• ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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    19 hours ago

    Steam updating those system requirements for newer hardware makes those games MORE accessible,

    I think they mean modifying the minimum requirements, because their electron based abomination of a client does not support older systems

    so unless you know to use the goldberg emu, it will possibly make those games different, or at worst unplayable. I know of games that glitch with modern hardware, in one instance because it is so old the dev never thought about graphics hardware with 2 GB VRAM or more, and it was never patched either.

    its suprising that such a high profile person does not know about goldberg emu (or various other solutions), so they rather recommend subscription services that are multiple orxers of magnitude worse.

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      19 hours ago

      they rather recommend subscription services that are multiple orxers of magnitude worse.

      Yeah that was a pisstake, a totally unforced error in judgment. Many commented on his GitHub repo to say as much. I sympathize with getting jaded about Valve and Steam, I understand the frustration with how exploitative gaming has become, but nuking his own 20-year portfolio, a thing he should be proud of, because Valve made him so mad he wanted to stick it to them?

      That’s a highly self-destructive and ultimately futile decision. What a waste.