Alright, I was probably going to play it anyway even with dips down to the low 20s. But if we’re not even at the full release yet and the modding scene is already squeezing more out of that bottom 1%, I’m just biting the bullet and buying the damned game.
For anyone in the same boat, Fanatical is selling the pre-release versions of the game for 17% off, packaged with a random “highly rated” Steam game. My freebie was Reventure, which is regularly $8.99 CAD.
Federation of downvotes/reduces and upvotes/favorites is spotty at best, even across instances that are definitely otherwise federated.
~~I read an article just this morning that said it’s expected to release with version number 1.6.35 or something, meaning they been patching and updating it ahead of release. That’s likely what the delays have been about — to polish it up in advance to avoid the kind of negative press that surrounded Cyberpunk 2077 at release, which came from a studio that had a great deal more goodwill from the community than Bethesda.
Edit: https://tech4gamers.com/starfield-build-update-version/~~
Edit 2: Man I’m dumb. Didn’t check which thread this reply was for and replied with unrelated gibberish.
Sure, if Valve ever releases it.
The physical device itself is pretty stock, but I’ve been having a grand old time using Decky, specifically the CSS Loader plugin, to tweak the interface. Nothing extreme, but I have a little over a dozen CSS plugins installed that really make it shine now.
I think suggesting that Valve need any given game (CoD) or even genre (“games like CoD”) to remain successful is silly at best. Of course Steam, the Steam Deck, and as a result Valve are only successful or even exist at all because of video game studios and publishers. But Call of Duty specifically? Nah man, it’s a blip on the radar for Steam.
While I disagree with your core argument about the success of the Steam Deck, I absolutely agree that I’d love to see a desktop variant of SteamOS become available for general use. To the point that I’d likely even finally make the leap from Windows.
The article you’ve linked seems to say the opposite of what you’re suggesting — that a second iteration of the Steam Deck is coming soon. That’s not the impression I get from the linked article at all.
But even that aside, I would argue that the Steam Deck has been uniquely successful. Sure, the Deck may or may not end up being a “one and done”, flash in the pan piece of hardware that fades into relative obscurity in the face of competing hardware… but it proved that the idea of portable PC gaming was possible and affordable, and inspired plenty of manufacturers to dip their toe in the same arena. And almost every single one of those devices, whether it’s sold by Valve or Lenovo or whoever, will be running — and selling games on — the Steam marketplace.
That was the goal of the Deck, and in that regard it’s been a great success.
Better GOG than EGS, IMO. Hashtag acronyms.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to wait for a good sale before I can justify buying yet another game to add to my backlog. I still have entire franchises I want to finally get to.
Best wishes to you and your dog, dear stranger.
Nah, I think the article and the image are both AI generated, so the “author” of the article really has no idea what the image actually looks like.
Thanks! Mass Effect is in my top three game franchises (the other two being Witcher and Elder Scrolls).
The Witcher 3 is one of the best selling games ever, and is considered by critics and fans alike to be one of the best games of its genre ever. This guy is a fucking clown.
If it isn’t so cold that it has very tiny, fragile ice crystals pushed to the surface by the bubbles, it’s basically piss.
That goes double for Sprite and Barqs in particular.
If I’m not wearing a sportcoat it goes in my back right pocket. If I am it goes in my inside left.
I’ve found that I’m checking Kbin a lot less than I checked the other place, but I’m participating more because there’s a lot less toxicity and hostility here (at least for the time being).
Mine is sort of a two’fer:
I’m not comfortable with a voiced computer that doesn’t have Majel Barrett’s voice, frankly. Google Assistant/Siri/Alexa hit my ear wrong as it is.
It’s very likely to become my most recent “doesn’t need all my attention” game, as I always need one of those on deck (if you’ll pardon the expression).