Looks like an adventure game to buy.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyThe problem with Embracer is that they're not in the business of making games, making art. They're in the business of making money. They don't care how. They don't care the games apart from them being their current vehicle of making money.

That's every game company that is (or is owned by) a company on the stock market. They are happy about an inferior product as long as it improves the bottom line.

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Cool, going to replay it when the Linux version drops.

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I guess they will make bank of Gigacorps paying for it being disabled. I can already imagine the IT department and the management freaking out about this.

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I'll honestly say if someone thinks BG3 was worth the full price, they will think the same of WHRG. This is not based on the usual D&D ruleset, but on Warhammer (modified) ruleset, which is refreshing (and a lot simpler than the previous games imo.) It is also turn based, which is a nice change (I hated the RTWP system). Much like BG3, it has been in a good state now, not many bugs. (encountered none on my last playthrough.)

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Hardware these days is so overpriced. Seems like the standard laptop (low quality materials). Cannot even get a white keyboard on the white model, they don't even support all European layouts with it. For such an expensive laptop I would also expect a no OS option. The battery life seems nice on the smaller model (if it can be believed).

I had been given a ~2k € HP for work, it also feels shoddy for the price tag.

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I'm still waiting for them to re-re-re-release Skyrim. It still makes them bank.

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Quoting: elmapulhonestly this incident just show how important an device like the steam deck is.

1)we arent locked to valve to make an device running linux (unlike nintendo and their proprietary OS)
2)we arent locked to valve to make an OS based on linux (unlike windows)
3)we arent forced to purchase games from valve on steamOS (unlike consoles and iOS devices)
4)we arent locked to valve to fix our devices (unlike some phone manufactors)
5)we arent locked to valve to make accessories
and so on, i can continue for longer and longer to point is:

if companies like Nintendo succeed, we will lose access to more and more media over time, it might sound impossible now, but we saw that happening with many MMOS, we have some lost media in old games, and cloud is a big menace on our future (eg: cloud exclusive games)

if only we had an publisher that made alternative games to nintendo games, capable of outputing the same ammount of games as then, with games that are different enough to no count as plagiarism, but similliar enough to compete for the same audience while at the same time, they could make better games than nintendo, as well as make high quality original games instead of just imitations, if we had all of this with an company that was actually ethical...
nintendo would be forced to improve.

meanwhile, we have things like this...

Yet the average gamer is/user is perfectly fine that DRM infests their computer to play their games/netflix. While I agree the doomsday scenario where all entertainment is locked behind bullshit copyright/patent laws sounds awful, i also think that some of the purchasing decisions we as video game players make are unfortunate.

The "bad" apples are succesful only because most of the gamers don't care about anything, they'd pay for their favourite game even it had a built-in keylogger, or they'd have to pay per click.

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Quoting: KithopSimple solution to any of these that I (mostly) try to stick to:

Don't buy/play or support multiplayer games that don't support you hosting your own dedicated server, on hardware you control (none of this forced 'rent a server from our partners' BS either), using configs and settings you control, including the ability to opt out of and disable whatever anti-cheat they support.

Something like Minecraft Java? Amazing - totally the kind of thing an interested person can set up a private server for, mod and customize to your heart's content, invite friends and family onto and be able to admin (cheat) to fix when little Timmy's house gets blown up for the 5th time.

Any kind of 'live service' game? Not so much.

Now even I admit this can't be a 100% hard and fast rule - this means no MMOs, nothing ranked or hyper competitive, and not even the likes of casual things like VRChat (which *has* anti-cheat that works on Proton and they explicitly court Steam Deck support on, but that could change at any moment!), so you can be flexible if you so choose, but this is a general concept I try to stick to.

Kind of how hearing a cool game everyone talks about is some console exclusive, for a console I don't have nor have any other use for? That's nice, but I'll pass...

That's kind of the direction I've been moving unconsiously too. I even ditched steam and cs:go last summer and went all in on gog. Although i have a lot less time for playing lately as well.

We can say now they killed wine in Roblox.

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I find it weird that people find it weird that a company supports our platform of choice. I wish more devs had an option to bypass the bullshit stores. Why is it so necessary to put the game on these stores?

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