My kids are playing this game and said they liked it. Tought it was for casual gamers but I never tried it. Was it this bad?! Lol!

Still we paid for it and we'll be left with nothing. Not even an offline boring trunkated version... Might Just be me but...

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Thanks for the reminder Liam. In the last few weeks, I was beggining to doubt but with this wrapup it raises my spirit.

Still, even in a dark mood, I always apply the "No tux, no bucks". :)

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: CorbenBut it feels a bit like the drive of games on Linux has worn a bit off. The "news" about Linux games being delayed, canceled or don't get updates seem to increase. Even where we expected to get a Linux version, because either it would be very easy to port (Engine supports natively Linux or is OpenGL) or the previous games of that series got Linux versions, don't get any port. Or is that just my impression?

A lot of last year's promises for Linux games were based on the hype surrounding Steam Machines and SteamOS. It's pretty clear now that Valve botched their Steam Machines debut, so I wouldn't be surprised if some publishers are just cautiously taking a few steps back (or perhaps even abandoning the idea altogether).

In fact the whole SteamOS initiative seems to have become a side project for Valve. Since the official Steam Machine launch, it's all about maintaining it with driver updates and security fixes. No new features. The updates are coming at a slower pace too. Feels like the whole thing is maintained by few guys (maybe only one) at Valve. I don't know if it's because they think it achieved it's goal...

I may just be paranoiac but I'm worried because I really like this platform but the flow of underperforming games might be killing the momentum it could have gotten.

On the same subject, what's going on with Arma III that was showing so much potential via VP?

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Quoting: NyamiouThe number of Linux users doesn't matter, what matters is how much money they have in their pockets and how much money they are willing to spend. There is a lot of Steam users that only play one game, and often it's a free to play game, those guys don't matter much. The reasons we get so many games right now is that in terms of money spend on new games (especially outside of the blockbusters) we are more close to 5% than 1% and porting to Linux have become less expensive and easier.

Makes me think of something... It could be nice to have a question, in the GoL survey, like: "How many games in your Steam Library?".

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Just found which game is going to test my brand new GTX960 4gb... :)

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Quoting: GuestAnd that's one reason I'm more interested in the Vive.

HTC Vive is my way to go too, but I was told to check for the Razer OSVR. Since it's an open source project, anyone got impressions on it? It seems quite impressive too.

http://www.razerzone.com/osvr [External Link]

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Since when does PCWorld cares about Steam Hardware survey?

Wierd timing, it happens at the same time of Tim Sweeney (Epic Games) public attack against UWP (Windows Store).

This is a subject in which they seemed quite biased when covering it too. They used lots of easy shortcuts to discredit Tim Sweeney.

I'm beginning to have doubt about PCWorld's objectivity.

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Aaaah! Now it makes sense! :)

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I get the whole picture, but have you seen the lineup of forthcoming games that just appeared on Steam displaying the SteamOS/Linux icon? I maintained my "explore" window up to date and usually get between 3 to 4 games per day untill yesterday. Today I got 3 complete screens with 11 games to "explore" and I don't know yet if there isn't a fourth. These games are all advertising SteamOS/Linux support... Sorry but wtf is going on?!?!?!

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: maodzedunBecause I wanted for kodi to be added as a launcher in there. Anyway, I'm happy you like it but imo it's crap. Ubuntu is a much better solution. In the end I just boot in ubuntu with kodi for movies and a modded Windows will solve my streaming problems (that one's on AMD though).

As Liam mentioned, SteamOS is explicitly designed as a platform for playing games through Steam. It's not meant to be a general purpose operating system.

Personnaly I did exactly that and Kodi launches from BPM and works great if you follow the "How to" on SteamOS forum. The Steam Controller is a great remote control for Kodi, btw.

Anyway, even if Kodi didn't work well I wouldn't complain about it because for gaming, SteamOS is awesome.

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