• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    141·
    1 year ago

    So, I’m excited for this game, but after being burned one too many times on preorders, I’ve made it a personal policy to refuse to engage any sort of preorder.

  • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    Going gold this early seems like a good sign about the state of the game. I’m very excited about this game, but I’m definitely waiting for reviews before I decide if I want to buy it right away or wait.

    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I really wouldn’t put much stock into it. Seems like a new buzzword everyone’s trying to use. Seems like they’re borrowing a term from gold images in the OS world.

      Really it just means that they have a version that runs and they’re going to push that out now, well they work on the first patch now. It being gold does not exclude it from a necessary day one patch.

      • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        It’s not a new term. Going gold for a game is a term that I have heard since at least the early 2000s. I doubt it was new then, just probably when I first heard it.

        It used to mean it’s the version that is going to be burned to the discs that you buy, which was a huge deal before downloadable updates. But I’m sure now it means it is the version they are uploading to Steam, PS store, Xbox store, etc.

        My point was that they could have waited until two days before release, and if they were still fixing issues, they would have. The rule of thumb is the earlier something goes gold, the more stable the game is. It’s not perfect, but it is a trend.

  • verysoft@kbin.social
    82·
    1 year ago

    Who is buying this on Steam? It’s priced higher than BG3…
    It’s defo a game for a month of game pass and then can purchase at a sale later if it’s worth it.

    • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      I’d rather pay than use Microsoft’s janky store. I have used gamepass a few times in the past, but I hated that I needed to mess with command line and restart my computer several times to get downloads to start and games to launch.

      Also, are Linux folks able to use gamepass?

      • Neuron@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Agreed. One day I realized my computer was completely out of space, was barely still running. Turns out Microsoft store had dutifully downloaded many copies of a game until the entire drive was full. Uninstalling got rid of only one copy of the files. Store said it was no longer installed even though all the files of many copies were still there. Deleting them manually was a horrible mess of permissions issues, involving the need to edit the registry and things too. I think I ended up needing to boot into Linux from a usb stick to finally fix everything up. Anyways, steam for me if I have the choice. Let me just delete files if I need to Microsoft, geeze.

      • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Game pass was unusable buggy on my pc too. Might have to do with all of the Xbox telemetry being disabled with extreme prejudice. I bought Forza Horizon 5 from the windows store and can’t get it to install at all. Works perfectly fine when I rebought it on sale on steam.

        Linux can’t use gamepass, but I’m not sure starfield is going to be too playable on Linux anyways.

        • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I didn’t disable anything on my PC. My roommate had the same problem and he’s pretty tech illiterate, so I’m sure he didn’t disable anything either.

          Why wouldn’t you think Starfield would be playable on Linux? The list of incompatible games has grown very small. I cant imagine they would have kernel anticheat on a single player game from a company that had traditionally embraced mods. That seems to go against Bethesda’s whole attitude. And nowadays kernel anti cheat is pretty much the only thing stopping people from playing any game on Linux.