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Quoting: lucifertdarkHave they never heard of an ignore button? or a block button? other places if someone is giving you grief you can block their silly ass. This moderating of speech is only going to get worse & one day YOU, yes all of YOU reading this will be on the wrong end of it, because some Social Just-us Wheenie Participation Trophy Winner didn't like the way you said something & reported you to the moderator & they agreed with them.

What's next? banned from the forums then banned from playing the games you've paid for?

I'm going through a years community ban because of some of those types of people hating my guts for disliking denuvo and expressing that on steam forums

All I did was share a screenshot of one of them admitting they've pirated things before to me in a private steam chat, along with another screenshot of them following me to my friends profile to throw abuse at me.

The person was also literally on a Volunteer Moderators steam profile, posting in their comments claiming I was posting their personal information, when all I was posting was that user admitting to piracy, and him and his friends constantly harassing me and baiting me (along with anyone else who dares question denuvo software)

People should be allowed to criticize a game (or a software that game uses) without being harassed, but a lot of folk simply can't handle a game they like being criticized, personally some of my FAVOURITE games are the ones I will criticize the most

https://i.imgur.com/jxMBknZ.png [External Link]

Take a look at that, right? To you, does that post break any rules? It literally didn't break a single rule, yet this person banned me because of a certain person who kept spamming up these volunteer moderators profiles trying to get me in trouble. When I messaged that volunteer moderator back he basically told me to go F myself

Yet the one who reported me, the user has made remarks about people who dislike denuvo being part of the alt-right and being nazis, yet that sort of behavior is somehow allowed. That same user used the recent florida mass shooting to troll some anti-denuvo folk as well, and all the volunteer moderators did was remove the post for the user to allow him to continue trolling

https://i.imgur.com/agWkFC1.png [External Link]

"Any of you trolls have insider information on the Florida shooting" - apparently isn't breaking the rules

I'm sure it's just a coincidence though that he has posts ALL OVER various different volunteer moderators profiles, apparentely brown nosing is acceptable, saying it how it is.. isn't.

I've seen another volunteer moderator admit to changing his profile picture to anime literally just to bait people.

My friend knows someone who got perma-banned from Life is Strange forums for calling the story mediocre.

So in all honesty I don't think official Valve employees can do any worse in censoring things they don't like, voltuneer moderators already do that from my experience. Valves volunteer moderators should be scrapped altogether for people on an actual pay-role to mod the forums.

Sorry for the long post, but I doubt the steam forums will ever be a nice place to have mature discussions about PC gaming, that's why places like GOL are so much better.

BINGO! the rot is already there & it's only going to get worse. They need to get rational people in instead of those who think receiving a partition award is a good thing. Just wait till they start going through all older posts to find something to ban you for that you said 5+ years ago.

Tbh I probably have made some toxic posts myself on steam forums a few years ago, maybe even some on the Sonic Maniaforums, in-fact when that volunteer moderator banned me for that post, I asked him why since the post clearly didn't break any rules and all he kept doing was mentioning previous offenses made years ago on entirely different forums.

I initially only wanted to express that I wanted denuvo removed from my copy of Sonic Mania that I paid for, seeing as how it had already been cracked. It ended up turning into a HUGE shit-show, one that still carries on to this day over a year later. The real trolls in that forum never got banned imo.

But I've always tried to just say it how it is, and as you can see for yourself that user who had it in for me, constantly reporting me.. He used some recent shooting in america to troll people, which is pretty messed up.. yet the moderators don't do anything. I have many screenshots of that same user being VERY active on these moderators profiles, reporting other people.

I know 100% for a fact that if you want to get people banned while also breaking rules yourself, brown-nose the volunteer moderators by posting on their steam profiles. Seemed to work for those guys :-\

This is why I never post anything on Steam. You cannot have any dissent view against the game or it will become like what you'd experience right now. BUT, if you have "licking the butt" attitude, you're basicly got a permanent "free pass". I'd seen this poop getting worse every day based on my observation.

Another sad things is the developers/game companies inaction regarding on this. We don't know either they agree or disagree on this kind of moderation, but generally if you (the devs) staying quiet, you're agree or enabling this to happens. So, It's like they give the community (especially moderators) blessing to keep on going making poops.

p/s: I'm looking on that game's Steam community hub. They agreed to Denuvo? What?!
Yeah, this kind of community behaviour.... probably?

Not only are those trolls trying to advocate Denuvo like it's the best thing ever, they're also trying to discredit GOG and telling people not to buy from there

https://steamcommunity.com/app/750920/discussions/0/2590022385658826774/?ctp=4#c1742220359692656022 [External Link]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/312200/discussions/0/1741090847744729088/#c1741090847744780621 [External Link]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/584400/discussions/0/2595630410182430408/?ctp=35#c3211505894104140159 [External Link]

But yeah, I'm certaintely not going to be returning to steam forums when my community ban gets lifted, I can't really even if I wanted to seeing as how those volunteer mods could ban me for literally anything, even if I don't break any rules

Do those people get paid to support Denuvo or something ?
Like I really don't get why anyone would so adamantly defend DRM of all things.
Console fanboys I can get , when they think "mine is better than yours" , but this just defies all logic.

