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Did Beamdog get folded into Aspyr due to Mythforce not selling well? Nightdive is also "related" to them now, if I remember correctly. All of them used to give us Linux ports, but all of them stopped doing so. :(

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Confusion say: "If you are ever caught in a sharknado keep your head and arms inside the car." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dle2PenPzgM

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@eggrole

And if the game is doing great? They can keep milking the micro transactions

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It's two-fold: online games can be shut down; online games can sell MTX cosmetics to instill FOMO. These random players look way cooler than me with their glowing cosmetics or product tie-ins! Hence why we saw them in Diablo 4.

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Oh well, all this year I have only been buying games that are compatible with Steam Deck or Linux. I expect this trend will continue forever. If you don't support my OS choice then I don't support your game.

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FTFY: Skate; an upcoming next-generation skateboarding game will be unsupported by SteamDeck & Gamers of Linux due to improper management.

It's now confirmed EA Javelin root-kit kernel malware will be required to make sure that skateboard chuds are not also secret UnIx I Gno Dis l33t h4x0rs of the aether who virtua kickflip unfairly.

I'll wipe my tears away with double diamond hand benjamins.

"Performative game dev as 'the product'" is a scourge on Video Games.

This is just a selection event in the industry, someone should create the "Darwin* GameDev Awards" where we send out trophies to publishers that self-annihilate.

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What's the rationale here?

The idea is that always online games can be turned off. If there are people happily playing Skate and Skate 2, we need to make it so they literally cannot continue to play (while they aren't doing that, they are planning that for skate. and future games). This way we "force" them to buy new games.

I honestly think it is as simple as this. Even if there is only a slight chance you buy another EA game, it doesn't matter. If all/most of the companies do more/all online, the forced churn will simply bring more people to the buying market and EA or any other corpo will get some of those sales.

And if the game is doing great? They can keep milking the micro transactions.

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Well then, I guess I won't be buying the upcoming skate from EA. Their loss.

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It's possible that they dock it and use the keyboard and mouse to play it or create key mappings using the trackpads and every button on the Steam Deck like some people do for RTS and FPS games.

I played BG3 on the Steam Deck. Start to finish and handheld. Both UIs have their problems, it's one of the weaker parts of the game, but you're getting far less UI clutter with a controller, and otherwise the game does not suffer at all either way. I normally prefer keyboard and mouse, but for BG3 I found the gamepad a perfectly pleasant way to play, in some ways more so than the K+M setup when I tried that to see how it felt. Even the many skill wheels you get with a gamepad weren't bad in terms of navigating them since you get used to how skills are organised etc. The alternative is just a wall of icons, so... not really any better?

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I put EA on my ignore list a long time ago.

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I can see some games being always online. Shooters of the sort where the point is you have a bunch of different people, like, shooting at each other, I can see being always online. But a skating game? How does that require other people? Even if there's leaderboards and stuff, that doesn't require being always online, and anyway if someone isn't interested in leaderboards why shouldn't they be able to just play the blasted game? Is this, like, a combat skating game where you ram your opponents and clobber them with your skateboard? What's the rationale here?

Doesn't matter to me, not interested in skating games except possibly someday that one with the birds.

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Tony hawk is Activision and Microsoft, no thanks.
I was actually kind of hopeful for this one. Well, guess I'm not playing any non-indie skating games for a while.

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Luckily there hasn't been a single game with anti-cheat that blocks Linux that I've had any interest in playing. as I don't play multiplayer games. A shame for people who want these games though.

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No native port?

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Just play Tony Hawk instead. 🤙

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What do expect of a company that doesn't even know to how apply basic grammar rules to a game title?

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Why always online? Skate, Skate 2 and Skate 3 were perfectly fun offline. I don't understand

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Please, don't buy our games!

If you insist.

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And with skate. being an online game with no offline mode

That sounds awful, regardless of whether it works on Linux or not.

Also, that name is chuffing terrible.

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System76 needs to really focus on updating their more portable line of laptops. Their Pangolin is still on the Ryzen 8000 series, not the AI series, let alone the Max series. So they are two generations old now.

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finally multihead!

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@purple library guy.

Not quite / additionally. It depends on the species. A lot of sharks need to swim to keep water going past their gills so they can breathe. I don't know the percenatage that can / can't "breathe", ie: pump water through their gills with swimming, like most fish can / do. Those tidal caves also tend to have strong currents moving water in and out, so they can stay oxygenated. You are right they don't have swim bladders and can sink, but that's not the only reason some of them need to keep moving.

reference: https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/sharks-rays-myths

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Aaand twenty years. Nostalgia. Right on time. ;p

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Anyone know if this is working on the Steam Deck? I might send this article to my wife.

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I'm glad Aspyr found their niche. Apple, Activision, et al. made doing macOS ports too damned expensive.

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I hope the driver exposes r, g and b files within the /dev tree so it can sync the system accent color to it in plasma.

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this might be the first ever complex rpg I would consider for the Deck. I still to this day can't fathom how people can play stuff like bg3 on a tiny screen with a controller, but it remains one of the top played games. So I must be totally crazy. This games graphics won't stress the deck at all, and as long as the UI is decent with a controller scheme, it could be fun nostalgia.

@R Daneel Olivaw
It's possible that they dock it and use the keyboard and mouse to play it or create key mappings using the trackpads and every button on the Steam Deck like some people do for RTS and FPS games.

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@tfk Not exactly, no. Sharks normally need to keep swimming because if they don't they gradually sink. Normal fish have this "swim bladder" thing that gives them neutral buoyancy, and sharks don't. But sharks around places like coral reefs and other shallow areas will apparently find caves and take a nap. So a shark could lie there getting dentisted and be fine.

On the other hand, the tooth thing . . . yeah, obviously the game is silly fun so it doesn't matter. But as people have said, no way would sharks need a dentist, they just lose teeth and get new ones. Heck, they're not even real teeth, they're made of fingernail stuff, and either they're modified scales or their scales are modified teeth, I'm not sure which way it goes.

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The new graphics are terrible and I've been running the GOG version of the OG on the Deck for months now without any issue (even made my own merged modpack). Unless something of worth gets added (the new UI looks terrible) I don't think I'm gonna pick it up.

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If we're gonna be discussing shark facts, here's my favourite: a shark generally only eats once or twice in a week. Most of the time they're just chilling and swimming around.

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Having shared my home with both species, I agree that cats may be better suited to the lifestyle of a software developer or author.

Dogs require more active attention than cats. While providing the socialization and exercise dogs need may benefit the developer's physical and mental health, it would certainly take them away more from their work. Cats will often just lie quietly nearby or on your lap -- unless they decide that they want your exclusive attention ... then you might hope that you have a spill-proof keyboard.

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