SmoochyPit

This is about micro-transactions specifically. Tim Fortnite is arguing that games sold on Steam should be able to offer in-game purchases with payment options outside of Steam.

It’s very similar to Epic Games v. Apple, where Apple had required in-app purchases for iOS apps, notably Fortnite, to be handled through their app-store so they get a cut.

One big difference that I see here: On PC, a developer isn’t required to use Steam to distribute software. Players often prefer Steam because Valve has made Steam a great option and has lots of good-will with players. Still, Steam does dominate a massive portion of the PC market.

And a 30% cut is high. Especially for smaller games with less financial resources. As a developer, that’s a trade-off you’d have to choose. I think it’d be best to offer the game on multiple platforms.

For Steam-bought games, I think having an option to pay off-platform would be fair, but I think the option needs to remain available through Steam too. For many games, I don’t want to give my payment details to yet another developer, company or third-party.

Apex is a security risk to have installed at this point.

In fairness to Respawn, if what they say is true, that it’s not ACE (which based on the description of the issue, sounds truthful), it doesn’t particularly raise red flags for client security.

But any game requiring a Kernel Anticheat to play is a security risk. At least here it’s EAC, which has a lot of development efforts and doesn’t require running from boot. But as a player, that’s still a trade-off you’re choosing by playing these games.

Letting players manage and host their own custom servers/lobbies helps. Admins can monitor and ban players in real-time. I know that doesn’t lend itself as well to dedicated servers (and thus opaque server-side anticheat), battle royales, ranked matchmaking and SBMM, but I see that as a reasonable solution for fair PvP games, especially older or smaller ones.

Wdym? I thought dropping Linux support through Proton fixed their hacker problem! /s

This layout looks way too similar to an old friend’s kitchen, even down to having boxes on the fridge; I had to do a double take.

Straight porn has too many women. Men only (with some exceptions) thanks.

I appreciate you pointing that out! The move is pro-consumer and should be commended for that, but it’s important to use the correct terminology.

Persona 5 is great and already mixes up the formula in many ways (gun). But many players just don’t care for RPGs regardless.

I enjoyed what I played of Catherine! They don’t have to scrap RPGs, just mix it up and release other projects.

Tbh tho I don’t have the best opinion of Atlus. They really screwed the RPCS3 project years ago, at a time when there was no official option for playing Persona 5 on PC. The project survived, but they wiped any mention of Persona 5, even in the game compatibility list.

Brock a seducer 💀

I watched my friend play Dead Island 2 at its launch. The gore system is absolutely brutal, with zombie flesh and bone all layered and dynamic. Also the game has really solid lighting without (afaik) a heavy reliance on realtime raytracing tech.

I know melee combat is the focus, but I can’t really speak for the gameplay beyond that. I think there’s value in trying it for the gore system alone, especially at that price and if there’s other games in the bundle you would want to play.

I use a DualShock 4 on Arch with Hyprland.

By default for libinput, the controller touchpad always controls the mouse cursor. So I needed to disable that.

In my desktop configuration, my mouse cursor hides itself after 5 seconds of inactivity. I’ve found that Steam Input doesn’t register as mouse movement, despite successfully moving the cursor, so the cursor remains invisible. I have a (Hyprland specific) command I run to disable that config option temporarily, so that way I can use Steam Input to control the mouse cursor.

The right joystick mapping to it sounds like Steam Input’s default “Desktop Configuration”. I’d check that to see. I personally have the desktop configuration pretty much empty, but I have the touchpad set to control my mouse cursor under “Guide Button Chord Configuration”, so if I hold the PS Logo I can move my cursor with that.

-san is a suffix used in Japanese that denotes respect for someone. I’ve see it translated to English often as Mr. or Mrs., but we don’t have the same honorific system and in many cases those don’t make sense or sound right, so they’ll just keep it as Neptr-san in the translation.

I did. Tbh I think there’s plenty of other people who do too. Once you’re comfy in an environment, you stick to it until you have enough reason to switch. And you’ll inevitably become a power-user if you solve enough problems, tinker enough, etc.