Quoting: sonic2kkCongratulations as always to all Godot contributors and maintainers. I hope the increase in funds allow them to review and merge PRs faster. I've been following Godot on GitHub for close to a decade now, the explosion in contributions has been excellent for the engine, but I get the feeling they just don't have the resources to review and merge all the PRs that come in very timely (some PRs are in limbo for close to a year).

I still firmly believe Godot maintainers are doing their absolute best with the resources they have. Though if folks from Re-Logic and Robot Gentleman are also going to start contributing code directly to the engine along with their donations, I hope they can get more people on board to help with review and getting features merged faster. I believe this is starting to happen, with big features getting prioritized review (such as Android C# and FSR 2.2)

Though I'm not on the camp on the issue tracker that paints this as Godot being a scam (or even a cult [External Link] ) or anything. I'm looking at this through a developer's lens and I can appreciate the challenge of getting features merged, so I hope as Godot continues to grow they can scale well with the increase in financial support.

Only a single person merges these PR, so they need to assign a second person to the task.

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Quoting: JuliusThe player increase is probably from the simultaneous 60% discount last week.

Its a nice Godot engine based game, but the combat isn't really tower defense (and it would be probably a better game if it was).

It's a new kind of tower defense; that's what makes this game innovative.

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Well, I gave it my single-handed level best trying to get Super Bomberman R 2 on there after it launched on the 13th, but it clearly wasn't to be, haha. :tongue:

You're one hardcore Bomberman R fan; you should make a game inspired by it.

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To sum up Valve tried blocking people buying games in different EU regions to get them cheaper, which is a breach of EU rules.

To be clear, it wasn't an action by Valve as such, and it wasn't sales on Steam. The publishers had their region restrictions on sales (which aren't allowed within the EU) and gave out Steam keys (for which Valve didn't get money); the publishers used Steam's region locks to prevent activation of those EU keys elsewhere within the EU, and Valve let them. That's why Valve got fined, but that's also why the fine is quite small. Valve subsequently fixed their tools so that publishers can't prevent activation within the EU of something sold within the EU, so it's just that historical breach.

That's why you're one of my favorite human on earth ;)

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You always find gems.

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Quoting: GuestI love my Deck but I do wonder just how many years it really has in it to stay relevant. It's a delicate balance between keeping a good hardware target and being able to actually handle games until the next, but I feel we're already seeing it at the end of its limit with newer releases, so a few years from now does seem a long way off.

I think it primarily depends on whether or not developers are willing to optimize their games for the Steam Deck.

Bingo, you said the same thing that I have been saying for a long time. People are so focused on hardware or node size that they forget that once we reach the nm node limit, the only option is to either go fully chiplet or optimize games. It doesn't matter how strong the hardware is; it will come to bite us in the end if developers are not willing to put in the effort to optimize their software, and the craziest part is that nobody wants to buy a $1,000 handheld just to buy a game that wouldn't play on the steam deck knowing how high the inflation is.

Either you try to please the people who want expensive luxury items or the people who want something with value that isn't expensive.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LoftyIve seen a lot of new Windows handhelds recently with better specs, but they always fail in certain ways that the steam deck does not.

worse value
worse ergonomics
worse audio
worse controls
worse software
worse drivers
worse configuration
worse updates
worse battery life
worse Windows

Competition is good, but so far i haven't seen a decent enough handheld that can compete. Not even the ROG ALLY is close even though it does beat the steam deck on screen, performance the rest is not as good.

So id say ignore the Youtube click bait about that latest super duper windows 10" Ryzen Z1 handheld that cost $1000 and just get a steam deck.

Funny how effective it is when you plan a whole device as a whole device, with what it's going to be used for in mind.
(and when you dump Windows)

Yea, you can tell most of the competitors are rushing to market get a slice of the Steam deck pie using 'on paper' better specs to lure people in. Trying for paid reviews, maybe chucking wads (not doom wads) at big channels to pull people into a temporary FOMO hype. But giving no future promise of support, in fact probably most likely dumping the product within 6 months onto the next version with some flaws removed but more different ones added.

If you see a gormless open mouthed Soy face holding the latest Chinese handheld at an awkward angle backed by ludicrously over saturated colors on their thumbnail saying "THIS blows the steam deck away and it TOTALLY Surprised Me WOW! 😲️ " .. avoid that content.

edit* added worse support to my original list

People who act like Spongebob's cat

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Ethan is a legend.

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It's also a Godot engine game, so hurray for open source.

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You forgot about the CPU power state EPP update, which should yield some performance boost for the steam deck.

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