Quoting: Liam DaweI get that for how some people live, in that way it's a downgrade. But, I don't really believe a family sharing system is meant at all for different countries. That, really, feels like a bit of a stretch for Valve getting developers on board to allow games to be shared like this at all.

Different households in the same country though, that I feel they could (and should) relax on a bit. Like for me as a co-parent, the kiddo is between two houses in two completely different cities.

I haven't yet tested the feature, but I read in their FAQ that you can be offline while using this revamped family sharing. So is it possible that maybe you only have to verify the "under the same roof" requirement once (or once each several weeks/months)? If this is possible maybe you could visit other house, login with your account and enable family sharing there. But I'm just guessing, no idea if this will work.

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Awesome news. I used the old library sharing with my children, and having the complete library locked to share a single game was painful. For my use case (that is the use case this feature is thought for) this is so much better.

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Quoting: woox2kWhat makes me wonder... is it possible that one guy is to "blame" here? Valve knew what wine was but did not spend much effort into making games compatible with it and tried to get companies to release native ports instead. When dxvk became a huge success Valve seemingly instantly jumped onto that bandwagon and released proton (by hiring the one guy behind dxvk afaik) Is it possible that when DXVK released, some guys in Valve went on like "Hey this is awesome, we should take this route to compatibility instead" and that's how it started?

Philip (doitsujin) Rebohle might be the person behind all this by being a Linux user and excellent programmer who just wanted to play a DX11 anime game that did not work on Wine!

It's always the anime fans XD. No, just joking. Huge props to Philip!

Not just "an anime game", he wanted to play NieR: Automata. This game is the gift that never ends giving.

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Quoting: doragasuHave you tested if the mouse can move "infinitely to one side"? With waydroid, when you reached a point, it got stuck.

That also works fine.

Awesome, thanks for testing!

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Quoting: doragasuI wonder if this fixes the mouse and perf on AMD hardware, but will wait until there is a non-flatpack version to test.

If it helps, I've got an AMD processor (Ryzen 5600X) and it works fine.

Then it looks like the perf problem is gone (I tested back then with a Ryzen 5700X and perf was terrible).

Have you tested if the mouse can move "infinitely to one side"? With waydroid, when you reached a point, it got stuck. For example moving the mouse to the right, there was a point where camera stopped moving until you moved it again back to left. I suspect it must be an Android limitation, maybe Android stops moving the cursor when it reaches the screen end, and that was the problem, but this is speculation on my side.

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I tried the waydroid method back then, and worked reasonably well on two Intel laptops I tested, but performance was terrible on AMD hardware (apparently because libhoudini does not work well on AMD CPUs). Anyway even if it worked well, there were some problems that would have prevented playing, like some odd mouse behavior (limited movement on the sides).

I wonder if this fixes the mouse and perf on AMD hardware, but will wait until there is a non-flatpack version to test.

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Looks cool, but was going to install it from the AUR package, and it has a ton of Python dependencies plus some Node and Rust. Too many for a relatively simple tool.

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Quoting: PyrateInteresting how TEKKEN has such a deep sale given it came out in like February earlier this year, did it not do too well sales wise?

That's a Trojan horse. You buy the game at a discount, but then you have to buy one battle pass after another to be able to play with all the characters.

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Got Doom Eternal Deluxe Edition. Time to slice demons!

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Quoting: shnullAdd to all this the mad prices of €100 or close for a single game, its plenty to be very picky . Newel might have been taken over by the triffids from all i see lately. How many original bipeds are still around since 2019 ...

If you add season pass and similar DLCs, many games are in fact way more expensive than €100 (e.g. Tekken 8). But well, that's other different discussion.

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