I'm not saying to dismiss any of their negatives mind you, but don't let it anger you so much. Considering how well we're off today with our hobby with video games, I'm grateful at least with all the conveniences we got.
Meh, for the time being, despite all the hubhub, nothing much has changed. The only thing you should have a soft break from is Metro Exodus if you are against EGS. Things haven't changed that much. It's unfortunate that the news is big enough to mean free press for a very barebone store.
While I agree with you that Valve communicating to its customers is a good thing, let us be fair and acknowledge that Valve is not known for amazing communication skills. A notice was displayed for Metro Exodus, and not for any other game on the verge of being removed, e.g. TellTale Games, etc. If people want to learn about games which are going to be removed, they usually have to visit Public Forum :: Removed Games Collectors and check whether a game is at risk.
Well it's also an exceptional situation. We're talking about a game that was already sold on Steam as preorders deciding to not release on Steam 2 weeks before release. That's pretty much a first, I think.
RIPso ... umm ... about that "statement" from THQN ......
as i've said before - remember kids, no corporation is your friend ...
How did they fit a full sized gpu into a laptop?
Get well soon bud :O
Floor 15? Git gud
That's one game onto my GotY list~
Fair enough but the end reward is pretty good, definitely worth the last few floors
I assume it got an exceptional statement because it was an exceptional situation. A game that had previously been sold on the platform was taken off and removed for an exclusivity deal.
This kind of statement is what really defines gaming news and "journalism" anymore. Nothing in Valve's statement alluded or encouraged death threats or hate mail, Valve legitimately explained what the situation was and that it sucked. No death threat is ever excusable and by shifting away from the few specific people making those threats to some broader vagueness of "Valve's fault" or "all gamers are terrible" (as is the tendency in gaming news), you're enabling that behavior.
A few hours later, THQNordic's twitter statement is still there and it's still a pinned tweet.so ... umm ... about that "statement" from THQN ......
as i've said before - remember kids, no corporation is your friend ...
yeah, exactly .... people/channels i've been following for a good while ... that do otherwise good stuff, make great content ... when they talk about steam - it's just pure madness ... full of inaccuracies ...
Eh minor thing but Kim Justice's recent '100 fav. games of all time' video featured both Half Life 1 and 2 and she commented on wanting Valve to 'go back to what they do best'. Valve now have moved onto a better position; improving PC gaming scene, which prompted GOG for one to try and follow suite with GOG Galaxy. Now say what you will about Galaxy but I like that I can access my downloaded GOG games this way.
well i wasn't talking about Kim
i haven't watched that video yetyeah ... i really can't understand it
Well mine was an observation too, albeit a small one ^^;well i wasn't talking about Kim
just a general observation
I wanna blame this on being on consoles for so long that they only know 2000s Volvo and have 0 knowledge of the PC gaming space and what it's like now.
yeah ... i just don't get it
For console gamers it kind makes sense as they see Valve as the representative of PC gaming and they usually are not too kind to the rival platform.
yeah ... i really don't get it
Give it time and they'll drop in price. as is, GTX 1060 and 1070 on lappys are still good enough even today. I personally may settle for just RTX 2060 mainly because its the modern one and because i ought to be good for DSR+downsampling.
The Epic Game Store is also over a month old at this point. Maybe it is different for stores but you'd think that after that timeframe they'd release some kind of graphic on their performance. "XXXXXXXXX games were downloaded" and stuff like that to show that they're somewhat successful. But neither the Epic nor the Discord store did something like this so I take it that it isn't as successful as they thought it would be. And that people that care about Fortnite only care about Fortnite.
yeah ... you'd think they'd AT THE VERY LEAST brag about how many people downloaded their free games or something
At this point he should just shut up
Not to rehash myself too much or anything, since my rants tend to get a bit discombobulated, but I think these points both tie back into what I was saying about gaming news / journalism / coverage. Writers and sites look for "drama" and highlight that, and make it stand out way more than it deserves. On top of that, I struggle to think of another realm of journalism where journalists are so side-by-side with the companies and corporations involved in creating the market in the first place. I said it before and I'll say it again, but what I see in the EGS thus far is almost completely different than what any coverage has mentioned so far.
I would like to print this tweet out and hang it.
Bundled games are worth way less, and games that have been free are worth 0 iirc
There were certainly a lot of reactions from superfans that you could easily classify as "overreactions," but the thing that was most hilarious to me about the coverage was the refusal to implicate Blizzard in the creation of those irrational superfans.
And nothing beats a fresh install of Windows without any of the pre-installed crapware a store-bought computer tends to come with. Ugh.
