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Can't really connect the first part of last response to the last part. But as for the last part, we are all in the same leaky boat.

So keep paddling.

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Quoting: Tethys84I think BG3 winning Labor of Love is absolute BS. No Man's Sky has been releasing FREE expansions every year, sometimes multiple. I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.

Literally lying the people about the features of the game before the release, then subsequently adding them years later is not labor of love. It is called BS. No Man's Sky was released such a bare bones state that they had to use stickers on physical copies to cover non-existed features. I would call those free expansions lawsuit evasion at best.

BG3 devs kept listening its community, improving the game by the feedback and even offered a native Steam Deck port. Here is gamingonLINUX, ofc will care the game and its dev who cared them in the first place. Not to mention, almost all previous games in the series were updated for modern OS and received Linux native port. Now, THAT'S dedication.

Sorry, but COMPLETELY disagree with you. That argument is BS and EXTREMELY TIRED at this point. Move on already. You people are so f***ing ridiculous. I'm done with these conversations. I have better things to do, like trying to find reasons to keep living in a world that's completely falling apart more and more every day when I turn on the news.

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Quoting: Tethys84I think BG3 winning Labor of Love is absolute BS. No Man's Sky has been releasing FREE expansions every year, sometimes multiple. I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.

Literally lying the people about the features of the game before the release, then subsequently adding them years later is not labor of love. It is called BS. No Man's Sky was released such a bare bones state that they had to use stickers on physical copies to cover non-existed features. I would call those free expansions lawsuit evasion at best.

BG3 devs kept listening its community, improving the game by the feedback and even offered a native Steam Deck port. Here is gamingonLINUX, ofc will care the game and its dev who cared them in the first place. Not to mention, almost all previous games in the series were updated for modern OS and received Linux native port. Now, THAT'S dedication.

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Quoting: Tethys84I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.

Well, they did release a native version for Steam Deck. And I guess it won't make them lots of money... (I'm not saying this is the reason for the people to vote for it though.)

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I haven't played a single one of the winners and am only really interested in Silent Hill F which I'll play at some point. My GOTY is by FAR Where Winds Meet and It's so depressing that it didn't at least get nominated for that award.

I think BG3 winning Labor of Love is absolute BS. No Man's Sky has been releasing FREE expansions every year, sometimes multiple. I can't see BG3 having done anything deserving that award. 100% feel like people just vote for what's trending.

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Quoting: JuliusCompared to previous awards it is interesting that there is no classic AAA title among it this year, except for maybe Silent Hill f.

Not sure how surprising that even is, given that the overwhelming majority (tempted to say 'all', but I don't want to overgeneralize) of AAA titles in recent history are uninspired corporate slop, without any soul or substance. I wonder for how long the big gaming studios are going to sell people the same game every year, until someone notices. Personally, I am not sure what makes people still buy Assassin's Creed, Battlefield, Call of Duty & Co. If they start AI-generating these games one day, nobody could tell the difference.

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Seems like there’s a lot of multiplayer titles on the main list, while the Steam Deck top played are mostly single-player experiences - and even then, a heavy lean on indies and/or less graphically intensive.

I don’t play any of the games in the main list, but I play/have played many on the Steam Deck’s list. I guess my tastes are somewhat mainstream, but focused on deep single-player games, especially anything with a story to tell.

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Quoting: JuliusCompared to previous awards it is interesting that there is no classic AAA title among it this year, except for maybe Silent Hill f.

Folks are definitely fed up with the status quo. Indies (and pseudo-indies) are where both innovation and quality seem to be thriving right now.

(Also, a lot of us are broke, so indies are all we can afford most of the time, especially outside of sales.)

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Compared to previous awards it is interesting that there is no classic AAA title among it this year, except for maybe Silent Hill f.

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The best game of the year(*) is available natively for Linux!

(*) according to some voting

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One thing I've noticed lately is that everyone and their kid brother (for some reason it's all guys) seems to be doing videos about how they switched to Linux because Windows 11 sucks so hard. Or tried to . . . many were fine, but some found that in the end, some key piece of software stopped them from going full Linux.

But what I've found interesting is that everyone in these videos seems to agree that, as an OS, Linux is better than Windows now--more user friendly, not getting in your way, no ads, more privacy, customizable and so on . . . absolutely nobody said anything about Windows having any actual features they missed in Linux. When there was a caveat it was always "So it was great, but I need to use Adobe stuff" or "It was great, but the anti-cheat situation". Which means basically for any use-case that doesn't specifically require particular Windows software that won't work in Wine or Proton, everyone agrees Linux is not just ready, but superior.

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I find the inclusion of R.E.P.O on both lists rather surprising.

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Quoting: mattaraxiaThe trend is insane.

10% by 2030 or so seems inevitable now. I think at that level, it's the point where people can largely stop caring.

I mean, if you just want to see Microsoft lose OK that won't be done.

But at 10%, you'll be able to buy a mouse or a monitor or whatever, and assume its firmware is on LVFS. Any game publisher not bothering to at least test with Proton, will be truly an outlier.

From the consumer's point of view, pragmatically, it'll be about the same as 50%.

