I know people who would pay a full 60 dollars for a game on Steam they could get for free on the Epic Store. I’ve seen people do it out of spite the very week a game was free on Epic. I would not be shocked to see this sell out.

Steam is kind of a cult …

As a non stand alone piece of hardware I didn’t see the value. With this new system i am not shocked it’s more expensive than the Steam machine. It’s basically its own game system. I’d argue more so than a machine or deck …

I read this as AI enthusiasts had an AI hack their computer for them. Not that the enthusiast did much of anything …

Besides Dark Souls and Gran Turismo name a Sony ps5 “exclusive” that didn’t come to the ps5 up to this year ?

Funny I just use Steam …

Props for the desire here but I don’t think think this is the best audience for this. And yeah I’d agree it take more than a timed protest. Need to be full stop and it need to be everyone. It needs to scare the investors who cares about no one but themselves

I wouldn’t go so far to say people are tired of open worlds they are tired of established and in many cases poorly designed open world experiences.

If an open world was done with far less busy work and well developed and rewarding progression from exploring I’d be very open to it. But most aren’t interesting most are kind of just tacked on and create busy work.

Personally I’m very much in favor of a curated well executed linear game and story. And I think we need more of them. But if someone comes along with something special I’m all ears.

I haven’t played this remake yet so I can’t speak to its execution. But I know far too many others have had pitfalls. Looking at you Retro studios …

Every game I ran on my pc in 2003 ran poorly. All I could afford was a potato

I have my theory this is planned from before the games released …

Steam is a cult.

Can’t catch a break ? Let me play my tiny violin for the multi million dollar company …

Alright gents, gentlewomen and gentle non-binaries I ordered an m12-s. Sadly no US stocked and they need to ship from China so I have wait for how ever long that will take 🫠 first world problems I know …

Oh and do you have the s or hd ?

Is it best to buy direct from them ? How did the shipping process go. I’ve only heard of them this week don’t see many of their products on any store sites I frequent

If I can run this as a local host and just pull in data on my machine this could be worth it. So long as the UI is to my taste. Otherwise I’ll stick with play nite or galaxy

I love the idea behind this but for me this is overkill. It be enough for an external HDD where I can just plug in.

What would be more wow factor for me would be a community hosted solution that’s lets you upload games and let anyone download them. But I realize that’s just piracy really.

Anyone who posts an article claiming something like a console concept of “exclusives” either misunderstands or is an idiot. Steam machine is a prebuilt gaming Pc not a game console. To ensure it only ran certain software would ruin the whole purpose

It would be very hard and probably very easy to spoof.

If I’m being honest with you, I really didn’t like it. Right after this I did get WC3 and I never looked back.

If you’d like other classic early 00s games might I recommend Empire Earth or Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds

Now I have to ask , was it in 2004 ? Was anything else on Steam when you bought it? I remember how mad everyone was that the disc in store just provided a steam installer