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Is the cheapest way to play the entire Hitman trilogy + DLC missions to buy World of Assassination Deluxe? $45 seems like a lot considering I got the complete first and second game for $10 each years ago.
 
walletandgromice said:
New family sharing is superior to the old one for my use case: I am sharing with my kid, and we live in the same house. If the goal of this feature is to make it easier to share titles with your family, my experience has been that this update is a success and the old implementation was hopelessly cumbersome and inadequate.

I'm surprised anyone trying to share with their families would want the old version! But, maybe there's some functionality in the old one that was lost that I'm unaware of? I hope not, and I hope you find it better when you, too when you ultimately try it.
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It definitely seems better for the intended use case, which is what you describe. However it isn't as ideal for those of us who used it as a "share your library with friends" function as it now essentially forces one friend to be a fulcrum for everyone. Also in my specific case I'll be losing access to games that I bought on an account for a former partner of mine that I'm no longer in a relationship or contact with. Granted, those aren't the intended use from Valve, but the previous setup (which is still functioning) was fine for those.

I also have concerns about the lockout time to change families (there should be a first time exemption at the very least) and the fact that there seems to be no real long term plan for situations like "what happens when my kid grows up and has his own family and wants to share with them instead" that will be an issue for a lot of people within 5 to 10 years. And while it doesn't impact me in the United States apparently the country restrictions now are quite onerous and restrictive.

Personally I was happy they seemed to be leaving both methods working and I wouldn't be so reticent to use the new system if it wasn't for the 15 years now that I've seen Valve release poorly implemented and supported features which get minimal fixes over the years (including the original family sharing which admittedly was bug riddled and as you said very cumbersome and inadequate). Since they made no real changes to the setup during the prolonged beta period it seems very unlikely we'll see any real improvements going forward.

All that said, I do think the functionality of being able to play individual games and not have the whole library locked out is a big improvement and if I don't have to reconnect computers every few months randomly that will definitely be a big win.
 
IronGiantFF said:
Is the cheapest way to play the entire Hitman trilogy + DLC missions to buy World of Assassination Deluxe? $45 seems like a lot considering I got the complete first and second game for $10 each years ago.
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I think so. They have never made it easy to figure how it all works. I gave up when they screwed over those of us with the first two games and having to re buy 1/2 in game 3.
 
Yeah, I was on the old family sharing, and it offered only minimal benefits of sharing my library with my kids but came with the drawback of not being able to use my own account from time to time. The new Steam Families works pretty much how I envisioned it should work. I can redeem the kids' games on my account and then have that game available for either to play (obviously not at the same time) or they can both be sharing different games and I still have access to my own library. I just wish more games supported the feature and that they were automatically categorized as from another account.

And to add, I had issues with Microsoft Family similar to lomaxgnome, but in both directions. I had redeemed games to a child account and had redeemed some games he wanted to my account (I know that is user error, it was done out of spur of the moment convenience) and now that he is an adult, neither of us have access to those games because he is no longer part of the family. The way I intend to handle Steam families is that once my kids are old enough to own their own account they will, and they'll need to have their own games.
 
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I don't think the old sharing was intended to be "let's all pile into one account like a clown car and share stuff." Kind of like the old PS sharing; yea, you could do it, but it was obviously not Sony's intent. Nor was it Valves.

The new one is leagues better. No kids, just the SO and I, therefore its easier for her to get on my account of 2000+ games and play stuff and it doesn't impact me. We just have to buy duplicates of games for multiplayer or she gets stuff she's specifically interested in and I am not.

Regarding accounts and kids, I believe Valve has made it aware that there is no "give your kids your account" such as when you die or whatever. It's part of their EULA. Legality depends on jurisdiction and it's, so far, untested in court as far as I know.

The new Family Share is A+. The old one was bad. Time-sharing the whole account was awful, time-sharing single game licenses is much better.
 
I think it kinda was sonys intent just temporary. As it did drive people back to their ecosystem and increased digital sales of dlcs and such. As 1-2$ dlc let alone bamco and tecmo koies 3-6$ per dlc wasn't as bad when split 5 ways.

People bought all the dlc for Tales of graces (but titles did include skills and artes and such on top of cosmetics) which is what started the downward spiral for that series in game content. Right around Xillia 1 is when Sony cut sharing down.
 
