this is not good news at all..
i mean, sure they had to say that but, as someone who is following a lot of youtube channels that talk about stadia, here is how the discourse changed:
first they confirmed that they have 450 games being developed by thirdy parties+ thenselves for stadia.
then, they announced that they have over 400 games for 2021 and 2022, they already are finished with their 2021 plans and are focusing on 2022...

then they shutdown the studio and go silent, wich created an negativity storm...
then they run out of the silence (wich is a good thing) and announce that they will have more than 100 games for this year.

so... if they planned 400~450 games, but only can confirm 100 for this year, either those other 300 are set for the next year, or canceled, contracts to make game for this year are unlikely to be canceled, but they didnt confirmed anything about the others 300...i understand that most people dont know about then, its just that this got me worried.

anyway, as for this games, i have mixed feelings
Shantae is an game that i was already looking for, i wanted to play for a long time, but now i'm inclined to wait a little more until stadia launch on brazil so i can finally play it, i cant decide if i purchase it on stadia or steam, cloud gaming has the potential to be the ultimate drm, wich is a bad thing, but this game already have an version for other consoles so its unlikely to disappear, not to mention that this type of drm runs server side not clident side, so at least i know there arent any malicious code runing on my machine.

as for the other games...
Kaze and the Wild Masks, i was looking to play too, since the first announcment of the game, Judgment seems to be yakuza releated (same studio or something like that) so i will definitely check it out

i dont like football, but i played some games on consoles before they went hyper focused on futeball fans intead of gamers who just happen to like football,i couldnt care less about fifa except that i want stadia to have games like this because they are nescessary to make it become an mainstream platform and get acess to even more games, Street Power Football on the other hand, looks like fifa street wich i had a chance to play, enjoyed it but the manuevers where ridiculous hard to do, i had trouble playing the freaking tutorial of it, wich is a good thing in my book (i like challenges) but i guess the learning curve was a bit bullshit... i dont if this game will be as hard as fifa street, but its good to see that this genre is back to the market, i might try it, the main issue is the art direction that dont appeal to me.

as for the others, cant remember gotta watch the trailers again.

another thing to consider is that 100 games look like a lot, but when you divide it by the number of months that an year have.
less than 10 games per month, it may look like a lot if you dont have much time to play and take more than an month to get tired of 10 games, but it isnt if you take into account that not all those games will be interesting for most people

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Quoting: elmapulwhy disgaea is striked?
ok, tried to open here and nothing, i was hoping that they fixed the fullscreen bug, looks like they fixed it by making the game not boot anymore.

The fix for Disgaea broke A Hat in Time, that's why they removed it.

do you know how to install this version of proton anyway? and how to install other proton versions that might work for an game but not for others?

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why disgaea is striked?
ok, tried to open here and nothing, i was hoping that they fixed the fullscreen bug, looks like they fixed it by making the game not boot anymore.

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nice curved screen simulation, and the screen shake effect... its looks like some one is pointing an camera to an tv while hold the camera with their bare hands

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Quoting: Marlockso maybe it's time for a Vulkan >> DX12 translation lib to get this done with...

very unlikely, xbox is more profitable than linux, if an game performs bad on xbox they lose an sale, if an game performs bad on linux, we will have to buy an better hardware because they wont care about us

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Quoting: BielFPsIt's sad how anti cheat solutions are more effective to block legit Linux players instead of actual cheaters. And for anti-piracy protection, I haven't see any successfully case with Denuvo since the Chinese had their first success of crack them.

This last year has me of the mind that Beijing Sandingmeng may have been supported by particular interests seeking to better understand systems of digital control.

Quoting: elmapuland not all games can run server side only, what about those button mash mini games where the player who presses the button faster wins? its impossible to secure the input against hacking.

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Alright, my snarky replies aside, the differences in perspective here are just from assigning completely different value to certain things things.

nice image joke, but that is beyond the point.

the example that i gave was just the example that i could think of at the time, that dont means this is the only case where this might be an issue, different types of games present different challenges that we might not be aware of.

and second, as an game developer, i have to solve problems related to game making, not judge then.
i cant tell the player "this game that you are playing is not fun, its stupid to code, go play something else", what i have to do is solve the problems.
the question is: how?

