Quoting: ElvanexI think Valve must be testing only games that work with the built in Deck controls. Some titles, such as Planetside 2, actually work perfectly fine despite being listed as unsupported. Just need to use mouse/keyboard.

The Deck doesn't have a mouse and keyboard.

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No specific knowledge, but the EU and US are trade blocs (that being the purpose of the EU). Once you've got your goods into each bloc, getting them to any particular part is minimal additional hassle: it's really just shipping, with no additional borders, customs or other impediments. The UK is a huge gaming market that was recently in the EU, and Canada is a big market that's just miles from Valve HQ, so those are pretty easy.

Other countries aren't like that. Each one has its own borders, its own customs paperwork, its own laws and taxation. For a software company like Valve, that's obviously rather a daunting prospect, and navigating all of those requires logistics expertise and local knowledge that Valve don't have. Komodo are bringing the local knowledge and handling the logistics for the countries where they operate. Each additional country over these 4+4 countries, if they are to get shipments of Steam Decks, will need someone with sufficient local knowledge and logistics expertise to handle those tasks. That might be Valve learning those things for each new country, or it might be another logistics partner handling those for Valve.

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Quoting: TurkeysteaksAnyone got any recommendations for short-ish indies on the deck? Have been trying to get through my backlog, but too easy to get addicted to endless roguelikes at the moment.

Point and click adventure games work really well on the Deck, and are one-and-done.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumI'm curious who had the multi-monitor issues?

Not me, since I don't use multiple monitors. But a lot of the issues aren't from having a static multi-monitor setup like yours, but from frequently chopping and changing the monitor layout - for example, using a laptop that you sometimes plug into different monitors.

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Quoting: Guestwhat is bananas per monkey and how does it help? I can't find anything about BPM

Big Picture Mode.

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QuoteYou don’t want a Steam Deck maraca

LOL.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualCounter-point: streaming.

The early, more comprehensive, catalogue of Netflix wasn't because they'd cornered the market, it was because they were small. The rights holders just got free money for doing nothing. It was only when Netflix got bigger that those same rights holders worked out that they could get more money by rolling their own streaming service that had exclusive access to their content, or by playing the different streaming services against each other with exclusive contracts. The issue is the exclusivity - the monopoly. The music industry has compulsory licensing: people get to use your music and you get a royalty (whether the specific implementation is good or not is outside of the scope of it being a solution that exists). Video streaming will need similar, or at least regulation to prevent exclusivity, if video streaming services are to be able to compete. Far from being the solution - as you're arguing - monopoly is the problem.

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Quoting: EikeI was thinking about the same (and after this kind of support, I will buy the game either way).
Do you already have an idea for which age this might be suitable?

My little one's 6, and I'm sure it'll be fine for him now. It's just that he's got a lot of other games on the go already and needs to fit in a bunch of other real-life stuff too, so I'm holding off on revealing it to him till he's got a bit more time. He does particularly like puzzles, though: he completed The Talos Principle a few years ago.

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Sweet. I got that for my little one shortly after it released, but I've not put it in his queue yet.

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Quoting: junibegoodalthough the news seem promising, I don't think stopping Microsoft from buying Blizzard now will prevent someone else to buy it later,

This deal is for $69 billion. The largest acquisition there's ever been in the games industry was Take Two buying Zynga for $12.7 billion. No other games company could afford to buy ABK. Only a tech platforms company like Microsoft, Google or Apple.

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