Not all of their items are steam keys. They have their own client, mostly for second-rate indies, and used to have the “Capsule” system they originally used to allow digital trade-ins, though it never caught on.

I’ve been using Steam primarily for over a decade. That and the Blizzard launcher are the only digital distribution systems I use regularly (well, and GOG, but that don’t count cause DRM free and a client is not required). I’ve refused to ever buy anything from Uplay, only have Origin for Sims4 and BioWare RPGs, and…

Actually, the excuse would also work with a swastika. Long before a crazy German decided to use it to kill Jews, swastikas were used by hinduist and Buddhist groups as sacred symbols. If I was making a film taking place in, say, India, and I showed hinduist religious practices that traditionally used a swastika, then…

You missed Simcity and Diablo3 launch.

Psychologically, yes. And it’s probably not the kind of job you can volunteer for, for obvious reasons.

In the end it is mostly handled by a forensic team, tasked with finding any possible clues hidden in pictures of videos. This implies scouring every single picture for data that might lead you to the perpetrator, or…

If it’s getting regularly updated, that means someone is adding stuff to it.

Titles that are based on discovering the game itself can be a lot more fun when you’re actively discussing your findings with the community than later on. Just as well, games that depend on other players or that have co-op components are often better at first, when population is blooming.

As I mentioned, the Souls…

I understand your experience. I haven’t had major bugs with Bethesda games since Fallout 3. Both Skyrim and FO4 ran flawlessly to me out of the box. That’s not everyone’s experience, tho, and in FO76 the whole thing is kinda worse because of the online component.

As for you having fun, good for you. I don’t believe…

It depends on the title, really. While bugs are usually expected, there’s a difference between a quirk (or a very occasional crash) and game-breaking stuff.

I have no doubts Skyrim had bugs on release, but that didn’t keep me from spending dozens of hours on it the first couple weeks and discovering the game along with…

Looks to me like what’s going on is that TES games and FO3/4 where good, or at least compelling, experiences. Particularly if you completely ignored the writing in FO4. This one isn’t compelling no matter what, and it’s buggier even than usual and unoptimized to boot.

Bethesda gets free passes because their games are…

This is exactly how I feel and why I’ve stopped buying (most) story-based games on release. Going back to play the DLC is often a drag, and more often than not I have to replay the whole thing because I can’t even remember how to walk.

Exceptions are strategy games with full-fledged expansions, because of course. And…

Some people can have reasons to pre-order, tho. In my case I sometimes pre-order so I can do preloads, since my internet is very slow (6Mb, fastest for my area, and during the day it’s closer to 2Mb) so the only way I can play most games on release date is by preloading - and for some titles, playing them on release…

To be fair, most trash are treasures in the Fallout universe, so let’s say both the game quality and special edition are very aptly themed.

You forgot about “Darksiders 3 is nothing like the previous two games, and poorly optimized and crashy to boot.”

At least Hitman 2 was good, tho. For once I’m glad I pre-ordered the underdog, even if it isn’t selling great. Seems like the only major November release this year that actually worked and didn’t disappoint.

While I’d love for this to be true, I’m not sure it is. Could you point me to any recent EA titles that are on Steam? Because I looked at this:

You... are aware that Hearthstone allows you to get specific, aimed cards by trading in your repeats or cards you don’t want for “dust,” which is a currency that’s exclusively used to craft the cards you want, right?

And you’re aware that, in most cases, the prices of GOOD, meta-defining cards, are going to be as high,…

I’ve played the previous two Darksiders game, and the two reviews I’ve read are... worrying. Because they mention things (no minimap, terrible camera, samey world design, uninspired boss battles, hard-to-like protagonist) that the previous two games didn’t lack at all. Boss battles on DS 1 and 2 were all different and…

I think what you’re missing is that there’s no way of recovering the body without putting them at further, and bigger, risk than that man’s rotting body. Unless the natives autonomously decide to put the man’s body on a raft and throw him into the sea, there’s likely not much of a way of obtaining it. And probably not…

Because it wasn’t a single time. It was several. The fishermen saw him try to reach the island, and yet brought him there again later on, doing nothing to keep him from reaching his destination.

I’m assuming this is sarcasm. Because otherwise the word choice in here: