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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Quoting: fagnerlnFunnily, I was thinking in replay the UT99 a few days ago.

That would have been about the time my little one got to play UT99 for the very first time.

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Quoting: TruckStopSantaClausThink that Verified icon should be taken away from them when things like this happens.

That did happen to EA after they blanket-broke their games with a blanket update to their launcher. It took a while till Valve got round to it (a small number of weeks as I recall) but it did happen. Ultimately it got fixed and those games started working again, and then got their ticks again.

The Deck Verified rating is a service for Valve's customers to increase confidence in buying things from Valve's store to play on Valve's hardware. A game that doesn't work will get Valve saying that it doesn't work... but on Valve Time.

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Quoting: emphyThis also highlights my biggest problem with the current classification of deck/proton compatibility: support from the dev remains unofficial (if present at all) in most cases.

Valve tried the alternative already with the Steam Machines and discovered that game developers can't be trusted to support and maintain their games on Linux machines. That's why Proton and the Steam Linux Runtime exist - so that Valve can make a best effort to get and keep things working on Linux in the face of developer indifference or hostility.

The only thing that will make game developers care enough to put the effort in themselves is bigger market share for Linux.

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