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Quoting: pbIf valve's cut inflates the prices, then how come games that are not on steam (ubi/origin/nintendo exclusives) cost the same? $60/70 at launch? They're selling on their own stores, so shouldn't they be 30% cheaper or something? Or how about epic exclusives? Dead Island 2 was $59.99 at launch (one-year epic store exclusive), and a year later it launched on steam at the same price. Shouldn't they take advantage of epic's lower cut and give the consumers a better price in the first year, before the alleged steam price parity was enforced? No? Anyone?

Certainly pricing on things like software is tricky, because you have to charge for it like you would for a normal commodity where there is a unit price to produce, when for software, including games, there effectively isn't, copies cost zero. The cost of producing the game is basically a single lump, and you are trying to make enough money on (unit price * number of sales) to pay for that single lump and ideally a bit more. Epic store is not going to get you much number of sales, so I expect there's a need to get as much as you can per unit. On the other hand, I understand Epic store exclusives involve a payment up front from Epic. And then on the third hand, there is generally going to be some relationship between price and how many people will fork over that much money. On this, Steam's system with sales and discounting works pretty well to catch buyers willing to pay at different price points. But, so, pricing is tricky, sure--there isn't going to be an immediate one-to-one correspondence between the cut and the price.

But still, that 30% is coming off the top and it is real money; it increases the number of sales or the price level needed for a developer to break even on a game, and there's no way around that. If, say, the store's expenses are only 10%, both developers and consumers are ending up with less money in the end than they could have. I don't know how much of Valve's take is pure profit, because they play those cards very close to their vest. But it would be worth finding out.

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Interesting, as ShabbyX said, there will be a day when my kids will want to play Minecraft. This might do as a subsitute with the proper minecraft-inspired mods.

No pesky Microslop involved grabbing cash and sniffing telemetry even if I host the games myself.

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OK, sure. Here we go again with this GOG preservation rodeo. I really like the concept behind GOG, but they should do better.

Does the more widely (and going forward it's likely that: exclusively) available FF8R qualify as preserving Final Fantasy 8? I'd really like to see the rationale here.

I'd argue the regular PC FF8 qualifies for preservation before FF8R. The latter is a standard boneheaded Square "remaster" where new, ill-fitting in terms of art style and fidelity models clash with the blurry mess that are the new pre-rendered backgrounds in a perfect botched mess of an upscale job. There's a list of issues, but the main thing is that FF8R does not (sufficiently) accurately replicate the intended original experience. That also goes for FF8PC if we're comparing to PSX, but I'm assuming we're preserving the PC version with its original warts, instead of... adding more warts where there have been few before, but with built-in cheats, so who gives a toss, slap a sale on it.

Realistically, I'm amazed the original is still sold on Steam. Kind of looks like Square... forgot it exists? Or that someone at Square is aware they dropped the ball.

In any event, this is closer to re-writing history than it is to preservation. Par for the course, sadly.

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The key to pineapple pizza is you need to combo it with savory and/or spicy.

So instead if Ham which makes the whole pizza sweet, do pepperoni or nduja. That will balamce the pineapple sweet but let the flavor work.

Also corn ans a Rosetta sauce (usually some kind of marinara/white sauce mix) can really elevate. Same with jalapeños, especially if you want to keep it vegetarian.

The interview was great too.

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Pineapple exists to be put on pizzas. The high acidity works so well with cheese.

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And the only anticheated game I really want to play is missing from the catalog... 😡

Yes, still fuming that Rockstar changed the A/C and GTA Online is not playable anymore in Linux.

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Quoting: Tethys84

Quoting: QYMEIt still a shame that ff4 years after, the pixel version, is stuck on the psp. We can only buy the 3d one nowadays.

What? The pixel version is on Steam. Not sure what you are talking about.

QYME is referring to the PSP remake of IV, which many consider to be the best iteration of the game. It is not available on Steam. Or anywhere, as far as I can tell.

It'd be a good game for GOG to preserve, but it never received a PC release so it's ineligible. Thankfully ROMs exist.

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Not only is it AI garboslop, it doesn't even MAKE SENSE for them to use...? I don't even understand how this was even put up on their site at all? A snes console? For a pc gaming platform? An ancient 4x3 crt tv? Someone on a couch staring at the back of a tv?

None of it even makes sense, even if you can (I can't) get past the use of AI. So ..... wtf is even happening over at the gog braintrust? Nothing?

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: amataiShouldn't we call it WFCE then ?

No, because the X in Xfce doesn't stand for X11. Or anything else. It's just a name that looks a lot like an acronym, for historical reasons.

It was Xellent Friggin Cool Desktop Environment.
I did not want to swear, so changed it to Friggin instead.
And boy it still lives up to it's name.
Every time I switch my computer on, I know I'm in for a good time.

