Quoting: buckysrevengeHa, this is one of the games that came with my SteamOS running Alienware Steam Machine back when I got it years ago

Time to RMA it! ;-)

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Quoting: GroganI wanted to play Amnesia Rebirth, but that's horrible OpenGL programming. I'm sure it works for somebody, but it's just corruption and crash/freezing with both the Linux native and the Windows version for me. Very same behaviour. Trial and error programming on Nvidia, probably. I tried that game twice, once when it came out, and maybe 3 months ago and refunded it both times as "game does not work properly".

I played through it on Debian/Nvidia. I remember I had to change a setting at the beginning, I think it was something about windowed or fullscreen.

*edit* Good I included it in my Steam review: Had to use borderless window instead of fullscreen.

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Quoting: adolsonIt's still early days, but so far, we're seeing the opposite effect due to Proton.

No, we aren't. The release of Proton had no effect whatsoever on the proportion of Linux-native games that are released. The growth in the Linux market has since caused an increase in the proportion of Linux-native games that are released.

Could you show the latter? What I'm seeing is even some developers with year long native support for Linux have given up on it (as well as our porting houses).

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Quoting: ZlopezIt's also good to see that Flatpak Steam is so widely used. :-)

Why? The reason for Flatpak that I'm aware of is getting newer software, but Steam is updating itself...

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Quoting: TcheyNot sure what to think. I’m all in favor for everyone to love who they want to. I could "donate" 10€ to support this idea for sure. But, as a gamer point of view, these bundles on itchio or elsewhere are so often filled with trash-ish games... Just looking quickly at the list here, i didn’t see anything i’d actually enjoy playing.

I'm avoiding large bundles, too.

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I just googled for pride month and Google was... colorful. 🌈

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Quoting: benstor214“People who emulate games are all committing piracy.”

I can't remember somebody saying this. Could you cite it please?

That’s the nice thing: you don’t need to! You just have to murky the waters and blur the line between emulation, game preservation and piracy. You only need to place one group near to the other and subsequently insinuate that there is no difference between both groups at all. Sooner than not game preservationists are deemed criminal and Nintendo’s upper management opens a bottle of champagne to celebrate the successes of the hard-working minions in forums and comment sections.

I prefer people citing what has actually been said and react to that instead of making up quotes. It always makes it look like they wouldn't trust their arguments enough.

You are right. Consumers don’t need rights anyway.
Most of them even smell badly in my experience.

That's again something neither having been said nor meant.

As said... It always makes it look like they wouldn't trust their arguments enough.

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Quoting: benstor214“People who emulate games are all committing piracy.”

I can't remember somebody saying this. Could you cite it please?

Quoting: Mountain ManRight, "game preservation", by which most people mean "free games". :tongue:

"Most" and "all" is a huge difference, and you know that.

No, I don't really think it's that huge. "Most people doing X are Y" is enough that for any given person doing X, you would assume they're a Y. So as an insult or an instigation of a moral panic, it's pretty much equivalent.

Most people are female, so I assume you're female?
<spock>Highly illogical.</spock>

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Quoting: JordanPlayz158

Quoting: Mountain ManYes, let's pretend that the overwhelming majority of people using emulators aren't also playing pirated software.

Let's say that is the case, is that wrong? If so why is it wrong? Pirating games that are no longer officially produced or sold on consoles that are no longer officially produced or sold, is that wrong? The only argument that makes sense for copyright law that I've seen is to protect sales, but what sales are there left to protect?

What if the owning company decides to release them tomorrow, but everybody who's interested already pirated them yesterday?
Not convinced...

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Quoting: ripper81358I use Dolphin myself. Having it available on steam is not critical to me. I have Dolphin installed as a flatpak on my end. So any steamdeck user can easily install it that way too.

That's just not how most people will use such a device IMHO.

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