This greatly increases my likeliness and interest to buy Itch games.

I pay money so that someone else can organize, update, and manage my games.

I currently own 0 Itch games. So this could be a game changer for me to come abord.

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Been waiting a long time on this one, glad I will be playing after Beta is over.

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Nice, SS1 is still towards the top of my most anticipated and excited for.

Looks like they are on track and doing well.

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Quoting: GuestI feel this game has been so under-rated over the years

Loved the original natural selection and also love natural selection 2, it always irked me they never became as big as something like counter-strike because NS is fantastic and not THAT hard to understand how to play once you get the general gist of everything

In hindsight I think that the game was extremely CPU and GPU hungry and this probably was one of the "setbacks" to it becoming "widely popular".

IIRC One time I loaded the game and it took 2 or 3 minuets to update the map data file to the new layout just so I could play the game. (I can't recall if I was still on spinning disk 7200 RPM or SSD at that point), on a Laptop that would be painful. (It was prior to getting to the title screen, I would have appreciated being able to move around the menus and options while it did it in the background.)

I remember having a $400 GPU and cranking the settings up as high as possible and I couldn't get a crazy frame-rate, I had choppy issues on my i7.

Look at games who do the opposite -- Minecraft and Terraria will run on a potatoe. Or rather, any laptop lying around even if it has a shitty Intel GPU. (We all know Intel is awesome and stable as fuck but for gaming doesn't deliver much on the GPU juice.)

Also, being a "for-profit" game and not free-to-play, I honestly think they could explode if it was Free to Play and they borrowed a page from DOTA 2 TI Championships.

This year alone IIUC DOTA2 raked in 100 million dollars, 25 million of which when to the prize pool, 11 million of which went to the #1 champion team.

Not including profits from skin purchases and other things. They essentially have added a RPG circle to their game to get players to complete compedium books, challenges and other things to win prizes.

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Highly recommend this game, it has local 4 player multiplayer and covers a genre that hasnt been filled on Linux. Its pretty fun and immersive and the retro graphics kickass in addition to solid mechanics.

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or just make a category called windows and add those gsmes to it and collapse it. no big deal.

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Quoting: Guest

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Quoting: dubigrasuI know what I think about this.
I know what you think about this.
I just wanna know what Feral thinks about this.

Head Feral Linux guy left recently.

Perhaps he was (Hollywood term) "hip to the chase".

He left to work on Unity...Which really needs him. But, I am sure Feral are going to be fine as I will personally use and buy a native version over Proton (am I nerd when I think of Star Trek?).

Your FACTS are not helping cultivate FEAR or FUD, lol.

Because now that we suddenly realize that SteamOS becoming a success is still in the roadmap, we must shift our pessimism to some other Linux thing to be affraid about -- suchas Feral Games having X-negative impact / bullshit.

If we could just hold off the FUD for at least 24 hours please.

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I wonder if this will be on Mac too via MoltenVK, if so IIRC that's like 7% of Steam may have access to new games never before available -- that could make a lot of money for publishers and money for valve.

Edit: Again in other words I wanted to reiterate that just because a game runs on Linux doesn't mean it has my or everyone's favor. I will compromise some (suchas buying the whole Final Fantasy series), but there are still many situations I am unwilling to run into bugs, so I will put my dollars to Linux FIRST publishers and content first.) I am certain I am not the only one who matches my alignment.

However for noobs, converts, and everyone else, it's a dream come true.

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Quoting: bingusThis is amazeballs. It pretty much confirms a few conspiracy theories we all had, and its nice to finally hear some news from Valve.

Conspiracies? Nah, speculation.

Quoting: bingusThey can also see how many people are playing thru Proton, and if the numbers increase it may make them think twice about doing Linux natives.

This definitely drops a new market right in developers laps. Developers spending time reading posts from Linux users, observing SteamPlay stats about Linux, getting feedback and bug reports about Linux and spending time Thinking about Linux is a BIG WIN / WIN for Linux.

Suddenly, a seemingly invisible platform used in Billions of devices has entered the thoughts of developers on a regular basis and they are forced to interact with and acknowledge us.

That is the first step to a native port.

Quoting: GuestIt begins. Linux world domination. Next stop, Steam OS based console...

I think both blind optimism and blind pessimism are both dangerous and our CHOO CHOO all aboard the Hype-Train is at a high with this announcement.

Although I do think it is likely at some point they relaunch the Steam OS Console, my estimate is around the time PlayStation 5 launches. They definitely have been getting things in shape. (AMD MESA HDMI Audio, FreeSync is being reformed in the current Kernel, graphics driver version buffs, etc...)

Quoting: GuestTo all those who have concerns about linux native games, keep in mind that the vast majority of games never come to Linux anyway. If they are playable in some automagical way with acceptable performance, that will still remove a huge roadblock that prevents a lot of people from installing Linux. It only gets better from there.

I think also overlooked is that just because Linux Gamers "can" buy and install windows games over Proton -- it doesn't automatically mean they WILL.

A lot of Linux Gamers will still see that as "high-risk". Some will not compromise. Some will compromise on a handful of titles. Others will go ham and buy tons of Windows games to play on Linux.

There isn't any "one" effect it will have on people.

Quoting: GuestThe thing you need to understand is that we need to reach "critical mass" on the Linux desktop. We need a valid percentage of users so more proprietary companies can take us seriously and provide native ports, like Adobe for example, and proper hardware drivers for niche hardware. Once that happens, even more people will install Linux and it will snowball from there.

Linux native will always have the benefit of better performance + less bugs. So developers will still prefer this choice if they can, especially if Linux gets more marketshare.

Two points I'd like to make.

1. Buffing our numbers is CRITICAL to our survival, growth and evolution as a community. We really can't afford to be idealistic and expect 100% open source games. It's a fucking game, not a pacemaker or router -- industries where it matters.

2. Windows may at some point retire win32 to push their lock-down and crowning king Windows Store. In this instance, existing content will work on SteamOS should Microsoft pull the plug on non Windows Store software.

3. This is good for the Wine SNOWBALL effect. The more shit that works in wine -- the even more shit that works in wine.

eg: DXVK 9 - 12 upgrades meant for gaming improve Photoshop rendering on Linux,

This is what is also known in competative MOBA as a DEATHBALL, exponential improvements if you will.

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Holy fuck, I have no words.

The amount of work and investment is just jaw dropping.

I've said it MANY MANY times before, and I want to say it again, can we PLEASE maintain optimism that Valve have been quietly been improving SteamOS and this is just the beginning of their Linux support?

Besides all their other projects and contributions, this is a HUGE AFFIRMATION of their commitment to us, and I think it's fair we reciprocate and support them as much as possible for the future benefit to the Linux platform.

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