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October 23 Steam Survey: Simplified Chinese rises, Linux and macOS decline
2 Nov 2023 at 3:35 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: mad_mesaLooking on the brightside, the English-only tracker hit an all time high with Linux at 4.15%.

This should be a part of the article, not a separate ~~DLC~~ comment. :tongue:

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 adds offline support for Steam Deck
18 Oct 2023 at 10:07 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: elmapul Steam Deck users can now play offline.

so... that is a exclusive feature for the steam deck?

Finally, a SteamDeck exclusive! :tongue:

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Harebrained Schemes and Paradox Interactive to split
17 Oct 2023 at 9:44 pm UTC

Wow, it's almost as if people are not willing to dump $50 on a random game they never heard about. Ever heard of Laffer Curve? :whistle:

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Minecraft hits 300 million sales, update 1.21 announced with trial chambers
16 Oct 2023 at 8:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

Steam release when? :tongue:

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Diablo 4 now Steam Deck Verified before launch but no Steam keys for Battle.net buyers
13 Oct 2023 at 4:43 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: EhvisValve would never allow them to generate so many free Steam keys.
What makes you say that? I see no reason Valve wouldn't allow it for such a publisher.
If small publishers can't, why should big ones be able to? Don't see Valve setting such a precedent.

Key generation limits are tied to store sales. If you don't have sales, you won't be allowed to generate a million keys. But a few thousand, sure. In the case of Diablo 4 there are sure to be a lot of sales so the keys will be pretty much unlimited. And even before release I'm sure they would be allowed to generate as many keys as they wanted. Why? Because they can be trusted not to abuse it. It's not *just* about being big vs small.

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TEKKEN 7, CODE VEIN, GOD EATER 3 and more in this great bundle
12 Oct 2023 at 7:55 am UTC

Quoting: enigmaxg2Tekken 7 was released SIX YEARS AGO and they only put the base game in the bundle, same goes for Code Vein which was released 4 years ago. They could have put the definitive/complete editions on it or at least a discount coupon for their respective season passes.

Sure, but then the bundle wouldn't cost $10.
But they could have put DLCs in tier 2.

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After over 80 weeks the Steam Deck leaves the top 10 global sellers on Steam
10 Oct 2023 at 4:11 pm UTC

Quoting: VardamirIf the top sellers list is by revenue, how come that Counter Strike 2 [External Link] is number 1?

Have you ever seen top earners list on android? It's dominated by free games...

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Unity nuked their Terms of Service on GitHub as 'views were so low'
23 Sep 2023 at 9:23 pm UTC

Quoting: elmapulbreaking news guys!
as part of the deal with Uk in order to be able to purchase activision blizzard, microsoft agreed that ubisoft should have streaming rights to call of duty, and be able to sub licence it to any cloud provider.
and guess what ubisoft requested? proton support!
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/16pdpm1/ubisoft_may_also_request_that_microsoft_perform/ [External Link]
as for ubisoft having rights to distribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kaOOFvcS_Y [External Link]

Ubisoft games worked amazingly well on Stadia and I am pretty sure they licensed Stadia software for their own use, likely they will offer it as a part of Ubi+ subscription, so if they get the streaming rights to CoD, I am not surprised they want to ensure it works well on Linux machines.