ampersandrew

Setup is annoying, and feedback on whether or not it’s working is a bit rough. I’ve lost data by misconfiguring it before. You have to run a background daemon on a device where battery life matters, so I tend to shut it off when I’m done. Syncing saves with SyncThing requires knowing where those save files are, whereas being built into the launcher client means they already know where those saves are, and that step is already done.

I want auto updates for my games so close to “always” that you can only tell it’s not 100% if you squint a bit. I use Syncthing in other contexts, like syncing emulator saves to and from desktop and Steam Deck, and it’s not quite as easy as Steam cloud saves.

Yes, that’s the selling point, but I also value automatic updates and cloud saves most of the time.

Yeah, but I want things like auto updates and cloud saves as officially supported features rather than something they can revoke from Heroic at any time.

They don’t even need to invest in its development. They just need to integrate it as a launch option.

Please give us Galaxy on Linux, GOG, so I can shop with you over Steam.

I think I’d have a problem with it if bad internet super sleuths came up with some nonsense reasons to try to destroy my reputation.

I concur. At least the logos for the bad ones have “EA” in the middle of them so that you know which ones to avoid.

I just started typing in common video game title words in Steam’s search, and I found several games just called “Void”. We can extrapolate that scenario out and say maybe a new game is the first one on Steam to be called Void, but maybe there was an old DOS game called Void that came to Steam later after rights issues have been resolved. There’s also the very common situation of a remake and its original version both being available on Steam, and maybe different companies own the rights to each one, like Star Wars: Battlefront. Perhaps these and other reasons are why those checks don’t exist, but maybe they will now if these sorts of scams become more common.

So perhaps the updated hypothesis is all asshole communities are tied to live service games, but not all live service games have asshole communities?

Honest question: can you name an asshole gaming community that isn’t tied to a live service game? Because I feel like the shitty community comes from expecting everything to be continually improved, and lots of those improvements are subjective, so someone’s improvement is someone else’s regression. I’ll happily revise my hypothesis with some good counter examples though.