Quoting: BelaptirIt's crap.

They restricted it so much that you must be in the same household (aka under the same roof) to invite someone. People reporting everywhere that not even if they live in the same building but different apartments works. You need to be under the same roof and, apparently, show activity that proves it.

We thought it was a downgrade because we couldn't invite people from the same region but a different country, but this is even worse.

And? That's what this is for. Having parents share their games with their children so they don't need to pay for multiple copies unless they want to play together. Before this unintended use was gated by locking down the library. With that relaxed, it's no surprise that they took other measures to force its intent.

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Quoting: EagleDeltaThere are publishers who have removed a game from Steam and also removed it to download. It's rare, but it does happen.

Which one? So far I've only seen removed depots and I haven't checked whether they could be extracted from older manifests.

I only know of one instance of this, when Driver: San Francisco was delisted entirely.

This one and the games EagleDelta mentioned all show up the same in SteamDB. Depots still exist, but give a download size of 0. However, SteamDB still lists all the files with sizes. Only one old manifest from 2014 left though. I do wonder what would happen if you manually downloaded it.

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Quoting: EagleDeltaThere are publishers who have removed a game from Steam and also removed it to download. It's rare, but it does happen.

Which one? So far I've only seen removed depots and I haven't checked whether they could be extracted from older manifests.

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Even if we disregard the possible legal aspects, that is a pretty giant breach of trust. Both for the publisher for doing it and itch.io for allowing it.

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Sounds kind of similar to the Campo Santo thing. Which was kind of sad because I wanted to see their next game. But it also gave us Half-Life: Alyx, which was amazing. So I do wonder what they're cooking up.

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That is some very bare bones imagery for something that is supposed to release next year.

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The article should have ended with "Would you like to know more?"

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Quoting: woox2kPhilip (doitsujin) Rebohle might be the person behind all this by being a Linux user and excellent programmer who just wanted to play a DX11 anime game that did not work on Wine!

In G-Man voice: "The right man doing the right thing at the right time can make all the difference in the world"

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The thing is that the hardware can now update the firmware and put in some delays and randomisation that matches the best manual players, making it impossible to detect the difference. To a lesser the degree the MoveMaster changes the skill as well. There you can't actually press left/right at the same time, but it still takes a little time to switch between the two.

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QuoteAfter the absolute disaster that was the Borderlands movie

And that came after the partial disaster than was Borderlands 3 and the complete disaster that was New Tales of the Borderlands. After that streak, it's hard to get excited. At least the gameplay of BL3 was good, so that's something.

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