Quoting: BeamboomTo be honest I think you then misunderstand the value of a professional review. Why trust random anonymous Joe more than a person who's dedicated his professional life on reviewing that particular type of products? There's no rationality behind that.

Because critics are saying it for money, and gamers are saying it how it is. Make your conclusions.

Certain people have this implicit trust in "professional media", I personally don't and I like to evaluate it better. And I don't collect opinions of random gamers either, but of those with whom I already interacted before on various forums and know their preference in games.

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I rarely care about reviews of "professional critic" sites. I'm more interested in opinions of fellow gamers.

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Setting vsync on improved animations for me.

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Just bought the game on GOG, so far it's very interesting. Conversation of two women in the hospital:

Spoiler, click me

- I can't wait for it. Androids doing the chores, cleaning dishes and all. Cleaning dishes takes so much time.
- Can they do it?
- They should be water proof, sure they can do the dishes...
...
- I can't wait to be replaced at work. I don't like to work to be honest.
- Same, exactly. I'm so sick of my job. My job is easy, android can probably do it ten times faster.
- And you know, he doesn't need to be paid.
- Exactly. Why not replace me already, so I can just sit back and relax.

Voice acting is very good and the atmosphere feels immersive.

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Quoting: svartalfI just did, NUMEROUS times. YOU don't want to listen because it doesn't validate what you feel to be the truth- you dismiss actual facts in evidence like what happened with Quake3:Arena as not being even remotely valid. In a store situation, you're buying a PHYSICAL artifact, so it's **NOT** even remotely analogous like you keep trying to do.

Like I said... I can't help you. Keep telling yourself you're in the right...nobody else will convince you otherwise anyhow.

You need to accept the fact that DRM free stores should not and would not track users with invasive behavioral monitoring like DRMed stores do. And then figure out a way to work with that. As I said many times, other porters figured it out just fine, so it's time for those who are still stuck in the dark DRM ages (like Feral and Co.) to move on as well.

TL;DR: user agent stats are good enough, even if they aren't 100% accurate.

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Quoting: svartalfWhy should I- I already had elaborated NUMEROUS examples of why it doesn't work

I already answered why it works, you just said that "oh no, spoofing". Not convincing, and you so far didn't propose any practical method for doing it DRM-free. GOG and Humble have theirs and they work.

If you can't substantiate your claims, don't make them in the first place, that way you won't need this condescending tone of "I'm the vet, and see no point to explain things to you user peasants". It looks more like you have no arguments really. But if you make claims, better substantiate them properly, that's the way discussion should be held.

Quoting: svartalfBrowser ID downloads didn't work for iD on Quake3:Arena, where you could buy any SKU and "patch" it with a downloaded engine install for the other Two OSes. What in the HECK posseses you to think that it will be better "now"?

Not sure how this is relevant. Normal practice in all stores today to sell all versions at once, and you can download them all or one for your particular OS. No need to patch anything. All stores need to do, is come up with some way to calculate usage per OS for such games. It can be an estimation, which is fine. If some industry can't cope with it, it's some retarded industry really. A lot of industries (like advertising) cope with browser ids just fine and built successful multi-billion businesses on them (try saying Google uses nothing USEFUL).

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Bandcamp is great. That's where I check for music first, and they sell FLAC!

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Waiting for the GOG release as a backer.

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There are some things that I probably wouldn't have done without them requesting it, such as adding OpenVR support or focusing on certain games early on, or trying to squeeze more performance out of specific workloads.

@YoRHa-2B: Was The Witcher 3 one of those games? It started working with DXVK quite rapidly. I wonder if Valve were interested in that in particular, because of the past ads of "Coming to SteamOS" for TW3.

In a sense, if they'll make sure TW3 works perfectly through Wine+dxvk/Proton, they can at least say that those ads aren't false anymore.

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Very interesting. I was actually planning to buy it, but didn't get to it yet.

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