Quoting: LiamWhile it took a while, it seems like the FSF are fully aware of their need to improve everything surrounding this. We should give them some points on that.
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It will be interesting to see what happens as a result of the public apologies from both Stallman and the FSF. Let's hope that all of this can lead somewhere productive and have less in-fighting with more fighting for software freedom.

Liam, given how polarazing this thing can be, thank you for writing the news as independtly and hopeful tone as possible. :happy:

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Quoting: lelorrainWell, fine for people who want to use ONLY Steam ... Personally, I do not like to have someone in the background recording all I do. The same reason I do not use GOG's Galaxy.
Usually I buy access to a Linux game on Steam only If I cannot get it from GOG, and that's only for games that I really, really want to play like Horizon Zero Dawn!

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Quoting: lelorrainWell, fine for people who want to use ONLY Steam ...

From the article: It takes things a step or two further though, including plenty of extra enhancements for emulators and non-Steam games with their special tools like Steam Buddy.

Personally, I do not like to have someone in the background recording all I do.

If you put Steam into Offline Mode, it doesn't track anything.

Also the steam buddy allows to install games from the epic store via legendary and gog was also added recently. So the steam part can be used only for navigation... But most of my game pad games are on steam so I only ended up playing MTG Arena from there.

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Quoting: CreakI really like the idea of Valve's Remote Play Together, it simply makes a lot of sense. I like to compare video games and board games, and you wouldn't ask every player of a board game to pay for the game.

So, as with board games, I like to discover new games my friends might have and, if I like them, I buy them in order to play it whenever I want too.

This is true for the multiplayer part of a game only. The solo/scenario part is yet another reason to buy a game (to me).

Really like that board games comparison!

And about solo, it depends, sometimes you bring a fried to your house and have they try a bit of a single player game just for show off. With remote play you can also do that. Specially those nasty games that play tricks on the user assumptions and joke on them, like Indecision [External Link] or Eryi's Action [External Link].

EDIT: Ery is native, but Indicision I played via proton.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAnd it also assumes that you're allowed to visit peoples' houses. :cry:

:cry: This also makes me cry!

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Nice... ghost car might finally make me consider it. I'm too bad with car games in general, but the ghost car mechanic its usually the only thing that hooks me to them as it gives a very tangible (and possible!) challenge.

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Quoting: OdisejMy experience is rather different. I like the bundles as they introduce games I would probably not even notice. I have had a a great time playing some of them especially from Daedalic. I won't play all of them I added to my library until now but for 10e+ I don't see it as a big expense.

Quoting: Liam DaweFrankly for the price, I've not seen a month that has been a "bad" deal even if I was only interested personally in two of the games at the lowest on one of them because it was still vastly cheaper than buying individually. Builds up a nice collection to keep, unlike other subscriptions where you're basically renting.

Exactly my thoughts.

• I usually get in humble a mix of games that I wanted to play, but were either low priority or not native linux (only try to buy them Linux even if I still dual boot... mea culpa.. mea culpa...)


• Or games that passed below the radar and are actually good. Having some streamers doing a review a few dayus after the bundle release also helps.

In the end, I think for the price (classic subcription here), and even if I only played some of those included, I'm getting a good deal and not a rented subscription. So I can later, and indeed have gone back to many times, some old humble games.

In fact, the first 2 BIG games in the bundle are usually some of less interisting ones for me. I like more good and/or experimental indies than a AAA, and specially not the latest kid in the block (mix of patient gamer and low space SSD drive...).

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Quoting: scaineI'm not sure I love the look of it, but it reminds me of Rebelstar on the Spectrum [External Link], believe it or not! And I didn't know until I googled it just there, but Rebelstar was the precursor to Xcom, so I guess I'm getting the same vibe as Liam!

Wow Rebelstar is even more ancient (1986 on spectrum). Laser Squad [External Link] mentioned by Liam was released on zx spectrum two years later on 88 and a bit more fine tuned. Both designed by Julian Gollop, so they're XCOM precursors indeed.

Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

Anyway I got this game some months ago, because it had those Laser Squad vibes. And now with this update they even got it translated in Portuguese. :grin:

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You can buy the releases on itch or just build the code available on github: https://github.com/SolarLune/masterplan [External Link] . It seems developed on Go along with just a couple of dependencies for dialogs and copy paste on the distro level.

EDIT: fix typos

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Quoting: mao_dze_dunGamerOS (that name IS stupid)

About the name, there is huge thread on discord about the dev asking feedback and suggestions for names, but and actually it's really difficult to find a good one. Most are taken by other gaming or semi-gaming related websites / products, or focus on a non-core feature of the OS.

No good one has been found yet (or at least when I looked at it 1-2 months ago)

:huh:

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs it just me or does it feel like a bunch of older open source games are being revitalized lately?

Seems that to me too. I hope UFO: Alien Invasion [External Link] benefits from that too (...)

Instantly though the exact same thing.

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