Still desperately trying to get us to leave steam I see
The company also has a vested interest in keeping PC players on their OS, while simultaneously treating the platform like a second class citizen for years. Anybody remember the abortion that was Games for Windows Live? And it isn’t like Windows Mixed Reality or ‘this is now a tablet OS’ are doing them any favors either.
God am I happy I didn’t buy any software on the Microsoft store.
I fell in for mixed reality, and I should have known better. They just killed the entire ecosystem. Standard Microsoft behavior
I thought that deal was long gone already, at least for previous subscribers. I used to cancel and the resubscribe for $1 over and over.
Same, haven’t seen it for over a year. Shame its only 2 weeks now but that’s enough time to play Nine Sols.
Interesting, right before Indiana Jones release.
Do they think it won’t bump GamePass numbers so this deal will make it feel like that post launch?
Or do they think players are so hyped about the game and this is a way to get them addicted to the idea of subscription service instead of letting them buy full price because subscriptions pay off better in the long run?
Cool, once it works properly on my Steam Deck, I’ll consider it. Until then, Valve and GOG get my money.
Do GOG work properly on Steam Deck now?
I play GOG games through Heroic and adding them to Steam, and they seem to work fine.
you have to do manual intervention or one of the launchers that supports gog and as far as I know that always worked, but there’s no built in and ready by default method. It’s literally one flatpak install away though.
If you start a trial on PC, you might download 2 games by the time it ends.
Only if your internet is shit.
It’s not my Internet that makes steam 10x faster.
this was horrible for the v1.8.9 Minecraft scene (obscure I know). Cheaters could pay $1 to make an account, cheat on it till they got banned, then refund the dollar and make a new account with the same $1.
Now anticheats are better than they were a few years ago but still, essentially free accounts to cheat on isn’t helping.Wait… cheating in Minecraft? Aren’t most servers private?
For the modern versions mostly. 1.8.9 has pvp and minigames where cheating is more similar to cheating in a FPS kinda game where it actually harms people. Also during the $1 sale Minecraft was in the middle of a population boom (iirc due to Dream getting popular) so the moderation was overwhelmed. Here’s an example of what cheating looks like
https://youtu.be/MD0khw_V0WAWow didn’t know it turned into more than a block builder. I’m going to have to revisit the game lol last time I played was like 8 years ago now.
Yeah, there’s a bunch of new stuff. I got it when it was in beta or something back in 2011 or so, and my kids wanted to try it, so I dug out my old credentials. It has come a long way from when I last played in the mid 2010s.
It’s still largely a block builder, but there’s a ton more complexity to it now, even on vanilla MC. My understanding is that most servers run a bunch of mods, and there are a ton of crazy mods out there these days, so it’s more a platform than anything at this point.
Nice, I might have to dig it back out, my account I know I had to transfer to like Microsoft or something a few years ago.
