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Is this related to the control that released in 2020? https://store.steampowered.com/app/870780/Control_Ultimate_Edition/
Edit, just read the game page, it is the sequel to control.
Someone wanted to play a game like it, and someone else coded it and decided to sell it. Capitalism. You may as well ask the question, “Why does porn exist.” People can’t have sex whenever they want, with whoever they want, so a wank with some NSFW material solves the problem. A demand results in someone realizing they can make money meeting the demand.
This had nothing to do with the USA. It was triggered by an Australian group of christofascist Karens, called “Collective Shout,” leading to adult titles being removed from steam. Steam already region locks titles, so it would be easy for them to block titles for sale in countries with laws about NSFW matierial. What’s unique about this is the christofacists put enough pressure on payment processors to shut down Steam’s ability to sell anything in any country. The title pulls weren’t the result of government pressure.
Yes, I am aware of proton, and I am aware that the OG steam machine predated proton. Proton is a compatibility layer instrumental in making windows games compatible with linux. Anyone capable of installing and operating a linux distro on PC probably loves proton.
This is (supposedly) 6x more powerful than a Steam Deck and doesn’t include a display or controller.
My point stands. Most people that are PC gaming already have powerful PCs. Steam deck gives us portability, turns into a low end pc, AND can be hooked up to your living room TV. Yeah steam deck has controllers built in, but you can also use your own controllers with it. Anyone capable of putting together a PC is capable of having a set up that is compatible with couch/living room use.
I think it’s pretty obviously aimed squarely at the console market.
I agree with this, but I think if the retail price is too high, it would not appeal to many in the console market. A market share of console players are doing multiplayer online. What about games that don’t have cross platform compatibility? Those games make the steam cube less appealing to console players.
The steam deck already has a dock that will hook it up to your TV, and bluetooth to use a wierless controller, or mouse + keyboard, plus the steam deck is 100% mobile. Steam deck is already console priced, with 3 different options depending on budget and needs. Who is their market? I already own a new self built PC, 2 older PCs, an older laptop, and a steam deck. I’m not dropping $ on this, (although I would if I had disposable income like that.) I’m not sure if their target audience is console players, or PC players that hate windows, but are not technologically savvy enough to install linux on their own machines? Edit: I feel like we saw all this go down in 2012-2014 with steam machines, and this seems like it will be a repeat. I want steam and valve to succeed here, but I don’t think they will in this market.
I should have clarified better. To date, there are no instances I know of where GPU manufacturers are bricking people’s GPUs. When I said manufacturers, I meant it more broadly in terms of gadget/tech manufacturing.
Sony removed other OS function after units were sold, which bricked online function for those that wanted to keep it, since the only way to keep that function was to not update the console or take it online. There have been instances of manufacturers bricking devices, in this case robot vacuums, when the user discovered it was reporting location data about his house to the home company. The user stopped that data collection, and the company remote bricked the device. Spotify bricked a piece of hardware, car thing, after people had already paid for it, with a limited 1 month refund window from when it was discontinued. Belkin is bricking some of it’s smart home products on January 31, 2026. In 2019, Sonos launched a trade-up scheme that offered existing owners 30% off the cost of a new speaker. But owners had to activate “Recycle Mode” on their existing Sonos speaker, making it permanently unusable - even if there was nothing wrong with it.
My brain went, kill = brick, then thought about all of the shit I’ve seen where tech manufacturers fucked over their customers in the past, and just assumed the worst from the start before reading the article.
I had a knee jerk reaction to the headline, and I want to clarify for the TL;DR people. They are talking about stopping manufacturing lower and mid-range graphics cards. They aren’t going to roll out an update that would brick cards that have already been sold to customers; (that was my knee jerk assumption, because manufacturers have done shit like that before and I assume the worst.)
I feel like steam entered the market for online distribution pretty early. It initially started as a way for valve to update their own games and morphed into a digital distribution platform. They have had way more time to generate good will. My experiences have been very positive with steam, why would I leave a platform that works for me, to go to other companies that have already fucked me as a consumer prior to releasing digital storefronts? If the wagon ain’t broke don’t fix it.
