Is the name supposed to be a play on Fortune Street?

Which by the way, if y'all haven't played Fortune Street on the Wii it's a great game.

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It's a solid project and obviously the way forward, but it's still under active and heavy development and is hardly mature.

What RHEL is really saying is it's mature enough for them and their use case, and like everything RedHat does, they state things like they represent linux as a whole and can be pretty heavy handed about it.

That said, they do hold a lot of sway, and this will likely put even more pressure on others to follow suit. Let's just hope others do so in a good, positive, way.

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Quoting: ThibugSo instead of making the store better (Still no proper review system), they are using money to get developers onboard and hope that customers will follow... Next news, Epic laid off 50% of their staff because they are losing money ?

That was my first thought too. Pretty much everyone hates using the store and their client, but they seem entirely oblivious or unwilling to deal with it. Even if they add reviews, the client itself is still terrible.

I've said it before, but I imagine devs putting games on stores other then steam -- even making sales on them -- at least partially rely on steam for most of those sales. Why? Because I'm fairly sure most people would look up a game on steam prior to making a purchase.

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Considering how the people at the top sold so much of their stock prior to the announcement, they knew what the reaction would be like. I suppose it's possible they underestimated it figuring themselves too big to fail.

Hopefully people just move on from the slimy company and be done with it.

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I wonder how this applies to stores like GOG, where the installers can be used on multiple computers with a single purchase.

Would it discourage devs from selling on stores like GOG without DRM?

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Quoting: grigiLooking at the old/new visual differences, I feel like the new RTX version doesn't capture the same kind of feel as the original.

I was commenting on this to some friends earlier. The RT looks great, but it seems like the original has something of a blue-grayish tint giving it a general mood that is removed on the RTX version.

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Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: HJThat isn't Prey though, it's Prey (2017)

I honestly think this idiotic naming convention is one of the big reasons it had mediocre sales. It was an AMAZING game (still my all time fav from Arkane) but I think a ton of people just thought it was a remake of the 2006 game. The former game was average at best, but when people saw the same name and looked at a screenshot and saw it was an fps, they just passed on it.

ho ho, that might have been the reason but for me it was quite the opposite - i thought it was a remake/reboot/continuation of 2006 game but turns out it has nothing to do with it which just makes me angry because i liked original game, so I just ignore it entirely. At least Doom 4 and Tomb Raider remake have something to do with original, Prey and Prey (2017) have about as much in common as Quake and Quake 2, it's just developer/publisher reusing their trademarks/copyrights.

Well, it's the publisher's fault in this case, it's actually a pretty well-known story. Bethesda forced Arkane Studios to use the name Prey for Prey (2017), despite them being very much against it.

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Honestly I bet it's as simple as something like they outsourced adding EOS to Payday 2's engine, and whoever they outsourced it to was incapable or unwilling to handle the Linux version be it a branch/fork/whatever. Plus money, things are always related to money somehow, lol. Heck, a project manager could've simply assigned the task to a Junior Developer who balked at Linux and that was that.

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Honestly I'm not sure why Nintendo keeps getting vilified for this, while there is a lot to be annoyed about with them, in this specific instance, they honestly seem to be in the right to me.

My understanding is they don't care about the emulator itself, they care about the encryption key specifically. Many emulators do not include things like that for this very reason, and I think most people were likely unaware that Dolphin did/does. I'm fairly sure if Dolphin wasn't distributing that then there would be no issue here.

I'm a little baffled that the Dolphin team thought courting this kind of attention while knowing a key like that was in their public source code would end well. Queue literally any meme for "Surprised <animal>".

It's not that surprising to me that Nintendo hasn't come after them until now. This is the first time it's been on a storefront, even if it's free. They typically only go after things that potentially involve money, even if there isn't any there (remember that youtube etc COUNTs). They never sold the emulator or anything related to it as far as I know. The Dolphin team just stepped over a line -- to the surprise of absolutely nobody.

I really don't get why they wanted it on Steam anyway, maybe to make Steam Deck installation easier? Otherwise it's kind of an awful way to handle emulators...

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Quoting: pogofe

Quoting: Teodosio1) This is why we should always ask for Native releases; Proton is just a fallback, marginally better than post-development ports;
2) Keep in mind that Steam provides a "Review" feature.

This will only happen when enough PC users change from Windows to Linux systems. And that will only happen when people feel like everything they need is on a linux system with easy access to it and great user experience. That's why things like proton/wine exists in first place.

Other than that, I don't get why they don't want to support linux, since Roblox is available on Android, which is a linux based system and is more close to SteamOS than Windows is. I don't think a linux port would be that hard to do, unless the armv8/x64 differences are the main problem to tackle.

I would guess it was probably recommended by their anti-cheat vendor. There is a stigma around linux that that's where the cheaters are, and that it makes it easier for "hackers" to attack the game. Honestly it's pretty similar in thinking that cloud storage companies intentionally don't release clients for linux, because there is a stigma that linux users are more likely to be heavy users. Frankly, there is probably at least a little truth to both.

I hate to tell whoever needs to hear it, but at least with cheaters, if they're good at linux w/ cheating they're going to be good at cheating in Windows too.

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