Shitlisting Service Announcements

After having his title simmer around in the current ♥♥♥♥-filled swimming pool that is the Steam store page, he decided to upload a torrent of his game on ye ol' P2P site to subsequently get an enormous boost in sales:

https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/13/21063660/danger-gazers-torrent-steam-sales-piracy

This is not including a bunch of generous donations and thankful emails that he got after, as well.


This is so weird, right? It's almost like piracy is not only de-facto free advertising but the reason people pirate in the first place is because they do not have (or want to spend) the money on a given game and/or they want to test it first!

I'm sure he would have gotten like, 2000% more sales if he used Denuvo, you guys.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1043150/Danger_Gazers/

Update right now or you're ♥♥♥♥♥♥, boys.

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-014a

https://twitter.com/NordVPN/status/1217374476968628225

The most vulnerable demographic are W10 users - apparently ones that have updated most recently - which makes this entire situation ironic (and hilarious) following people's repeated anti-W7 argument preachings that "MUHH, WINDOWS 7 NU SEYF, NU SUPHORT" takes a nosedive.

https://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html

If you're a W7 user, go to services and disable these: https://i.imgur.com/LMDPVu6.png

You should probably also get some sort of firewall or antivirus if you don't have one already.

https://i.imgur.com/sjZDtyW.png

Not entirely sure what's going on but Windows 7 according to the Steam Hardware Survey is currently exploding in popularity while Windows 10 is crashing:

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

I've always been an advocate of W7 after seeing just how much of a colossal, never-ending ♥♥♥♥ up rollercoaster W10 is which makes this a good thing to see.

https://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html

This actually happened a while ago but i forgot to make an announcement on it:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SlistingService/discussions/0/3051633726588029230/

After having their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DRM made in a basement by some pleb russian get blown the ♥♥♥♥ up in 2 seconds once a developer was stupid enough to buy into their scam, they've completely shut down after having their main activity be visiting the above forum thread and trying to fix their website to not be complete ♥♥♥♥ multiple times.


As a last act of spite, they used the remaining month or two of their website server & URL lease to have their site redirect to a random FBI cyber crime web article.

Real funny ♥♥♥♥.

Ever had those REALLY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying, relentless stutters when you were playing Denuvo protected games like Ass Creed? Thought it was your specs or a game bug? Spotty optimization? Perhaps some memory leaks?.. Well..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnSavmI3knQ

https://i.imgur.com/tDdWgMk.png

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Increases your loading times by 100-400%.

Rapes performance by 10-50% depending on your specs in relation to the game and how Denuvo was implemented.

Causes non-stop, heavy stuttering.

Increases file-sizes by 200%+.

Locks you out of something you bought and legally own after X amount of time.

Removes the possibility for games to be ported for and played on MAC & Linux.

Locks you from playing it randomly if you don't have an internet connection.

Takes away precious money, time and manpower from the developers that could have been spent on the actual game.

Completely disables your ability to run a game if you have certain hardware.

Blocks games from being modded extensively.

Doesn't fully uninstall itself after the accompanied product is removed, making it bloatware by definition... And the list just goes on.

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People are still defending developers and publishers using this DRM on forums, by the way.

This is actually pretty semi-old news but late in 2018, Valve completely axed the Steam Link while tots' promising to continue the Steam Machine but it has now been taken off the store for an entire year and it is still nowhere to be seen.. Right when the christmas season is about to start.

It's fairly safe to assume that their overpriced alienware ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is not coming back anytime soon.

Valve also announced a VR exclusive Half Life game costing 50€. I laughed at it extensively, stopped laughing and then laughed some more..

Then i made this thread.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/546560/discussions/0/1657817111851216693/

Enjoy the rage.

Here's a spooky story covering my review for Archeage:

https://steamcommunity.com/id/Coeco/recommended/1147660/

Developer & Developer response included, but perhaps the most scary thing is despite them completely disabling an in-game season pass where they'd shower you in money for doing garbage (that you could then reset to effectively dupe money) is that there's rumors where users can RE-ENABLE this season pass through editing their .ini files to keep getting money even with the game having EAC.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrifying.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SlistingService/discussions/0/1606022547913173483/

People have been asking me to do this for quite a while now, and while i've explained this a few times in comments, it's due for it's own thread since it keeps being brought up.

Many people will not like what's written in this. You've been warned.

This has been going on since earlier this month but there has still been no fix to the situation after nearly two weeks, so here we go:

https://i.imgur.com/osal2Ru.png

TL;DR: They cut your ability to purchase the Valve VR headset using steam wallet funds (that can be gotten from YEARS of trading in the community market). This includes if you say, threw 1000€ into it.

"Just Valve being massive greedy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ as usual", i hear you say. But the real kicker is that this is in direct violation of their EULA.

Get your lawsuits while they're hot.

https://everythingvalve.wordpress.com

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/df0rez

https://steamcommunity.com/id/Coeco/recommended/1085660

ALL links which were composed of imgur screenshots from the game, a youtube link and the pastebin extension of the review has been removed with no notification or reason given to me whatsoever from Steam & Valve.

Here's the entire review with all the links for y'all to try and tell me what's breaking the rules:

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A profound disappointment and a technological trainwreck describes Destiny 2 pretty well. Activision funding, Bungie developers, over two years since release and this is STILL a multi-layered mess of a sh*t sandwich. I've now played this game on 4 different occassions with 3 different rigs and it is nothing but an astonishment on just how brutally mismanaged this game is along with how little love has actually been put into polishing this title.

Want to know the how's and why's? Read on.



