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Steam just cracked 40 million concurrent users for the first time⁠, meaning Valve's user count was bigger than 80% of the countries in the United Nations in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The user figures are strongly impacted by the closing of Microsoft's acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard

I was sceptical of the 500m figure for Xbox (even if we include Xbox on Windows); but it makes sense if they include Battle.net figures I guess..

Skyblivion, the fan remake of Oblivion in Skyrim's engine, nears completion in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

just worlds to run around in

Which, ironically, was why I only played the main quest in Starfield vanilla. Running around empty, boring planets, with copy-pasted dungeons (there's only, what, 10 varieties?), felt like nothing but a colossal waste of time.

So glad I didn't pay for it (Gamepass, with apologies to my Linux friends).

To those who downvote your own comments… Why? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

Most clients can show split votes. So a 0 upvote is different to 1up 1down.

On that note, not a single person downvoted your comment 🥲

Manor Lords, the best city builder of 2024, hits 3 million sales as players continue to fill its maps with muddy medieval towns in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I just checked and nearly choked. I've played every single Civ game ever made. As much as I love the series, there's no way in hell I'm paying AU$160 for a base game.