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thingsiplay, to gaming in So, Uh, What's Up With The Steam Awards?
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People will never be satisfied with awards. Let the community choose? You get popularity contest. Let the review outlets choose? Then you get only a certain kind of games to win the contest. Steam is very community focused in most of their recommendations and in this case, awards. This has ups and downs and sometimes its stupid. In case of RDR2 who knows what the reason was why they chose this game. It might be an attempt to troll in mass. Or a misunderstanding.

I take awards as one kind of view and never in isolation. Context matters. So I ignore those where I think it is stupid awards, like Starfield and RDR2, and look at the other candidates. And the other categories as well. And then move on with my life. Just like with the other award shows. Who cares what game won what award? It rarely impacts my choice.

all-knight-party, to gaming in So, Uh, What's Up With The Steam Awards?
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I feel as if the Starfield and RDR2 awards almost have to be sarcastically awarded.

Rayspekt,

The Starfield one has to be a result of sarcasm, there's no way. I burst with laughter when I saw that one.

NightOwl, to gaming in Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable

They started out pissing off Steam users with Metro Exodus going exclusives and pulling it from Steam. Not a great first impression and a lasting one at that. Not everyone will care and will buy from epic, but alienating a whole bunch of Steam’s core users off the bat is probably going to ensure they’ll never win them over.

I claim games from epic and have bought from even origin and uplay, but I’ll probably never spend any money at epic.

WHYAREWEALLCAPS, to gaming in Whoa, Alan Wake II’s PC Requirements Aren’t Screwing Around

Not worried. Being an Epic exclusive, I have zero interest in playing this game.

conciselyverbose, to gaming in You Can Now Play Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 Offline, But There's A Catch

What a douche move lol.

It would be less disrespectful just to leave the steamdeck version equally fucked than to openly slap people in the face with "it's arbitrary, but fuck you".

rozodru, to pcgaming in The Latest Twist In Dr Disrespect's Infamous Twitch Ban Saga, Explained

AND NOW it’s come out he was ALSO during the same period sexting a transgender sex worker for private cam shows in exchange for partner status on Twitch: x.com/iqkev/status/1806236733727555604 After receiving said cam shows, the Doc promptly blocked her.

yetAnotherUser, to pcgaming in The Latest Twist In Dr Disrespect's Infamous Twitch Ban Saga, Explained

The article is way longer than it should be

Kekin, to pcgaming in Forza Horizon 4 Is Disappearing And It's All Because Of Stupid Licenses [not known if music, real-world car models etc.]
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For this same dumb reason I wanted to play Forza Motorsport 7 on PC and couldn’t buy it.

And somehow you can still get NFS games that are at least 10 years old I think

scrubbles, to games in Starfield’s 20-Minute, $7 Bounty Hunter Quest: The Kotaku Review. The first paid DLC for Bethesda's big space RPG is overpriced, paltry, and emphasizes the game's lifelessness.
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I like to do things cost per hour. A $60 dollar video game that gives me 120 hours of content is $0.50 an hour. Pretty good if you ask me.

Going to the movies is $20 for 2 hours. $10 an hour. Pretty high, sometimes worth it. That’s about my gauge.

This is $21 an hour. For that I better be having just an amazing time, I better be at Disneyland or something.

Kolanaki,
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I’ve spent $160 on Elden Ring (base game on PC and PS5 and I have the DLC on PC), and have spent 638.5 hours in it just on Steam. That’s about $0.25/hour. Even arcade games aren’t that cheap anymore!

deranger,

I’ve got >1000 hours in Microsoft Flight Simulator and I paid $100 for the deluxe edition. 10 cents an hour, at most.

JDPoZ,
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When I bought my buddy’s used GameCube for like $50 back in 2005, he gave me an extra controller and Smash Bros. Melee with it.

Just on that game alone I logged more than 2,000 hours playing almost literally every day for 4 years alongside my dorm-mates and buddies.

That’s like… $0.02 and a half cents per hour… for a whole ass GameCube and a game.

