I wonder where the change of heart is coming from, after not releasing the last two dlc for Democracy 3 for Linux.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/483450/Democracy_3_Electioneering/ [External Link]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/427470/Democracy_3_Africa/ [External Link]

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Quoting: tuxdeluxIn hindsight, with the knowledge of Valve's Steam Play, this seems like a very clever marketing ploy. Six months before they release an emulator, that allows buying windows-only games, they were getting people to add windows-only games to their wishlists.

Yeah, too bad that last month I deleted most of the windows-only games I added earlier, bashing myself for cluttering the wishlist with games I can't play. :D

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Quoting: GuestIt's a subtle point that your own post misses: we most definitely would have reached here without Valve.

It's missing because I don't think it's true. I'd argue that we weren't at this point two weeks ago and that we wouldn't be for a long, long time. I have 6k games in my steam library, over half of them only have Windows version (I got them through bundles etc.). Over the last five years I played maybe three or four (sic!) of these games. All the tools were there: wine, crossover (which I bought and only ever used to play gog version of The Witcher), lutris, recently dxvk etc. etc. - but it was immensely impractical and thus for me too much of a bother. Not to mention that I'm mostly gaming on SteamOS with my kids and there was literally no way to play Windows games on SteamOS. Now? For the last week+ I've been playing dozens of Windows games which I've been long wanting to play - nothing spectacular, mostly puzzle games that were reportedly working fine with wine, but required starting a "wined" version of steam. Kids have been playing the LEGO and Sonic games, with controllers, out of the box... *This* is huge. The simple fact that one of the biggest players in the gaming market came, took all the existing tools and put them to a proper use. Yes, all these tools were there and lots of people put great effort into making them work - and for that they deserve full credit. But tools are always only tools, they don't make great things by themselves.

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Quoting: GuestBut, while Valve can play a part, I always point out that Valve never did so much alone, but are standing on the backs of giants: wine, AMD (opening up drivers, donating Mantle to Khronos, and more), radv, Intel (their drivers always were open), nvidia (drivers and long time OpenGL support), Unity3D (engine support before Steam was even thought to be on GNU/Linux), and of course TTimo and iD Software. And more.

You seem to hold it against them, but it's the very principle of open source development. They didn't do anything stupid like forking the software, developing it themselves and trying to make the original obsolete. No, for the last two years they've been working head to head with crossover codeweavers, as well as contributing to many other projects, to make things happen. I won't maintain that they did more than the others, but I think it's safe to say we wouldn't reach the current point without collaboration at least partly inspired by Valve.

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Quoting: Mohandevirin a friendly local co-op game, I prefer when everyone has a chance at all moments.

The survival mode is the most fair, because whoever died first is also put at the front of the others. King of the hill is very punishing, because the tiniest mistake can mean defeat. The race mode is plain annoying, because when you're leading by a large distance, you can't even see where you're going, and when you're trailing behind, you're constantly dragged along and quickly lose orientation.

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Quoting: MohandevirThat kind of racer where no matter what you do, it's all decided in the last lap.

I actually hate the race mode exactly because of that, but king of the hill and especially survival are heaps of fun.

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Quoting: Stoney_FishIt's moved to "VERY SOON" on the Feral radar.

For a moment there I thought LiS2 was going to be released before BtS, but it's BtS that you mean...

PS. Nice avatar, FF2 was one of the first games I tried with proton. ;-)

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Quoting: riusma

Quoting: scaineBuy a game, doesn't run in proton, leave a crap review, refund game.

If I understand correctly the way Steam is handling this stuff (I may be wrong), refunding a game after leaving a review for it (crap or not) will remove the review the same time the game is removed from your library (you can only leave review for games you own). :)

You can write the review and refund the game, and the review stays.

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Quoting: lovelycuppateawaiting for a Proton bundle from humble bundle or one of the others... it will come.

The Humble SteamPlay ReBundle of the Broken Humble Indie Bundle Promises

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyHave they (Valve Software) given any indication as to when they're hoping to make this available in the stable version of the Steam client for Linux-based operating systems? Or is this still a mystery?

My guess is before the next big sale, which should be around Halloween. If not that, then before the Winter Sale for sure.

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