The only thing that really could change that is Microsoft's making Windows 10 "freeish".

But yeah, you still need to upgrade to unlock your hardware.

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Quoting: amonobeaxhm, windows xp is ~15%. i dont know in which year we living, but my calendar says 2015.

and for gamer i think even less. no one really uses windows xp nowdays for gaming. steam says 3%

True.

I seems like ~90% was outdated by the time I got that in mid.

Unfortunately this doesn't change much, since the mechanics behind it still the same. The locking occurs on DX11 not DX 9.0c.

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Quoting: fishxzthis makes even less sense, than a linux port will happen soon. why blizzard should do this for an outdated windows?

I guess neffo is right.

~90% of the market still uses windows XP. But their hardware is being upgraded. The result is ppl with very new GPU's featured locked by the API. That's how windows force/forced gamers into new Windows versions.

Why Vulkan not openGL? Well why not? The new API is a great promise for improvement. Blizzard is know to have games that work in low or high price PC's, if this API can increase this range even more AND give more performance to their games I really don't see why they shouldn't invest on it.

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Yeah, with this pricing I guess this machines are doomed to fail.

Strange It almost seems like they're not even trying to give it competitive prizes. Seems something like "let's release with this high price and hope that Valve in the name of Steam Machines will help us sell these all"

IMO building a new PC will always be more interesting than building a dedicated Steam Machine, therefore I guess this concept won't be successful. Just update your PC and have a good Steam Link and BAM! Nothing more is needed.

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I have no words to describe what I'm feeling.

I've just bought (Yeah I took the risk :D) Torchlight II and the port quality seems AWESOME. Can't wait until we have all those games released.

As for Linux...
I gave up most games cause I literally refused to have a Win partition. And now I'm seeing all this. Man it's just too much :D

Hail to you Linux brothers.

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Quoting: liberodarkOn windows 10 no have problem for play

If that is the cost of this (or any game). Well I might as well stop playing. Just saying.

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Am I the only one really sad that there aren't mega Tier 3 units?

I'm gonna give it another try later, but man this game was buggy the last time I tried it.

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I did wrong.

Lemme put it more clear.
I game on Linux because Linux is my OS and I think we should all follow healthy trends which helps all marked.
Why did I pick Linux and why IMO it's healthier to everybody it's on my last post :D

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For me:

1) It's free and Open

2) The community. You help ppl, ppl help you and knowledge is created (feels awesome)

3) Linux centralized updates. In Windows every single program has it's own updater. Very very inefficient.

4) File System. I simply hate how things are dealt in Windows. "Something is not working? Well backup, format and reinstall". As for the file systems itselves, in windows the system will get slower over time no matter what. I've never had a Windwos system which endured more than 2 years without formatting.

5) Virus / Malwares / etc. 95% developed for Windows. Enough said. No antivirus needed more resources.

6) I'm in charge in my Linux System. Everything I use is there cause I wanted it to be. The funny part is that I know ppl just don't care about it, but once you taste Linux freedom you won't be able to go back to the cage never again.

7) The all dev's may think a close/proprietary is okay until somebody comes and say "hey, for now if you wanna distribute your software in my store you have to gimme 30% of your income. DEAL WITH IT"

8) As Liam brightly said with Linux and OpenGL we have our hardware features release with the system updates. There's no "DirectX 11 only on Windows 8" bull$%!. You bought your damn hardware who the hell is Microsoft to lock your hardware capacity?
Actually I think this is the big reason Valve 'switched' to Linux. As some of their presentation on the subject said the Chinese marked is HUGE and research says that 80% (don't remember the exct number) of the chinese ppl still use Windows XP EVEN WITH LATEST HARDWARE.
In other words there is a huge amount of ppl in China that is hardware locked by Microsoft. That could give Valve a edge in that market.

9) If Microsoft keeps failing I don't have to give a damn. Seriously using Microsoft only tools can be very handy in terms of performance and compatibility, ok. But if that boat sinks bro... You're screwed. Such thing will NEVER happen when you develop in open platforms.

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I'm gonna buy this for sure.

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