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Two (three?) games free on Epic Games - Blazing Sails & Q.U.B.E. ULTIMATE BUNDLE

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  • I enjoyed a few of them. GtaV, or Borderlands 3 (altough part 2 will be my favorite part forever)
    Civ6 was merely only a demo version, and TW:Troy really sucked and helped me save some bucks.

    But mostly I just add them in the hope that Tencent will pay a few cents to The developers who created those games in the first place.
    But I won't buy anything there. Games that are only sold via this platform don't exist.

    • Steam Next Fest October 2023 is live!

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  • I tried Pioneers of Pagonia and Foundry yet.

    Pioneers is a building strategy game in the tradition of the Settlers series, of which I was a great fan until Ubi ruined it.
    Foundry is a mix of factory/automation simulation comparable to Factorio or Satisfactory - and minecraft. With a big priority for factories, and decent system requirements.

    Both make a great impression for now, although there are no story elements yet, and no enemies.
    So it's just building up your economy. Which is okay for a start. I put both on my wishlist, and I will most probably buy into pioneers on start of EA indecember.
    I have small doubts on Foundry whether it will be fun in the long term. Because by now it's "minecraft part" consists only of the materials dirt and stone. And since the factorIes themselfes look rather ugly (compared to satisfactory) I would wish for many stuff to build pretty buildings around them.

    • Phil Spencer: "getting [acquiring] Nintendo would be a career moment for me"; Nintendo's future "exists off of their own hardware"

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  • Microsoft is not only a bad market leader.
    It is a bad loser too. Remember the Nokia purchase? They sunk billions into the company too boost their worse mobile OS, and when it failed they shut down the whole company.
    Imagine they would to something similar to Nintendo.

    • Pokemon and the Van Gogh Museum have announced collaboration

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  • When my so was in first grade he once came home from school and told me that he learned about a famous painter called Pablo Pikachu.

    But van Gogh is also okay. My son is called Vincent. But he still has two ears.

    • What are some games that "spin" failure states?

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  • No. Just killed too many Tiefling.
    First they held my friend Laezael hostage.
    Then they got aggro when I tried to read their mind. Then they wanted to imprison me for looting the corses - as if the corpses had any use for their possessions any longer. And in the end they interfered when I wanted to bring Zazza home through the remains of the Tiefling camp. As if they had not learned to that point...
    But even though i helped defend the grove (and the few surviving Tieflings) and they showed great gratitude to me for helping them, Karlach was no longer willing to join my team.

    • What are some games that "spin" failure states?

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  • I made some heavy mistakes in Act 1 of Baldurs Gate 3 and the game is still continuing, now with fewer options for characters that I can include in my party, because one died permanently, one left and one even refused to join.

    If that's want you meant?

    • is there no $59.99 vesion of Baldurs Gate for PS5?

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  • Valve and CDPR have (significant) investments from Tencent? link please!

    • is there no $59.99 vesion of Baldurs Gate for PS5?

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  • Sorry mate.
    I did not intend to be xenophibic.

    Let's just state that the money comes from the same un- democratic country that also brought us Tiktok

    • is there no $59.99 vesion of Baldurs Gate for PS5?

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  • Nope, they can't. Because they have signed contracts that allow them access to the build tools for Playstation, and require them to pay the fee in return. There is no way to avoid it, becuase Sony will sue you if your "pirate- relase" a game for Playstation.

    If you want to see an abusive party here, your finger must point to the Console developer.

    • is there no $59.99 vesion of Baldurs Gate for PS5?

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  • Depends from how many games you want to buy during the life span of your console. If you are happy with one or two games, and only interested in Singleplayer then go cheaper with a Playstation, Xbox or Switch.
    If you need assistance in using a full flegded Desktop Environment you could even buy a few games more because you will never need to call an IT professional to reinstall your Console after you clicked to wrong link in the internet ;)

    • is there no $59.99 vesion of Baldurs Gate for PS5?

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  • Yep, correct. Steam and Gog charge a provision of 30% on every sale.
    Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo als charge this 30% on Top of that they chage a toll for releasing your game. And they charge you if you want to play online with the console you already payed.

    Epic is not a good comparison here because they are subsidized by chinese money.

    • is there no $59.99 vesion of Baldurs Gate for PS5?

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  • I am not a console gamer. But afaik the extra money you have to pay goes not towards Larian. It's a toll that Sony collects for allowing the game to be released on their system.
    I return you get easy to use hardware for a somewhat decent price.

    • What are some open source games you can recommend for Linux?

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  • I haven't seen OpenTTD mentioned yet: https://www.openttd.org/
    If you like it you may also check out OpenRCT - although this one needs original game files from RollerCoasterTycoon (a few bucks on Gog or Steam)