I had one of the older versions before Steam was a thing, never could get past crashing on take-off so I'll probably give this a miss & NPC passengers around the world heave a sigh of relief.

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Quoting: saildataWow. I'm sorry to hear that! That makes me think I need to spend the five minutes to set up cron to snapshot/diff the list of my games. Has it really come to this? But seriously, I thought that the whole "you're not actually the owner of said software, we are" was something I left back in Windows 7... I argue that we can have the latest game and software without childish crap like this happening. Apparently they truly can reach through the dark webs and yank back all the bits : /

Have you contacted Steam? Not saying that acting naive helps.. but if it was your favorite game.. and you let them know that.. what's the worst that could happen? They take another?!

I know for Hitman, I couldn't get it to launch without a connection, but if the connection by chance was lost once in the game (dang ethernet cable just falls right out!) :whistle: it gave me all sorts of hell about "are you sure you want to play without an internet connection?!"

Are the days gone where we are not both the consumer and the product? I understand the need for consumer analytics to better understand patterns, behaviors, and other important metrics.. but at some point companies must realize that they can't have every data point they want. Hire good analysts who can infer with some sort of accuracy the stuff you're not getting because you're doing right by the consumer. For me, I'm much less likely to go out of my way to block it if you just ask for permission instead of taking it for granted. Show me what I, or the community, gains by agreeing to accept the intrusion. And let's not kid anyone here - a checkbox for a 5000 word agreement at checkout doesn't cut it.

Some might argue that games and software would be more expensive without the current distribution model.. Ok, then offer two prices: one for those that want to own the product outright and perhaps play without broadband, and a second "normal" price as it is now. Surely the company knows the value of the data, if not, then why collect it in the first place?! That's the idea behind "club" cards at grocery stores.. I get $0.50 off my Lucky Charms and they get their Q2 forecast for people matching my consumer group.

I'm interested to know how it turns out -- good luck!

I found out what it was in the end, & it's not a major problem, it's a cockup by Croteam, the Serious Sam BFE DLC was added as a separate item in the library & they've attempted to change it back to a proper DLC & it's removed it entirely from my library, not a major problem as I said, they'll get it fixed eventually.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo, lots of people wanting to see this game or that game that were already ported to Linux in turn get ported to Vulkan for performance. For me, this is more a proof of concept; it demonstrates that it will be very good if future ports go to Vulkan rather than OpenGL. Generally I'd rather see Feral's energies go to new ports rather than makeovers for old ports.
Like, say Feral over a period of time can do 10 projects. Rather than have 10 games already on Linux that ran a little slow (on current hardware) run faster, I'd rather see 10 new games that were not already on Linux run fast in the first place, because then instead of 10 fast games we'd have 10 not-so-fast games + 10 (probably newer) fast games. 20 games is better than 10 games.
I also suspect Feral can't stay in business if it spends too much of its energy re-porting old games for little sales benefit.

You're absolutely right but we can dream can't we? ;)

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Well Vulkan does indeed give Mad Max a Nitro Boost, I've gone from 30fps with some stuttering on Normal Graphics settings in OpenGL to 100+fps & no stuttering on Vulkan with the same graphics settings, I think we'll keep Vulkan. ;) Thanks Feral peeps. :D

ps any hints of which game may get the Vulkan treatment next?

pps Alien Isolation would definitely benefit from some Vulkan TLC.

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HEVN is more likely to be an acronym for something in the game than the Norwegian word for Vengeance.

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Quoting: saildata

Quoting: MicromegasIf a developer can remove a purchased game from your library (by mistake or on purpose) and it's not possible to get a refund than this looks indeed very disconcerting. This undermines the trustworthiness not only of the game developer but more importantly of Steam/Valve itself. Therefore it seems important to further investigate this story.

Yes. I was glancing over a terms of service for a game earlier before posting a requested performance guide. I wanted to know about what needed to be included.. long story long I came to a part that said, "we can delete the game from your computer at any point".

Maybe it was a bad translation, or maybe they meant through an invalidation method on Steam, but the words made me realize that (1) people are weird and (2) they say and do anything to feel in control.

I'm glad this story has lasted a while and struck a chord with some people. It's takes many speaking as one to get anything changed. Maybe not this game, but perhaps it will prevent the next one.

I think companies are just know learning that the Linux gaming community is different and unique from any other platform and we stick together. Ok enough of my Emmy speech :P just wanted to take a break from what I was working on to share that story from today and say y'all are awesome --

On a side note & directly linked to your post, this morning I have 1 less game in my Steam Library, something was removed overnight by "them" & I have no idea which game it was that was removed as I've had no messages about it from anyone. Damn annoying if it's one I paid for.

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Quoting: neowiz73they even have one of their main feature bullet points as: True cross-platform: players can challenge on other platforms including Steam PC and Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone and iPad

that would constitute false advertising in the US. I'm sure if people sent a support request through steam they would most likely get a refund. but hard to say really.

That would be false advertising over here in the UK as well, Trading Standards would have a field day with this one.

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Quoting: EikeCool!

... in both meanings of the word! :D

He didn't so much save my bacon as save my chips. ;)

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I tried this the other day when you posted it & the cpu kept overheating, turns out one of the clips that are supposed to hold the fan in place had broken & it wasn't sitting against the cpu so cooling wasn't happening at all, one refresh of the thermal paste & a new fan later & no more overheating, thanks to you Liam I got a potentially cpu threatening problem fixed. :D

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I keep meaning to give Spec Ops a proper play through, I'll probably get to it once my Hitman Obsession has worn off. It's not easy to give all the games a decent amount of time when you have 700+ Linux supported games in Steam.

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