From the press release: “With more than 750 million people playing games running on AWS every month,

i wonder how much data manipulation they needed to reach this number.

For game developers, this creates exciting new revenue and monetization opportunities that weren’t possible before.”

meaning they can remove an game from your account after an period of time , and if its cloud exclusive we can kiss goodbye to gaming preservation.

Their announcement also specifically noted how it supports "Windows, Linux, and Proton runtimes".

that is the only good news here, but the backend dont means too much for us, i think the fact that we can access it on firefox and everything else (chromium based browsers) is what matter for us.

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i hope valve finally put some money into marketing and try to reach more distribution channels... and Brasil

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"Comparing a fresh download between my Steam Deck and Desktop Linux, the Steam Deck download for it is now 88.1GB whereas on Desktop it's showing as 144.2GB. "
wow, just wow!

this is finally being treated as an dedicated device.
i mean, we had other developers optimizing things , but not this type of optimization.
i bet they arent delivering 4k textures on a device that cant handle then anyway.

its a shame it still dont fit in the 64GB model, unlike any game relased on the switch that target the low end option, but sitll it can accept microSD card so its not the end of the world.

i hope this trend continue and that valve can sell a lot more before they relase the steam deck 2...
but first they need to put it in more regions and physical stores.

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That's an interesting take on the FOSS freedoms.

harming the reputation was never part of the deal, you can redistribute floss software, but you cant do an malicious fork and use it to harm the reputation of such software, in this case its not an malware but its using the OBS brand and harming it.

i'm glad someone finally found an way to fix this kinda of issue.

I can't find the "quote this post" button anymore.

me neither

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A playtime of a single sitting.
Oriented around a single mechanic.
Extended primarily via replayability and player expression.
Reliant on a reusable & modular asset library.

looks like they know what to focus this time, an simple but adcting mechanic is the way to go for small projects.
and the fact that we can use the assets for other stuff means a lot

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what a day to be alive!

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honestly those 2 videos are essential to understand the problem:

Hacking into Kernel Anti-Cheats: How cheaters bypass Faceit, ESEA and Vanguard anti-cheats - by Unity Research [External Link]

Anti-Cheat for Multiplayer Games - by Valve [External Link]

watch both before you comment.
the most important thing that i got from the second video is:
cheating is an industry that moves 100 millions/year of dollars with salaries up to 750.000 dollars/year.

most of the cheaters dont develop their own solution like in the old days, they just purchase it, that is why its a problem so common, most people dont have the know how on how to develop an cheat solution, yet that dont stop then from purchasing one.

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Soooo.... we're going to increase productivity.... while also employing more people?....

that is possible if by increasing productivity you sell more and as an result you can hire more, the issue is that you selling more means someone else is selling less, you are just moving the marketshare from one company to another.
so you lose thousands of jobs in one side and get a few new ones on the other...
but, with less competition you also have less reasons to hire a ton of people...

so , no.

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" and we've used digital tools forever. "
the bullshit starts here... or a bit latter, but this part is already missleading

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Then you would change the one way setting and say you were sure to leave "S mode" and become "normal" Steam OS.

horrible idea, imagine using the S mode once and realizing you cant play online games anymore?
or having the other stores in an ransom state... you are sure you want to install other stores? you might lose access to some of your online games!

its better to never have then than to have in this state, not to mention, how that gonna solve the issue for all of us who use linux but dont use this console?

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