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Doesn’t work on Linux because of anticheat :/

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It’s about preserving the consumption culture for the mainstream. If playing older games for free was easier and legal, more people that now only play the newest AAA garbage would start doing it, and corpos don’t want to risk that culture change, because if it gets big enough it would definitely impact their sales.

Unfortunately not many people know or care about indie games and free games like Beyond All Reason, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, etc. as is.

More like I rather enjoy it while it lasts instead of going into a fridge to preserve it ;P

Unless they store everything in high vacuum and near absolute zero, it’s going to get oxidized and fail eventually. There is no such thing as perpetuity. Might as well give them some use.

Paid product? I’m not sad, we already have Heroic Games Launcher for free, and it works just fine.

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Didn’t expect a 13, Rue del Percebe reference in Lemmy of all places.

That’s what I thought back in 2007. Now I kinda like the convenience. If they added an option to download the games, like GOG, it’d be perfect.

Steam DRM is a joke anyways and not all games on steam have it, so it wouldn’t be that much of a stretch for them to get rid of it.

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It’s fake, there’s no way they managed to make that and balance it in 2 minutes.

So… If you grab it on the elevator and make the elevator go down, you effectively lift it?

Yes it is but it’s a rant, of course I’m exaggerating a bit xP

There’s also the fact that they’re completely optional and unnecessary. They provide nothing but cosmetics

I hate this argument, because videogames themselves are completely optional and unnecessary. That’s the whole point of them, they’re just for entertainment, to have fun and enjoy playing them. So I don’t see how something being cosmetic makes any difference.

It’s more like we didn’t like pay2win on online games, so they started making it “just cosmetic” in those, and somehow now people think it’s acceptable to have to pay for parts of a game they bought, in every game ever?

Well, people waste their money on useless crap all the time, so I guess I’ll just be the cranky old lady and go back to playing my original AoM, where I’m actually playing a game and not an advertisement.

Searxng! You can self-host it, but I just use a public instance, there are tons you can find out there. You can also install a firefox extension¹ to be able to use it directly as your default search engine :)

¹ you don’t need to download an extension, you can just go to a site, right click on the address bar and add it to firefox/librewolf as a custom search engine, as per these instructions.

Google is just a search engine, the sites you find with it may or may not be trustworthy.

…unless you use their AI crap, idk, I haven’t used Google for years.

How do you think headline voice actors start? By doing the small roles like wallas, ad libs, waiter2 and such.

If you get rid of the starting voice actors of today, you get rid of the good voice actors of tomorrow.

This is not animated though, so it can’t be the quality of the animation… The drawing quality rather? Sorry for being pedantic lol but I love some good animation.

You’re talking like ow2 isn’t literally the same game. I paid for ow1 and can’t go back to it.

You’re right, I’m projecting the bad vibes, I shouldn’t do that. Uuuuh may I recommend The Legend of Vox Machina? It’s based on dnd so pretty close to tolkien and it’s a lot more goofy :3