Quoting: nullzeroabout the connecting steam account. As an example I already got one of the games, Boltgun

Same. I have some questions; anybody know answers to any of them?

1) They say the keys expire 90 days after the bundle starts. So if you have not redeemed, gifted, or exchanged when the expiration is getting close, do they warn you in any way? Or do they just silently expire?

2) If you have not synced your Steam library, and redeem, you can get a Steam key for something you already own. Do unused keys expire after the 90 days, or just keys that have not been redeemed/gifted?

3) If you choose to gift a key, it prompts for an email address, which seems reasonable. Does the recipient get a key, or do they need to have/create a digiphile account first (like humblebundle requires for using gift links)? Has anyone sent a "gift" to themselves? I've seen random grumblings that gifting wasn't working, but I took it with a grain of salt.

Like others, I have Boltgun already. The exchange value is fairly low / there's nothing interesting for that value at the moment (and the Steam library syncing does not filter out what you already own from that list). I could hold onto the points for future accumulation, assuming they will have another bundle that looks attractive (previous ones didn't do it for me, although I was tempted a bit by Fallen Aces). But I may also want to gift it to someone within the next (slightly less than) 90 days. I just don't want to forget about it, and have it silently expire...

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Quoting: rustynailIirc on wayland vsync can only be disabled for games running in fullscreen

As I recall, "no tearing, ever" was a design principle from the start. It was much later that the option to allow tearing, such as for fullscreen games, was added. I forget the details, but I think it has to be specifically requested.

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I see the Overwhelmingly Positive reviews, the free update, the low price, and I figure why not. Add it to the cart, and to my surprise, Steam actually says: "This item is available at a lower price as part of <bundle>" due to me owning another game it's in a bundle with. Thanks for the surprisingly consumer friendly feature, Valve, now I definitely have to buy it!

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I'm hopeful the new Silent Hill game is good, but honestly I've got more anticipation for the rumored remake of the original, after Bloober did such a great job on SH2. Meanwhile, I really should get around to playing some of their other games I already own, like Observer and The Medium.

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Quoting: chickenb00I bought Alan Wake 2

Since it's unlikely to come to Steam, I'm waiting for the PS5 version to have a nice sale. Or maybe Epic will make it one of their weekly free games eventually.

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Quoting: EikeAccording to what I read, most US states do have sales taxes

Generally not on digital items, and also usually quite a bit lower than VAT (rough guess average of about 8%).

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI fear they will be getting massive government bailouts, like in 2008. "Risk" is for us little people.

https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/donald-trump-will-bail-out-crypto-holders-2026-2025-12-22/ [External Link]

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Quoting: PyreticUnfortunately, NVIDIA's and AMD's Vulkan drivers on Windows is such a goddamn mess

There's quite a history of poor OpenGL support from smaller GPU vendors (most of whom went out of business), and AMD has always had rather lackluster drivers (it's so much better having Red Hat, Valve, Google, and so on, doing the Linux drivers - if you've been around long enough to remember fglrx, you know how much better it is now). But as far as I know, iD did quite well making Windows games that used OpenGL and Vulkan... they were probably the largest, but certainly not the only ones?

Rather than the drivers being "a goddamn mess", I suspect a lot of it is the game engines being the problem. Godot shouldn't have that problem, but I have no idea what issues people ran into (maybe Intel and AMD Windows driver bugs?).

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Quoting: Mountain Manany product that depends on servers will be required to carry a prominent disclaimer that necessary online services could be discontinued at any time without warning.

I suppose even that would be an improvement, for games where it is not obvious. Far short of the intent behind the campaign, but sidesteps the appearance of deceit (you bought it with knowledge that we could screw you over at any time). I'm sure there's limitations of liability involved there - i.e. stop selling the game x months prior to final shut off.

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Quoting: Phlebiac(BanjoRecompiled:22645): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 22:01:17.745: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Then getting a SIGSEGV and crashing out

The flatpak version doesn't crash out, but tells me my ROM is the wrong version. Guess I can't win. :)

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