Quoting: eldarionAs much as I like seeing devices with Linux being sold, I really don't understand the hype of steam deck. I like playing a good game on a mobile device as much as I like watching a good movie on my phone. Meaning, not at all.

Don't get me wrong, small devices like this are great for casual gaming, but playing Witcher 3 on this is like going to the cinema and only watching half of the screen. You simply don't get the full experience.

A colleague of mine (my boss, actually) once told me that he's buying Blu-Ray discs, that these are coming with a streaming access code and that he actually watches the movies on his phone. Well, the question if it's great to watch movies on such a small device aside - why buy the full blown discs in the first place then?!? :D

I' rather play small/slow games on such a device I guess. Some games just call for a bigger screen, be if for the effects or for the overview (for strategy games e.g.).

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: mylkait is more surprising, that just hitman is on the list. 2+3 are basically the same game and but i wouldnt even play hitman 1. i would play it within hitman 2 with the new mechanics

Hitman is natively on Linux:
https://www.feralinteractive.com/de/games/hitman/ [External Link]

native, or proton does not matter if its platinum.

You asked why, I told you a plausible reason. If you don't believe it, well... maybe you've got a better explanation?

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Quoting: EikeWell, if you could elaborate on your "no they didn't"? Google Stadia is a service you can pay for (AFAIR there's a free base service) and where you need to buy games to play them (there's some free games included, especially in higher tiers). So what's wrong with "they made you pay for each game on top of paying for the steaming service"? You can also get free games on Steam, but it's still a service where you (usually) pay for your games...

You CAN pay for a subscription and have access to all the PRO games.

Yes. You get some free games - and pay for the others.

Quoting: pbYou CAN pay for individual games and play them even if you don't have the subscription.

While I think this is true, I actually do not find this on the starting page of Stadia (in German, this might make a difference). Googling for it, I find a remark on a games magazine site that there used to be a service that was called "Stadia Base", but was renamed to "Stadia". Googling fro Stadia, I only find Stadia pro. Do you think this renaming that makes the free service harder to find, made by the number one search engine company, was a mistake or intentional...?

Quoting: pbOr you CAN just play the free games without the subscription or buying anything.

I'm sure most of the free games come with pro. What comes with No-more-Base that's not actually Free to Play? (Serious question - I don't know.)

Quoting: pbSo nobody MADE anyone buy anything, much less "on top of" anything else.

Well, at least in German, and I heard the same about other languages on this very site, they are working hard on making you subscribe and not use the free streaming. They are actually actively hiding their free service. You get some free games with the paid service, but for the rest, they make you pay - you cannot play them without buying them.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: t3g. ...they made you pay for each game on top of paying for the steaming service.

No, they didn't. Why do you guys keep saying this?

https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9580659 [External Link]

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Well, if you could elaborate on your "no they didn't"? Google Stadia is a service you can pay for (AFAIR there's a free base service) and where you need to buy games to play them (there's some free games included, especially in higher tiers). So what's wrong with "they made you pay for each game on top of paying for the steaming service"? You can also get free games on Steam, but it's still a service where you (usually) pay for your games...

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: t3g. ...they made you pay for each game on top of paying for the steaming service.

No, they didn't. Why do you guys keep saying this?

https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9580659 [External Link]

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Quoting: subThis recent news by a very influential German games news mag again
falsely writes that Valve promised that ALL games will be supported on the Deck.

https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/5-gruende-pro-steam-deck,3377491.html [External Link]

This is not helpful.
Plus the tendentious point (among 5, why you should probably get the deck),
that you can wipe Linux and put Windows on the device.

I remember Gamestar saying that Valve had explicitly said to them that they're going to have every game working.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: Purple Library GuyProton actually worked better on Windows than the native Windows version on Windows, due to Vulkan not triggering certain NVidia driver malfunctions.

I still don't understand any of this :huh:... Is this a meme I am not aware of? An internal joke?

There's no Proton for Windows? There's no Wine for Windows? You can't run Steam Play on Windows at all?

I think it was meant to mean X is working better with Proton on Linux than natively on Windows.

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Quoting: mylkait is more surprising, that just hitman is on the list. 2+3 are basically the same game and but i wouldnt even play hitman 1. i would play it within hitman 2 with the new mechanics

Hitman is natively on Linux:
https://www.feralinteractive.com/de/games/hitman/ [External Link]

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That's an interesting SteamDB page BTW...

Over 20.000 Linux games on Steam now. I remember well when I wrote an article about number 1000.

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Quoting: anewsonI'm replaying Primordia in honour of they work they've been doing, such a fantastic game and I'm really not much of a point and click gamer; Primordia might be the only one I've finished

Ah, I did not yet play Primordia, but I played Strangeland from the same people. Might be worth your time.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369520/Strangeland/ [External Link]

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