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From Wikipedia's page on live service games:

"This often leads to games that work under a live service model to be called "living games" or "live games" since they continually change with these updates."

Living games. Riiiight. Contradiction in terms maybe?

I got the feeling that fits quite well the fact that they're dying some day...?

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I can only imagine it's the publishers scumbag lawyers that prevent them from ever open sourcing the server software and releasing it free to run.

but whatever, I too, like @Kimyrielle am developing contempt for the devs as well. It's just such shitty behavior.

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I don't know what is worse, AI or popups... why not put it neatly in the infobox, like the protondb extension? It could just say AI / no AI and pop more info on click.

I think this extension (formerly userscript) is for people that wants the details of the section to be immediately visible, beyond a "yes/no" flag.

AI tools, AI generation, etc. is a lot of things, and as unpopular as it might sound, I can perfectly see some pretty acceptable usages. Not in generating assets for production, but the whole gradient of helpers that might or might not be based on LLM or similar technologies and might or might not have to fall in line with the AI disclaimer on the store page makes it very complex to produce a simple "AI: yes/no" block.

This also varies with how people declare things; some go very far in talking about the use of AI gen tools at various preliminary stage of the process, so much that not much of it is left. Other "forget" to declare that their whole game is AI slop wrapped in a cardboard box.

In respect to that, shortening that section to a smaller box with a "details" button sounds like a recipe for people going all pitchfork in situations that won't warrant it, and vice versa, an extension actively displaying "no AI" on the interface just because of the lack of details would not always be very truthful.

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I would definitely use something like this if I didn't exclusively use the Steam application itself to browse the store. Unrelated note - anyone else remember when Steam had skin support? I miss that :(

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This reminds me of how you can show people forged art, like the Mona Lisa, and 99.9999% of people can't tell it isn't original, but when they find out it is "fake" they no longer like it.

It would be interesting to do a study where you have people that are anti-AI play games with various degrees of AI (or none) and have them try to guess what was AI.

If AI is good enough that you can't tell and need a disclosure, who cares? I suppose for some there is a "moral" component, but as I've said before the vast majority simply wants a good product - morality never even enters the chat.

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"By September 2017, it was the largest publicly traded video game company in Poland, worth about US$2.3 billion, and by May 2020, had reached a valuation of US$8.1 billion, making it the largest video game company in Europe."

That's all of CD Projekt, not GOG.

Take a look at GOG's results which is much more "humble": [https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/regulatory-announcements/consolidated-annual-report-for-fy-2024/](https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/regulatory-announcements/consolidated-annual-report-for-fy-2024/)

Net profit 2024: 1,134,000 PLN (268.085,11 €)

It alternates between profit & loss with huge profit spikes when a CD Projekt game is released (2023 was much higher due to the release of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty).

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From Wikipedia's page on live service games:

"This often leads to games that work under a live service model to be called "living games" or "live games" since they continually change with these updates."

Living games. Riiiight. Contradiction in terms maybe?

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Oh no, Unreal Engine 5!

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Very cool. I missed TimeSplitters when it came out somehow, it was just something other folks talked about. Looking forward to giving this a shot (and hearing about how accurate a remake it is).

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Meanwhile I'm playing Bloodlines 2 - it's quite different from original Bloodlines, but it's not bad.

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I was just wondering what happened to this game and now I now. I wanted to play it when it came out, but it wouldn't work with Proton back then, so I never got to try it.

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Interestingly, this is one of the Denuvo titles that was actually cracked a couple of years ago.

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I am starting to develop a serious contempt for devs not releasing the server files when they shut down a game. There is really zero reason not to. You're commercially done with that game, so no harm done.

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Good to see! Not sure I love this series enough to buy after Denuvo is in the bin, but at least buying it is an option now.

I'm always a bit torn on buying after removal. At the end of the day, Denuvo has already flicked their finger at paying customers, and had their slice of the pie, a slice that won't have been applied to the developers, artists, music, or quality assurance. So it's got to be something I love before I'll pull the trigger.

Looking at the Denuvo-encumbered titles out now, I'd say that list is probably quite small: Hifi Rush, and Deathloop are the only two certainties. I also have a weird craving to play Strange Brigade, even though it's over seven years old now. And I'd probably have tried the Persona series by now too.

So yeah, Denuvo can still get in the sea. But if it can piss off outta those games there, I might consider purchasing them!

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Nice! Unfortunately I seldom use the store from the browser, most of the time I use the desktop or phone apps.

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I would have still preferred to see it implemented in Augmented Steam, but this is good!

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The game that taught me how to play FPS with a controller! I played about 3 hours of this, maybe, and it was enough to convince me that FPS games simply MUST be played Kbd/mouse... if you're me.

Of course, I've since played many, many Playstation FPS titles with a controller, but when Valve released Steam for Linux in 2013, I knew my time of torment was near an end!

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I'm amazed they've kept it going for three years with just 1000 average players a day. But yeah, not open-sourcing the back-end servers for preservation really is a kick in the nuts. Really sad.

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Only thing to change would be to replace the "A"'s in the "AI"'s in that text with "F"'s.

The tech is not A-worthy, it is a big F. Pun intended.

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It is a fun game. Recommended!

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I don't know what is worse, AI or popups... why not put it neatly in the infobox, like the protondb extension? It could just say AI / no AI and pop more info on click.

Looks like we have a competitor here. The license of the addon is MIT, you can start from that source code and build your version. You know... linux... open source... stuff like that .

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I don't know what is worse, AI or popups... why not put it neatly in the infobox, like the protondb extension? It could just say AI / no AI and pop more info on click.

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I honestly prefer userscripts to "proper" browser extensions, since it's that much easier to check the actual code running on my end, but that's just preference doing the talking.
Still, if you want to the heads-up this provides, it's the tool needed for the job. Too bad you can't exactly add this to the Steam client itself, that would have made it even more useful for those who need it.

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That's great news. The EPIC game store gave it away for free recently. I wonder if they'll do that again.

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Remember reading about this years ago, glad to see they finally reached the finish line!

Hope they add splitscreen

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I didn't know there was a "like" button at the end of the articles. Can I hit it like 5 more times?

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It's also free on luna apparently (if you have amazon prime).

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I do also have an instinctive "So, this company wants to make more money by just having people . . . give it to them for free?" If I give money it's gonna be to a charity. GOG may like trying to blur the line to pretend to be sort of partly a charity . . . but they aren't.

"By September 2017, it was the largest publicly traded video game company in Poland, worth about US$2.3 billion, and by May 2020, had reached a valuation of US$8.1 billion, making it the largest video game company in Europe."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Projekt

I expect Ubisoft, for example, would also quite like people to just give them money on their Patreon.

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It seems like the people at Halo Studios saw SPv3 and figured they could make money doing the same thing.

I'll buy it anyway, though.

I'd prefer a remaster of Halo 3, still.

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I'm skeptical of the Linux experience due to the unreliability of the Master Chief Collection

This is completely independent of the MCC though, it's on Unreal Engine 5 which runs just as well (poorly) in Linux as Windows.

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