I can only assume they aren't old enough to remember things like Securom or the sony rootkit scandal.

But hell, it's hardly surprising to me anymore.. Some people even defended the use of paid character slots in that Metal Gear Survive game, it seems these goliath companies can't do anything wrong anymore

Ahh damn , you're right.
I forgot two things.
1.Kids exist on the internet
2.Fanboys of franchises exist and will defend them tooth and nail. Even to the point of parroting nonsensical corporate buzzwords about piracy/copy protection.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkHave they never heard of an ignore button? or a block button? other places if someone is giving you grief you can block their silly ass. This moderating of speech is only going to get worse & one day YOU, yes all of YOU reading this will be on the wrong end of it, because some Social Just-us Wheenie Participation Trophy Winner didn't like the way you said something & reported you to the moderator & they agreed with them.

What's next? banned from the forums then banned from playing the games you've paid for?

I'm going through a years community ban because of some of those types of people hating my guts for disliking denuvo and expressing that on steam forums

All I did was share a screenshot of one of them admitting they've pirated things before to me in a private steam chat, along with another screenshot of them following me to my friends profile to throw abuse at me.

The person was also literally on a Volunteer Moderators steam profile, posting in their comments claiming I was posting their personal information, when all I was posting was that user admitting to piracy, and him and his friends constantly harassing me and baiting me (along with anyone else who dares question denuvo software)

People should be allowed to criticize a game (or a software that game uses) without being harassed, but a lot of folk simply can't handle a game they like being criticized, personally some of my FAVOURITE games are the ones I will criticize the most

https://i.imgur.com/jxMBknZ.png [External Link]

Take a look at that, right? To you, does that post break any rules? It literally didn't break a single rule, yet this person banned me because of a certain person who kept spamming up these volunteer moderators profiles trying to get me in trouble. When I messaged that volunteer moderator back he basically told me to go F myself

Yet the one who reported me, the user has made remarks about people who dislike denuvo being part of the alt-right and being nazis, yet that sort of behavior is somehow allowed. That same user used the recent florida mass shooting to troll some anti-denuvo folk as well, and all the volunteer moderators did was remove the post for the user to allow him to continue trolling

https://i.imgur.com/agWkFC1.png [External Link]

"Any of you trolls have insider information on the Florida shooting" - apparently isn't breaking the rules

I'm sure it's just a coincidence though that he has posts ALL OVER various different volunteer moderators profiles, apparentely brown nosing is acceptable, saying it how it is.. isn't.

I've seen another volunteer moderator admit to changing his profile picture to anime literally just to bait people.

My friend knows someone who got perma-banned from Life is Strange forums for calling the story mediocre.

So in all honesty I don't think official Valve employees can do any worse in censoring things they don't like, voltuneer moderators already do that from my experience. Valves volunteer moderators should be scrapped altogether for people on an actual pay-role to mod the forums.

Sorry for the long post, but I doubt the steam forums will ever be a nice place to have mature discussions about PC gaming, that's why places like GOL are so much better.

BINGO! the rot is already there & it's only going to get worse. They need to get rational people in instead of those who think receiving a partition award is a good thing. Just wait till they start going through all older posts to find something to ban you for that you said 5+ years ago.

Tbh I probably have made some toxic posts myself on steam forums a few years ago, maybe even some on the Sonic Maniaforums, in-fact when that volunteer moderator banned me for that post, I asked him why since the post clearly didn't break any rules and all he kept doing was mentioning previous offenses made years ago on entirely different forums.

I initially only wanted to express that I wanted denuvo removed from my copy of Sonic Mania that I paid for, seeing as how it had already been cracked. It ended up turning into a HUGE shit-show, one that still carries on to this day over a year later. The real trolls in that forum never got banned imo.

But I've always tried to just say it how it is, and as you can see for yourself that user who had it in for me, constantly reporting me.. He used some recent shooting in america to troll people, which is pretty messed up.. yet the moderators don't do anything. I have many screenshots of that same user being VERY active on these moderators profiles, reporting other people.

I know 100% for a fact that if you want to get people banned while also breaking rules yourself, brown-nose the volunteer moderators by posting on their steam profiles. Seemed to work for those guys :-\

This is why I never post anything on Steam. You cannot have any dissent view against the game or it will become like what you'd experience right now. BUT, if you have "licking the butt" attitude, you're basicly got a permanent "free pass". I'd seen this poop getting worse every day based on my observation.