I spent 6 months working in a commercial lab that made thermal pastes, adhesives and other things used in chip/board manufacture. Based on the lab notebooks I saw from previous workers, none of their fucking results could be replicated. Most of the products we made and shipped depended on mixing the pastes to have 100% homogeny in terms of silica particle dispersion; and the lab was relying on me hand mixing most stuff, as the mixers were not up to snuff. Most of the equipment we used to test thermal properties were janky as hell. I’m not sure if the lab/product in the article is well known, but you should be wary of small manufacturers. Always mix your thermal paste well kids.
Like you, I grew up playing vidya. Cut my teeth on atari and ColecoVision, owned NES, SNES, gameboys, Wii, PS1/2 and XBox. Like you, the console makers drove me from the console market into the loving arms of PC gaming. In the good old days with nintendo, you could import cartridges from Europe and Asia for titles that weren’t being released into the US market. Then Wii started it’s bullshit with region locking consoles, killing my ability to import and play games not for my region, and I was done. Nintendo north America refuses to publish titles released in other countries because it wants to maintain it’s image as a family friendly console. (It’s a shame because the console itself really was innovative with the motion controls for gaming.) Sony drove me away when it decided to remove the other OS functionality AFTER customers had purchased the PS3 that contained that feature. Then there was the XBOX red ring of death. On top of it, many of the console exclusives which are supposed to be AAA titles end up being pure garbage that are just reskins without innovative game play. Like how many different versions of Mario Kart, Zelda, and pokemon do you expect people to play before being bored AF? 100% Agree with you.
My g/f is all about the x-box and pays for the game pass. She argues it lets her try games without committing to purchase. And I was like, “that’s what demos are, and they used to be something the industry offered for free.” $120 a year for the cheapest plan so I can demo single player games. I could buy 3-8 games that are new to me for that price by being a late adopter and getting it on sale after reading user/industry reviews to give myself a shot at being happy with the purchase. In the time I’ve known her, my g/f bought one game she played through the pass because it stopped being available through the pass, (party animals is the game in question.)
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Somewhere out there a game developer asked, “What if we made a game like SSX Tricky, but with trains?” There you have it.
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As a US resident, watching Trump fuck around with the tariffs meant pc prices were going to skyrocket. During the election I worked OT to save money and was able to buy an upgrade to a gtx4060, (I had a 1060,) and a processor that’s from a chipset made within the past 2 years. Bought my new one in March. Seemed like a no brainer if the prices of things inside the country were going to go up $300-500. The average person in the US can’t afford to upgrade their machines every year when a new card comes out. I make a living wage and I go 5-7 years before I upgrade. I’d bet that the uptick is being caused by financial uncertainty, and the people that have been wanting to upgrade realized that it would be financially better to upgrade ASAP before what was already on the shelves dried up, and getting hit with the tariff by waiting a few months later for the next round of imports. Couple this with AAA makers raising game prices and chopping the full game up into DLC to squeeze more out of us, plenty of people are moving to PC so they can raise the black flag, or play multiplayer games without having to pay a god damned subscription fee to the console makers. I convinced my g/f to buy a PC this past year and she loves it. I went PC after the PS3/Xbox 360 gen of consoles and never looked back. Edit: I also forgot that windows 11 was released, and may people do not have chipsets that will support win11, my old PC was one of them.
Almost a decade ago I was playing a game called paragon in development by epic games. The game was amazing, and then epic forced the devs away from what the game was, a MOBA, and forced the devs to make it more like a brawler with smaller and smaller maps. Epic ignored the community playing the game and acted shocked when the community left. While all this was going down, they were alpha testing fortnight, which was a plants, zombies clone with base building. When PubG took off, they killed Paragon, rolled the assets into fornite, and abandoned what fortnite was to turn it into a PubG copycat. (Highly recommend predecessor, a fan made remake from the released paragon assets with og heros, it’s on steam.)
Epic doesn’t have an original thought rattling around in the heads of their MBAs and C-suite. They copy what others are doing, and pray that some of the shit they fling against the wall will stick. They don’t want to take chances or innovate. Plenty of other options out there besides their game engine too. I’m looking forward to the fall of epic and EGS.