You can schedule reboots or use a group policy to stop auto installs entirely, at least in the pro version.
Or you can complain.
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STEAM | October 2015 - You had me at "game ... comes to Steam".
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Or you can complain.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Presumably if you have 32gb of RAM, you won't even notice the leak because of scheduled update reboots happening every so often hahaha.
Se7enSword
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You can in theory. In practice Windows 10 will reboot by itself if you are not at your computer even if you have three dozen programs running actively. You have to re-schedule for every update individually and Windows 10 doesn't actively tell you when it has an update available that needs a reboot, it will only prompt when it's about to reboot/offering a re-scheduling option. Well, that's been my experience anyway. I'm at 4 forced reboots in two months against my will at the moment.
Still the worst feature in the whole OS. Spying and tracking, bleh, it's forced reboots that annoy me more than any of the other issues.
They said after working with NX.
Not really.
He only specifies "when" in stationary consoles.
He doesn't say when, just that he would like to start working on Steam. Which means they eventually will, probably.
I have set windows update to notify only through a group policy. Never downloads or installs anything behind my back, just tells me that hey, there are updates that you might be interested in and it's perfect.
It's such a shame that it's not an option that's available normally through the ui.
Se7enSword
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abracadaver
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New record?
But it only works on pro versions. (this isn't probably problem for most here)
ashecitism
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New record?
There have been big, short lived spikes recently, where it went up to 10.6m then dropped down to 10.2m, shortly after. Without seeing the graph it's hard to say. I mean, it went up to 10.9m then dropped down more than a million. But how fast? It doesn't show up on Steam Charts graph. That currently shows 10.6m.
New record?
Yes, a week or so ago i was talking about when we will get 11 million (well it was 3 weeks ago *cough* )
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=178640693&postcount=7777
AHA-Lambda
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WTF at the last boss of Undertale D:
Kaleinc
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It would be funny if 400 mb is the amount of your data sent to MS servers each day.
corrosivefrost
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lashman
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Chairman's Response to The Escapist
UPDATE: The attached demand letter is our formal response to specific, slanderous allegations made in the recent The Escapist article on Star Citizen. Normally, we would keep this behind closed doors, but we felt it was imperative to put our statement on record and indicate how disgusted we are with The Escapists irresponsible actions. Corporate at Defy Media asked us to delay publication of this letter while investigating, but we feel strongly that the record needs to be set straight without further delay.
Black Soma
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So, this Warhammer End Times Vermintide is basically a Left 4 Dead clone.
How didn't I know of this before? ...I guess because I don't really care about Warhammer. But I'm interested now.
How didn't I know of this before? ...I guess because I don't really care about Warhammer. But I'm interested now.
damn optimists, you can't live without them, because they are everywhere, but you can't live with them too. You'll eat those words if it not gonna make it
I'm pretty sure it not gonna make it, bamco has to pretend it did, will they do that? IDK
I'm not even sure it's real, counter I mean. It probably isn't
I'm not even sure it's real, counter I mean. It probably isn't
Leafhopper
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Nothing against Zesteria in particular but I don't like pre-order goals.
Of course its real. The sales are picking up, like they would obviously do since the game is closer and closer to release.
They consistently have much better bonuses than regular preorders. I'm quite fine with it
It's nowhere near close to release yet, I'm pretty sure (if that counter is real), that about a week ago it was adjusted.
Tizoc
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Agreed, in my case I'd be getting it for $40 so 2 games for $40 is fine in my book
O think you mean that he really wants it to be a trainwreck and will try his hardest to put RSI's name in the dirt. The pathetic bastard is clinging very hard to the tiny shred of relevance he has.
Yeah, but that's just your paranoia talking. It's closer to release, and they've been marketing it more.
It releases this month. In less than three weeks. Its pretty darn close, and obviously people are start to pick it up, especially when they see its one of the biggest releases this month. Nothing weird about, its picking up just like I said it would .
LurkerPrime
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Path of Exile has reminded me why I lost interest in Torchlight 2. It's all about the atmosphere and satisfaction inherent to the gameplay. Path of Exile is one of those games that tries to be like something and absolutely nails it. (It just needs Uelman's music to be perfect.)
The PoE dev's ideas for advancing the genre are pretty cool, too, managing to work fine in spite of the free-to-play nature of the game. They focus everything on the loot--skills, currencies, even the skill tree. The updates they've made in the expansion have only furthered these concepts.
And, of course, the gigantic passive skill tree is still awesome.
What about enhanced pre-order goals?
The PoE dev's ideas for advancing the genre are pretty cool, too, managing to work fine in spite of the free-to-play nature of the game. They focus everything on the loot--skills, currencies, even the skill tree. The updates they've made in the expansion have only furthered these concepts.
And, of course, the gigantic passive skill tree is still awesome.
What about enhanced pre-order goals?
They cancelled it.
Yep!
I didn't put any credence into what Smart was saying or doing, he is the ultimate attention whore, I know that. But that doesn't mean he didn't sense blood in the water. And that article on The Escapist is pretty damning, and the "oh we're gonna sic our lawyers onto you because those employees are just disgruntled" response if anything seems to confirm it.
