Quoting: tumocsWhat actually makes the game nuts for me is:

You only gain experience and level up in online play.
The system is put in place that way to prevent local exploits.

~finch

Becayse why the fuck would I want to play a party game online...
Made me uninstall that game quite fast.

I wanted to rant this as well. But their support for workshop is excellent so overall it's irritating but tolerable (I can still find skins and costumes to use during actual parties).

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Quoting: Duke TakeshiOceania beats latin america in sales oO

Considering how much companies overcharge prices in that region it is not that surprising at all.

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Quoting: natewardawgI doubt it since Valve only allows one login per IP address. If somehow contained applications allow for virtual networking in the future it might work then. I don't believe that's available now.

Virtual networking? Why? Shouldn't a sandbox just have some configurable ports to open or re direct? It's all that is needed.

Quoting: natewardawgEven still, Valve only allows one game to be played per account, so you'd need two IPs, two accounts, and therefore two copies of the game to get this desired setup to work.

There is a misunderstanding. What you say only holds for the on-line status: on a cloud service you are supposed to have one account per user which imho is totally reasonable (and also much more technically manageable). But here I'm talking about splitting screen among local users. No cloud involved. On my windows partition for instance I used to run 3 instances of borderlands off line and play splitscreen using the LAN multiplayer. But my windows partition is long gone, it's not going to be necromanced back but I'm still looking to finish that game one day or another.

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Assuming that this thing works correctly eventually, do you think it will be possible in future to run two sandboxed instances of the same game at the same time? Borderlands 2 in my library still cries for some splitscreen (also because it's so damn boring to play alone).

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Quoting: g000hWaiting for the day that Steam client for Linux is 64 bit..

Dunno. The day the steam client will need more than 4 Gb of ram I may start to have an issue with it in the first place.

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The streaming concept is cool. But this implementation is not very interesting for me.

The formula that makes streaming services popular is pay a monthly fee in exchange to the access to a vast library. Get the service without the hassles. Sony does it for instance.

This implementation is instead a pure desktop hosting service. Not dissimilar to the AWS we use for CI at my office. And whilst at work is very good to have control on the environment since ti gives you power, at home if I pay for a service I expect it to remove some hassles or other costs. But here I have to buy my game licenses, install them and (very bad) I have to buy a windows license as well. I'm basically exposed to all windows flaws and limitations and I'm even paying a fee for that. The only advantage is that I don't have to invest in hardware but for me this is still a weak formula. I would not dump my current rig for this.

The only use case I find for myself is when I'm travelling around the globe. But even in that case some Netflix is sufficient and probably more reliable (you never now the WIFI you find).

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@feral go forth! There is a 100% sure buyer here :)

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There will also be other ascension perks. Maybe those will affect space combat.

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- MODE="0660"
+ MODE="0666"

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Pfff... You bunch of antarctic trolls. XD Fix the damn 6 in the gamepad emulation line before someone else goes crazy like me trying to understand what is wrong.

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