Quoting: Purple Library Guy

yes, i also think that ChromeOS/ChromeBook is our best bet for sucess, if google fail or give up, i will lose my hope, but hopefully they will not.
windows will probably survive and keep an high marketshare, but at least we will be at an much better position in terms of marketshare, 5,10 maybe even 30% in the future.

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Quoting: liamdawe

you must see this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0qyUhb3VXI [External Link]

atariVCS isnt the first crowdfunding from Atari, and they didnt delivered the others!
or delivered without the games and atari brand...

sorry for using quote to mark you, i dont know if there is any other way of doing that

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"Their IndieGoGo is doing well, with it hitting nearly $3 million in pre-orders. "
wich is 5 millions less than an the ouya did, and still floped.
wich is a double shame since they are the fucking ATARI brand and ouya was an no one ever listen about brand.

ouya costed less , sold more, and still the number of users were not big enough for developers.
i will say it again, this thing will not help us to increase the linux marketshare.

Ouya at least had an proposal, bring indie games to the living room, and add an new feature on the controllers (touchpad)

but playstation killed then adding touchpad on ps4, xbox and playstation killed then by adding support for indie games, and they product died anyway because they couldnt sell many or the public didnt purchased many games (maybe the target audience was to poor to buy many games anyway?)

this thing is snake oil, we are just failing to see it because "It runs linux", wich seems to be a pejorative thing nowadays, the fact that google, facebook etc runs linux dont mean that any crap hardware would become automatically good because it runs linux or would have better drivers for linux than for windows.

this thing will only harm the atari brand even more and harm linux as an brand for the average user even more.

and even it the product isnt is an scam and turn out to be an hardware more powerfull than they promissed on the campaing, with an great cost benefit and so on...

people may just install windows on it to have acess to more games (as they did with the steam machines)
and the product will not sell many copies anyway because many youtubers are trash talking the product.

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" Perhaps only 100 Linux sales of an indie game are enough to make that version worthwhile financially, compared to the 10 thousand or so Windows purchases needed"

i dont get this sentence

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Quoting: [email protected]

Quoting: elmapuli hate to say that, but that decision will have an negative effect on us, and positive on then.

iOS is a "money making machine" so many game engines support metal or will support metal so they can be used to make iOS apps, now that apple will ditch support for iOS its more likely that more games will support metal than they will keep suporting openGL.

we have an lower marketshare, most big companies will ditch support for linux insteda of mac.

apple is the richest tech company, even if some companies dont want to support then, they can afford to purchase some support including exclusive games.

The same can be said for Android which in fact is a bigger pie than iOS alone.

Most Android implementations ship with some form of OpenGL and more modern, higher end ones also ship with Vulkan too.

android indeed has an highter marketshare, but most of the money comes from the iOS market.
making money for iOS is more profitable than for android unfourtunatelly.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: elmapulwhy would you develop for an platform with 10.000 users when you can develop for an platform like ps4 with 70 millions of users?

Why you think making a game for AtariVCS is making a game for only 10.000 users when Atari uses Linux?? When you make a game for Linux you're making a game for AtariVCS.

the issue is, AtariVCS will not change our marketshare from 1% to 2%,3% and so on, so its irrelevant as an product.

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: elmapul"Not everyone is going to be both as patient and anal as I am. "
not everyone has time.

Sure, but since we are talking about playing games here, having free time is already something of a given.

Not that I have wasted that many hours of my life getting a game to work with WINE. As long as the game starts at all it is usually fairly trivial to get it up and running in my experience. Especially since as I have already mentioned many of the games I use WINE for will no longer play nice even on a modern Windows system.

i rather spend 2 hours playing, than 1 hour 55 minutes trying to make the game work, and 5 minutes playing it.

(assuming that i only have 2 hours after the work, trafit, studying and so on)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: elmapulthat is one of the reasons why we have games with constant updates nowadays and all mobile games tend to follow this trend, even if someone manage to reverse enginering the game to pirate it, it takes time and when that happens, they update the game with new features and maybe an new drm scheme, the pirated version is always fighting to keep being updated so the margin for profit of the crackers or margin of enjoyment of pirates is reduced.

So wait, you're saying that pirates are responsible for game companies releasing updates and new features for games? I never realized pirates were so awesome!

what you call update, i call relase an incomplete game and patch it latter on.

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Quoting: RybladeThis is cool and all, but I do recommend people exercise caution with certain developers and publishers.

I remember reading several years ago that Blizzard actively perma-banned people from Battle.net if they are "caught" using Wine and Linux. Could someone confirm if their hostility and paranoia is still this bad today?

some were banned but were able to explain to blizzard that they were usng wine instead of a cheat software, so they could get unbanned.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkI was last year when Wine died & I couldn't even uninstall it to get rid of it.

i had an problem with an broken package once, it was a pain in the ass to remove, i had to manually unistall it (delete the folders and all references/configs to it)

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