Hot take: a game shouldn’t be considered fully verified unless it can be played offline. It’s a bloody handheld, I want to play on it while traveling!
Is it wrote on the market page of the game as requirement for play ? If yes, why it shouldn’t apply to the deck ?
Does the Switch have any exclusively-online games? That’s a genuine question that I’m interested in for comparison purposes.
I think it’s a load of shit that any single-player experience requires an internet connection. I still know people with shoddy enough connections that they can’t play games like Diablo 4 on their desktop pc. However, I don’t think that it should disqualify a game from being Verified.
That’s a question that occurred to me during this discussion too. Please ping me if you’d get an answer. I’m not a Nintendo person, so I’m not sure where to even start researching that.
A niche issue, but if you have two switches utilizing the same account, the second switch needs internet connection to ping/verify to make sure that your account isn’t being played on more than one switch at the same time. This occurs when initially loading any game on the second switch regardless if the game itself is an online game and allegedly every few hours after that.
I mean its debatable, given a person can arbitrarily hotspot with their phone.
Saying that no game with muliplayer only (e.g mmos) cant get verified is a very specific category.
If someone wanted single player experiences, you could just filter out tags.
At the very least there should be a separate category for games verified to work offline. It would be easier to tolerate if it was a generic Proton compatibility rating, but it’s not, it’s a rating for how well it works on this handheld.
A hotspot is hardly a solution. If I’d be willing to drain my phone battery in travel, gaming on a phone is an option too. For me saving the phone battery is one of the primary advantages of a dedicated gaming device.
It is an optional solution. You could choose to have a wifi hotspot as well, or be in a location offering wifi. Its having the specific uaecase of refusing to use any of the 3 is saying, “I dont do this, therefore i want the definition changed” even though the changed definition doesn’t apply to everyone.
The current definition of steam verified is very basic, and should stay basic. And people should adjust their filters for their definition instead of valve picking a more precise definition, and the definition being illogical for other usecases
Using filters or creating/joining a curators list is precisely what you should do for more specific situations.
That assumes hotspot is included in your wireless plan, and it isn’t included in a lot of the cheapest ones.
Hotspot is a free feature on every phone. Just get an unlimited plan and easily share with your Steam Deck.
And also a shit game.
I’m sure all 300 active players will be delighted
I wish I could transfer my license from battlenet to steam… sigh.
A little late guys…… already bought the game on the blizzard launcher and installed it on the deck that way. Then I played through the campaign, that was fun. Then I got to the seasonal content (that I was looking forward to as someone with hundreds of hours in Diablo 3) and I uninstalled it
If I get the itch again I’ll fire up 3.
