Quoting: CatKiller

it’s not worthwhile if it makes it easy for exploiters to cheat.

That's a hell of an assumption right there.

Well, it's probably easy for exploiters to cheat anyway, but that's not something you can really admit as you're in the process of rolling out your shiny new anti-cheat system.

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So there's one really stupid thing about this:
--Revenue scales with number of users (obviously)
--Coding costs do not.

So like, if it was a game that had a few thousand, even a few tens of thousands, of users, then OK, the expense for 1% of that would be arguably prohibitive.
But Roblox is not such a game. They have, what, 60 million users did I hear? And they're getting Robux/year from all of them. Let's imagine $10/year on average, which is probably low given what I hear about my grandkids, and what I know about stuff they get for birthdays/Christmas. That's $600 million. Assuming Linux at ~1% (which is also on the low side these days), that's $6 million in revenue from Linux users, per year. You could so totally pay for a coder, full time, to wrangle Linux issues and still be making plenty of money from them. Heck, you could pay for several. And I can't see how it could possibly take more than one full time coder just to fiddle with Wine vs Anticheat issues.

What they really mean is that in order to make such a decision and keep track of having made it, somebody important, an upper executive, would have to spend time paying attention to the issue, and they don't think it's enough money to be worth an upper executive's attention.

So you know, fuck those guys. Especially--I mean, dude said they use Linux for their servers. You can be sure, they do that because it saves them a stack of money. They owe Linux. But they can't be bothered to "pay back" even though it would certainly be profitable, albeit in a small way. Fuck them.

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Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: Frawo

Quoting: InstallSteam is drm

This is simply not true, and I'm surprised that this superstition still persists. While Steam actually offers their DRM to publishers, I haven't heard of any game sold on Steam and GOG that got DRM on Steam (though there might be a few exceptions). If you don't believe me, try to launch the *.exe of Witcher or Cyberpunk on Steam without having the Steam client open. I suppose that 99% of what is DRM free on GOG has no DRM on Steam either.

Here is a list of DRM free games on Steam:
https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games [External Link]

Steam is DRM. You must use it to download the game. Steam limits when and how you can play any game.

Every time I have ever tried to play a Steam game offline, it tries to phone home, fails, sighs, and says basically "Fine, be that way. Play the game without calling Steam, see if I care!" and I do. I think there's a distinction between nagware and DRM.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI actually just beat the Heart with the Ironclad for the first time a few weeks ago; the same time, not coincidentally, that I did a 999-damage Body Slam. (That was only my third time doing so, after managing it twice with my favorite character the Silent.)

Finally did it! The Silent. Got pretty lucky, was a bit careful, ended up with four of those "A Shiv Every Turn" cards, two "Shivs get more badass" cards, an artifact that gave cost 0 attacks 4 more damage. So in a long fight I'd have 4 shivs per turn for 18 points each before I even looked at the cards I actually drew. But wait, there's more! Had an artifact that gave me +1 Dexterity every time I cast 3 attacks in a turn. Well, with all those shivs, my shielding was getting badass pretty fast! Plus I had some good poison stuff, including the one where every time an attack did damage it adds a point of poison, which, with all those shivs . . . and shortly before the finale, I got the card that gives you a point of block every time you play a card, which basically defended me from the Heartbeat of Doom, which with all those shivs was very much the cherry on top. And a fair amount of decent normal cards and artifacts. It wasn't even close, it dealt me maybe 20 points of damage before I waxed it.
Woo!
OK, this is maybe a bit off topic, but dash it all, I had to tell someone, and most people I know would look at me blankly.

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Quoting: TurkeysteaksI much prefer the current system, having the numeric ID is so much nicer than just sticking numbers into your name. I'm not looking forward to this change at all, and it's not something they're likely to back out of now. Discord had been good for so long... how much longer before it is worth looking for an alternative instead?

Hmmm . . . wonder if they're big enough to reach the stage Cory Doctorow calls "enshittification"?

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The results of this could be . . . discordant.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: PhiladelphusLike, you can flip a fair coin and get 10 heads in a row. It's quite a small probability to happen, but it's technically just as random an outcome as getting 5 heads and 5 tails

Nnnno.

Getting HHHHHHHHHH is as likely as getting HHTHTTTHTH, but there's many more versions of 5 heads 5 tails.

He didn't say just as likely, only just as random.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Highball

Quoting: GuestThat's it, the Steam survey is definitely skewed against Linux users: out of the ~120 million monthly active users on Steam, 7 (seven) of them commented on gamingonlinux.com lamenting they never, or very rarely, received a survey.
Clearly, this should be a priority for Valve and fixed ASAP!

6 of them. I gave instructions for making sure a survey would occur. No need for "lamenting" when you are the one finding the solution.

I don't know if you're solving anything or just messing with the system.

The mere fact that the system is that easy to mess with makes me wonder anew about its accuracy.

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As we all know, the most important thing in Vampire Survivors has always been the story

Now there's a tongue jammed pretty firmly into a cheek.

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Quoting: GuestIs wine versioning just an arbitrary counting, or 9.0 is going to be some big milestone?

Arbitrary, I believe. As the article puts it,

Once a year a new stable releasing is made

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