Because that way you give relevancy to that platform, and let it take your data.

Fuck Epic, they should make better products, not give away free shit.

If they ever get any relevant amount of users, they will enshittify so hard you won’t believe it.

This is me, but SteamOS instead of the mac.

Terraria.

And Calamity mod.

Steam Deck is very exciting and my favourite (and only) console

Which, funnily enough, I never got into.

Bought the game like 3 weeks before going F2P, yet it never clicked as much as LoL.

Thank god for Dota 2.

LoL is a terrible game, a shallow copy of the original concept.

I will die on this hill.

Dude, download it from yourself, you will make it to tens of thousands!

Terraria

Not really, the out-of-combat movement was almost strictly 2D? And the first real fight did not teach me the controls in any way, I had no idea what was going on.

I bought it expecting like a Devil May Cry or maybe Souls… then the game started and I noped the hell out. It’s weird and I did not like it at all.

LoL sucks, it’s like a shallow copy of DotA. I’ve played around 300 hours, it’s very silly in comparison.

Stellaris is kinda easy once you figure out that expanding is the No1 priority for the entire game. Expand, build ships - nobody will be able to stop you.

There was always a need for a ‘tall’ empire - so you don’t expand, but focus on your small part of the galaxy - but so far it’s always crushed by the expanding ones.

Once you get stargate tech, it’s 24/7 war. For even more territory.

Right now I remembered a game that never was really finished, Stardrive, where you could design your own ships down to the electrical wiring. It had layouts with sections, and you could fill it up to your liking. It was a shame that ground troops could finish the game in minutes.

Sometimes I feel like 4X games are usually more suited for roleplaying than actual challenge of micromanagement.

Anyway, I have a huge jam on my main line in OpenTTD, gotta fix my intersection again.

Dota 2.

I’ve played Dwarf Fortress, Stellaris, yet I still find Dota to be the most complex game ever.

It sucks that it’s a multiplayer game, and you need people to play it well with you, but when it works, it’s amazing.

Everything in it has layers of usability, usually componded by the everything else in the game - hero abilities, items, map, neutrals, even the stupid trees play a large role in the game.

I’ve spent hundreds of hours studying the mechanics, and I still don’t grasp everything.

I played a lot of DotA too, but that doesn’t have a playtime counter. But I have over 3000 hours in Dota 2.

My second favourite game is OpenTTD. It’s just so satisfying to optimize the train network and add another 100 trains to it. I’ve tried Factorio, but for some reason that did not scratch that itch.

Or some roguelites, like Slay the Spire (or the Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend), Synthetik (haven’t tried second one yet), they are always fun.

Artifact? Both of them?

No, there are DRM games on GOG (or have been anyway).

And Steam also has DRM-free games.

Gentoo OpenRC gang rise up!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_turbulent_priest%3F

Boo freaking hoo.

It’s not like there are so many other ways to cheat, actually used in many games with anticheats.

We should all stop pretending it’s necessary to put malware into your computer just so some company can claim they have no cheaters, which is never even true.

I used to, 15 years ago.

Good times.

And has had them for many years before now

Criminals like Edward Snowden I guess