There's a lot of talk about market share here. Lots of assumptions and theories. But if there's one thing we DO know, is the fact that Steam has been on Linux for several years now, and the Linux user base has been, for all practical purposes, completely stationary. Hasn't moved in any significant rate at all.

And while it is logical that Steam Play may cause a few games to not be "natively" ported* that might have been, the fact remains the same: We are only ONE PERCENT.

Now, from a market economical point of view, the additional cost of supporting an additional platform for ONE percent potential increase in sale: Well, the years with Steam so far displays how attractive that is, doesn't it? There's not even a point arguing for that - it does not make good business sense. PERIOD.

And we KNOW by now that there's no reason to expect our share to naturally increase. In fact, the rational thing to expect is that we remain around 1-2% in the foreseeable future - REGARDLESS of Steam Play. And the native games offered us will predominately be indies. Just like it's been up until now.

That's the only rational assumption to draw from what we know so far.

* "native ports"... Now that is a discussion in itself. The "ports" are also based on translation layers, just like Wine/Proton. So in effect, you all are playing "Feral's Proton" instead of Steam Play. Yes really.

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Quoting: NotSoQTThat's how games like Katamari Damacy are born.

I had to search for Katamari on Steam just for the hell of it, and discovered that indeed they released a "Katamari Damacy REROLL" in December last year! And protondb tells us it runs great on Steam Play!

It' so TOTALLY in my shopping cart right now :D

EDIT: Total platinum, ran straight out of the box, smooth as can be. Yippeee - it's time to ROLL again!

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Coincidentally, I had one ambition for this years summers sale: If I didn't buy it, I should remove it. Just to tidy up my wish-list with a ton of titles I just never seem to get.

So with that in mind, for the first time ever I've deleted pretty much my entire wish-list this summer sales. And it has nothing to do with the Steam GP at all. :D

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Quoting: NotSoQTThat's how games like Katamari Damacy are born.

Katamari! Awww how I wish they continued that series. What a fantastic concept, visuals and music!

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I'm slowly gliding over to the conclusion that Steam Play probably is the solution for gaming on Linux.

Don't get me wrong, I will always be eager to support native binaries, but let's face it: The companies/individuals who work on porting to Linux are way too few and the interest at the game developers too low.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: BeamboomAnd like I said in that other discussion: One can't expect an old binary to run on new computers for all eternity.

Why not?

Do I really need to explain that? Why do do think they want to do this to begin with? Why do we phase out technology quite regularly - despite the hard struggle every bloody time we do it?

Why did Windows become such a bloody, security issue riddled mess? Several reasons, but the need to be backward compatible is one massive reason. Messy as f*ck. A patchwork out of this world.

In a world of limited resources, spending a lot of those resources on backward compatibility can be argued is a energy wasted that could be spent a lot better. Especially now that those old blobs of binaries can be run in virtualized environments.

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If only the day had a good handful more hours in it, I'd so totally spend some of those tinkering with RP and create fun stuff.

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With the backlash this received it was only a matter of time. Counted in hours.

Quoting: eldakingThey are backtracking; there is no way this is what they had intended all along.

Totally.

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Quoting: 1xokThe support of your 18.10 ends with the release of 19.10. The support of the 19.04 a few weeks later. I don't know if that puts you under pressure but it would annoy me. Precisely because nothing changes in Ubuntu.

You have to add some months but either way: Who cares. Noone should.
In a production environment? Sure, support is crucial. But as a desktop computer on a home network behind a firewall and especially if that partition is just used for gaming? Care. I mean, it's not optimal but my point here is that there's really no rush. No need for hasty decisions at all.

Put 19.10 on a second partition and see how it affects you, having a fully functional second partition to boot as an option. That's my advice (and has always been my advice regardless of this particular thing).

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