E33 was the surprise of the year for me. It came from nowhere.

Handmade clothes may be not the norm but they are not extinct. Dresses, scarfs and accesorising can be found handmade. Luxury market is in majority handmade.

The point is that the label is not pointless. It exist and will exist in the future. I just hope that games with human art won’t be considered a luxury.

Yes, like we don’t have Handmade tags in products…

I dont know about the future, but a “No AI-Art” tag, makes sense to me.

I can build a mini PC for a lot less. Even with the joke retail RAM prices. I expect $650-800.

Supreme Commander (2007), i found the gold edition on GOG for 3€. I don’t know how i missed that RTS gem back then.

Why not make it a Gatcha game too? You use points and you have a chance to win a good game with every use.

They should use prices of $200, 250, and 300 instead of the $70, 110, and 130 AAA reskinned games. That would work. /s

Yeah, it sucks. A major reason that I abandoned Nintendo’s Switch 2, and returned to PC after playing in Switch for some years. I used to pay 30-50€ for AAA, but they wanted people to jump to 70-80€.

For me cost of living went up but cost of games down. I mostly play indie games now since i find big AAA games not that interesting with one maybe two exceptions per year.

I mean that although the good shows got removed by the other competitors and streaming got downhill with that, they increased prices, put ads, removed account sharing and their only focus is profit.

Edit: also they removed shows by themselves to countries that the particular shows were not that popular just to save money. That started before the rise of other streaming platforms.

Steam kinda killed gaming piracy for many. Hope they won’t go the Netflix way in the future.

I bet their lawyers have cost more than the whole Palworld production.

I don’t know. I prefer to unlock characters through playing the game, not with my wallet.

Also you can have 2 different games with 25 fighters each every 4 years, versus having 1 game with 50 fighters for 7 years with the same money as 2 games. I just prefer the 1st option.

Just support the game for 2-3 years and make a better one after. If you need money for the support put DLC with soundtracks and artwork.

Well, maybe you are right. But still it feels wrong putting fighters that exist since 1995+ as paid DLC content (or almost half of your fighters are paid locked). Also if you want the whole package it costs you almost double money. I don’t need support, i need a fine product from day one that has everything like BG3, E33, and many indie games. They just want to make games like a service and not products.

When i checked no (Tekken 7). But they released Tekken 8 last year, so maybe they added it (hopefully not in DLC).

I played Tekken 3 in PSX when i was a kid. One CD had everything, many modes, many characters, ton of fun.

Ffw to 2 years ago, i think to play with a friend Tekken again, searching in Steam Tekken only to see that it has 24 DLCs, many of them that are fighters (game has 16 unlockable characters, and 14 more being paid DLC)…

The laugh like J.Jonah Jameson was in Empire Earth 2, when i had tanks, airstrikes, and missiles, the poor CPU was still using bows and horses, having no resources to advance to the next age. 😂

When i was a kid, every RTS skirmish game was about building an empire and keeping in control the CPU opponent in a small space. At some point it was more like playing a city building game.

I am just ignoring them. Not playing their games even pirated.

Played the demo of Prince of Persia last year, totally liked it, price was good, saw the Ubisoft Logo (CEO tells that you don’t get to own your games, AAA games priced 70-130 €, anti consumer practices), never bought that game never played it.

Nintendo also took a red card this year from me, not another penny from my wallet.

Bonus i put in my Steam ignore list all the games that come out with price >60 €, so i wont make a mistake and buy them even on a huge sale.

I buy indie games and only AAA games full priced like BG3, Expedition 33, Elden Ring, etc… , games that they worth it and they don’t bloat you with stupid stuff. And also their companies respect the players.

20 € ? Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo would had marked it for 70 € or more.

I think you lose around 15%+ performance in Linux with a Nvidia card. I tried Nobara and Bazzite and i can confirm it, although i did not make any hardcore benchmarking.

AMD i think is on par with windows or maybe slightly worse.

I’m thinking my next GPU upgrade might be AMD, so i can migrate to Linux. But i bought a used one in 2023, so i gonna wait at least until the next gen comes out.

I’m gaming with an NVIDIA GPU, so my VRAM is kind of limited. I’m at my limits in games because the company cheaped out on VRAM in their GPUs after the 10 series.

Well, screen is running at 4k, so i think its normal.

How is your idle VRAM (video RAM) holding? For some reason i have 1GB usage in Mint with Cinnamon without anything running, while on windows i have 400MB (although i have optimised them a lot).

I don’t. I’m just telling another example of the ‘free’ market.

Yeah, like the House market /s

How a handheld is priced more or equal than a PS5 pro? Which is also pretty expensive for a console.

For the XX70 (missing last gen, 5070 is arround 22-29% slower than a 4080)

Although Kerbal space program 2 had major issues from the dev team, only for the publisher to pull the plug because of how bad the progress was, and leave the game in permanent early access.

Until end of 2026 and the release of Deck 2, Switch 2 will be in a bit better position. Value remains on Steam Deck though.