heavy mouselag in dungeon defenders
heavy mouselag in left4dead2
heavy mouselag / low fps in painkiller h&d
heavy mouselag / low fps in serious sam 3:bfe
extreme stuttering in sanctum 2
hdmi extreme soundnoise in prison architect
hdmi extreme soundnoise in trine 2
random freezes in book of unwritten tales
missing textures in verdun
missing textures in guns of iccarus online

this were my experience with amd proprietary (on my desktop) vs nvidia proprietary (on my laptop)
basically theres always some problem unless its a 2d platformer or the likes

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dont know what to think about starbound and chucklefish. sure the game is very fun at first but it gets repetitive rather quick. there have been dozens of promises and discriptions of a bright future to the game like shipfights and space pirates and whatnot but every update i witnessed was merely fixing minor stuff or balancing things or adding useless cosmetic gadgets like valintines day costumes. in the timespan i was interested in this game i got the impression that chucklefish tries to fuel the hypetrain of a "forever early access" to milk the enthusiastic early supporter cow as much as possible.

maybe i am wrong, maybe im injust and they are all cool, but i was disappointed by the rate and quality of their updates and hoped for a way more complex game that would emerge in the end. so when i read this article all i read is actually this:
"as soon as a 1+ year long early access beta with cosmetic changes is no longer tolerated by people we will just open source the thing, hand over developement to them and start pushing our next early access game to earn $ with"

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Quoting: KossakI'm not sure why one would want to use it instead of steam? Is it only for launching games? What does it do that steam doesn't?

theres a lot different to steam
1. you can launch titles that are not on steam
2. launch titels that are from different platforms (and run through emulators)
3. it used gtk thus fits into your os nicely
4. its open source
5. it loads instantly and uses less recources

i would be agree that someone who uses and likes steam a lot and only plays game that are in his steam libary, lutris is kinda redundant. for everyone else this can be quite nice tho, and if you buy drm free games on humblebundle/gog this may even be way better for you than steam.

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so basically linux makes up 0,5% of the sales. with the statement that half of the total sales were done after garrys-mod was made avail. on mac/linux and a marketshare of 1% on steam in mind for linux.. 30k sales are actually the number one would expect mathematically.

i must say i never bought this nor did i consider too. sandbox games with no goal or enemies or developement dont really work for me. i ignored minecraft until there were enemies to defeat and it puzzles me how 6 million people can play garrys mod :D

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Quoting: sevI could not care less if my games are Free Software or not. Games are games. They aren't my office software or photo editing software that I base a business on. They're games. I play them for fun, for a temporary diversion. If I never see the code, my life will be no worse for it. There's just no reason that I can think of that I need access to the source of games. Would I complain if I had it? no. Do I require it in order to enjoy myself? no more than I require all the source files from a movie or music album when I partake of those.

neither would i. and if you would have read more carefully, you would have realised that this is not about open source games. it is about drm free vs steam distribution of games and thus the question if people should even let go of the most basic freedoms of software (software that doesnt require you to use 3rd party software that will hinder you sharing, selling or gifting and potentionally breaks the software when the 3rd party software goes offline at some point).

whatever =) this is my last post about this topic here

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Quoting: vulturein order for linux to grow it has to get acceptance of commercial software.

DRM free software is just as commercial. it is only the distribution system that is free, the product itself still is unfree. with steam you give up even that freedom - as i said before you do so willingly because they bribe you with convenience. there are a lot of people like you that argue "in order to grow, linux has to do concessions" and while you are right that its the easy way i refuse to accept that its the right one.
you may think that people like me are annoying to bring up such a topic again, but its my conviction that it is the most important one there is for us linux gamers. if there wasnt so much anxiety and discussion going on about freedom of software etc., we wouldnt even be here. it concerns me how people here worship steam without doubts.

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These are far greater freedoms that we gain than what we lose with having steam

you dont get any freedom, what you get are conveniences. theres nothing wrong about convenience, but you actually trade your freedom for them. sure its proprietary anyway but on steam you even loose your ability to resell, gift or lend the games. you give up your last bit of freedom over software (because you dont actually buy it, you buy an extension of steam that lets you play a certain game) and you are even ok with that because of convience.
closed source games are like a car where you cannot open the hood (and just like with software most people wont mind because they have no clue anyway). but with steam you dont even get the car, you buy the key that lets you drive the car. sure ultimativly it means the same - you can drive, but step by step you hand over possibilies and rights just because someone promisses to wash your car in return (or cloud your saves :p)
and by that they make you think you have to trade freedom for convenience and you are even ok with it

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Quoting: GoCorinthiansSTEAM FTW!

i like how they push linux but the idea of steam within gnu/linux is perverting the actual idea of free software. what we trade here is freedom for convenience and the sole reason i go along with it is that i hope when steam dies off one day (and it will, all does eventually) it will have pushed linux a little. whenever i can i buy my games in DRM free fashion and dodge steam like the plague. i like what they do to push the developement of linux but still i see it as a trade with the devil.

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i cannot believe they paid 2 billion for a little studio and a game that has passed its zenith long ago.

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Quoting: ntfwcHammerwatch looked interesting. I don't have many hack and slash games.

play it with a friend at you will love it. its really meant to be played coop

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