one thing people forget is that windows on a handheld pc may suck , but layman people might not realize that the problem is windows not handhelds, and if that happen this class of device may go south the sameway that netbooks did, maybe that is the goal of microsoft?

i mean, sure the people who get an steamdeck will have an premium experience and desire an steamdeck 2, but other people who got burned may never give it a try, so that will limit the potential growth of linux devices once again.

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Probably not much. IIRC, Epic's infrastructure, including Epic Online Services which third-party devs can use, is hosted on AWS, so that's already a big number of players right there.

sure but having the game runing on an server without an GUI and streaming it as an cloud gaming is completely different.

we have servers for online game since a lot of time ago, but hardware power and bandwidth to stream it is relatively new and we still dont have infrastructure for that world wide.

its a bit miss leading if you ask me.
not to mention, they are probably counting the same people twice on 2 different games.

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we cant under estimate the incompetence of big tech.
there is a reason why no one ever heard about amazon gaming despite they being trying to take valve marketshare for over an decade...
microsoft failed to stop things like google, android and others from growing, hell they even lose the marketshare that skype, msn and wlm had, not to mention the joke that internet explorer have became.

but they have an stupid ammount of cash so we cant under estimate it either.

i wouldnt like to be in the posisiton of either gabe newell nor xbox ceo/microsoft ceo during this moment, playing this 4D chess.

but its fun to especulate ... what strategy would you use? what strategy do you think they will use?

(both valve and microsoft)

we cant under estimate the xbox brand, they sell a lot considering there is no real advantage in one, yet i dont think they compete for the same market as valve do.

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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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