ASSUMING the bestfit is correct... yes 2030 for 10% is possible

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I don't have many dx6 games, but it appears to work fine in TR: Chronicles so far🥰 I just love this project sooooooooooo much

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Generally, these "most played" reports continue to prove to me that I am old and don't like what everyone else likes 😭 Don't get me wrong, I play BF6 and I have played Arc Raiders, and they are great games, but a lot of games on these reports boggle my mind.

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Also interesting to see SteamOS Holo being dethroned by Other and Arch-Based(if you sum them up like here.
Also if you just look at Linux English got a 100% share, I assume if multiple languages are installed Steam counts English as well xD

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Ooooh, Sacrifice ! 🥰

One of my favorite games of all times...At one point I used to know my CD key by heart 😅

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dx6 was a big improvement over dx5. Introduced immediate mode which stayed until dx9.
dx7 was basically a drop-in-replacement for dx6. They kept the retained mode libs and updated the immediate mode stuff. As I remember the only noticeable change was how the maxtrix operations was handled, and if you did that change you'd get matrix processing offload to the TnL unit of Geforce/Radeon/Matrox cards of the time.

I think the industry upgraded to dx7 quite fast as it was a near-seamless upgrade from a dx6 codebase.

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Logically I probably knew there was a dx6, but somehow I feel I went from dx5 to dx7 on windows back then.

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Megabonk is an absolute must among native linux games. The entire industry could learn a lot from that one little game.

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-.01%

Sorry guys I turned my computer off to go make a sandwich. It won't happen again this month I promise.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI like that trend line. :D

And it's better than that, really. It looks an awful lot like two trend lines, one of very gradual increase up to the Steam Deck release, and then a significantly steeper rise from Steam Deck release to now.

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This will be worth noting. It won't support flathub at launch: https://nitter.net/slikey/status/2006779559631532116#m

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Quoting: chrBut that is my taste, we may well disagree in our likes. Discussion about perceived text and subtext very welcome.

Not sure the trailer really gives us enough to judge. It could be played basically straight, and implicitly authoritarian. Or, it could be satirical, along the lines of a Starship Troopers kind of thing, but played a bit quieter.

Very fair!
But I'd also argue that a Starship Troopers with too subliminal satire ends up playing out as glorifying for too large part of the audience for my personal comfort.
But ofc overdoing satire is also possible. And some people can ignore even the most blatant of ridicule and still worship the militarism and the skulls on the baddies' caps 🤷‍♀️

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The trend is insane.

10% by 2030 or so seems inevitable now. I think at that level, it's the point where people can largely stop caring.

I mean, if you just want to see Microsoft lose OK that won't be done.

But at 10%, you'll be able to buy a mouse or a monitor or whatever, and assume its firmware is on LVFS. Any game publisher not bothering to at least test with Proton, will be truly an outlier.

From the consumer's point of view, pragmatically, it'll be about the same as 50%.

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I have two games on those lists. Perhaps my preferences are less mainstream? 😀

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So if they've added bees, should they now call it Bzzzite?

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Quoting: ShmerlI think it's good — looks like they made GOG private so they can pursue their own vision and not be pressured by shareholders of CDPR.

I.e. may be they can spend on Linux now more, while before shareholders could tell them not to prioritize Linux support. Just my guess. In the end, it's really up to what they want.

yeah, looking at valve and other game companies, private company is a better model for company-customer relationships. it allows for following long term strategies without being pressed by shareholders.

In my experience it really depends. Private is great but usually only when a company starts. Not speaking about GOG specifically, but in general, when a public company "goes private" the $$$ often comes from private equity firms which in turn is typically absolutely terrible for everyone - meaning both consumers AND employees, especially employees - other than the top-most leadership themselves. When you work for a public company that announces going private, it's frankly a good idea to start brushing up the resume and looking ahead to your next career move, even getting a jump on it, before you get surprised.

Anyway, at least with GOG it sounds like it's probably fine or even a good thing. Reads to me like this move is just saving GOG's existence before future changes occur; Which is great.

Yes. I'm a big fan of everything that Valve has done versus other game distributors, of course, but the weird veneration of non publicly traded companies who are probably have a lot of private investor relationships every time this comes up in gaming forums rubs me the wrong way.

On one hand, I do think it's true that Valve can get away with being a better company than most companies because they are not publicly traded, since stock market investors are quite accurately known for being very impatient and short-termist in their outlook and, these days, usually downright viciously resistant to the very idea of any profits being reinvested in the company rather than simply handed over to them.

But that definitely does not mean that not being publicly traded is going to make a company good. Very often it just means exchanging one style of horrible investor for another, and private equity firms often go past "short termist" into "deliberately destructive and fraudulent". Even if it's an owner/CEO thing like Gabe (I know, he doesn't own the whole thing, but he has enough control to set the tone), that won't help if the person at the top is someone like Sweeney, or a Koch brother. Companies of any size are just very rarely good, no matter how they're financed. I do think that publicly traded takes the chances down from "slim" to "none" though.

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Quoting: _wojtek

Quoting: JarmerLibrewolf
Zen Browser
Waterfox

there you go, three alternatives that have no ai integrations whatsoever.

Yes… and they develop everything… oh wait - they rely on Mozilla work and simply remove couple of things, so if Mozilla/Firefox bites the dust, those will vanish into oblivion…

Just a minor correction, but Zen also adds a bunch of custom UI code as well as a feature or two (tab "modals" and split view). Your point remains, I just wanted to clarify this.

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