I still can't get over the fact that they never made a follow-up to the VR version of Superhot. I saw that game being played everywhere when VR was demonstrated, surely they must have sold a solid number?!

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Quoting: GuestDoomsaying that ports are forever destined to be inferior is silly. If it's all about that last bit of performance and not caring about the tech, then why not just use Windows for games and get the 100% experience?

My point was rather that I *only* care about the tech, and not the principles. The perspective is that *technically* it doesn't matter, because in essence the two approaches have more in common than what separates them.

That said, nowhere do I indicate that I think that ports (and I now talk about what I would call REAL ports - porting of the code rather than wrapping it) are forever destined to be inferior. That would indeed be silly. But as long as the market share is as it is today, it makes no business sense to put the resources into full ports. Especially when we add a continued support to the math:

That is one major advantage of using Proton. We are guaranteed to receive the future patches and updates because we are using the main branch. Look at the Rocket League story. At one point it makes no business sense to keep creating patches for a special version of the game for a platform that might at that point only have a good handful of active gamers. We are a tiny segment and must relate to that.

And just to be clear: I speak from a pure technical point of view. Emotionally it would be fantastic to receive the love of a real version built for our platform. But as long as the alternative is as good as it is - and it indeed is good now - I think that the primary driver for semi-optimal ports are more of emotional than rational reasons.

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Quoting: GuestFeral uses code level tools (indirectX I think they call it) vs runtime like WINE - you get a compiled native binary from that, like how Valve did it with TOGL and their native ports.

I don't really see the practical significance of making that distinction, to be honest. If a middle layer is compiled or applied runtime is rather of architectural difference. It doesn't necessarily provide any performance advantages - as clearly demonstrated when comparing these kind of "ports" with original game running on Proton.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicGreat news to hear. With Steam being the most Linux-friendly gaming platform there is, seeing it also doing extremely well is very good news for us.

Yup.
Same with VR: The one hardware platform that does support us, is also luckily the technically best platform. So of all the platforms that COULD have supported us, we should be very happy that Valve is the one that does.

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Quoting: AnzaThat's something that must have happened with several developers and publishers when Proton came out.

Terrible, really. Feral ports were great quality.

But if they run just as well or better under proton, what does it matter really.
It's not like the Feral ports were full ports of the source code. They utilised their own translational libraries instead.

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Well, I've always been a sceptic on this but was and still am sincerely hoping to be wrong.
Not because of the handheld itself - who I quite frankly don't really care about at all - but for what it will mean for Linux gaming.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyYou would think so, but you missed the key bit of that quote:

Ah! You are right, I missed that last part. Thanks for not being snarky about it.

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When it comes to what platform developers are most interested in, Linux sat at 7%.

So not just interested in, but most interested in? As in, rating it above the other platforms? Really?
It's so I wonder if this either is misquoted or the question misunderstood...!

But if not, that's... pretty darn great!

Yes, most interested in but not above all others.

Well, one implies the other, doesn't it? If you are most interested in Linux that means you're not most interested in Windows or Mac. Else you would be most interested in one of those, and not Linux.

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When it comes to what platform developers are most interested in, Linux sat at 7%.

So not just interested in, but most interested in? As in, rating it above the other platforms? Really?
It's so I wonder if this either is misquoted or the question misunderstood...!

But if not, that's... pretty darn great!

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I don't think this will make much difference at all, really.

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