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Quoting: STiATI'm using Nvidia and decided I will just buy it once it's confirmed running. I have no doubts it will, most games running on deck do actually run on Nvidia.

And seriously, playing a cat in a survival game? Couldn't be a cooler setting. An almost perfect hunter with night vision in a survival game...

I mean the feline is the world's greatest murderer.

Well, mustelids (weasels, wolverines) I think are in the running there. Really, the world has a lot of really expert murderers.

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Quoting: 14Also...

Unity to 'merge' with ironSource

So... ironity? Or "Unity Iron" with a logo of a clothes iron melting two things together.

Either is better than "Iron Unity" which sounds kind of Soviet.

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Quoting: GuestA Chinese hand-held running BeijingOS? No thank you!

Really? That's your problem? That they're Chinese?!
Better get used to it, the Chinese make most of the world's hardware.
. . . You do realize that with over a billion people, it's on average unlikely that any given product made by a company in China has code written personally by Xi Jinping, right?

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Quoting: EzequielPersonally I think it's embarassing to not host your own game's backend, and it's disrespectful to your customers if you don't have this transparency, most people didn't knew this was going on until it exploded.

I mostly agree but, I do sympathize with them and understand why they don't.

Have you ever ran your own dedicated server box and had to scale to the thousands? It's another whole skill set that perhaps none of them have or have the time for because they need to focus on other aspects of making games and running the essential business side of things. Maybe it's on their / someone's to-do list. It's also quite possible they don't have the money to pay another person to run the server for them.

Solid points, although I do feel that if you've got the thousands of players, but don't have the money to set up the servers for those players (including staffing them) then you've made some kind of mistake on the business side of things.

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Quoting: wit_as_a_riddleThe power of FOSS software, improvise, adapt, overcome! 🤣

Was that, by any chance, a reference to an old Monty Python sketch involving John Cleese dressed as a bank robber?

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Guest

If you're a game developer, maybe it's time to consider a free and open source kit like Godot Engine. Just a thought.

Game developers can't just move to a new engine, especially if they're working for a studio.

That's why he said "time to consider"--as in, look at, consider the possibilities of, do some testing, think about trying future projects in. Not "Switch right away on your existing projects".

Projects being released now were greenlit years ago, so maybe Godot will see more adoption in say, 10 years?
Highly doubt studios using Unity will move away from it though.

. . . None of which makes the comment you were rubbishing any less reasonable.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderAnd as for the Steam Deck increasing Linux marketshare by any significant margin well that depends on how many people install Windows on it..... I would actually like to see the number of Decks that ended up getting Windows installed on them in a year or so...... i doubt we will ever see those number but that would be very interesting data to look at......

Actually, someone realized that it's possible to figure it out from the results of the Steam survey. It's known we can see the existence of Decks running SteamOS. But it's also a hardware survey, so apparently it's possible to tell how many Windows machines on Steam Deck hardware there are. So far, the number is too small to show up. While the number of Steam Decks running SteamOS is still small, but big enough to show up. As I recall, the way it broke down the number of Windows Decks has to be somewhere between zero and, at an upper bound, under 20% as many as SteamOS. That is, they would be in a broader category which itself is 20% the size of Steam Decks running SteamOS, so they can only be at 20% if there turns out to be nothing else in that category.
In short, not a big deal so far, and the motivation is only going to shrink.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThis is going to happen more and more as Proton gets better and better..... Greedy/lazy publishers will use Proton to lower costs as they dont need to make a dedicated Linux port and still get a slice of the Linux user pie.....

Im not saying this is what happened here as it seems they got blindsided by a service provider... but between this and ARK: Survival Evolved you can see where the future is heading.....

what difference it makes if the games run fine? hell, even mods might have an better cross platform compatibility, how is that any different from using multiplatform apis like openGL on windows instead of directx?
i know, its not the same thing, but if steamdeck increasse our marketshare, it wont make a difference our support will be first class no matter if native or proton.
hell proton already gave us better perfomance than native in a few titles.

Yeah Proton is great at the moment..... but what if there are managment changes at Valve or Valve gets sold and they decide to scrap proton all together in the future???

It's open source. That isn't the problem. If Valve abandoned Proton, development would slow down. But it wouldn't die or disappear.

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Quoting: damarrinA 16” 16:10 screen, huh. That’s pretty cool. Shame about the res, I wonder what type of fractional scaling it needs to be useable.

Seriously? How did you survive back just a few years ago when everything was lower res than that?
Edit: Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, here.

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Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääNever tried it but looks pleasant! I wonder if this makes Lutris more irrelevant

I think they do somewhat different things.

Although I'd also say that for most people using Lutris, Bottles could be a easier-to-use replacement.

Anyway, aren't they collaborating or something? Like, Lutris starting to use Bottles for things? Or was that Heroic?

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