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Chazore said:
hinch said:

That's great hopefully the anniversary is a free update on Steam. Bethesda has been given a lot of shit for Fallout 76 though their support for their games has been pretty darn awesome and how it should be done. Like I bought Quake rerelease on Steam which came out in 2007, and it received a new update yesterday (remaster) that had a lot of work done to it. Other devs would charge you again for a simple texture redo and lighting and this comes with DLC's too.

But yeah, loving Quake remaster so far. Rocket jumping at 240hz never felt so good!

We did get SSE for free from them back in 2016, so it'd make sense for them to give this as a free update.

That being said, some of those F76 updates were mostly needed updates, and I'm still (like many others on Steam forums are saying) waiting for that much needed optimisation update, because hot damn, performance be janky as hell on F76, even 2 yrs later. 

I've always believed and still hold onto it, that these sorts of updates should always remain free on PC. It was like that in the past before, some devs still do it today, so there's not really an overwhelming excuse to stop doing it (unless the game is a complete revamp and hundreds of millions were used to make it all possible, which is very unlikely, given how little some games update their texture/enviro details with their remasters). 

I just realised that I don't even own OG Quake on Steam, gotta fix that soon. 

Yeah, true people have paid money on a product and it should be supported as such. Like reskined or updated models and textures shouldn't cost them much to do and that cost shouldn't be passed onto us consumers. That's kinda why I support companies that do this. Like Valve and CDPR, I know when I buy games from them, they'll keep them up to date and supported for many years after release.

You can find Quake cheap on reseller websites I got mine for £1 but there are others around £4. Which is still half price on Steam store.

Last edited by hinch - on 20 August 2021