TheKbob said:
Regarding accounts and kids, I believe Valve has made it aware that there is no "give your kids your account" such as when you die or whatever. It's part of their EULA. Legality depends on jurisdiction and it's, so far, untested in court as far as I know.
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I think Valve is protecting me from parenticide with that policy...
 
The only issue I have with family sharing now is that you can't kick people off of your games if they're currently playing them. Yeah you could just ask them to get off, but the old system had a feature where it would give them 5 minutes and then kick them which is much more convenient. With the new system you can't access your own games if someone refuses to get off of them, which might be a pain if you have family living in a different household (or if sharing with a friend in the same country)
 
I guess that would be annoying if you really wanted to play that specific game and couldn't contact the person, but you can still play all your other games or all of that person's games while they are playing that specific one. It's way better than the old system overall.
 
What was/is the best price on Diablo 4 over the weekend? I saw that either the PS4 or Xbox version was on sale for like $20 I think. Might jump in on the PC version for that price because I'm cheap/don't play games online enough to justify paying subscriptions, but my friends keep bugging me to play this with them.
 
Indiana Jones And The Great Circle - PC System requirements:
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Hey folks, just want to share that I'm working with some friends on a Kickstarter for a hidden object game featuring our favorite feline friends called Find Us Cats. In addition to serving as a hidden object game, you can choose to paint, draw, or color in the levels and create your own art based on ours.

We released a demo on

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spiregg/find-us-cats

Attached are some screenshots of the game. There are also some giveaways we sponsored on the main CAG social media, so check those out if you want some cat games (Stray, Little Kitty) or Steam gift cards while learning a bit more about the project/Kickstarter. :)
 

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Deadly Premonition and Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing In Disguise are 90+% off right now. The bundle for both games is only $4.97 (or $3.79 if you already own the first game and just need to complete the collection).

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Save 95% on Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut on Steam

Play as special agent Francis York Morgan in this open-world action-adventure as you solve the case of the Red Seed Murders and survive in a small, quirky American mountain town where supernatural creatures and a mysterious raincoat-clad, axe-wielding killer seek to end his investigation for good.
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Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise on Steam

Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise is an open-world survival horror video game serving as both a sequel and prequel to the original Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut.
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Pankapu is free on steam until December 18th

It's not often that a game goes free that I don't own and looks remotely decent. I guess the only time it was bundled was during a jingle jam bundle which I skipped

EDIT: For some reason, when you claim it it also gives you episode 2 which I'm not sure if is intended or not
 
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Initial technical impressions of Sackboy are not impressive. Upon first launch it force installed a bunch of Epic online services stuff. Every launch attempt afterward generates multiple windows of an error/crash dialog: "unable to allocate necessary vram. ensure your GPU meets the minimum vram requirements", etc. I'm using a 3090 Ti (24gb). Did MysterD design this game?
 
gospelman said:
Initial technical impressions of Sackboy are not impressive. Upon first launch it force installed a bunch of Epic online services stuff. Every launch attempt afterward generates multiple windows of an error/crash dialog: "unable to allocate necessary vram. ensure your GPU meets the minimum vram requirements", etc. I'm using a 3090 Ti (24gb). Did MysterD design this game?
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Pretty sure if a steamdeck can run it well, a potato should be able to as well.. in theory anyway
 
My very unresearched guess is that the game doesn't jive with the newest nvidia drivers I recently installed.

For now I'm going back to Rift Apart, which aside from a broken opening cutscene runs well. R&C at 120fps is a blast. Crack in Time PC release needs to happen.
 
gospelman said:
Initial technical impressions of Sackboy are not impressive. Upon first launch it force installed a bunch of Epic online services stuff. Every launch attempt afterward generates multiple windows of an error/crash dialog: "unable to allocate necessary vram. ensure your GPU meets the minimum vram requirements", etc. I'm using a 3090 Ti (24gb). Did MysterD design this game?
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MysterD only has 8gb VRAM on his RTX 3070; he's way behind the VRAM loop, these days.
 
walletandgromice said:
I downloaded Marvel Rivals but stopped at the install because I'd somehow never heard of this company before. Given the presumed expense of the license I wasn't expecting a company that's mostly known for mobile...

