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You gotta give.

So you like ads, just not GameStop ads? I mean, GI had a lot of info about games, too. Beyond Nintendo and PS, you could actually learn about PC games.

You don’t want a magazine that’s adverts but you like Nintendo Power and PSM…

It’s just so meh. Another city, you’re a criminal doing crime. There are just games with much better stories or mechanics at this point. I don’t get the hype around it.

Because I don’t want to play full price for a 1080p upscaled experience at 30fps. If it’s a good experience then it will be worth the wait and that much better when it runs smoother, looks better, and loads faster. Plus it will have most of the bugs worked by then.

Listen you can whine about tech or you can start building with it.

And by building, I mean telling it what it should do.

And by telling it what it should do, I mean typing out what you want.

And by telling it what you want, I mean explaining a crypto bro idea in a rant to Chat GPT.

I mean he’s not technical but I’m sure he’s really nailed this one.

I actually build a full copy of the DB on the client machine. That way I can’t lose the data, it’s all right there and so fast.

I had to scroll too far for this. If your child is a school and there’s an emergency, or your husband gets into an accident, or a million other very important things. You’ll just get back to them whenever? This seems borderline neglectful.

I agree, is why I said at least. That matches the current offering people are already embedded in. Now you need to entice. I think the biggest issue they face is how much history people have with that platform, there already so bought in. Literally. With tons of games, friends, and achievements already there, it would take a ton for most people to just walk away from that.

I’m saying that if they want to compete with another company they need a compelling offer, one that at least has feature parity on the big ticket items. Yes, you would then need to work to attract people, but a bare bones store front like they have is a huge roadblock. People feeling like making the switch means they lose things is not a way to encourage adoption.

A few that come to mind

• The review system isn’t nearly as good
• Tag searching is a joke compared to steam
• No steam achievements
• No direct access to updates and patch notes
• No game activity log, showing achievements you got and friends activity
• No concepts like free weekends and the such
• No dynamic collections
• Poor insight on performance with controllers or hardware like steam deck or rog Ally
• No where near the level of profile creation and customization
• No forums for game discussion
• No community content for guides and controller layouts
• No overlay options
• No mobile app
• Nothing like steam work shop
• No DLC downloading management like steam
• No curator groups to follow
• Unable to follow developers
• No remote play together
• Lack of something like big picture mode, for full controller playing. I use this a lot when I hook my PC to my TV for couch gaming.
• Lack of inventory and card items
• Built in FPS counter missing
• Beta and play test environment support
• Family sharing
• Remote game streaming
• Built in voice chat
• Rich chat that shows what game friends are playing and what they’re doing with a direct way to invite to game or invite to watch
• Seemless refund policy

I’m sure we’ll have much better content too, once lots of companies stop investing in games, movies, and shows if that happens 🙄

Lot of people shaking their fists at the clouds about this.

I personally do enjoy when I can get better resolution and sound, I’m excited to see the tech moving forward.

My happiness is immeasurable.

This. Having a button you hit to respec would get rid of a lot of the “you did it wrong, start over” vibe that can kill it for people

I’m ok with complexity but for the love of God let me respec in a reasonable way. Farming orbs to reset a single point at a time is nonsense.

I mean most people would look at it as an indication that their point isn’t landing. You can just power through and be a jerk though.

Man, people are really liberal with the word “usable” around here. As if a plain windows install is somehow this thing that can’t be understood or used. Come on, it makes it hard to take these convos seriously. Millions of people use just plain, out of the box, Windows.

OOP is pretty readable though. What would be the alternative, functional programming with no ORM?

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not…