Nice deal, but I'll wait till Index and Alyx both work perfectly on SteamOS.

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Quoting: Xaero_VincentI'm surprised Valve is allowing people who don't own to play remotely with friends in Co-op. Only one person needs to own said game?

I'm also surprised that game developers are okay with this as well, since it means a friend can play without owning the game and thus less game revenue?

If you invite a friend over and you play together on your couch, they don't need to own the game. But if your friend likes the game and wants to play some more, they need to buy it. The idea is to allow for the same experience here with the hope for achieving the same effect.

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Quoting: GrifterOvercooked 2 has proper multiplayer so no need to use this for it

...unless the other players don't own Overcooked 2.

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I tested it on a few broken achievements (not unlocking in-game despite fulfilling the requirements) and it didn't work for any of them. It might work for cheating (unlocking achievements that work correctly) but doesn't work where it's really needed, not for me at least.

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They have my respect for sticking to the "no discount" rule in today's gaming reality. They have a unique product and make the best of it. And they got my money long ago, while normally I would probably wait for it to go on -75% sale or in a bundle. :whistle:

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But isn't various middleware what causes the most problems?

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Quoting: shorbergHow come I've never thought about such a simple solution to keeping games from cluttering up my home? Any gotchas you've found with that solution so far?

I had to move or symlink some stuff in .config and .local/share but I've done it along the way when something didn't work etc. One example is .local/share/vulkan, the other is .config/pulse already mentioned by MayeulC. Also symlinked .config/godot so that I can run it either from steam or directly and have the same stuff. And of course it took some time to move all the clutter from $HOME because games can save their stuff in the most obscure places...

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> allow you to isolate your Home folder

I hope it will finally allow users on SteamOS have separate game/achievement progress even if the game saves it to $HOME instead of e.g. steam cloud. Also good for the sake of keeping $HOME tidy, although that I've already accomplished by other means (`HOME=~/saves steam`).

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Soon enough, 90%+ of AAA games will be released for Linux (running on cloud servers). ;-)

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Quoting: fagnerlnTo be fair, it's really strange the usage of the market to buy keys, it's cheaper in game, and I don't get why someone will buy a key to resell it a few more cents as steam have some % (30%?) on it.

Money laundering? Say you owe someone $100 and you'd like the payment to be unregistered. You buy xx keys (or some other virtual items) and give it to them ('trade' with nothing in return), then they sell it on the market. Of course they can't withdraw money from the steam balance but there are other ways, I've repeatedly seen people offering to buy you a game with their wallet money for 80-90% of the current price paid to paypal etc. I thought they were just looking to withdraw the money made on trading cards, but who knows really.

Also, don't know about cs:go, but tf2 keys are a common 'currency' in game trading. For example game X costs 1 tf2 key etc. Some steam forums are full of that.

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