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Quoting: AllwyndI remember playing through all 3 Mass Effect games in 2017 in the span of one week

we all know companies are not our friends

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Quoting: blindcoderOh come ON. The last option to bypass fuckers like Master and Visa policing content on Steam, and OF COURSE they do away with it.

Fortunately in my country we have Pix, so you can use the money from the bank directly without giving money to Visa/MC.

Quoting: HippohopThat is a real shame. I wish there remained a way to pay cash for this stuff without running it through PayPal or MC/Visa’s middleman practices. Unironically would like a digital currency option in my country.

All that being said, I haven’t bothered to do so for at least 8 years so I suppose the joke is on me when it comes to enabling it.

Steam says it’s to combat fraud but I personally have never heard gift card scams related to Steam cards compared to many other companies (Apple being the biggest one).

Quoting: blindcoderOh come ON. The last option to bypass fuckers like Master and Visa policing content on Steam, and OF COURSE they do away with it.

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Quoting: apotatoThe price seems suspiciously low for what I was expecting to be a "real" game. Not that I'm complaining exactly but what is up with that?

Early Access. The way it should be. Pay less the earlier you get in. If they make an amazing game, you got a great deal by being an early supporter. If you wait and see, you end up paying more.

Quoting: apotatoThe price seems suspiciously low for what I was expecting to be a "real" game. Not that I'm complaining exactly but what is up with that?

Quoting: rea987How about digital Steam Wallet codes distributed to 3rd party sites?

Quoting: Linux_RocksI hate to say it, but the whole CBS thing really makes me so disinterested in this. I've already been critical of Star Trek for years, but I think that it might be at a breaking point when it comes to anything new with Star Trek for me. Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck David Ellison, fuck CBS (News), and fuck Paramount too.

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Quoting: ArehandoroI'm afraid the game looks too similar to Mass Effect, and that could work against it.

Quoting: SupayYou may want to add that it is also a book series by Peter Hamilton. It's called EXODUS as well, with the first book being named The Archimedes Engine.

Are they good?

Hamilton's books are generally excellent, although this one felt slightly slower than I'd like. As usual, Hamilton has gone full epic-space-opera, with a wide cast of characters across a seriously extended timeline. So extended, in fact, that any "aliens" you see in this game are likely just evolved humans. Thanks, time-dilation!

The idea is that humanity spread from a dying earth, looking for new planets to settle in hundreds of arkships. Some settled early, but by the time they'd settled sufficiently to send the "found a good spot over here" signal, that signal then has to catchup to the other ships, and THEN, they have to turn around and start flying at near-lightspeed to the signal source. So when they arrive, civilisation has been going on for hundreds of thousands of years (time-dilation, remember?), and humans are now "celestials" and are extremely prejudiced to all these "normal" humans showing up in ancient arkships over thousands of years. So it's a feudal system where humans are serfs to their celestial masters.

Second book comes out next week, I believe - June 18th.

Edit to add: holy shitballs, don't look at the Steam forums for this game. Basically a bunch of incels demanding better looking men/women to shag in-game, or complaining about "woke" choices, like being to choose to be male or female in the opening screen. JFC. Where do these clowns come from??