Quoting: GuerrillaIt seems strange to me that Valve is validating all of these non-native games but seems to be skipping right over all the native ones. Certainly it would be faster to verify/mark playable native games, given that there's no need to be concerned with a game breaking.

/tin foil hat on

Sort of makes me think Valve would prefer developers to make games for Windows that just target a Proton version rather than encourage native development.

/tin foil hat off

I have a suspicion they are stockpiling a fair number of games to slap into the "validated" column just as release day arrives.

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Quoting: areamanplaysgame

Quoting: GuestNot linux user will
1. switch to windows

This might be true for a PC gamer who builds PCs, etc. The average console gamer, and even a less experienced PC gamer, is unlikely to install a new OS. The overwhelming majority of PC users never do.

Many don't know what an OS is.

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So OK, unsurprisingly people's game libraries contain a LOT of Unknown. But if the Unknown have similar proportions to the ones already tested, the prospects are pretty good.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyValve is frankly a really weird company. I'm sure all the other companies look at it and think, to quote a certain Dr. from Austin Powers, "Not Evil enough".

Why would they? Valve is nowhere near the open source contributions of other closed source companies (e.g. Apple & Microsoft).

Valve isn't primarily a software company though. If you write 5% as much software as another company, but contribute 30% as much to open source, and in more key areas, who is more open source friendly?

And of course it's much smaller, but the main thing is just that this is an apples/oranges comparison. Apple and Microsoft do open source contributions mainly when they have no other choice; it's just that they do so much business that revolves around areas that have been taken over, despite their determined resistance, by open source software that the number of areas where they've had no other choice is quite large.
Valve actually chooses to use open source, and do it responsibly, in areas where they would have other choices.

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Quoting: sobkasWhat a nice example of tone policing.

Here's some tone policing: Lighten up.

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Quoting: GuestKickstarter itself isn't a promise, even if it's portrayed that way.

Sure it is. Like any promise, it's about the future and subject to the vagaries of unsympathetic events. And like most promises, it's not legally binding. But it's sure as hell a promise--people go on kickstarter and they say "If we get funding X, we will totally deliver thingie Y".
So then if they don't, people will be annoyed. But also, they will assess what the people who made the promise said about why they didn't keep their promise. If someone's half an hour late and they say "I know I said I'd be on time this time, but I saw a cute dog" I'm going to be less charitable than if they say "I know I said I'd be on time but, as you've probably also noticed yourself, zombie apocalypse".

And I gotta say, the excuses given by this particular bunch seem . . . thin. When you're saying "I know we said we'd do a Linux version, but turns out we would have had to have an actual Linux development environment for that, who knew?" isn't that pretty much just "We just decided not to bother"? Dunno why you'd be expecting a charitable response given that.

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Cool. Now imagine if the very operating system the thing ran on was open source too . . . oh wait. Um, and what if the 'secret sauce' it used to run Windows games was . . . oh, it is too, huh?
Valve is frankly a really weird company. I'm sure all the other companies look at it and think, to quote a certain Dr. from Austin Powers, "Not Evil enough".

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Quoting: emphyFor someone who pretends to be doing stuff "for the good of the industry", Sweeney

Somehow I suddenly can't get out of my mind the Joker's laugh from shortly before he makes the pencil disappear.

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, finally an excuse for men to carry around purses?

i think you will find that's called a murse.

Why does that concept exist?
My wife has gradually used purses less and less over the years, the pull of fashion and socialization losing out to the fact that backpacks are just so much better for actually, you know, carrying stuff in.
So why would guys deliberately subject themselves to them when society doesn't even expect it?

I dunno it's a bit like why do suspenders exists when tights do a better job :huh:

I suppose. I mean for me, and I know this is just personal prejudice, I think garter belts are a lot sexier than murses. But maybe lots of people disagree.

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Quoting: Adrianodl

Beginnings of a WMA decoder.

With this all games that uses Media Player to run a video playback in the game could run without tweaks?
Like Resident Evil 5 or Catherine Classic?

I would figure. And if it's happening now, I suspect Valve probably has some involvement, so I expect it's probably something done with an eye to legality, meaning if they can get it working, Proton would be able to use it all official-like.
That said, "Beginnings of".

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