Quoting: dibzAgreed, I think at this point Proton is the way to go simply to increase adoption rates. With adoption rates comes demand, and with demand comes financial justification to "actually" support linux.

Way I see it, we've had a chicken-and-egg situation for a long time now. We don't have "good" (that is, AAA) games on Linux because we don't have market share. But we don't have market share because we don't offer good games. And around and around we go.

Steam finally decided fine, we'll just pick a point on the cycle and start from there.

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Quoting: Geppeto35we can't accept that games "works" with bugs, workaround, fixes, etc...
How to attract new users and players on linux if they have to code, tricks etc. just to play a very common and old games as Skyrim?? My son of 13 want to play Skyrim SE, subnautica, etc. I have to spend hours to find that or this trick so he can play them. It's not an acceptable situation.

That's an important point. When I look at a game that looks really fun and some nerd is like "you just have to run a script" I'm like hold it right there! To someone new to Linux who hasn't got a background in coding, that shit's intimidating as hell and will definitely set up a barrier to adopting the platform. And adoption by "normal folks" is part of the point of initiatives like Proton.

We need to get to a point where a game like Skyrim SE or Subnautica or Overwatch or what have you "just works" without needing command-line parameters or scripts or awkward workarounds, or you can say goodbye to a lot of potential new Linux users.

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Ah, I figured it wasn't necessarily your skin...

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Not to be confused with Wizorb [External Link].

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Huh, I was just watching Hex's video where he plays the demo. Still some stuff to work on, but it looks like a solid start.

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I'm looking longingly at Child of Light, which I bought shortly before switching (back) to Linux, and is listed as Borked on the Steam Play compatability list. Really wanted to play that through, too.

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Quoting: heidi.wengerWe live in a time of great change and such times always include some insanity which will pass in time. Some real life people change their gender identification in their heads each week you know.

The weird thing is that exactly those people who constantly remind others that gender doesn't matter are those who put great effort into creating new categories, pronouns and names for the thing that isn't supposed to matter in the first place. In a rather ironic turn of events, those who fight categories are masters of putting themselves into ever more categories. Those who demand to be treated equally demand to be treated differently by inventing new pronouns and words and requesting the usage of those from others. They separate themselves from so called "normal cis het people" and demand to be dealt with as if they were the same.

Insanity indeed.

This is why we need a Skyrim port for Linux.

All those axes to grind, and no way to boost your blacksmithing skill.

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Quoting: ArehandoroTacoma keeps looking at me with sweet eyes everytime there is an offer...

I saw a stream of Tacoma a while back that had a couple of the people that worked on it as guests (forget who exactly), and if there's ever a game that would benefit by a commentary track, that's it. The "ON3 V3IN" running gag on its own would make it worth it. If you do get it, take the extra time to really poke around and check all the little details.

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Quoting: GuestBest news since Proton was announced! This means playable Skyrim at last! My favourite game of all time!

Skyrim is playable on linux(with wine) for a very long time. I'm playing it for 2 years.

Just don't do any quests that involve going underwater.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismIn the name of equality I wonder if people would have been outraged if Humble Bundle had a "Male Protagonist Sale"

There's always gotta be that one guy...

Quoting: InverseTelecineOkami HD is still borked on Proton. But it's still funny to see the game in the sale because years ago when the game first came out nobody knew Amaterasu was female!

Well, all the Japanese people it was originally designed for knew it, given Amaterasu is the name of a pretty famous goddess and all.

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