THIS is what i'm talking about, things like this are what can actually change the marketshare.
this and an better performance on games.

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"which sounds awesome"
lol

"Additionally, the developer of Boxtron is also working on Luxtorpeda, another compatibility tool aimed at running certain games through native Linux game engines. Examples of this would be OpenXcom for X-COM: UFO Defense, ioquake3 for Quake III Arena and so on. This project is currently a work in progress, but also very exciting."

i had to do that to run an renpy game, i didnt knew about luxtorpeda but it was just a matter of realizing that the game was made on renpy and opening it as if its an project file.
the only other issue is that renpy from software center is old and broken, the developer didnt support this means of distribution so you had to download from their page instead.

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Quoting: PatolaNo middle term? So how is Linux gaming in all of this?

by wich measure 1% of marketshare on the desktop is an middle term?

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Quoting: const

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: const...they will have a niche.

1)gpus are common for machine learning servers, i think google has an plan B in case stadia flops.
2)if you search for stadia on youtube, you will not find many videos talking good things about it, in terms of marketig, looks like it already failed.
or you are talking about atari?

I think in discussions about gaming platforms, failing is a very vague word. Do I believe a significant percentage of PC gamers will jump to Stadia? No. Do I think their "buy games for stadia at retail prices" idea will stand? No. They will have to adopt this or they are doomed, unless they give an additional download option. But all that doen't necessarily mean it will absolutely flop. For all those people who want to play this "one game" but don't have capable hardware (or OS), Stadia will be an obvious choice and unless their management is totally nuts, they will be abled to monetarize that niche.

there is no middle term, its either an total flop or an sucess.

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Quoting: orochi_kyoJust imagine saving your company in millions of dollars in licenses? It so easy to jump into the "Open Software wagon" once this software has the quality of a paid software, so what Epic and Ubisoft did wasnt some altruism towards "Open Software" is a way to save them millions of dollars in buying licenses, hiring developers and research technologies.
Wonder how for Tim Scammey Open Software is something cool but Open OSes arent that cool.

1)epic is not doing it for their own games only, they arent looking at the money that they will save in licences, but the money that the developers who publish games and assets on epic store will save, the cheaper it is for then with an better software the best the games and assets will be on it, so epic is not trying to save money on software licences at all.
yet, this move will help valve and other stores as well, so the only competitive advantage it will make for then is good publicity.

2)the ubisoft who is investing on blender is the animation sub dividsion, afaik you can watch an animation on linux.

3)is not about caring or not about open OSes they do care about Android for example, the issue is, its economically imviable to invest money on linux for most companies, ideology dont pay bills no company will bankrupt then selves to help linux and evne if epic and valve did it, it could be in vain, microsoft monopoly inst easy to break, even google wich has much more money cant break into it with chromeOS yet.

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Quoting: const...they will have a niche.

1)gpus are common for machine learning servers, i think google has an plan B in case stadia flops.
2)if you search for stadia on youtube, you will not find many videos talking good things about it, in terms of marketig, looks like it already failed.
or you are talking about atari?

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: Alm888I wonder, what Autodesk® had done to piss these guys off so much that they openly started undermining its dominance by supporting the direct competitor? :huh:

Usually, Big Bucks Companies stick to each other.

The only problem with Maya and 3DSMAX is their price. For indies/hobbyist Blender is the way to go and I think that Unity and Epic wants to reduce newcomers costs.

unity?

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: FaalagornHowever, if it'd be about the 30% cut itself, itch with up to 0% would be overflowing with AAA games already.

Please define... I'm not sure what you're implying... I see 2 possible meanings by this statement.

Edit: I'll add to this... If it's all about supporting the creators of a game, why then use a soulless and featureless storefront/launcher that takes a 12% cut when you may usually buy these AAA titles directly from the studio's own storefront and give them 100% of the price?

not every studio can make their own client and host servers to distribute their games.
only big studios can afford that bill.

if 12% is cheaper for those, they will publish on epic instead of their own store.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI do understand streaming music and videos. I don't understand streaming games. In contrast to music and movies, people generally play only a very small selection of games at the same time, so having access to a huge library has not a lot of appeal in the case of games.

for microsoft, the key advantage is that they will be able to sell games for android users, wich is a huge user base and keep directx as the standard for gaming and improve windows share on servers, or at least enjoy the fact that they have more servers than most companies so they will be among the few ones on this market.

for google, its good that they will be able to enter the desktop operating system market with chromeOS (since games will not be an issue anymore) and enter the hardcore gaming market.

for the players, they will be able to play anywhere, not worry anyore if their system can play the game or worry about hardware upgrades.

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Quoting: vectorIt ended up being Google which is poised to commoditize the underlying operating system, not Netscape. And it appears Stadia exists exclusively in service of the Chrome ecosystem. Perhaps one gatekeeper (Microsoft) has been exchanged for another (Google).

what scary me the most is that Stadia is powered by Linux, and if we ever enter an world where the standartd is gaming without preservation of old games, gaming without the freedom of mods to makew your own maps, characters etc. it will be google and linux fault that we were able to reach that world.

its linux communism where you fight for an better world and end up with an worse one and in some countries even up to today.

in the end of the day, letting microsoft have an monopoly is sounding less scary somehow.

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