Perfect rebuke from Pandaman there.

Yeah I think Jason’s monkey paw analogy was spot on.

My thoughts exactly! The Lab is a lot of fun and I spent way too much time playing fetch with that robot slinky dog (a highlight of my VR experience was when I reached down to pet him and felt the nose of my real life dog, who had obviously wandered over to find out what the hell this stupid headset was for, so that…

Agreed. There are lots of people saying “This is going to be a flop because not enough people will want to buy VR for it” but, while I don’t know how much it’s going to cost to develop, there is enough of an install base across all VR headsets for it to sell pretty well for a VR game, and even if it doesn’t, Valve is…

SteamVR is open - meaning any VR headset currently on the market is compatible with it - and I don’t think there’s been a game yet that works with one headset and not others. For example, I have an Oculus Rift, which works with everything on Steam despite Valve’s headset of choice previously being the HTC Vice and now…

I got my Oculus Rift for $200 - because it was the headset only, being sold as “for parts or not working” on eBay, and I got lucky because it was just the cable that was broken and they’re easy but not cheap to replace, but then I had to buy the sensors and controllers, so it was $300 before I was able to play…

And $2,000 PCs and enough room for a VR setup.

You know there's a whole rainbow of colours and that not everything is either black or white, right? 

Right, but it’s still playable. A shame that you have to buy additional accessories in order to play it, but there are lots of other reasons to get a pair of Joy Cons for a Switch Lite.

Why not?

Sounds like we’re about the same age with similar Link’s Awakening life defining moments! I started playing it last night and, while I’m loving it because the new art style is suitably delightful and charming for this game and I’m glad that it’s so faithful to the original that it’s perfect nostalgia and I’m getting a…

But they don’t sell products, they sell licenses - licenses to access data that enables you to play games.

Didn't I just buy the new Total War game?

You wouldn’t be reselling a product; you’d be reselling a license - because that’s what you get when you buy from Steam, and it’s a license to play/have access to the files for whatever game it is you’ve paid for.

The ‘how’ will have to be invented by Valve if they’re forced to add such a feature but I imagine it could easily be done through the Steam Marketplace (where people buy and sell trading cards, crate keys for various games and TF2 items). You could list a game for sale there, name your price and, when someone buys it,…

No more insane than the second hand market for physical games.

Came here to say the exact same thing - I remember maybe about 15 years ago that a big game publisher (I think it was EA?) had a policy where, if your game disc got scratched or damaged, you could send it in to them, along with original proof of purchase, and they would send you a brand new replacement disc. Somewhere…

I can’t speak for actual streamers, but I’ve considered trying to get into streaming several times and every time I think about setting up a camera I consider what would actually be in shot and think “Damn, look at all the crap I’d have to clear out of this room” and then I don’t do it.

Haha, wow, you cut off Scrubs really early!

Yeah, always wondered why the second game was called Devil May Cry 3.