Quoting: TheBardI'm a bit worried about this move actually. I've already seen 4 stores collapse (IndieVania, Desura and Indie Game Stand and ShinyLoot). I don't think Steam may fall any time soon, but i won't be so confident about Itch or GOG. Will these two survive another big store? I hope so but how to be sure?

I don't think Itch needs to worry (any more than they already did, anyway--I don't know how much profit they make normally). Itch appeals to indie types, it's the good-guy, open source, not-corporate, a bit quirky game store. This thing on the other hand is being created by Really Big Game Company, Inc. and is corporate to the core; I don't think Itch's customer base will be drawn to it.

GOG is a bit like that but not as much any more, as they've grown I think they've attracted plenty of ordinary-gamer customers who could potentially be wooed away by a different store. So I dunno, they might be fine or maybe your fears have some substance there.

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Quoting: ShmerlI'm surprised they didn't mention Linux explicitly. With Tim Sweeney constantly complaining about MS lock-in, you would have expected him to put Linux front and center in the store announcement.

Except there's this tweet [External Link] which is basically a big fat "Nope".

Oh, yeah, that tweet. That was a really stupid tweet.

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Quoting: wintermute

Quoting: GuestJust want to point out that Google already have an OS that uses Linux...

Actually they have two: Android and ChromeOS.

Android making an interesting sidelight on certain long-running naming discussions; unusually it is I believe Linux but not GNU/Linux. And indeed much of the feeling of it not being really Linux comes precisely from that lack of GNU.

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Quoting: iiari

Quoting: pete910

I'm pretty happy to wait and see how Intel's new GPU turns out first.

You're going to be waiting a while :P

Just go get a AMD card!

2020 is indeed far away in computer years...

However, and this almost certainly isn't the place for this, I don't see the point of an AMD card. I'm thinking of getting a new desktop and it appears on Linux even the fastest AMD card is slower than the Nvidia 1070 I've been running the past two years without issue. Except if you're very devoted to the idea of FOSS for drivers, and if you're not cost retrained, why go AMD? Again, taking the FOSS vs non-FOSS out of the equation... Honestly wondering.

Well, one thing to consider is the Wayland issue. Yeah, I know, Wayland is taking forever to dominate, but it is getting used more and more and adoption of this sort of thing tends to accelerate after a certain point, so if we're talking time horizons like 2020 . . .
My understanding of just what the problem is is fuzzy, but I hear Nvidia don't play well with Wayland.

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Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: DuncI said “effectively”, and admit that wasn't a good way of putting it. But IceFrog was hired for Dota 2. What I meant was that it didn't originate at Valve, from a Valve creative team. Of course their own people did most of the work on it.

What is it always with discrediting Valve's work? Is TF2 not a Valve game, because Valve once hired Robin Walker? Is Portal not a Valve game, because some students came up with the portal concept and Valve then hired them? Is Left 4 Dead not a Valve game, because Turtle Rock Studios originally came up with the game?

How do you even define a Valve game? The guys (or most of them?) who founded Blizzard aren't with the company anymore. Is Overwatch thus not a Blizzard game?

Quoting: DuncBut even that was five years ago. Clearly their eyes have been off the ball. They've let a lot of developers, especially on the creative side, go over recent years. It's one of the reasons many fans have lost hope of ever seeing HL3 or Portal 3.

How are their eyes "clearly" off the ball when you literally have no idea what's going on behind the scenes? Yes, some people left, but also a lot of other people joined them. And some of the people that left actually returned to Valve.

Oh, come on. A giant "game studio" that puts out a game every five years is clearly not emphasizing the "game studio" thing. I personally don't understand why people want Valve to be a game studio again when clearly their main business is being a game store++, but it's just ignoring reality to pretend their main business is still making games. It obviously isn't.
And all the better for both us and them. For us, because one game studio vaguely interested in Linux wouldn't be much use to us compared to this huge platform thing being interested in Linux. For them, because which would you rather have--100% of the revenue (and expenses) for 3 or 4 games, or 30% of the revenue for gajillions of games?
Frankly, I think they're still making games at all mainly because someone at Valve is of the opinion that it's useful for the main business to still have some hands-on experience with what it's like, so they can keep their finger on the pulse of the developer world and not get out of touch.

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Quoting: ShmerlValve should have put Linux version release as a requirement for such discounts. It would incentivize big developers (who have money) to make Linux versions. Win win for everyone.

If they had the leverage to do that they wouldn't be dropping the price in the first place.

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That is one of the most tantalizing trailers I've ever seen. Also pretty damn creepy.

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The word "bugfixes" takes on a whole new meaning.

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Quoting: 1xokCan you play it with children or is it too complicated for that?

I thought you were supposed to play it with cards. :D

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Quoting: scaineWhat const and denyasis said: some of my favourite space games are 2D. SPAZ, Reassembly, Captain Forever Remix, Nimbatus, Gravity Ace, Galak-Z, Drox Operative... there are probably others I love too.

Star Control II!

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