Another sad things is the developers/game companies inaction regarding on this. We don't know either they agree or disagree on this kind of moderation, but generally if you (the devs) staying quiet, you're agree or enabling this to happens. So, It's like they give the community (especially moderators) blessing to keep on going making poops.

p/s: I'm looking on that game's Steam community hub. They agreed to Denuvo? What?!
Yeah, this kind of community behaviour.... probably?

Not only are those trolls trying to advocate Denuvo like it's the best thing ever, they're also trying to discredit GOG and telling people not to buy from there

https://steamcommunity.com/app/750920/discussions/0/2590022385658826774/?ctp=4#c1742220359692656022 [External Link]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/312200/discussions/0/1741090847744729088/#c1741090847744780621 [External Link]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/584400/discussions/0/2595630410182430408/?ctp=35#c3211505894104140159 [External Link]

But yeah, I'm certaintely not going to be returning to steam forums when my community ban gets lifted, I can't really even if I wanted to seeing as how those volunteer mods could ban me for literally anything, even if I don't break any rules

Do those people get paid to support Denuvo or something ?
Like I really don't get why anyone would so adamantly defend DRM of all things.
Console fanboys I can get , when they think "mine is better than yours" , but this just defies all logic.

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Hmm , is it just me or is the art eerily reminiscent of Machinarium ?

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Quoting: HadBabitsGood stuff :) You can't stop piracy, but you can preserve history for future generations; and not just the titles the publishers deem 'worthy' of a $60 remaster.

I don't know about preserving history so much as just preserving the ability to play the game at all. If you look at the internet archive, there are all kinds of DOS programs - not just games - that don't run and can't be updated because there is no source code archived to update. The first MDK is a great example. Shiny saved the source for MDK2, so in recent years there was a remaster. The first game would have to be remade from the ground up, so the best that you're ever going to do is DOSBox.

Red Dead Redemption will never be ported to any PC platform because it's a complete mess of duct taped together game engine builds literally cobbled together two different versions of GTA. Porting it over to anything else would first require porting it to a new engine. Well, what happens when the last PS3 quits working? If you love cowboy shooters, you just lost one of the best.

One of the trends that Half Life spawned back in the very late 1990's was to include both good mod tools and then a SDK.Because Warren Spector put Deus Ex out with an SDK there is currently the ability to play the game in DirectX10 because a computer science student coded up the renderer for it just a few years ago, and it works with all the other Unreal engine games from that period that also shipped with an SDK. Yes, it would have been nce if he had just gone OpenGL, but the point is that the game can actually get updated to run on new systems just because of that SDK. Freespace, DOOM3, and a few others have had their engine source codes GPLed, and frankly I think that should be made mandatory under consumer protection law. After ten years you either update the game to current standards or you gpl the source so that the fans can do it for you.

Plus there's also something else at work here. I paid $2000 for a computer, I DON'T WANT TO PAY MORE FOR AN INFERIOR COMPUTER THAT REALLY ONLY SERVES AS A DRM BOX. Bring your game where I live and I will happily buy it from you as my Steam library can attest to. SEGA has their Genesis collection up on Steam. Guess what, nobody pirates Genesis games anymore, which makes me surprised that they haven't put up all the Dreamcast titles, too. Maybe even their arcade games. Meanwhile, I guess Nintendo doesn't like easy money because yes I really would like to pay Zelda:Link to the Past in 4K. Or Starfox64. Or Mario3. Or Contra. And I would love to pay to provide me with that ease of use.

Wasn't Nintendo caught selling roms at one point ?
Someone bought a Super Mario game from them on one of their virtual consoles and took apart the file and found that some specific file signature did not match the official one.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us [External Link]

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Haven't spent much time on steam forums/community myself , expect to maybe ask for tech support.
All these stories make me glad I never tried to socialize there.

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Hmm
May get this but seems playing via Proton/Wine is more feasible. Sad really . Seemed an interesting game

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Quoting: liamdaweSo yeah the Linux version did indeed not make it out today. GOG have provided me with a key, so when it does release for Linux we can take a look.

I was happily typing in the key, looked at my steam machine, and it said install.
They I removed some other games to make place, pressed install.
Then I remembered something, so I checked steamdb, and indeed, this was probably not the linux release, but a proton download. And no, steam did not say it was going to use proton.
I love proton, since I can play GTA V now, and it rocks.
But I really don't know what is native and what is proton. If I select linux native in my list, I get all games now :-(.

I think there is a bug report already submitted to steam.
I believe someone brought it up in another article.

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Interesting find.
I keep telling myself I'll make a small game.
Someday ... :S:

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500 keys ?
Wow , that's 5 for each of us here :D

Quoting: NaibCJ however and considering my boys school sent a letter home banning all talk of fortnite (and advised not playing it ) I can honestly say he would play fortnite :)

!!!
Is this really turning into the anti-game paranoia of yester year ?
Or is it actually a problem ?
Don't have kids but I do get my knickers in a twist when I see gaming crucified by "activists".

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I wonder if our own Salt Knight will tackle it ;-)

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