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The KINGDOM HEARTS games are finally coming to Steam in June in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 17 points 3 months ago

Now do GOG!

Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is no DRM on GOG. You can just download the offline installer, then install it even without an internet connection. It will never ask you to go online because it doesn't need to check anything.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking in c/technology@beehaw.org

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 22 points 4 months ago

Jesus, that sounds like hell.

Steam is a ticking time bomb in c/technology@beehaw.org

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 49 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Steam is a ticking time bomb but mostly for the reason that you don't own the games you purchase there and you can't back them up (mostly) so when Steam decides to ban your account or just closes down, you lose all of your games forever.

More people should push for DRM-free games with offline installers, like GOG and Itch offer.

Dragon's Dogma 2 mods negate the need for microtransactions on PC in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

A step in the right direction would be no pointless MTX, as plenty of other games are doing right now. There are no microtransactions in my copy of Days Gone, for example. Nor are there any in Horizon: Zero Dawn.

And even if it's the popular thing to do, that is not an excuse to let them get an inch. "Oh, but he only beat you a little!"...

Dragon's Dogma 2 mods negate the need for microtransactions on PC in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

I used to be able to just cheat in the game. Just input a cheat and get infinite lives.

Why do I have to pay money for that now?

Dragon's Dogma 2 mods negate the need for microtransactions on PC in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd rather they didn't do this at all.

Please, let's not nornalize nickel-and-diming your customers.

Software people, how do you do releases? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

We deploy to production with every single commit, but releases are behind feature flags.

When we're ready to release a feature, we just toggle a flag and we're done.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition comes to PC on March 21 in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

It's mechanically great but the story is... Not good.

Netflix adds 13.1 million subscribers, tops revenue estimates in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Physical media FTW. I wish it was easier to obtain movies and shows physically. I like to own my stuff.

Nacon exec says industry's problem is "too many games" in c/gaming@lemmy.ml

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It replicates it well enough for me to still be playing it regularly 20 years later and well enough to debunk the myth that every multiplayer game must automatically become unplayable with time ("die") solely due to the fact that it's multiplayer.

I can also still play UT2K4 with my friends, should I want to. I can't do either of these with a "live service" game where there is no offline mode or self-hostable servers.

Also, you ignored my mention of PZ, which is a multiplayer-enabled game which also won't die when the developer dies (or abandons the game).

Nacon exec says industry's problem is "too many games" in c/gaming@lemmy.ml

[–] dandi8@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm still playing Unreal Tournament 2004 just fine with bots. I don't need a community to play Project Zomboid with my SO. Your claim is factually incorrect.

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I need help getting Rat Attack (PC, 1999) to work (media.kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by dandi8@kbin.social to c/retrogaming@kbin.social

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Some time ago I bought a physical copy of Rat Attack for PC, because I had fond memories of playing it on a Playstation Demo Disk.

Unfortunately, while the game itself technically works, after I get past the first "chapter" ("House"), I get a message saying "You need to download the next part of this game to continue. Visit the Freeloader web site? Press OK or Cancel to exit the game".

Pressing OK does nothing, while Cancel does indeed exit the game. Looking at the game files it seems that all of the files are there (I can see the files for the other levels and they seem to have the same size as the one that loads correctly).

Freeloader no longer seems to exist and even searching sites like myabandonware turns up empty for this game. Am I screwed and this game is lost media now, or is there anything I can do to get it to run past the first couple of levels?

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How to backup Lutris before Steam Deck RMA? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dandi8@kbin.social to c/Steamdeck@kbin.social

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Hello!

I have to RMA my Steam Deck (one of thumbsticks grinds against the plastic case) and I'm trying to backup my non-Steam games (and their Lutris configs).

Apparently Discovery uses flatpak, so Lutris config files aren't where the internet says they are (~/.config/lutris/games/, ~/.config/lutris/system.yml, ~/.local/share/lutris/pga.db).

Could anyone please tell me where I can find these on the Steam Deck and what else I might be missing? I've already backed up ~/Games but I'd rather not have to re-add the games manually :(

Bonus question is if anyone has any tips for painless Steam Deck backup/restore :)

EDIT:

After a long search, I was able to find it. If anyone else is wondering, the Flatpak/Steam Deck Lutris config files are located in ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/config/lutris.

For some reason, Lutris-installed native Linux games also treat ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/ as their home folder (e.g. Stardew Valley stores its saves in ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/.config/StardewValley instead of ~/.config/StardewValley).

If anyone can say why this happens, that would be very appreciated!