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  • Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

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  • As much as people want to think otherwise, you are right, the rise is mainly because of the Steam Deck.

    SteamOS releasing for desktops could be huge for Linux gaming, having a company like Valve behind a distro for gamers will help massively to tip the scales. I hope they go through with it.

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • No, not at all. Extraction shooters require you to take in gear, which you can lose. Find loot or better gear and extract with it. If you die during the mission you lose pretty much everything, high stakes are required. DRG has no stakes, you just go and complete a mission for some progression.

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • That is unironically the main reason why it's third person.

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • I said the situation is crazy, not a specific person. I dont blame any individual, the strategies used over the years by these companies to sell skins and make consumers complacent are all very manipulative and effective. The people designing the systems and the ones doing the marketing have done a very, very good job.

    You seem stuck on artists all being freelance, getting paid on some sort of commission. They are almost always salaried employees like anyone else at the development company.

    Weird analogy, paying for a game, something usually worked on for years, is a lot different than paying for a cosmetic change to something. It's like going to the movies and paying the price of the ticket again to sit in a green chair instead of a red one and being told that's completely normal and something you should do.

    I agree, if skins were sold for $0.50, $1.00, max $5, then I would have less issue with them. I'd still have issue with the predatory practices used to sell them though. Some people are more susceptible to this than others, so I would rather it didnt exist at all.

    You buy a game once, have all the content and are not pressured again to spend anything, that's the ideal scenario, why would I compromise on that?

    Games should be a sustainable art form, not gross corporate projects to extract as much money as possible from consumers.

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • No need to start throwing insults. It takes away from your argument. If you want to pay for cosmetics, sure go for it, but that's how we got in this mess.

    Artists get paid either way, they are not paid on commission of skin sales. Any extra profit goes to the executives anyway, not to the artists. So that entire point is null.

    Games existed before with no paid cosmetics, they would exist again without them. This used to be the free-to-play model, but now they realise they can charge you for the game and then again and again for skins. These types of games are designed to extract as much money from you as possible, that's their entire purpose. They are not giving you extra skins to be nice and then paying the artists more from it. A skin is made one time and sold a potentially infinite amount of times for ridiculous prices.

    As I said:

    It's so ingrained it's actually crazy.

    Why would you ever want to advocate for a worse experience? It blows my mind, but that's the situation we got ourselves into.

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • The core gameplay loop hasn't changed between any of the "beta" tests and release.

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • It's so ingrained it's actually crazy. All cosmetics should be free.

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • I tried it. It's pretty bland, I already said that. You are allowed to enjoy it, that was just my opinion. No need to get defensive.

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • (They forgot we used to change what our character looks like for free)

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • One look at the menus says otherwise, but I'd rather not continue the conversation anyway.

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • Exactly! A good example of consumer complacency!

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • Skins and such that cost as much as the game itself. The industry has gone crazy and consumers keep sucking it up.

  • Arc Raiders Is Already One of the Biggest Extraction Shooters Ever on Steam

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  • Out of what? Like 5 extraction shooters? I don't get the popularity, it's pretty damn bland and shoves MTX in your face like crazy, but I have been pretty out of touch with the mainstream market for a while now.

  • The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft

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  • Ah yes, just regurgitate phrases you have heard.

    I couldn't give a shit about Microsoft at all, I hope the company folds. I also couldn't give a shit about a hate harboring Minecraft server, so I'm not going to defend it, even remotely.

    So I was just laying out the facts of the situation, they can legally do what they want in this regard, the server owner agreed to this when starting the server in the first place.

    Don't just dismiss facts because they don't immediately align with your point of view, that's very dangerous.

  • Affinity Studio is now free

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  • Oh no. Affinity was a good paid alternative to the adobe shite, now this is going to turn down a subscription route after they get people hooked, isnt it?

  • The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft

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  • We can push back on it once it effects an innocent server, which this isn't.

    They can still run the server cracked if they really wanted. They just won't be allowed to use Mojang's authentication servers.

    But at the end of the day, it's still their IP, they can do what they want and we can choose to play Minecraft or not when that happens.

  • The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft

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  • I don't think anywhere that allows racial slurs is a good place to exist and Mojang have every right to close that shit down. I don't know why anyone would be okay with hate just being allowed, it's just pointless and does nothing for humanity. Whether or not you think it's a "nazi breeding ground", hate just being an open thing IS going to breed more hate. If everyone is just going to ignore someone who is hateful (they are not going to), then just ban them anyway?

    I don't need to read logs, I've already heard all I need to know. I hope the server changes its rules, or gets promptly closed.

  • The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft

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  • Yeah, well in that case, don't even give them the 7 days, just immediately close that shit down.

  • The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft

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  • Any examples of what Mojang are talking about? There's free speech and then there's hate speech. If the latter is the problem, then I can understand their position and desire to take the server offline.

    I imagine, from the constant mention of free speech, that the server is just rampant with hate and slurs more than anything. Which in that case, fuck them, take the server down.