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The deck has made me more likely to buy a game on steam because of how easy it is.
Seamlessly syncing game saves between my Deck and my primary gaming PC is so nice. Before I travel I just make sure to wake up the deck long enough to get updates and sync saves.
For non steam games I use syncthing but that always requires just a little bit of work.
Can you use this feature with games added as a shortcut (bought from other means).
I’m guessing the answer is no?
A non-steam game can be launched through Steam on either device, but Steam doesn't sync game saves for non-Steam games, hence Toribor's use of syncthing. Once a sync job is set up for each game's save folder, it'll keep them synced about as well as Steam does for native games.
Pretty neat workaround!
I would love to see a chart with my steam purchases over the years. There would be a huge spike up as soon as my deck arrived.
Same. I play the same 5 games throughout the year and rarely buy anything, but a few games I'd been looking at went on sale. I could've pirated them, but it was just so much easier to click buy on my Steam Deck and instantly download and play them. Not to mention cloud saves for free, remote play, and the ability to dock the thing to my 65" 4k TV.
Steam has robbed me of more money than any streaming service ever could, and I'm not even mad because they provide the best service I've ever received no matter how many or few games I buy. They recently identified one of the biggest reasons for refunds and piracy being people who want to validate games will run well on their system, especially on Steam Deck. As a result they're working on a demo feature so you can test a game before buying it.
A demo feature would be absolutely amazing.
Yeah and once I got a steam deck I got back into PC gaming and built a rig spending even more money on steam games. It's win, win for Gabe.
The deck has made me highly interested in building a desktop for the first time in a long time, running Chimera OS. I didn't realize something like the deck was possible, and I'd just dock it if it were more powerful, but it doesn't need to be more powerful as a handheld. I'd love a high end gaming PC that is able to park in the living room and function just fine with my dualsense controller. Prices have mostly come down, so I've window shopped a solid build for about $1200, but the GPU alone would've been about that much until pretty recently.