Man, it's a lot of clicking to claim this many games!!

Looking through the 100 or so games I've claimed on Prime in the past two or three months, I'd say the standouts have been:

• Dishonored


• Bioshock


• Monster Train


• Shogun Showdown


• Planet of Lana


• The Outer Worlds


• Dredge


• Star Wars: Bounty Hunter


• Plague Tale: Innocence

With a shout out to early freebies like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Prey, Wolfenstein: New Order, Control, Ghostrunner and the Neverwinter Night games.

I'm not a fan of Amazon, but the Prime bundle is decent value. If only they, you know, paid tax and treated their employees like humans.

I suppose there are even more games worth a shout, but those were on Epic, and I ain't touching that shit.

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Quoting: bialyikarPersonally, I don't need the right analog stick, so it could be gone. The greatest strength of this controller is replacing this stick with its touch counterpart.

Well, couldn't agree less with this. I never ended up using my SC1 becuase it lacked a right thumbstick. The haptic pad replacement is a poor and frustrating substitute in most twinstick shooters. Love that the Steam deck has a full set.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Jarmer110 gb patch. That's just absurd, are you basically just redownloading the entire game?

My thoughts, exactly.

Even there, I think the idea of a 110 gb game is ridiculous. Maybe I just don't play AAA games.

110Gb is pretty big. I play a bit of AAA and looking at my top installed games, it would place third.

I seem to remember that the Mass Effect trilogy/remaster was gigantic too, before I un-installed it.

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GoTY for me. Absolutely awesome writing and the implementation is masterful.

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Quoting: kellerkindtYay! But also ugh: "Requires 3rd-Party Account: PlayStation Network (Supports Linking to Steam Account)"

As the article notes, but yeah, by this point, we shouldn't be surprised. Sony have set out their stall. This will be in every game they produce from now on. They learned their lesson with HellDivers 2. They'll be up-front about the requirement on every title from here on in.

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Planet of Lana is absolutely superb.

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It'll never stop blowing my mind that people play Cyberpunk or Elden Ring on this thing. Incredible.

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I'd love it if Steam published these stats but somehow narrowed them down, or collated them somehow with their "concurrent users" list. I feel like the monthly-active-users list (130M accounts) probably includes a fair bit of churn and burn accounts for their free games, particularly combined with China and their internet-cafe culture, or just assholes twinking on counter-strike.

Maybe concurrent users (around 38M) isn't quite right - it's more like "Frequently used over 6 months, with 10+ paid-for games" or something like that. Filter out the dross.

If you just take 2% as the Linux share and apply that to the concurrent users, it suggests that there's always at least 750K Linux users playing games... and even as a rabid Linux advocate, that feels pretty high to me! While 2% of the total figure of 135M is 2.7M which feels entirely believable.

Man, stats are hard.

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I hope this is real. I shelved my SC when I realised that most of the games I use a controller for inevitably used two thumbsticks and the pad stand-in for that missing right stick just didn't work well.

This is an insta-buy if it's as good as the original SC but ALSO has that crucial second thumbstick.

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: EhvisPaying 20 euro to beta test a game for 5 days. I'm laughing, but it's really sad that this actually works.

It's for the whales: people who have money to burn. It's not for people like us who would even consider saving money for more important things.

Not only whales, but it also plays on FOMO (fear of missing out) which takes advantage of certain mindsets, and puts unfair pressure on parents (although neither Space Marine 2 nor this really target young children). It's scummy. And because it works, and the publishers make literally millions, they'll do it again. And again.

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