I was also thinking the same a few days ago lol. I think they will do something if it gets close enough to the target, so pre-orders go up like crazy haha
Regardless, I think I will do my part in the next few days, as the game is so damn cheap in the mexican store (and nope, I won't refund if it doesn't make it
).Chance Hale
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You should actually bother to take five minutes to look into the current status of the Escapist article and why it's been thoroughly debunked.
I don't understand why people who don't pay any attention to Star Citizen are so desperate for there to be something horribly wrong. Oh well.
I don't understand why people who don't pay any attention to Star Citizen are so desperate for there to be something horribly wrong. Oh well.
There's two leaderboards: the one outside the game on the achievements page, which looks like the leaderboard from the EA period, and the in-game one, which has different values.
Also, you know:
Daily Crypt of the Necrodancer 50% off
I wasn't kidding derExperte =p
Did you actually read the response? The "sources" were basically debunked.
And nah, Derek Smart didn't sense anything. He's been hating and badmouthing Robert for a fuckload of years. Nothing he says has any credibility. He's been a shit-stirrer that made up controversies and conspiracies since... Forever.
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crazyrabbits
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In regards to the Escapist thing, I'm of the mind that investigative journalism (in regards to the gaming industry) should always be encouraged. Developers and publishers get away with far too much shit, and are almost never taken to task until long after the point where it would be considered timely.
That being said, it doesn't sound like the magazine vetted these sources at all. Unlike some people on GAF, I'm aware that anonymous sources are sometimes a necessity to get more information for a story (but, like I said, they should never be the sole focus). But, they wouldn't have lost anything waiting for another day or two to hear back from Chris Roberts. I mean, I wouldn't have gone off a couple of phone calls alone. If I knew there were multiple sources corroborating the same account, I would have gone to the city in person and had a meeting with them, then verify them on-site.
The more I read about this, the more it sounds like they pushed this out to get clicks. You know you fucked up when a lawyer (who comes from a family of journalists) schools you on journalism ethics. He was absolutely right when he stated that the article came off as a hit piece, and the attempts by the beat reporter to justify her sources look worse and worse every time she posts.
That being said, it doesn't sound like the magazine vetted these sources at all. Unlike some people on GAF, I'm aware that anonymous sources are sometimes a necessity to get more information for a story (but, like I said, they should never be the sole focus). But, they wouldn't have lost anything waiting for another day or two to hear back from Chris Roberts. I mean, I wouldn't have gone off a couple of phone calls alone. If I knew there were multiple sources corroborating the same account, I would have gone to the city in person and had a meeting with them, then verify them on-site.
The more I read about this, the more it sounds like they pushed this out to get clicks. You know you fucked up when a lawyer (who comes from a family of journalists) schools you on journalism ethics. He was absolutely right when he stated that the article came off as a hit piece, and the attempts by the beat reporter to justify her sources look worse and worse every time she posts.
I don't see any evidence that the article has been "thoroughly debunked," but even if it has, it is eminently believable, which is the larger point. If everything was going perfectly great inside development, the game would be out by now and stories like this would get laughed off. All I'm saying about Star Citizen is exactly what I've been saying for three years now. They are trying to do too much. I don't care how much money they have, you can't make a game that is everything to everyone and have all of it be great. It's never been done, it never will be done. Something about that genre seems to make developers want to do too much, I've seen it too many times, and seen too many failures to just assume it can be done. Even "successes" like the new Elite are considered disappointments in many ways and didn't deliver everything they promised. If they release the best game ever made, great, and I think they are certainly capable of releasing something worthwhile. But the longer things have gone on, the weirder things have gotten, and the more drama seems to be showing up. That's not good evidence of destined success.
Happy Birthday!
And CSGO is reaching Dodo 2 numbers
As someone who has only played CSS, how does CSGO compare to it? I really like CSS but not a lot of people seem to play it still, so I've been thinking about trying out CSGO.
The game is now constantly in the first page of the Top Sellers. It's picking up.
Although, to be fair, today it had a pretty big drop.
Basically the same thing but better.
Playing CSS now is sorta like playing vanilla Street Fighter 4 instead of Ultra.
There's no reason to play to CSS over CS:GO
LurkerPrime
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The new Master of Orion won't have tactical combat or ship designing.
Just throw your hype meters on the ground, SteamGAF. It's over; the dream is dead.
Just throw your hype meters on the ground, SteamGAF. It's over; the dream is dead.
What movie is this gif from?
Given the frankly absurd scope of the game, I don't think it's reasonable to suggest that the game should be out by now. Also, there is a massive jump from suggesting that development isnt progessing smoothly and alledging criminal activity.
Halcyon-6 1 v 0 Master of Orion knockoff
lashman
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crazyrabbits
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It has nothing to do with whether the story is "believable". It has to do with whether it's truth or not. If it's the former, Roberts and co. are blustering and/or wouldn't have bothered to put out statements defending themselves in the first place. If it's the latter, the Escapist may be sued for libel.
Besides, games get delayed all the time. It's one thing to claim that a project had been delayed/subject to development hell because of competing egos, mismanagement or anything else in between. It's quite another to allege racism and inappropriate conduct, and never bother to give the alleged party a chance to respond until after you've already gone to print.
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