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Great to see Linux gaming getting stronger and stronger.

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Quoting: Boldos"ASUS Linux"? 🤔

Tools for ASUS / ROG hardware... https://asus-linux.org/

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I'm probably one of the very few people on the planet who not only loves FF8, but that consider it to be their favorite of the series. I actually played this before 7 which I didn't get around to until much later. So much nostalgia with it and I still enjoy it to the present which is rare for things I have nostalgia for.

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Quoting: QYMEIt still a shame that ff4 years after, the pixel version, is stuck on the psp. We can only buy the 3d one nowadays.

What? The pixel version is on Steam. Not sure what you are talking about.

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That line to buy the new steam controller will be very weird with 10000 firsts in line 😆

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It still a shame that ff4 years after, the pixel version, is stuck on the psp. We can only buy the 3d one nowadays.

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Very good to see these enter the preservation program. I would like to see the XIII trilogy added as well since those are currently sort of difficult to run without user patches. My understanding is the GOG preservation program includes work on GOG's part to modify the games to run well on modern systems.

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Hand of Fate games were amazing. I hope this one will be at least good as well!

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: PyreticUnfortunately, NVIDIA's and AMD's Vulkan drivers on Windows is such a goddamn mess

Rather than the drivers being "a goddamn mess", I suspect a lot of it is the game engines being the problem. Godot shouldn't have that problem, but I have no idea what issues people ran into (maybe Intel and AMD Windows driver bugs?).

[Here's a recent AMD Vulkan issue on Windows](https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/109378), that could only be fixed by switching to DX12 or waiting for a graphics driver update. Keep in mind that this was a regression, meaning that this had happened before.

[Here's a recent NVIDIA Vulkan issue on Windows](https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/102219).

Again, no hate to either the Khronos Group or the Godot developers, but Vulkan just isn't well supported on Windows.

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Pineapple AND corn.

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Why can’t we just call it a Linux distro?

I think that’s the beauty of a “Gaming distro”

Kk, not a distro, a Gaming distro it is! 😆 *scnr*

Thanks for this interview!

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Yes, the usual suspects and that is telling.

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In further GPD shenanigans, they misrepresented videos from streamers playing on Steam Deck by splicing their handhelds into the streamer's footage, naturally without permission: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/gpd-are-getting-quite-desperate-against-the-steam-deck/

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GPD does have form claiming association with prominent third parties that never actually worked with them. It can't be naive on their part.

Previously, they claimed Valve was working with them on official SteamOS support for the GPD 4, which was also inaccurate: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/gpd-win-4-handheld-plans-to-support-valves-steamos-in-2025/

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switched to cachy os after being tired of windows after all these years and i am impressed with how easy the switch was with the new installer. Tried GRUB and limine without issue updating and boot was fine and drivers where found.

Hardware being used i9-12900KF and RTX 5070, games work with frame gen using proton-GE latest and cachy proton but found GE to be more stable with frame gen especially on arc raiders (seeing 400fps+)

Temps on hardware are much lower than windows seeing 20-30degrees on CPU which i never saw on windows before.

Yes, it takes some time to learn linux especially arch but this distro won me over.

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Quoting: KeksusSo this basically?

https://xkcd.com/927/

No, it's literally the opposite, that's part of the entire point. They're bundling things together, and working more on upstreaming things so there's less competing things. Did...you even read the article? It was pretty clear lol.

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"ASUS Linux"? 🤔

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*Cries in Kepler GPU*

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More collaboration in open-source is always welcome.

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Vibe-coded GOG Galaxy client for Linux coming soon?

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Quoting: Stella

Quoting: The_Real_Bitterman"Reduce duplicate efforts", "replacing Lutris with fagus launcher" ... Nobody forced them not to use Flatpaks...

This really sounds like a self inflicted issue caused by point-releases and their cravings to package everything downstream instead. Then call it a win to form an organization to fix what they caused themselves...

I mean nobody prohibited them to push their modifications to the mainline kernel even before.

While I also came to learn that all these "gaming tweaks" and "optimisations" usually don't deliver any real differences or significant improvements over something not having these "gaming optimisations".

Flatpak launchers have many issues including gamescope/scopebuddy not working and using their own outdated Mesa, as well as being affected by the Nvidia Flatpak driver issues, this is why a built in launcher is greatly preferred

Uhm, no. Gamescope works fine here. I mean there's literally an up-to-date Gamescope runtime which just maps into every flatpaks supporting it. But also why then not shipping just Gamescope outside of flatpak? Gamemode works the same way. Installed on the host and everything flatpak can use gamemoderun just fine.

What NVIDIA flatpak driver issue? Do I live in a parallel universe? Zero issue with flatpaks and NVIDIA drivers here. They just work. (Well despite the usual NVIDIA stuff you have regardless)

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