Quoting: Purple Library GuyI notice that there are free to play games in the "Top sellers, by revenue" category. How does that work? I guess 30% of zero is better than nothing . . .

From the announcement:

The new top-selling lists rank games based on total revenue, including all sources such as DLC and in-game transactions so we can all get a more complete picture of which games players are excited about getting into and continuing to play.

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Quoting: GuestYou know why they implement RTX for those closed-space games or two decade old games? Because perfomance hit won't be as big as doing it for open world games with dynamic daynight cycle, where raytracing would help the most to provide GI or at least global occlusion.

Nothing to do with day/night cycles. They do look great with ray tracing. See Q2RTX, for example. It's because open areas need more rays in order to adequately hit every surface. Just geometry.

If there is no daynight cycle, then baking light and reflection data is possible, and there is not much need in realtime raytracing, that's why I mentioned it in the first place.

I guess I misinterpreted. I thought you were lumping in the day/night cycle (no biggie, looks really nice) with the open world (needs lots of samples to work at all).

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Quoting: GuestYou know why they implement RTX for those closed-space games or two decade old games? Because perfomance hit won't be as big as doing it for open world games with dynamic daynight cycle, where raytracing would help the most to provide GI or at least global occlusion.

Nothing to do with day/night cycles. They do look great with ray tracing. See Q2RTX, for example. It's because open areas need more rays in order to adequately hit every surface. Just geometry.

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If demand turns out to be soft at those price points, it's pretty straightforward to lower them; but not the other way, as they found with the last generation when people were willing to pay way more than Nvidia were charging and all the middle-men were pocketing the difference.

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Quoting: TheRiddickPrices however are skewed thanks to the crypto craze period where GPUs went up %500 $...

The crypto craze is gone, and it never had any impact on Nvidia or AMD's msrp.

It showed that they'd been undercharging before. "What the market will bear" has been drummed as the only appropriate price for every product in every industry for generations.

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Bit weird that they have Gnome as a minimum requirement.

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Quoting: MilaniumRon Gilbert mentioned in his blog that this was developed on Linux, so I assume the porting will be easy. Still sad that it wasn't a priority to get it on launch day.

Mac, not Linux. "It will be released on the Mac. 90% of the programming team is on the Mac. Windows is the "port"." Ron Gilbert himself got a Linux machine after Apple annoyed him, but I don't know for sure that he's still using it.

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Quoting: cookiEoverdoseDid someone try SGDBoop?

SGDBoop works fine. I think it was in one of Liam's guides? I've used it for a few things: press the button on Steam Grid DB, pick the thing you want it applied to, job done.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs it an easier port?

Dunno. It's Unity, I think.

Quoting: pete910Does it not cost devs to be on the switch/playstation platform ?

No more than Xbox, AFAIK.

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With all due respect to Ron Gilbert, I'm extremely skeptical of any "we pinky-swear that we'll release a native Linux build Real Soon Now" because way too many people have said exactly that and then gone on to do no such thing. This is a Windows-only get-when-it's-90%-off game until the native build actually materialises and is shown to have actual support. We've been burned too many times before. I would, of course, prefer it to be a properly-supported buy-at-full-price game.

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