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The only thing I know is that access to the specific purchase might get blocked, if there's a payment issue. Not Steam directly, but a friend of mine once bought Diablo 3 for WoW gold on Battle.net, something happened after a while, and he lost access to the game, dunno if the other side refunded the game or whatever. All the other games still worked, but he'd have to buy D3 again to play it. I would be surprised if Steam blocks the whole account.

If they mean you buy a game, then there's a problem with payment, but they should still let you download and play, that's dumb.

The part about Steam Support being extremely slow is also old news. I think that's been a lot better for years now. I don't know if it was around the time they were forced to implement refunds, but I think that's all outsourced now, and you don't have to hope a Valve dev checks the support mailbox anymore.

I think when it was announced, there were some leaks that said these Game Key Cards would be the Switch 1 version of the game, along with a code to upgrade to the Switch 2 version. This would basically prevent you from selling it again. This was quickly refuted, but people still like to shit on Nintendo, so they don't care.

Then you also have people complaining that games on other consoles don't come with the game (not even pre-patch version or something) anymore, like Doom: The Dark Ages, just a few MB of data for authentication or something and the rest you have to download. Switch now does basically the same, and it "only" has 256GB storage, plus the microSD Express card. But the games are also smaller, so I don't know if it's like you can only fit a few big titles on there (or one Call of Duty), and then you're outta space.

You should do what you think is best, since you're making these threads.

I remember back when OpenCritic launched, the dev made a Reddit post to gauge interest. MetaCritic used some weird formula to weight specific outlets of their choosing higher, and apparently people didn't like that. OpenCritic was supposed to "fix" that. I never really followed that stuff, so I don't know if that's still the case, if MetaCritic changed or whatever.

I don't care one way or another, and don't really use these threads or even most of the reviews to decide if I buy a game or not. Looking them over, and maybe see some people freak out because of "too much water" is entertaining though.

I'm not a Nintendo gamer, but I've been watching a streamer play the game, and whenever I see the Knockout Tour it reminds me of the opening set pieces of the Forza Horizon games, where you're going through all the different biomes, to introduce you to the game. And afterward you're let loose on the Mario Horizon festival (aka the empty open world).

The game itself doesn't look fun at all for me, but who cares, if people enjoy it.

Also it’s Z2 Extreme, not Zen 2 Extreme

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It's the AI Z2 Extreme in the Xbox Ally X. There is a non-AI variant, which is the same, except of course the AI hardware, but that's not used for these.

Couldn't be AMD without dogshit mobile processor names.

The software side is definitely the most exciting part for me, since it's not just for the Ally devices, but for all Windows handhelds, and even desktop PCs.

Trying to beat the highest difficulty in Windblown. It's not going well. I'd basically need to be able to beat the game hitless, which I'm not good enough for.

Finally, some real examples, where EGS is better than Steam, that actually impact people and might make them use EGS. Price is probably the most important one. If someone from Argentina pays like half as much on EGS as they would on Steam (don't know how much it actually is), because EGS actually accepts their local currency and they don't have to pay in USD or something, then it makes sense to switch to EGS

Also, EGS is better for devs than Steam, with revenue share, now even more so, as mentioned in the post. I don't think a lot of people will buy on EGS solely for that reason, but it is something.

The OP says global preloading and gifting are going live soon

That's why I mentioned them. You basically said, people (maybe unjustly) talk shit about EGS because of missing features like that, when they also have some advantages over Steam, and then talk about the most mundane stuff. "I might not be able to pre-load this game, but at least I can cap my download at 13468kb/s." Those two are not the same.

It was very convenient to have everything in one place

As I said, with the button to switch to the Chat inside the Steam app, it's basically the same. What is the real difference of clicking that button and switching to a different app, compared to clicking that button and switching to a new screen inside the same app? I genuinely can't think of one. You could argue a separate app is better, because now you can open both apps at the same time in split screen, so you can browse the store or community pages, while chatting (I wouldn't do that, but it's possible).

I’m not sure the discounts offered via bundles on Steam are an overall better deal compared to Epic offering cashback of 5% on everything, sometimes increased to 20% (like now)

Probably not, most of the time, and this post doesn't detail what bundling for EGS means. Steam has normal game bundles and the Complete-your-Collection bundles, which is dynamic and can give some extra discounts.

However, with Steam keys from legit third-party sites, you might get an even better deal at times, maybe better than on EGS, so I don't really know where it's the cheapest.

Wishlisting specific Game Editions would be nice, but how are you comparing nice-to-have features like that or custom download limits to stuff like Pre-Loading, Gifting, Bundles, etc.

For me, a separate Chat app for Steam is also a complete non-issue. I can't really think of anything, that would improve, if it was integrated in the normal Steam app. Separate download and one initial login less? You can launch the Chat app from the Steam app itself, so you don't even save that single extra tap to launch it, and for the user it's basically the same as an integrated chat.

Different is good. I'm not a FromSoft-gamer. Elden Ring is the only game of theirs I really ever got into (and it's not for lack of trying), so I don't really care it's not the same game again.

Also, you're right, what I've seen doesn't look easy, and no real communication at all is a bummer (only set a marker or jump and crouch in front of something), but it still looks like fun.

I'm not a huge Elden Ring guy, haven't even played the DLC yet, but watching a streamer play Nightreign, I kinda wanna try it myself, even with these problems.

My friends aren't into these types of games anyway, so it always would've with randoms (solo supposedly isn't that good).

I played games on the PC before, but DKC was the first SNES game I played, maybe the first game with a controller. I still remember, after the console was set up, my sister played for a bit, then I wanted a turn, and just ran straight into the first enemy. Then I just watched my sister play for a bit, lol.

We didn't have a lot of SNES games, but the game became probably my favorite on the console, along with the sequel. I played through both of them a bunch of times, and found every secret, without looking up guides.

A year or two ago, I casually played through it again, in like an hour, which was fun, I'll have to do it again, along with the second game.

Hearing the music nowadays is also nostalgic, but it's also just so good.