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Quoting: jensNice, with also Nvidia preparing for xWayland I guess I'm only missing Chrome/Chromium/Electron in Wayland land.

Does Chromium or vscode not work on Wayland?

Currently no. They are working on it though.

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I loved most the release of the Steam client on Feb 05.

Fixed a bug on Linux where compatibility tool selection wasn’t displaying correctly

That bug annoyed me a lot.

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Started playing, I was shocked how bad the character creator looked compared to the in game graphics which I find more appealing.

It's a fun game, but I did not have the time to play as much as I'd like, but I think for me it will be a game to play a few hours here and there.

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One of the reasons I have my own nextcloud at a german provider which gets backed up every day to a storage service of my choice, my own domains and with that mail adresses.

I do not even have my contacts at google.

Costs me about 4 euros a month, which is not a lot.

I do use google... for everything I do not care if it's gone. Basically Gmail is my mailing list and mail for online accounts I do not care about overmuch, where I'd just create another account if it's gone.

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Quoting: NuSueyFeel free to hate on me but I still love my purchase on Stadia.
Bought Cyberpunk 2077 on stadia, that cost 10e/$ less than on Steam/GOG on launch day (cause of the new user discount).
If i wanted to play Cyberpunk2077 on my hardware I would have to spend a few hundreds just to make it be playable (and streamable).
In my eyes that was definitely worth it. Played probably 70hours of it, love it & love the experience.
It just seems they are refocusing on just supporting other developers than to spend much more money just on their own production of games.

I am pretty sure we will see a ton of games coming to Stadia this year and even if it's still the underdog, I totally root for the underdogs.

I'm in the same boat here with AC:Valhalla and Cyberpunk. I do not even need my own PC, I can use my work laptop in the evening to play.

I don't regret buying it, but I see a risk of Google shutting down the whole thing at some point (or at least abandon it).

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I think that's a smart move, providing the streaming platform and getting a cut of the game price.

They'll just need enough devs/publishers willing to port to Stadia, for that they need a user base which makes it worth porting, and I'm not very confident they do have the userbase yet, or will have in the next few years.

I hope it survives though, being able to play on the TV or PC as I choose is really nice.

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We can argue here all we want, unless we know what exactly is in the agreement(s), we can't say either wise. Would be nice if such a document ever leaked so we finally know what practices Valve is up to, but I doubt that will happen any time soon.

The outcome of this will be interesting - the actual court judgement.

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Madden... interesting. Seeing how Microtransactions were in NBA 2k20 and the late FIFA titles, anyone with experience on how microtransactions are there?

I basically do not want micro transactions at all in single player gaming, not in any mode. I did hear Madden is not as bad as others, but ... well, that bar isn't exactly low.

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I do not see this as a really bad thing. Other projects with little manpower do the same.

As long as it's not a legal binding CLA or similar I usually do not object. It's their way of defining how they want to run their project.

To be true to call it CLA is a bit overstretched, since it has nothing to do with the code licensing, other projects put things like this in the contributing section and simply deny everything which does not adhere with the rules there.

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Quoting: nepountil they shut down -> How many PAID services Google did really shut down in the past (PAID is important here)? Unlikely - but what happens if Valve shut down Steam? This is a problem for all DRM- or "plattform-protected" games. So, what is an "own game"? If it isn't open source, you really don't "own" it at all. Even GOG games can be a problem if the developer stops supporting them (missing libraries, no support for modern OS, and so on).

I'll say to that, before Steam with its userbase shuts down it's bought and the service will be maintained in a way or another.

For Stadia, google shut down many paid services in the past due to limited use.

I do not see that with Stadia, the big bet investment is done, maintaining it will not cost them a lot. Gaming is a long term bet, and if they want to get into that market the product will need to be kept up for at least 5-7 years to see if it can succeed. If it fails it will have cost google, which they can afford, if they succeed they got a long term money machine.

With android almost everywhere and phones replacing a computer soon with a dock... it is a good bet and the tech is good enough to succeed.

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