1. Pay To Win

Much to my surprise after the initial wave of controversies in 2017 and them now subsequently going F2P as a "fresh start" opportunity, Bungie has decided to only partially restructure how they are giving out very tangible, hard advantages to people who spend money into the game. This time around, it is now present in the Season Pass where right from the get-go at level one, you'll be getting an exotic weapon, armor and more: https://i.imgur.com/g5WX7SE.png

And beyond that, it is a consistent, generous shower of legendary engrams, upgrade components, stacks of currency, legendary armor pieces and even exotic engrams: https://i.imgur.com/kHgjVbz.png - While this is an improvement of what was before, there is still a distinct p2w element even if some of it is locked behind playing the game.. And now i am not mentioning the PAY-WALLED DLC ABILITIES: https://i.imgur.com/ErHHPei.png

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2. Demolished Redesign

Following the re-release here on Steam, Bungie threw a bunch of stuff into the dumpster with nothing to replace this and nowhere is this more obvious than the beginning of the game. You're squeezed through a stupidly short tutorial and then you're given a swift kick to the rear out into the open world, being given the "power level" of 750. Having forgotten most of what i previously experienced, me as a REOCCURING player had the following questions pop up into my head "What the f*ck am i doing? What am i supposed to be doing? What's the story again? Who are these guys i'm shooting? Where the hell am i?" and the list goes on.

Turns out they completely ripped out the entire starting campaign instead of adding a "skip" button and hid it behind a singular, seemingly random NPC that you have to go talk to if you want some actual backstory or context to your situation.. And there is no incentive for you to do this actual campaign besides information as they didn't bother adding any sort of reward to completing it. What the actual f*ck have you been smoking, Bungie? NEW STOREFRONT. NEW PLAYERS. RETURNING PLAYERS WITH NO MEMORY.

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3. Bungie's Modus Operandi

Remember when Bungie went out of their way to implement a system where your progression would be strangled to a complete halt in the most deceptive way possible by showing you false numbers and other shady shìt? Yeah, that happened and was a thing for a very long time before users started getting wise by looking at things under a microscope and subsequently calling them out on it once it was discovered.. Which they only then removed to avoid backlash.

This kind of backwaters snake-oil bullsh*t is something i have absolutely ZERO tolerance for. It is blatant fraud which they spent time, money and effort to put into the game instead of doing any of the plethora other possible options to slow player progression - if they so wished for it. "BUT IT'S REMOVED NOW!!!" I hear you saying. Maybe so, but what OTHER things are they doing? What has it been replaced with? Which similar things are they planning? We'll never know because they have now openly been exposed to be a set of developers (and now publishers) with zero transparency or even goodwill towards their user base.

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4. Technical Trainwreck

This is the big one that i'm gonna have to break up into sub-categories. Destiny 2 is a game in severe need of system reworks all the way from the ground up and unfortunately, it's never going to get this much needed love as they already have a lifespan plan for the game while also working in-house on another project.

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A) Servers & Networking: Despite having done very extensive testing on their servers during their time on battlenet, the launch of the game (12h~ lockdown + emergency maintenance) and subsequent days afterwards (now) have some serious stability problems which to my knowledge after some testing of my own is currently the cause of a lot of people's crashes while also greatly increasing certain loading times.

B) Client Performance: It's garbage almost across the entire board. The game runs poorly de-facto with there being little to no evidence that there's been actual optimization efforts at all outside the tutorial. Lowering the options have absolutely minimal impacts with some settings being locked to medium or higher. MANY people with extremely high-end PC's are struggling to run the game at all. Stable 4K is currently considered impossible by most enthusiasts.

Consistency is non-existent - Me and other people can have stable 120+ FPS in some zones & maps just to chug down to below 30 in others, even if it's the same level of combat intensity. Loading times are at a state borderlining equal to GTA V's release. The game is at a bloated 82'ish GB size with consoles reporting a 60+ GB increase for shadowkeep alone. The game faces HEAVY mouse-lag problems if the polling rate exceeds 500 (ton of gaming mice, if not most, have a standard of 1000). Inputs suffer from significant ghosting which becomes particularly crippling if you use things like burst rifles and the list just goes on.

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5. Design Idiocy

This will be perhaps the more opinionated section of this review but i'm gonna provide examples and hopefully you'll see what i mean.

A) Enemy Scaling: Ever thought it was a bit weird how enemies never seem to get any weaker as you get stronger through better gear? That's because they get stronger if you do.. Which means that the entire RPG element of this game is completely fake & fabricated. You're doing repetitive tasks like a monkey to push your arbritrary number up and get rewarded by random gear pieces and a new map unlocking every now and then if you've been real good, depending on how much XP you have accumulated. If you take a second to look at this system from afar, it is the most pointless, deceptive, patethic waste of time and effort on the planet.

B) Difficulty: Destiny 2 isn't difficult. At all. This has a number of factors as to why this is, but the most prominent one is that it's a console port. PC Players besides their superior looks, genes, muscles and sexual prowess also have a benefit of using a vastly superior control scheme (especially for a shooter) which leads to an already easy casual game becoming a complete snore-fest.

This is all due to the AI being grossly simple and incompetent. Going into this game several times with ignorance, I was never at any point remotely surprised by anything any enemy did. Ever. On-top of this, you also have the funny situation where there is still aimbot in the game on things like melee attacks - which you can spam, reducing the already tiny punishments of failure like not managing your ammo. Death has no consequence either as you can spawn in as little as 3 seconds afterwards.. But they ALSO added a patch buffing next to all PvE weapon damages across the board sometimes as much as 50% in the 2.5.2.3 update. Comparing Destiny 2's difficulty to most other games makes it a joke.


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6. Story

It's complete irredeemable trash. Just watch this basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqyco2NYBOs

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These are the more prominent things i could fit into this review with Steam's text limits. If you want to read up even more examples and the continuation on this review as to why this game sucks with a personal "pet peeves" list of mine, you can do so here:

https://pastebin.com/bxxvpy0H