I wonder why they can't offer two versions to install.

Because that would give potential adversaries the opportunity to diff the versions to identify circumvention strategies. It's the same reason you get free demos coming with fairly brutal copy-protections.

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After all, if Mastercard lied about not censoring legal purchases, why wouldn't PayPal also lie ?

If PayPal had a problem with Steam they probably wouldn't still be handling those six currencies. Instead it seems like those are the currencies PayPal handles itself and it's whoever they get to cover the other currencies that's got whatever issue they've got.

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METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN no longer crashes at the start of Chapter 1 video.

Those cutscenes have been such a pain. For the longest time they'd only run at minutes per frame. I have no idea what the game devs could have done to make rendering a video so problematic.

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One day I really hope Valve can solve this repeating issue.

The games are looking forensically for any behaviour that's not Windows; Wine is never going to be Windows. There's nothing Valve can do to change that; at best they can persuade developers not to automatically consider not-Windows as evidence of a cheating cheater by itself, and the weight of that persuasion is only going to come from market share.

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Ubuntu Core ??

Steam snap.

SteamOS only being 28% is very interesting. Means that market share is not just being carried by the Steam Deck but instead more people are interested in trying a large variety of distros.

https://i.ibb.co/1tJys5sC/Steam-Deck.png [External Link]

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I wonder if, during this rework, they've fixed it so that adjusting the volume on the Deck doesn't pause the video.

Edit: they didn't.

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I'm surprised to see people here and in the Discord rooting for Sony in this. Making a new thing that looks or behaves like an already-existing thing is everywhere in the Free software world.

Games copying other games is exactly how we get the idea of game genres - Doom clones, roguelikes, metroidvanias, souls-likes, and so on.

Game rules aren't protectable (and these games are different in that aspect anyway). Game code is protected, but there's been no accusation that the old game code was stolen to make the new. Game names and character names are protected, as are specific lines of dialogue, but those are all different here. The only thing Sony has as a basis is trade dress.

This game is one asset flip amongst millions. A Sony win won't do anything about those, but giving corporations more control over the look-and-feel of their potential competitors is bad for everybody.

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Anyone know if this is working on the Steam Deck?

The official line is "Valve is still learning about Dogwalk. We do not currently have further information about Steam Deck compatibility." However the hardware requirements are modest and it has "partial" controller support so the chances are good that it'll work fine with maybe some Steam Input tweaking.

Edit: so I've just tested it on the Deck and the controls are fine. The performance isn't there, though, which is very surprising given the requirements listed on the Store page. The GPU is maxed out and it's dropping into the 20s. Some more work on the Godot side to see what's up is in order, I would say.

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And with skate. being an online game with no offline mode

That sounds awful, regardless of whether it works on Linux or not.

Also, that name is chuffing terrible.

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They've not filled in the minimum requirements for their Linux build, which implies lack of testing. They could easily have just forgotten to fill in the box on Steamworks. Either way, the upshot is that they haven't said on the store page "we've tested it on this machine and it worked great."

The game isn't my bag, but I wish them luck.

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