accepting anything more then %10 performance hit!

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If META could make a Quest-3 with OLED and Eyetracking, and near to the same price, it be the ticket.

BUT given the way PC hardware is going, seems its all going to inflate in price and further cripple fringe industries like VR/MR.

I have a Q3 that I don't use much (too busy with other stuff), and really the BIGGEST turn off for me is the terrible LCD that just BLEEDS backlight everywhere, there are NO BLACKS, its all just grey and you can see the lamp behind the LCD.

The issue with this is basically ANY game that isn't NEON PASTEL color palette looks terrible. There are areas in games like HLA where you can't see anything because the backlight bleed washes out the finite dark room detail.

So many Dungeon crawling games I'd love to play but can't see crap and turning brightness up just ruins it so much. Black Crush!

Steam-Frame is likely to have the same issue so I think; I'll just sell off my VR stuff along with most stuff I own at this point. Need to enter ultra-conservative spending and asset ownership during these tough times. lol

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Quoting: ArehandoroWill all Steam Deck Verified games run at 4K@60FPS? Cause they said all Steam Machine Verified games would...

720p upscaled. The poor 7600 AMD GPU can only do so much, it also only really has access to FSR3.
FSR4 will only give %10 better performance at a slight improvement of image quality because only the RDNA4 hardware has proper access to NPU stuff.

Honestly, its a DAMN shame they didn't get a 9600 GPU into these things, but I guess Valve just buying up OLD unsellable hardware at this point, since AI data-centers are locking the world out of the newer stuff for the foreseeable future. (unless you want to pay through your ass for it that is!)

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