Is anyone actually asking for ports though? It takes a lot less development time and energy to support the game through Proton/Lutris/etc than it does to make a native port. Your game does NOT have to be native to be Linux compatible.

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I just check this list every time it comes up for Persona 5. Not a game I play, but a friend was complaining it wasn't verified.

Which I don't think people understand is that not verified doesn't mean it won't run. Just that valve hasn't confirmed it to be an out of the box one click run.

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Other companies manage anti-cheat just fine. I've been playing World of Warcraft on Linux for a decade now, and Blizzard's anti-cheat has been notorious. Valve's anti-cheat works just fine too.

This is an excuse. If Sweeney doesn't like Linux, He should say so directly. Don't make excuses.

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The way I see it is... if you cannot prevent cheating without a kernel level driver, then you are a failure as a games developer. I'm sorry, but the only things that mess with my kernel are me, the OS, and viruses. What is Fortnite? It's not me or the OS... Therefore it must be a virus.

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So if you're using xorg.... you don't get this? I honestly am not sure I understand what this article is saying.

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The few times I have tried to run Linux as my only gaming platform, it's almost always been Origin that stood in my way. I have high hopes for this to make running Origin games easy.

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To be honest, if it ever gets to the point where I HAVE to use Flatpaks, I'd probably go back to Windows.

Choice is good, but there is just far too many things I hate about flatpaks. I just don't think it's a viable alternative to debs.

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I like flatpaks over snaps (Stop creating a million mount points!) but I will always prefer deb over these alternate package formats.

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Quoting: iiariI still believe at some point cloud gaming or some hybrid of it will be the way a substantial portion of gamers will game,

Hybrid, maybe. Going full cloud isn't really possible at the moment. Unless you live in a city with a low ping to the cloud servers, your experience will be horrible.

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Quoting: AussieEeveeStadia is one of those things that never made sense to me. The biggest problem is that it requires a stable internet with a low ping. Not all of us have that. And the second being that we never actually have access to the games we purchase through it.

....and no data caps on the internet connection are useful as well.

Yeah, that too. Definitely.

Quoting: STiATIf you buy games on a DRM platform as Steam you basically agree by their AGB that you only rent them.

You don't rent them. You license them. Huge difference :) And that is technically true of any game, even those from GoG.

Even not needing multiple high-end GPUs. My current PC cost ~2000 Euros. In a rate of a gaming rig, which should be about 5 years, that's about 400 Euros a year. Paying 12 bucks a month would still be cheaper. I may be a casual player, but that does not necessarily mean I do not like new titles.

I see cloud streaming not as a replacement to buying my games, it's a replacement of buying a gaming rig. And ye, that could be a lot more efficient to me, and even profitable to Valve.

The thing is that cloud streaming has far far far too many downsides.

In addition to what I wrote above, if your internet goes out for whatever reason, you lose your entire library. If my internet goes out, I just switch Steam to offline mode and only lose a handful of games (Such as GTA V... What is going on, Rockstar?!), and MMOs like Final Fantasy XIV. I can still play most other games in my Steam Library. (Getting back into Half-Life 2 recently)

AFAIK, you still have to buy games on Stadia... you just never have access to the files.

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