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...and that's what's happening if people don't read: 1) Exactly! I was replying to: "[Epic] already have a better product [...:] no DRM" 2) Okay, I'll give you that. They are clearly better in terms of DRM, although not perfect. Thanks for completely misreading my argumentation, though. 3) Exactly. I was replying to: "[Epic] already have a better product in that you actually own the games you purchase" 4) Not my point. OP used a tu quoque and your points don't change the fact that Valve, as far as we know and in all likelihood[1], never paid any publisher money not to offer their game on a competing platform. Doing so is a foul move in my opinion. Doubly so if you do it at the last minute. [1] Because they never had to, of course.
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You don't know what you are talking about: 1) Steam has DRM-free games: https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games 2) It is publishers who push the DRM crap, and they do it on EGS as well Metro Exodus for example uses Denuvo: https://www.epicgames.com/store/de/product/metro-exodus/home There is only one store that is arguably better in regards to DRM and that's GOG[1]. This is also why so few AAA titles are available there. Go figure. 3) You don't own EGS-Games, you are merely granted a license. Like you said, basically "renting": https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/eula 4) Total War, Bethesda Games titles Civ etc. are not bought exclusives. They aren't games Valve snatched away from other platforms at the eleventh hour. Those games were published on Steam because that's where the players are. [1] Even GOG has games with DRM'd multiplayer: https://www.gog.com/forum/star_wars_battlefront_ii/i_have_had_enough_of_gogs_pushing_of_their_drm_platform/page1
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Can I trust Obsidian with PoE:Deadfire?
physicalist replied to fireflame's topic in Obsidian General
On the contrary, it seems the extra time was needed. Besides, I didn't see a really bad bug yet. -
Chris Avellone: The Final Frontier
physicalist replied to Infinitron's topic in Computer and Console
I don't get why Avellone is posting his accusations in an alt right forum and his language is beyond undignified. I have a feeling that much of what he says is true, but if someone working for me would write things like this I would be very hesitant to continue working with him. For every serious accusation Avellone seems to post three stories that are merely intended to embarrass the people involved. But most of all he is embarrassing himself. -
Evil Companions
physicalist replied to dskinner's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Depends on how you characterize evil. That's the whole point of the companions; pretty much all of them are doing--or have done--only things that *they* felt were good, necessary, and required to be moral at that moment. And they all have good reasons for thinking and feeling that. Durance, the Devil, and Eder are the easiest examples. All of them did super wrong things--building a weapon of mass destruction that needed human sacrifice to work, serial murder, and traitorous sedition and helping a foreign enemy to invade their homeland. @Eder: What an American thing to say. Seriously. Also, evil characters usually think they're in the right. Those "Evil League Of Evil"-characters might be a dime a dozen in comic books, but very few people actually embrace "EVIL" in this way. It's 99% lazy writing, born out of cultural narratives we usually use against enemies. -
UI Scaling - blurry font
physicalist replied to Cirventhor's question in Pillars of Eternity: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)
@AndreaColombo: You are right that text doesn't need to be scaled up, but we don't know how Obsidian implemented this. It might be very hard to change the game in such a way that fonts are always rendered in the native resolution. I'm surprised they didn't implement this in a more sensible fashion, but here we are. It's 2015 and Pillars of Eternity is not ready for resolutions beyond 1920x1200. -
UI Scaling - blurry font
physicalist replied to Cirventhor's question in Pillars of Eternity: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)
The upscaling is fixed for the most part for 1920x1200 in the current Beta (1.05, Steam). Only minor problems remain. There doesn't seem to be proper text scaling for resolutions higher than 1920x1200, though. -
1.05b Negative XP for completing Trials of Durance.
physicalist posted a question in Patch Beta Bugs and Support
The quest log claims that I earned -492 XP for completing the quest (Total XP for the quest: 9000). -
From the patch notes: "HUD does not upscale until 1920x1200" - I have been looking forward for a fix like this. Finally, I can play the game without lowering the desktop resolution (lowering the resolution ingame lead to a whole bunch of problems with the UI). Apart from that, the game is perfectly playable for me.
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Patch Betas on Steam
physicalist replied to BAdler's topic in Pillars of Eternity: Announcements & News
Not necessarily. If the game is too easy for you on highest difficulty settings because you picked the wrong class then you will welcome a nerf. -
Maps to "square"
physicalist replied to Wbino's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Well, it's exactly like the old Infinity Engine games, which is the main selling point of this game. It's not supposed to be Skyrim in 2D. -
No EXP from killing MOB?
physicalist replied to gamelancer's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
It's awesome that you don't get XP for killing. It allows you to role play, to freely decide wether to kill someone without having to care about the XP. -
UI Scaling - blurry font
physicalist replied to Cirventhor's question in Pillars of Eternity: Technical Support (Spoiler Warning!)
thanks for the tip. I was very disappointe by the bluriness of the whole UI, not just the text. Setting the resolution to 1080p fixed that for me, unfortunately I see the windows mouse icon when I move the cursor outside of the game content. The "cage cursor" option doesn't help. This also makes scrolling with the mouse tedious because I have to keep the cursor just inside the game content to be able to scroll. Also, which is a lot more annoying, the Steam Overlay gets "stuck" in the black bars at the top and the bottom of the game. Alt-tabbing out of the game fixes this temporarily. (I am using a Radeon graphics card with the newest drivers). -
Steam vs GoG redemption ?
physicalist replied to endruwiggin's topic in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
I went with Steam because of the achievements and because I can still buy the DRM free version at a later date if I want. -
How do I select Steam or GoG?
physicalist commented on Darren Monahan's blog entry in Pillars of Eternity Backer Site Blog
HumbleBundle seems to be the answer to the DRM-free Linux problem. Now that they have a Store they have more to offer than gog.com with it's artificial limitation to Windows and MacOSX.