Quoting: BlackBloodRum

Quoting: Anza

Quoting: BlackBloodRumI tried collections with using genre tags a while ago. It was cool up until the point a game had two matching tags. Then it'll duplicate that game in your list and you have to manually remove one of the games from one of the new "automatic" collections.

That got annoying fast.

So back to manually organizing by genre with no duplicates it was :tongue:

That's interesting. I haven't noticed that though and I have collection that matches three tags: adventure, point & click and story rich. Either the problem has been fixed or the problem might be bit more complicated than that.

Yeah.. just tried it, it's still a thing :grin:

If you create a category that matches only tag "Survival", another that matches only tag "stealth", and finally one that only matches tag "RTS", you game list will look like this:

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I don't think I understand the issue. That's how I'd expect the feature to work. What were you expecting?

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I think we can all agree with cheater that there are probably better, more flexible and innovative ways that repairs could be carried out. And I think we can all agree with various other voices in this thread that in the real world, putting these into practice can be challenging and carries some risks.

I'm just glad that Valve are actually taking the first baby step towards that more flexible model, by devolving the repairs to global centres that can turn around devices more effectively. Fingers crossed it's the first improvement of many.

As for me, cheater, even if your model was available to me right now, today, free of charge and with my warranty intact after I carried out my own repairs... I wouldn't use it. I'm not comfortable opening up my device to do those repairs and honestly even I was, doing so is a waste of my time. This is as true of my steam deck as it is of my washing machine.

I actually remember opening up my three-year-old GBA to fit a front light many years ago. It worked, but it took me hours, it was stressful, and I managed to get some dust under the display that I never managed to get rid of. Never again! :grin:

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Quoting: Drakker

Quoting: scaineIf Tyron doesn't have immediate cashflow issues, and actually cares about their reputation as a game developer, then I completely agree with their caution. Despite the fact that I'd really like to play this, but as I say, without Steam multiplayer, I can't see me buying this.

How does Steam handle community servers? I have yet to play a game on Steam where they are a thing. There's no on demand server instances for VS... I guess you could choose to share your single player instances with your friends on Steam and allow them to join through there, but that would be about all the benefits Steam would give you. In the end it would still be like Valheim where you have to tell your friends on which community run server you are playing, giving them the IP/domain like we used to do years ago, and completely bypassing the Steam multiplayer thing.

Well, for something like Don't Starve Together, the "server" is just your own PC. You create the world locally, then use Steam's multiplayer to invite friends to it. I imagine that VS would use the same approach.

The main point here is that I know if my friends are online, what they're laying, and inviting them to play is as simple as right clicking their name and choosing "invite to game". I can message them, voice with them, etc. Maybe VS makes it trivially easy to do something similar for multiplayer - and that's great, because it has the advantage of running on something like GOG too. But I'm less likely to be playing it in the first place, because 99% of my gaming is on Steam.

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Putting aside how condescending you are in this entire reply, I find it pretty ironic that you attack someone for claiming to be a legal expert (which they didn't), then go on to try to appear to be an expert in European law (by "researching" whatever the hell that means). And the comment you're replying to was mainly talking about America anyway. Sheesh.

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Quoting: 1xokWhere are these repair centers located?

They haven't said. All they say is to open a support ticket and they'll arrange to have your unit shipped to one of their centres.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: scaineJust read the earlier comments. Tyron has made clear several reasons (on their blog/forum - read crse's comment) why it's not a priority. I want it on Steam too, but there are good reasons it's not.

Not really good reasons. They think they'll make more money - see my prior comment - and they believe that they need to charge the same price for sales off Steam as they do for sales on Steam, which isn't at all true if they aren't giving Steam keys for sales off Steam and isn't quite true if they are giving Steam keys. It's their choice, of course, and if they don't feel their game is even at Early Access quality yet that's also their choice.

Even if you could debate those particular reasons, the main one I completely agree with is that Steam is an unbelievably harsh audience - critical, demanding, largely uneducated and unbending. And the worst part? They get to review your game publicly, allowing for a sole developer's career to be largely ruined on the basis of, say, a similarity to Minecraft.

If Tyron doesn't have immediate cashflow issues, and actually cares about their reputation as a game developer, then I completely agree with their caution. Despite the fact that I'd really like to play this, but as I say, without Steam multiplayer, I can't see me buying this.

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Quoting: wit_as_a_riddle

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: wit_as_a_riddle

Quoting: scaineI've never once, ever, in over 1100 games, experienced a launcher which improved a game experience.

Minecraft has a useful launcher. That's the only one I know of though. Funny how people make even better ones to replace the one useful launcher I know of.

I'll give you that. One game. And even then, a launcher that's only actually necessary because the core game design is so poor that you have to juggle versions for mods. So even then, while I agree it's a useful launcher, it's only useful because it's absolutely necessary and I'd STILL prefer that it didn't exist!

Perhaps the most successful game of all time has poor design? Sure, you can make an argument for that, but I'm not going to buy it lol. Also, being able to switch versions is a feature not a bug.

The game has great design. The engine, the implementation... the bit that get you playing? It's a (well documented) mess. And if it wasn't, there would be absolutely no reason to switch versions. Like, you know, every other game out there that just uses one mod-able version which works for all use cases.

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Quoting: Linuxer

Quoting: Tyron

Quoting: Linuxer

Quoting: CatKillerIf being on Steam gets you 43% more sales than not being on Steam, then the 30% pays for itself, even ignoring the saving in hosting and bandwidth costs. Everyone's free to make their own decisions of course, but "I'm not putting my game on Steam because I'd like to make more money" isn't a terribly reality-based position for anyone EA-sized and below.

What's this developers email or Twitter? Could somebody just tell him exactly this for crying out loud :whistle:

Thanks but I am well aware of this - and being made aware of it on a regular basis :smile:
It is likely that the game will be on Steam some day, but I currently see no urgency for this.

Good to hear! But to be blunt: we users kinda have a huge urgency for Vintage Story to be available on Steam :wink: i mean, what would you lose for putting it out there? Or maybe i'm just a damned simpleton.

Just read the earlier comments. Tyron has made clear several reasons (on their blog/forum - read crse's comment) why it's not a priority. I want it on Steam too, but there are good reasons it's not.

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Quoting: elmapulare you sugesting that an government pc should be offline

Are you seriously... actually seriously... suggesting that if a government entity is so incompetent to be running a decades old operating system (when multiple upgrade paths have been available for years and years) that they should "just pass a law" to force Microsoft to produce patches long after its well-announced EOL date??

Or are you just trolling. It honestly sounds like trolling.

Because that's not how the world works. Back in 2014, only 8 years ago, the UK government paid £5.5M [External Link] to Microsoft, begging them for an extra year's support. No laws involved - they just dropped public money into the MS pot to cover their incompetence. Pretty sickening really - they had 7 years to fix their shit and this is how they went about it.

Managing your legacy O/S footprint is bread and butter in most enterprises. I'm currently overseeing the removal of our last 100 or so Windows 2012 servers right now at my workplace, for example. Because believe me, there will be no laws created to cover this easily avoidable threat.

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Quoting: elmapulthey cant legaly completely drop support for something used by millions

Of course they can. What global law are you referring to that obligates a company to support well announced end-of-life products??

Maybe you meant "ethically". They can't ethically drop support. Which I can agree with, but of course, when has Microsoft ever considered the ethics of its actions?

(hint: never)

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