On their KS page, one picture states:

What can you do with 2TB of capacity?
Over 50 PS5 PC Steam Deck games

I have conflicted feelings about this statement. :neutral:

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Quoting: dpanter'Huge hit' is a substantial understatement, more than 50% of their market value was destroyed in one fell swoop. Consequences arrive quickly when you're hurting.

Quoting: SalvatosDo we know how that happened?

Yes, they been expanding, growing and banking hard on certain key strategic developments like the 2 billion USD deal that just fell through in the last second. They were literally about to sign the final contract when the unnamed other party just decided to bugger off. Their stock dropped something like 55% in a few days.

Quoting: EikeI understand "partnership that has been negotiated for seven months will not materialize" as there hasn't been (much) actual money lost?

This type of money doesn't exist at all anyway, but as you can see in the earnings report (linked in the article) they were doing pretty well before this, albeit in a seemingly unsustainable pattern. You simply cannot invest forever without making money back, and many of the studios etc they have been absorbing haven't been profitable.

When we talk about Embracer as potentially the only 'good guy' actor in this market, we are also keenly aware that money is always guiding for-profit entities at the end of the day. We cannot be naive to the point where we'd think that no acquisitions would ever be dismantled and shuttered, it's simply impossible.
Compared to the headhunting hitman assassinations some other companies I could mention have been doing for several decades, Embracer really does appear as a force for good. But it is still a for-profit, publicly traded company and they are not your friend.

Embracer will have rough times ahead, needing to cut yearly costs by 10%, 800 million SEK (~70 million €). Hopefully they will keep the Embracer Games Archive [External Link] going, among other things.

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'Huge hit' is a substantial understatement, more than 50% of their market value was destroyed in one fell swoop. Consequences arrive quickly when you're hurting.

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Quoting: dpanterCanoniclowns.

Hmm would You say that to their face in person? Meeting Canonical devs and for example Shuttleworth? It is Ubuntu to thank for fair bit for so much in the world of Linux

100%. What greatness Canonical and *buntu used to represent is no longer true, and I do not care one spit for the current iteration. My opinion of course. Feel free to have a different one.

100% huh. I don't think you still would. It's easy to "say" these things here. And it would have nothing but negative effect in that real life situation.

What one says online to faceless entities must be the same things one would say to a persons face, else one has no honor nor integrity. If you cannot or will not stand by your words, then your words are meaningless and are best kept unsaid.
Our time on this mostly harmless dustball hurling through space is but a blink in Great A'Tuins eye. The best we can do is choose wisely when we decide what sort of person to be.

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Immutability in an OS does not prevent system breaking updates. It can be a part of a system that resists breaking like the way Steam Deck uses SteamOS, but in itself the immutable part does not save you from borkages.
Get something like BTRFS snapshots running instead if you want a rollback feature.

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Quoting: dpanterCanoniclowns.

Hmm would You say that to their face in person? Meeting Canonical devs and for example Shuttleworth? It is Ubuntu to thank for fair bit for so much in the world of Linux

100%. What greatness Canonical and *buntu used to represent is no longer true, and I do not care one spit for the current iteration. My opinion of course. Feel free to have a different one.

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Canoniclowns.

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Quoting: itscalledreality> The best thing that Back for Blood accomplished was making people realize how good Left 4 Dead really was
I think this is an entirely unfair thing to say and a label that society placed on Back 4 Blood. Turtle Rock Studios never made claims that the game would be Left 4 Dead 3, even though they created Left 4 Dead. It is society’s own damn fault if you can’t get over that connection. They are similar but very different games. This stigma is just juvenile. It still sells at $50 because it still sells at $50.

Oh boy.
Back 4 Blood was a failure any which way you look at it. Steam reviews rate it mixed, which is a really bad score. The asking price for this clunker is 60€ (base), 90€ (deluxe, 100€ (ultimate) and it has 'annual pass' for another 40€ and three dlc for 15€ each. This is a lazy cash grab and the reviews panned it for so many good reasons, chief among them - it's simply not a good game.

B4B is not selling much at all, people aren't playing. It died of mediocrity only a few months after release. Quick check on SteamCharts shows 1266 avg/2675 peak players in the last 30 days, or roughly 4% compared to launch month. For reference, L4D2 (rated Overwhelmingly Positive) had 20490 avg/37915 peak players same period, and it costs less than 10€.

The reason B4B gets compared to the far superior games of the same type/genre is because it is of the same type/genre. It doesn't matter what TRS said or didn't say. The game is boring, uninspiring, tedious, lackluster, unpolished, in all ways a subpar entry that will never match L4D2. And they want how much money?! Yeah, no, it's dead.
Feel free to enjoy it if you like, it changes nothing of what I wrote here. How you spend your time is your choice.

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If you don't rock and stone, you ain't coming home!

DRG is simply one of the greatest games of all time.

Starship Troopers: Extermination deserves mention, 16-player co-op fps in the universe we all know and love.

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This move is beyond stupid. Unacceptable nonsense. :angry:

edit: They now say they will implement "Steam Deck dedicated settings"? Less stupid is still, well, you guessed it.

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