Quoting: Mountain ManThere are different kinds of music licenses. The most expensive one grants rights in perpetuity, which is typically the license purchased by television and movie studios. Or they might cut a deal with the artist (or more likely the record label) to pay a small royalty on every sale.

While video games are popular, they do not generate anywhere near the revenue of a top movie or television studio, so game studios tend to have less clout when negotiating music licensing deals

Games publishers absolutely have the revenue to buy perpetual licences. But whereas film and TV studios want to be able to license their products for re-distribution and syndication - which is much easier to do with clear upstream licensing - game publishers would much rather not have sales of their old titles competing with sales of their new titles. So films/TV get the perpetual licence and games get the marginally cheaper temporary licence.

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Seems like a good time to start a new run. I stopped when one of the earlier big updates dropped. And I'll probably give that a go on my Deck rather than my desktop.

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Quoting: Liam DaweTrue they have two different meanings. Problem is the current system requirements get hooked up to what games support natively. Don’t think devs can note Proton in the system requirements without ticking it for Linux, which then results in a broken Linux download since one wouldn’t exist. A way for devs to tick Proton themselves by default seems would be helpful.

I don't trust game devs with that functionality in the slightest. The user picking the Proton version, absolutely; Valve picking the Proton version for the Deck, sure; game devs are just going to mess it up.

A place on the Store page (and robust encouragement of some kind) for developers to be able to say, "yes, we are testing every update to our game in Proton Stable on a machine that meets these requirements before we release it" would be much more useful. And would get those developers more money from me at least. At the moment we're reliant on the invisible hand of Deck sales to do that, with silence from the devs about whether it's working.

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Quoting: sonic2kkNot great, but not the end of the world either way (and with Wine-GE, which many use for gaming over vanilla Wine nowadays, you may have not have been impacted).

I switched to Linux nearly 20 years ago. This game was one of quite a few that I played in the first few years (when I found the time), and then I got a PS3 Slim and didn't get back to PC gaming till around the time that Steam came to Linux. So, yeah, the temporary regression didn't impact me 😉

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Emperor - Rise of the Middle Kingdom

Wow. I sunk a load of time into that when I first switched to Linux. It worked fine in Wine back then.

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Of course another thing that they're going to have to consider is whether they're going to have to increase the price of their SteamOS HoloIso Windows 11 device to account for the licensing fee or whether whatever deal they managed to get for folding to Microsoft pressure will let them keep the same price point.

"Worse than a Steam Deck for more money than a Steam Deck" isn't a great place to position your product.

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Quoting: ShabbyXIt feels like they are scared it would flop if users keep asking for windows and they don't deliver, so they do it even though they think it's wasting their device?

It's not like there's a shortage of handheld PCs that run Windows - even from the same company - so people could just buy one of those instead if they're desperate for Windows, while this device could still get the benefits of using Linux. If they did just get steamrolled by astroturf without getting anything in return then they made quite a serious mistake.

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fully customizable controls from keyboard and mouse to controllers.

Hopefully all at the same time for gyro aimers.

Will you be picking it up?

I haven't gone back to finish the first one yet. But assuming I enjoy all of that, and when this one gets to an appropriate price point for the amount of support, yeah, probably.

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Quoting: TuxeeI assume the market share of the device will be less than negligible and wouldn't have done a lot for "wider adoption" anyway.

The market share isn't the issue; it's the general perception that Windows isn't the only option. Microsoft really don't want that. Valve can't be bribed or intimidated into dropping their Linux plans, but everyone else is a viable target.

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Quoting: constIt's entirely possible MS gave them a deal that's paying out for them.

For their sake I hope they managed to extract a big bag of money out of Microsoft rather than simply being swayed by a Microsoft-funded astroturf campaign or being leant on for licence fees for their other products if they sell a non-Windows product (those both also being standard Microsoft techniques).

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