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3 days agoCrash Bandicoot trilogy for 3,99€ was in instant buy for me.
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honestly, it’s mostly the same for me, as well. I might play a game on epic, give it a whirl and if I like it, put it on my wishlist, hoping it’ll appear in a bundle anytime soon.
Fair question.
AFAIU, the GOG extension was a perk that you received for a one-time payment ($6 iirc), and I believe there were two different ways to make that payment. Continous membership/subscription to patreon was not necessary.Unfortunately, they seem to have completely wiped information regarding this from their website, I can’t find it there anymore.
EDIT: used archive.org to look up their old, pre-v2-announcement website:
It was a one-time purchase via Ko-Fi or patreon.
Feedback in their discord seems overwhelmingly negative. Personally, them putting the GoG extension behind a paywall already left a sour taste in my mouth. Lack of GOG and Amazon support in Junk Store was always a big inconvenience that required use of heroic anyways, so for me it was more convenient to just stick to heroic alltogether. And I will keep using Heroic launcher, instead, their $40 p/a price certainly didn’t win me over.
I don’t wish junk store bad luck in their endevour, but I strongly believe if they actually pull through with this, it is going to crash and burn. Hard. It wont generate enough revenue to sustain long term development and will be either partially or fully abandoned within 18 months. The concept of Junk Store is too niché to not be a FOSS community driven project.
They try to make it sound like it is not a subscription model: you pay $40 for 12 months of updates and support and keep using the software afterwards without receiving updates. But in practice, this wont work for very long. Store APIs are gonna change, backends are going to break, etc., making updates be a necessity. Software as a Service.
One thing I found to be a particular slap in the face for current supporters was a FAQ regarding the future of the GOG extension for the Decky plugin:
Q: Since GOG addon support is going to be bug-fix only, will it be added to the public domain?
A: We’re using the GOG addon as a canary in the coal mine. If enough people continue to support it by purchasing, that sends a clear signal we should keep investing time into both the GOG addon and maintaining the open-source code. However, if sales drop off significantly, it will indicate we can safely scale back or stop work on the open-source version without jeopardizing the project’s sustainability.It’ll be self fullfilling. People are going to stop buying the GOG extension for the current decky plugin, because future updates are not guaranteed. That reduction in sales is going to indicate to them, that there is no longer demand for it and every current supported is SOL. They are not even guaranteing a fixed ammount of support for the current extension here, they keep it vague and open.
If I had paid for the GOG extension, this FAQ would make me mad.
$40 for junk store is an insane price, even more insane that its a yearly subscription 😳
First: Holy Roman Empire 962 to 1806 Second: German Kaiserreich 1871 to 1918
Same here, gotta have to wait for the Firefox version being approved.
FYI, your section about PS2 hacking has a header titled “PS3 jailbreak”
I don’t think he cares about pleasing his wife.
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You can also find plenty of similar designs for third party chargers.
Since my original charger is set up behind my TV for when I want to hook the deck up, I am using a small Anker 313 45W charger for on the go.
knew instantly the franchise on the second image.
allthough I have never played the series, the color palette is what gave it away for me on the second image.
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The first screenshot was tricky, I just thought there was an error loading the image.
I haven’t had much luck with HD texture packs on the steam deck, unfortunately. I tried Gran Turismo and - more importantly - shadow of the colossus. But performance dropped to unplayable :(
The day epic stops giving out free games, is the day I stop regularly visiting their store, tbh.
Their storefront is horrible, lacks basic features steam had for years and their CEO is particularly unpleasant. I’m glad I haven’t given epic a single penny.
10·1 month agoI used calibre with the dedrm plugin to strip all my kindle ebooks from DRM and converted them to epub.
I then jailbroke my kindle and installed koreader on it, ditching amazon completely. I am not buying books from amazon anymore, but I get my books exclusively drm-free as epubs.
Calibre, combined with koreader on my device, allows me to sync my ebooks wirelessly over WiFi at home.
Actually less worried about shorting something, note worried about it damaging some adhesive or protective film, or anything on the screen, really :)
I noticed that my shell isn’t completely flat
Probably a good idea to quickly pop it open and have a look at the battery. Opening the steam deck is quite easy (remember to remove the SD card!), It only takes 3 minutes to check :)
I’ve reached out to Steam Support atleast, hopefully they can directly sell me one, or point me somewhere that I’m not buying one off Amazon
From what I understand, iFixit is their official partner, valves support website directed me towards that as well.
When did you get your steam deck? Mines an original Q3 an curious if this is something common for our 2 year old devices?
August 2022, close to three years old now.
I just went to ifixit’s website and ordered the battery. Ordered it on sunday night, according to my tracking app it has just been delivered, so no long waiting times.
Maybe it depends on your region? It’s in stock on the german website.
First of all:
I hope your health improves. While I tend to not read the entirety of your writeups, I always skim them and then read the details on topics that are interesting. It would be a shame to not find your posts on lemmy anymore, as I prefer the interaction over a microblogging service like mastodon.
as for your question
I have picked up:
Crash Bandicoot is at an all-time-low price, if you haven’t picked it up in a humblebundle years ago, now might be your chance.
Another game I can recommend is “Beyond: Two Souls”, which is available for 1,99€ on Steam. It’s a great story driven game, with multiple endings and great acting. You might also want to get “Detroit: Become Human”, a very similar title in terms of gameplay.