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They should simply restructure to making their own games.
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Last edited by Shmerl on 7 June 2020 at 4:16 am UTC
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More and more indie studios maybe but not more and more AAA studios. I have little faith or optimism that developers making games for Stadia will make native Linux versions. I will be happy to be wrong but time will tell.
Maybe they could sustain themselves mainly with their console ports and release Linux versions where they can get the developers to agree to it. I recall that some of their Linux people left, though.
The thing that you wouldn't know if you don't buy Feral games is that it's not the ports themselves that are the big draw - although they're good - it's the support. You can compare Aspyr's not being bothered to make Borderlands 2 work (or Rocket League, for an "in-house" example) with Feral's creation of game mode, or the "Fixed graphical corruption in Vulkan game F1 2017" line in the changelog for Nvidia's driver that happened because Feral made it happen.
They're still of value to us, and they're still of value to developers, even in a post-Proton post-Stadia world. It would be a real shame if there's not enough business to sustain them making Linux ports.
Last edited by CatKiller on 7 June 2020 at 5:38 am UTC
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Stadia happened, so that includes what you call "AAA" studios (I dislike that term though, it's pretty useless).
Last edited by Shmerl on 7 June 2020 at 5:54 am UTC