Well, I downloaded it, clicked play. It brought up a launcher thingie. I clicked play game. It did a loading progress bar for a moment, then brought up the launcher thingie again. Rinse and repeat. I told Steam to try Proton experimental. It did the same thing. Not a very fun game so far.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: shawnsterpMy takeaway from this is that — once again — Epic Games is playing a role in the quality of Linux gaming.

I'm going to be pleased when Godot and other open source game engines eat that space. And I think they will.

Do you know that Epic was a huge help in developing Godot 4, right? The $250k grant they gave Godot is paying the main developers' salaries for years (they are from Argentina and Brazil, wages are way lower than US/EU).

Seems we're in agreement then--they want to get out of the game engine business, I want them out of the game engine business, everyone will be happy.

Either that or they are fools who underestimate the potential of open source software even after all these years of it eating various lunches, and intended the cash as an empty PR gesture. I'm fine either way, really.

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Quoting: shawnsterpMy takeaway from this is that — once again — Epic Games is playing a role in the quality of Linux gaming.

I'm going to be pleased when Godot and other open source game engines eat that space. And I think they will.

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OK, so 3 million units. And, how many Linux desktop users are on Steam? It's certainly significant from our point of view. These are the kinds of figures that make Linux a bigger target for game development than Mac.

Clearly it could be selling more--it lacks retail channels and is available in a limited chunk of the world. With worldwide distribution and sales through Amazon and maybe appropriate big retail stores, you'd figure it could at least triple those numbers. Valve is probably not able or willing to go that big, but I think it's likely they will continue to expand their sales channels for it somewhat, gradually adding more areas, maybe another regional partner or two, and so on. So it's plausible sales will continue to accelerate in 2023 to at least 50% more than the report's predicted rate.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumThree million units may not sound like a lot compared to console numbers. But personally I think that's a respectable number.

Even more respectable when you realise that its not available in all countries either....

Notably, not in China as I recall.

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Quoting: CruelAngelI would like to add one other thing that makes the Deck a bit nieche besides the above listed: Its size.

The deck is huge and heavy. So while you can use it as a handheld its not really comparable to the handhelds of 1-2 generations ago where they were akin to mobile phones in size, you could just slip in your pocket and maybe play a bit even while commuting in a crowded vehicle. (To be fair the switch too is also large, but the deck is even larger)

I don't think that's an issue really. Every article I've ever seen discuss that, the person concludes that because of the ergonomics it's actually really easy to hold and use, more so than the Switch.

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Quoting: Klaas

QuoteThe German government has been very generous with its new grant program focused on supporting the video game industry in our country. Back in January, we shared that we were given 1.65 million Euros to help produce the first major expansion for EVERSPACE 2, and we plan to match that with our own funds. While our creative team isn’t yet ready to share what this new adventure will be, safe to say this will not be a small expansion.

I'm not sure that taxes should be used that way.

Governments use tax money to bolster local entertainment industries all the time. The most common and noticeable is for the movie biz, but the principle is the same.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI literally have 4 Steam Decks

I literally have 2 goggling eyes.

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Quoting: GuestI am still skeptical of buying anything directly from the Jsaux website.

Have you tried buying socks? That should work well, right?

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Quoting: Liam DaweNo Man's Sky got a quick patch to fix it crashing on Steam Deck, article updated.

"You can't take the sky from me" (unless it crashes)

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