• 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?

      • 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.

      • 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.