…Best purchase I ever made.

CaptainEffort, to games in Starfield’s 20-Minute, $7 Bounty Hunter Quest: The Kotaku Review. The first paid DLC for Bethesda's big space RPG is overpriced, paltry, and emphasizes the game's lifelessness.

What a surprise.

dan1101, to pcgaming in Forza Horizon 4 Is Disappearing And It's All Because Of Stupid Licenses [not known if music, real-world car models etc.]

Coincidentally it’s on sale for $12 right now, an all-time low price.

rdri,

It’s cool but it won’t help people who’ve yet to discover the game for one reason or another.

stoy,

Yes it will, it is cheaper and atill availablw for purchace.

They may not have as much time to enjoy it as longer players, but they have time.

rdri,

I mean people who is not even an audience for now, like children. Or those who is still not born. Or people in Russia.

dan1101,

That’s true of any sale of any game though.

rdri,

No. Majority of all games are not bound by licensing. You should still be able to buy these games in years to come.

onlinepersona, to pcgaming in Forza Horizon 4 Is Disappearing And It's All Because Of Stupid Licenses [not known if music, real-world car models etc.]

Isn’t this what kicked off the “save games” movement or something? How’s that going?

Anti Commercial-AI license

DarkThoughts, to pcgaming in Forza Horizon 4 Is Disappearing And It's All Because Of Stupid Licenses [not known if music, real-world car models etc.]

Yikes. Their games are already overly expensive and have excessive DLCs and now they even have a timer on them. lol

Guess another franchise I'll remove from my wishlist and add to my boycott list.

Perturabo, to gaming in Dr Disrespect Admits To 'Inappropriate' Messages With Minor: 'I'm No Fucking Predator Or Pedophile'

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  • LordGimp,

    17 after being groomed for ~3 years when dingus tried to meet up and the parents went loud with twitch. Grooming a 14 year old girl is generally considered in bad taste.

    mihnt, (edited ) to pcgaming in Forza Horizon 4 Is Disappearing And It's All Because Of Stupid Licenses [not known if music, real-world car models etc.]

    The wonderful thing is all the achievements tied to the DLC that’s already not purchasable. Tough luck if you want to 100% it now and haven’t bought the dlc.

    (Which I don’t have. Sad face.)

    This is pretty common racing game happenings though. Especially AAA titles.

    SomethingBurger,

    The Ultimate Edition on Steam has all DLC.

    mihnt,

    My mistake. I tried to purchase Ultimate edition in the past and it wouldn’t allow me to since I already owned the game. Guess they were trying to force buying the DLC piecemeal.

    It is purchasable now. Just get the “You won’t get an extra copy of the game.” error.

    HRDS_654,

    To add to what you are saying, I wish they would make that message clearer. The first time I saw it, I thought they were still going to charge me for the extra copy and just not give it to me. Still not 100% sure about it.

    nailingjello,

    Ultimate Edition on Xbox doesn’t include the Hot Wheels Cars DLC. Might be different for Steam tho.

    DarkThoughts,

    Based on the Steam forums:

    Even if you buy the ultimate edition, you won't get all the DLCs previously included in it. There are 5 DLCs that are missing:

    • Forza Horizon 4: Hot Wheels™ Legends Car Pack
    • Forza Horizon 4: Mitsubishi Car Pack
    • Forza Horizon 4: Treasure Map
    • Forza Horizon 4: 1967 Sunbeam Tiger
    • Forza Horizon 4: 1979 Talbot Sunbeam Lotus
    TheOakTree,

    It’s like publishers want people to pirate games. We know that’s surely not true, but their practices seem to make it the only option to appreciate the entirety of the game, and eventually the game itself.

    GeneralEmergency,

    Project Cars 3 being the only one of that series available is a travesty.

    makyo,

    I think I have a couple I never played from an old Humble Bundle - which is the overall favorite?

    GeneralEmergency,

    The second one, the third is absolute garbage.

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