Quoting: F.UltraI don't believe the conspiracy theories that Valve prohibits the sale of games outside of Steam

I'm happy with calling it pure speculation, but unhappy with having it called "conspiracy theories". (The possibility of Valve forcing companies to do something is lacking enough parties for a conspiracy to begin with.)

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Quoting: mylkaso ubisoft has their own big sellers. assassins creed, far cry, watch dogs, tom clancy, south park, beyond good an evil 2

do you think ubisoft would sell the same amount of copies, if they sell their games only on uplay?

I don't know, but these do sound like the kind of games I was talking about. I guess even Ubisoft doesn't know.

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Quoting: mylkawhats an uber AAA game for you? i think ubisoft has a lot of such games. more than EA and they can live without steam

Games which will make people install your launcher no matter if they like it or not. Battlefield, FIFA, Assassin's Creed, ...

I didn't use Steam for a very long time, until I had to, due to wanting Skyrim so much. Such games.

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Quoting: SalvatosInstalling and running launchers from every publisher I buy from is pretty much the opposite of what I want, but nonetheless this is welcome news as it shows that they take their Linux playerbase seriously and are willing to invest in that segment of the market. I hope it does well :)

This. They wouldn't create a launcher if they didn't intend to support Linux for a long time.

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Quoting: mylkadoes steam really take 30%. assassins creed costs the same on steam and uplay. actually its now cheaper in the steam sale, than the uplay sale
why wouldnt ubisoft make their games like 10-20% cheaper in their own store? the customers would pay less, so they would get more costumers and they would make more money with each sale

why is EA selling their games only on origin, but ubisoft isnt, if they would save so much money?

Steam is near to a PC games online selling monopoly. They could demand that games are not sold somewhere else cheaper. Not selling on Steam will cost you lots of sales if you don't have the uber AAA game.

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Quoting: MicromegasI thought about wishlisting the game after watching it on Twitch but nowadays I prefer to only wishlist games if they are available on Linux or if there are any hints the devs might release a Linux version. Otherwise my wishlist (with already over 200 entries again) would not be very helpful for me as a tool to remember myself about games I might want to buy.

If you choose what to buy from wish list, you can filter by OS nowadays. Downside is the mails about sales for Windows only games. (But I think you can disable these mails.)

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Quoting: BeamboomI think it is so odd that a port is dependent on the sales on another platform. I see this often so I guess there is a reason for this, but how come?

Maybe they're calculating with percentages. If there's 100.000 Windows buyers, you can expect 1000-2000 Linux customers, which would make it worthwhile.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyRemember Silicon Graphics? No?

actually i do xD, they made openGL

Actually me too, have been using an SGI machine at university in the 90ies.

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Quoting: KelsBack when the original came out, I asked if it was coming to Linux and got a reply directly from the developer. They said probably not due to a middleware issue (which fortunately got sorted out in the end) but for following games they'd definitely be paying more attention to that.

Sounds interesting. I must remind myself from time to time that Feral is only second best, coming after a multiplatform release of the original developer.

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Quoting: scaineIt's only got mixed reviews because some people are entitled idiots who think that they get to dictate every aspect of a game in a series they feel passionately about. Typical toxic fandom.

I thought it would be due to having loot boxes in a game released for full price (a very valid reason in my book), but when you actually take a look at some of the current reviews, it's mostly for crashes, very bad optimization - and a mediocre story.

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