“Or publicly shamed himself” Fuck off with the mob justice. Pressuring authorities to act? Absolutely reasonable, what he did was despicable and shouldn’t be tolerated. But call-out culture is toxic and accomplishes nothing but the continuation of the cycle.

I just don’t see why there’s no middle ground between

It’s less of an assumption and more of an established fact. Consoles are marketed toward the casual gaming crowd that doesn’t want to deal with hardware updates and compatability issues, and contemporary PC gaming is more intended for the hobbyists. Any overlap is mostly a coincidence, like how a cartoon like…

Also, in answer to the other question - yeah, Blizzard needs to get on that. You can play games without being actually signed into the client, but given the integration I'm sure you'd still show up as playing X - I'm fairly sure I do when I'm playing Hearthstone on mobile.

NN, XBL, and PSN aren’t Steam competitors at present because Steam doesn’t have a meaningful presence in the console department. But yes, we're arguing semantics at this point. Steam's refund policy is overdue, but maybe not as late as I initially indicated.

Maybe there's a misunderstanding - I can appear offline in other programs and interact with my friends list, that's the sum total of what I want. Steam lets me either be connected to my entire friends list or none of it. I can definitely be in a party with people on XBL and still appear invisible to others, Steam…

You must be blessed to have friends that actually respect those. Sometimes people don't take a hint.

“Most” feels a bit much. GoG and even Origin have had it for a while now, and while they’re not the whole game, they’re certainly the biggest competition. They’re not that ahead of the curve at all, they’ve just finally realized it’s putting them at a disadvantage when they could have offered this eons ago to make the…

The point is that the person I specifically replied to said a system like this will likely require more restrictions to offline mode, which I said I don’t mind. Context is hard, I know. As for appearing offline, no. I can’t invite one friend to a game without another friend seeing my online status, and that’s where…

Yes, but that completely removes me from my entire friends list, which doesn’t make any reasonable sense. Other platforms give me the option to interact with some friends and not others, whereas Steam is just an on/off switch. I don’t appear invisible with the option to join/invite friends, I just lose access to my…

I’m okay in the end with Steam requiring checkins, a la original Xbox One DRM outlines. Not every day or anything silly, but fairly regular. And if they DO require online checkins, let me APPEAR offline. I should be able to hide my online status from who I want without actually being offline - If Xbox Live, PSN, and…

I’ll praise them for finally doing it, but recognize that this is absurdly late and there’s still things they have to fix with their client that are standard just about everywhere else. I’m not drinking the Kool-Aid. :P

PRAISE

I’m... wary. I don’t like the immediate fearmongering and doomsaying that comes with announcements like this, but at the same time I was really happy with Thinkgeek service and particularly unimpressed with a lot of Gamestop’s practices. I guess we’ll just see?

You actual hero.

Kotaku higher-ups have stated numerous times, especially lately, that they’re not interested in being part of the hype machine that the gaming industry is using to drive preorders. Once there’s gameplay they usually put out news, but everyone has been burned too many times for it to be responsible doing this any other…

I’d play it.

There’s the odd butterfly in the jungle, as well as things like the dragon flying by in the background of toplane as the game starts. They add some nice touches to the map, but I can see where some people might want to just turn them off too.

“Glue an Xbox One game to it!”

I once won a trivia question at a con regarding Bleach because the question was “What powers does Ichigo have at this point in Bleach?” and they accepted “All of them.” as a response after I listed off what I meant by that. I don’t even watch the show, it’s THAT known how power bloated he is. :P