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NetEase - Wikipedia

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RIP Avalanche/Disney Interactive... RIP.
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There was a brief moment this morning where I thought I’d jump in, there was a promise of an exclusive free limited time launch skin, it apparently runs great on the Deck but then I’m like why, I’ve got a whole library of single player games to get through, I’m certainly not hurting for anything to play, particularly when their most prominent release was the Chinese version of Overwatch. Then a quick read through their Wikipedia makes it seem like they’re just a budget Embracer.
 
Depending on the mobile games, they can rake in massive sums. It's wild to think about how much those little phone games suck from people.
 
I actually really like a lot about Marvel Rivals. The visual style is good, I like a lot of the characters, the destructible environments are a nice touch, and it being third person so that (A) you can actually see your character and (B) it doesn’t make me physically ill to play is great.

I still don’t like competitive multiplayer against random strangers, though, so I’m not touching it. If they’d gone with any other style of gameplay, seriously, I’d have been there.
 
Rivals is pretty good for what it is. I'm having fun and while some of the skins are nice, there is no desire to buy them and the game is free.

As for Indy, it looks ok but man, it is further proof that 8Gb vram cards are dead.
 
Marvel Rivals is just an Overwatch clone.. but NetEase has a lot of experience in the mobile market and they know how to sell cosmetics. I think a game like Marvel Rivals has infinitely more potential than OW to sell cosmetics. It could be very successful based on that alone. The gameplay seemed alright when I played the alpha but I don't think it's something I'd commit to.
 
Net Ease was the Chinese distributor of Blizzard games until recently. I guess they weren't satisfied with partnering on just the Chinese version of Overwatch/WOW/etc. and wanted some more revenue. I still don't understand why Marvel didn't make some tie-in higher-budget games back in the heyday for the Avengers movie or other titles. Took them ages and they mainly had games like the LEGO series or the occasional movie tie-in like they did for the earliest Marvel movies.

https://web.archive.org/web/2022112...14-year-licensing-deal-with-netease-in-china/
 
Just played through the main game of Sackboy. I have to say I like the main series of LittleBigPlanet better. Couldn't find anyone online to play the multiplayer-only levels, but at least there aren't that many of them.
 
I think technically the base game Hitman World of Assassination plus the hitman3 deluxe pack for $6.99. To play H1 and H2 missions in the H3 "engine" as it were, just buy the WOrld of Assassination deluxe edition that is $44.99 right now.

They've never made it easy and it was worse when they created the "world of" version and made it impossible for those of us who own 1 and 2 to connect the games to 3. The last time it was a "deal" as it were, Hitman3 was $17-20 or so, but for almost two years now it has been $45 at the cheapest to get all of Hitman3 and be able to play H1 and H2 combined with it.
 
Sorry, I'm gonna be that guy and clutter up the thread. I got some leftover GOG codes from Prime. If you want, quote this post with the game(s) you want, and I'll PM you if I'm not too senile to recognize you. Or just scream at your computer screen. It probably won't do anything, but it might be fun, I haven't tried it.

The Outer Worlds
Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition
Quake II
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Chasm: The Rift
Close to the Sun

Can you tell the kind of perspective I don't like in video games? YOU ONLY GET THE CODES IF YOU CAN. Actually never mind please take them I don't want them.
 
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Souffrir said:
Sorry, I'm gonna be that guy and clutter up the thread. I got some leftover GOG codes from Prime. If you want, quote this post with the game(s) you want, and I'll PM you if I'm not too senile to recognize you. Or just scream at your computer screen. It probably won't do anything, but it might be fun, I haven't tried it.

The Outer Worlds
Space Hulk: Deathwing Enhanced Edition
Quake II
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Chasm: The Rift
Close to the Sun

Can you tell the kind of perspective I don't like in video games? YOU ONLY GET THE CODES IF YOU CAN. Actually never mind please take them I don't want them.
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I'll take The Outer Worlds if still available.
 
There's currently a price mistake on Epic Mickey Rebrushed (steam) on the gamestop website at $7.99

Another gamble I took this evening is on this batch of refurbished monitors on Woot. There's currently a 20% off code (Luck20) and a 10% cashback offer from retailmenot. If there's an issue with it I'll just return I guess. But I love my 34" 100hz ultrawide and am interested to try this one at 40" IPS 144hz $192.
 
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