Quoting: fagnerlnI love Feral and I respect a lot their work, they are amazing. But yeah, fragmentation IS a issue, and Linux do a little to support older softwares (which is comprehensive) while Windows has a system bloated to just works™.

As their ports doesn't runs in a container, sooner or later it will stop working.

good point, as an reminder, we CANT blame feral for only supporting one distro, its the fragmentation fault that things wich work on one might not work on others to begin with, not feral fault.

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Quoting: denyasisI guess it's another win for Valve and Open source successes. I guess I feel slightly conflicted about it. While I appreciate Feral's work, I'm also glad that open source tools like Wine/Proton have finally taken over in a meaningful way.

I guess it's both a loss and a gain.

it is a loss.
on one hand, its good that an general purpose solution like wine/proton is better than porting, but that says more about the porting process and quality than about wine.
the ideal solution is linux geting enough marketshare to be threated like an first class citizen and open apis like vulkan becoming the standard.
its almost like if we were living the flash era vs html5 era, flash was multiplatform but had an crap support for linux, where html5 would be the "native" solution, using open standards.
while wine is gpl, directX isnt.

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Quoting: GuestAbsolutely disgusting statement from Feral but their GNU+Linux native games will work on any distro. It's not like they can restrict them to Ubuntu.

I'm not buying anymore games they've ported or developed going forward, which is fine by me.

dude its not like they had a choice, their choice was:
go bankrupt or do what they did.

no one should blame then for doing what makes sense business wise.
they arent trying to restrict stuff to ubuntu, they just said its not profitable to do Q/A on all distros, so they limit thenselves to ubuntu.

if steam deck flops, then they lose no money, if steam deck is a sucess, either people will install windows on it, or companies will see that its an sucess even without the help of feral, so they will see feral as useless again.

and if steamOS became an big market as switch is, to the point that it worth porting games to it to get the best performance instead of relying on proton, then companies will do that in-house as they do for consoles, instead of outsourcing it to companies like feral.

its a lose-lose-lose situation for feral, yet linux fanboys wish they go broke despite all the good things they did for us in the past?

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Quoting: MatomboAI Shoujo
Thanks god the SD has to be a success now being on the VHS side of history oposed to bettamax ;)
(hope at least one gets the references xD)

yeah i got

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i hate this meme, but now i have to say it:
valve does, what nintendon't

its amazing how valve is changing the industry for better, with good/consumer friendly pratices

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"Soldier of Fortune was the first game to feature the GHOUL system, allowing for the depiction of damage to specific parts of the body, "
acording to wikipedia this game relased in 2000?

prety sure goldeneye 007 came first...

anyway, anyone got luck running koumanjou densetsu on linux?

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The global cheating market is estimated to move at least100 millions per year
source:
Anti-Cheat for Multiplayer Games

https://youtu.be/hI7V60r7Jco [External Link]
time: 12:40

this was before they were acquired by Epic.

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Quoting: kernelkidYou can still get a steam key for it for under $10. Check this link. [External Link]

i'm not a fan of Mortal kombat, actually i havent played much to know if the game is any good...
but what about Residetn Evil 2 and 3 (classic, not the remake)
can i buy it too?

i dont trust those key resellers that much, but in that case i dont have much of an option

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Quoting: finaldestSo Valve are validating games that are no longer available to purchase.

Was going to buy "Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition" but it is no longer available to purchase on steam.

that is good for people who already purchased those.
unlike me , who were waiting for the games to work on linux/officialy support linux, then missed the boat because i cant purchase then anymore and have to pirate since they arent avaliable for sale anywhere ¬¬

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i dont think its common to make accesories for an product that didnt launched yet, but i think they're smarth, i mean, the deck hasnt even launched yet and it already have an bigger library than switch relased years ago, it pretty much cant fail unless it has some critical hardware oversight that kill it (eg: red rings of death)

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