Latest Comments by Beamboom
Valve is getting back to focusing on gaming, with non-gaming videos being retired
20 Feb 2019 at 5:15 pm UTC Likes: 6
20 Feb 2019 at 5:15 pm UTC Likes: 6
Quoting: Guestso now a gaming store should start removing games?"games".
Quoting: GuestVery nice, less crap to clutter the store. Maybe visual novels can be next? :P
The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare now has official Linux support once again
29 Jan 2019 at 7:42 pm UTC
29 Jan 2019 at 7:42 pm UTC
Quoting: mylkadoes it really need 14GB5.6 gig here...?
The war of the PC stores is getting ugly, as Metro Exodus becomes a timed Epic Store exclusive
29 Jan 2019 at 3:07 pm UTC Likes: 2
29 Jan 2019 at 3:07 pm UTC Likes: 2
Totally unrelated but:
Seeing screenshots like that, and then looking over at screenshots of our indie games... And... Yeah, well...
Seeing screenshots like that, and then looking over at screenshots of our indie games... And... Yeah, well...
Insurgency: Sandstorm should still release for Linux this year
24 Jan 2019 at 3:05 pm UTC
It does however confirm that they've not ruled out Linux. We're still on their todo-list. But yeah... Absolutely no guarantees found in that quote at all.
24 Jan 2019 at 3:05 pm UTC
Quoting: TuxeeWell...I was about to post something along the same lines. A "hope" is not a confirmation - we can all hope. Plenty of things, actually.
We are are hoping to bring Insurgency: Sandstorm to Linux this year.(stress by me)
A statement like this in January is not exactly inspiring for Linux gamers.
It does however confirm that they've not ruled out Linux. We're still on their todo-list. But yeah... Absolutely no guarantees found in that quote at all.
Putting games across multiple stores is not easy, as developers keep noting recently
24 Jan 2019 at 9:58 am UTC Likes: 1
24 Jan 2019 at 9:58 am UTC Likes: 1
Very cool with backstage peeks like these.
Valve's card game Artifact seems to be dying off and fairly quickly too
23 Jan 2019 at 2:57 pm UTC Likes: 6
23 Jan 2019 at 2:57 pm UTC Likes: 6
"Valve are sitting on some IP that would seriously turn heads."
I gotta say though, that there's enough game devs out there who only churn out sequels once they get a success. Totally cool of Valve to try and establish new IPs instead of just milking their old ones. They don't deserve even a pinch of criticism for that - only what they did wrong with the release itself.
I gotta say though, that there's enough game devs out there who only churn out sequels once they get a success. Totally cool of Valve to try and establish new IPs instead of just milking their old ones. They don't deserve even a pinch of criticism for that - only what they did wrong with the release itself.
Steam Play versus Linux Version, a little performance comparison and more thoughts
19 Jan 2019 at 8:55 am UTC
19 Jan 2019 at 8:55 am UTC
Quoting: thykrIt baffles me that non-native is much faster than native.It's because none of them are really native, they all (including Feral & Co) use wrapper libraries. So to call those releases "ports" are really quite misleading.
I really hope someday some smart software engineers will be able to explain why it is that way.
Arc Savior, another space combat game will be supported on Linux after release
15 Jan 2019 at 9:41 am UTC
It has nothing to do with Liam agreeing with you or not. As you would have known had you read discussions here earlier. But there's always multiple ways of expressing an opinion. It's actually quite remarkable how much one can get away with, if it is expressed properly.
And likewise the other way around. Very common and often shared opinions can meet resistance and trigger annoyance if expressed like an immature idiot. Cause I do share your opinion about a (too) high share of the games offered to Linux are indeed low budget, single dev games. I've often myself expressed the exact same.
But I'm not being an asshole about it, and especially when knowing that indeed many of these developers also frequent this site, there's more the reason to express such an opinion without smacking your middle finger in their faces.
That's the problem. Not the opinion in itself.
15 Jan 2019 at 9:41 am UTC
Quoting: aristoriasOh, the admin believes he can define what is rude and which opinion is necessary and which not (probably the one he doesn't agree with). What comes next? Troll insults and censoring?This is a classic response from people who struggle with expressing themselves properly. Screaming "censorship", power tripping admins and "opinion police" whenever it is pointed out that in fact their attitude is really quite annoying.
It has nothing to do with Liam agreeing with you or not. As you would have known had you read discussions here earlier. But there's always multiple ways of expressing an opinion. It's actually quite remarkable how much one can get away with, if it is expressed properly.
And likewise the other way around. Very common and often shared opinions can meet resistance and trigger annoyance if expressed like an immature idiot. Cause I do share your opinion about a (too) high share of the games offered to Linux are indeed low budget, single dev games. I've often myself expressed the exact same.
But I'm not being an asshole about it, and especially when knowing that indeed many of these developers also frequent this site, there's more the reason to express such an opinion without smacking your middle finger in their faces.
That's the problem. Not the opinion in itself.
Steam Play recently hit 500 Windows games rated as Platinum on ProtonDB
11 Jan 2019 at 12:50 pm UTC Likes: 5
11 Jan 2019 at 12:50 pm UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: liamdaweThe moment Fallout 4 and GTA 5 is fully running without tampering, I'm all over'em babies. :)Quoting: riusmaSteam Play is the new "500+ [incremental] Linux games natively available on Steam" headline! ^_^Which may be more interesting and valuable to some, since it will include a lot of AAA titles.
Unity have changed their terms of service, which has essentially blocked SpatialOS and streaming services
10 Jan 2019 at 4:50 pm UTC
10 Jan 2019 at 4:50 pm UTC
Quoting: liamdawe... Unless licensed to do so. Something that's probably not too hard to obtain, if I am to guess.Quoting: 14So we won't see any Unity games in Project Stream then?This would seem to prohibit that yeah.