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Quoting: elmapulthat is, if the game RUNS. a lot of games dont, or run without a lot of features.

Which is exactly my point. How is that any different than running a cracked version of a game with broken multiplayer or other quirks related to breaking the DRM system without developer support?

1)i dont remember the last time i pirated something, but last time i checked i didnt missed any feature, it was an offline game anyway.
2)with the current marketshare we dont have both, drm-free games or games with drm, currently we dont refuse to play games with drm because we want to boycot drm, but because we CANT play then.
you would still have the option to only play drm free games, the difference is that you will be able to play everything else.
3)its not just about us paranoid with privacy , security and freedom, but about everyone else too.
4)drm seems to be an thin layer compared to an operating system, there is a reason why it take so little time to break the drm of most games, but its taking years to make some games work on linux.

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Quoting: elmapuldrm can be broken later on, windows users dont have an issue with that, because there are enough hackers on the windows comunity to break any drm they might have.
meanwhile we dont have neither all the games nor the cracked games.
we would have both if we had an better marketshare.

Let's be honest, if running a game with a crack to get around DRM is considered an acceptable user experience, so is running a Windows game through WINE with no support. We can do better on both platforms.

that is, if the game RUNS.
a lot of games dont, or run without a lot of features.

like sound effects (eg: track mania from steam)
full screen (eg: disgaea)
cutscene playback (eg: guilty gear, melty blood)

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: elmapuli think we should let the fight against drm with the windows users, while we fight for linux marketshare, we can join they in their fight later on, but we dont have enough people/resources to fight in both fronts at the same time run today, live to fight tomorrow.

The thing is, if I was of the mindset that was okay with DRM solutions, I would not be using Linux in the first place. Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

drm can be broken later on, windows users dont have an issue with that, because there are enough hackers on the windows comunity to break any drm they might have.
meanwhile we dont have neither all the games nor the cracked games.
we would have both if we had an better marketshare.

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Quoting: Marlockopensource software that is developed primarily to work with Gnome or KDE doesn't qualify as "exclusives"... because it is opensource to begin with

first off, who said open source?
some softwares like davince resolve do a lot of things that no open source software do, and only support redhat or something like that.

second:
even if its open source, it dont matter if there is no one willing to port it to other distros and it dont load on then it still is an exclusive.
the key issue is that distro mantainers should try to reduce the costs of supporting their distros and others (by cost i'm including time) instead of trying to make it harder to make sure no one would want to have this much trouble on their backs.
sure if an bunch of people join efforts, they would port it, but the fact that no one is willing to do that, proves that this fragmentation strategy works.

Quoting: Marlockbut this isn't a blodshed cutthroat market competition like with competing closed-source software or the way Steve Balmer made MS treat Linux

hell i saw a lot of people installing the windows version of an program on wine instead of the native linux version due to that shit, imagine if we didnt had windows.

not to mention that magic thing called "android" ya know, that thing that is incompatible with every other distro, and that every other distro is incompatible with.
hell the windows emulators for android are better than what we have on linux, that is ridiculuous for an thing that runs the same kernel.

and before anyone blames google for making android incompatible with the desktop linux, well...
the linux desktop is not compatible with linux desktop, how can we blame google for making their own thing while we were fighting each other to make ours instead of cooperating?

if we keep fighting each others like this, at the best case scenario is microsoft keep their domination, and the worst is:
linux dominates but its an "android 2", except that this time there isnt enough of an argument to try to convince anyone to use anything else.

X-Apps? never heard of it before, and honestly, its too litle too late.
first it need to support windows too, otherwise there wouldnt be enough of a market for most developers to use it.
second: its it any better than visual studio/ vscode?
thirdy: it support all the features? eg: tabs, buttons etc, because the last time i found an IDE that supported all the DE , it lacked some features, or when it didnt the IDE only supported visual basic as the programing lang...

and forth, honestly, now i'm just using godot all the way, it has all the features that i could possibly want+ more, the only issue is that it didnt supported qt+gtk, instead it makes it own toolkit, but that is an small price to pay compared to what it offer.

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