Finished a run in Windblown.

It’s not as elegant, but you might be able to give them some Steam Gift Cards and recommend some games.

https://store.steampowered.com/digitalgiftcards/selectgiftcard

I watched the trailer and the evolution they’re going with is apparently not making an RTS anymore, but an Action Roguelike. If that’s the kind of evolution we’re talking about, I feel we’ve already stuff in a similar vein (dunno specifically about roguelike though).

Eh, I don’t really care about that stuff, it’s all subjective. If they liked it that much, who am I to judge

I haven’t paid attention to a lot of lists, but Veilguard might be the outlier here. The game seems to be really divisive. Yesterday I was in a thread on how for someone Veilguard was the last straw, and they’re giving up on Bioware completely, and here the game is the fifth best of the year.

1. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
2. Astro Bot
3. Black Myth: Wukong
4. Metaphor: ReFantazio
5. Dragon Age: The Veilguard
6. Silent Hill 2
7. Balatro
8. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
9. Helldivers 2
10. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

What are you even talking about? Why is Epic “extracting money” but GOG is not? Do you mean if you lose your games on Epic you will buy them again on Epic? Nobody does that, and it doesn’t happen in the first place.

You commented on a post about a dude who never bought from Epic but still has 200 games there, that Epic is shady for doing this.

I said by that logic, GOG is shady as well, because they also give away tons of games.

Just saying that labeling them as untrustworthy, just because they give away games, doesn’t make sense. Steam was never mentioned, or the business practices of different storefronts.

Weirdly the temps were good, with like 20c headroom. Steve speculated it might be the VRM. It’s a weird custom mainboard with laptop RAM, but normal, socketable desktop CPU.

Errors in spec sheet and instruction guide, tools-less design, that needs tools, tempered glass panel, that isn’t glass, proprietary hardware, slow laptop RAM, CPU that runs 1.3GHz below spec, loud/annoying sound, bloatware.

Good packaging though.

That makes GOG untrustworthy as well, I guess, since I have 300 games on there, but never bought one.

The ones I mentioned directly afterward, Vampire Survivors DLC, Bloodshed, AK-xolotl.

I thought the i500 review was ancient, and weird that Corsair only now responds, but it’s just 2 months old. I must have confused it with another garbage pre-built.

Some friends and I gift each other some games each year, and I got Cyberpunk. I’ll wait for the new GPU releases before I play it though, since I want to check it out with path tracing.

Also, some Rogue-likes. The latest Vampire Survivors DLC, Bloodshed, and AK-xolotl.

So consoles don’t exist?

Also, what exactly is the problem with Steam in your opinion, apart from “monopoly bad.”

World of Warcraft by a huge margin. A couple of years ago, I went through all my characters, and added the /played time up. I think it was already over 10k back then, and I’ve played a bunch since then. Also, I often delete characters, so I can’t count those. My sub runs for another 10 days, so I might take the time to check again.

Next is probably Diablo 2, but that was 20 years ago, when this stuff wasn’t really automatically tracked.

On Steam I have two idle games at 800 hours, FF14 650h, both Nioh games 600h each.

In a perfect world, sure, but in our reality you’d just get tons of people saying they want Elden Ring for a dollar or something.

But even if it worked, it’s just games getting on sale faster. Right now, you can either pay a higher price today or wait until the game gets as cheap as you want, but it might take months or years.

As for just the information, how much people would pay for a game, that’s what market research if for I guess.

The Remake apparently didn’t sell, and the legally-distinct-Dead-Space (Callisto Protocol), from the OG creator also didn’t sell well. Doesn’t seem like people want Dead Space right now.

If it’s not just run speed, but reactions in general, it makes sense, because in previous games, your character moves like they’re in molasses.

They just find pesky bugs, that need to be fixed. No bugs, no need to fix stuff.