Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: amataiIs it free like in free software or like in free beer?

Free of cost, if it was free/open source I would have mentioned that.

I would think if we say "Free to play" instead of "free" that would make thinks more clear.

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I do not know what are you talking about performance. I do not think performance is the reason I would like steamplay as an option. I would like it _as_an_option_ because some not really demanding "native" games are just broken because the developers have just lost interest supporting it on linux and the games use some stupid "technology" that dropped linux support. For example The inner world was some adventure to make it work, it was doable but still was not a nice experience. On the same time I am quite sure with steamplay it would work fine but you do not have that option now. So it would be nice as an option.

It is not like steamplay is forced upon us, it is that we are able now to force steamplay.

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Quoting: mylka

Quoting: CFWhitman

Quoting: mylkathis game doesnt even have 200 players and is almost 3yrs old

https://steamdb.info/app/507490/graphs/ [External Link]

why are they making a linux port?

i am not complaining, but i dont get it. RUST has over 40.000 players and they drop linux support
https://steamdb.info/app/252490/graphs/ [External Link]

ARMA 3
https://steamdb.info/app/107410/graphs/ [External Link]
over 12000.... dropped linux

i just dont get it

In my experience, publishers with smaller audiences are more likely to seek additional buyers on other systems. If a game has 40,000 players, the publisher says, "Who needs Linux? We've got 40,000 players. Cancelling support will alienate Linux users? Meh, who cares? It's not worth the support headache." On the other hand if a game has 1,500 players, the publisher says, "Where else can we look for buyers? Will Linux and/or Mac support really cost us that much more?"

what you are saying is big companies dont want more money.
that makes no sense to me.

It is not that big companies do not want more money, it is more like big companies are way more conservative to anything that they think is risky. It seems to me that they are like a big ship, even if an island is literally on their way they are likely to prefer to just avoid it.

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Quoting: GuestIs this free or not? Will it be included in the normal debian repos or just in raspbian? It would be great for those of us using non-raspberry armhf devices.

I am not sure because I have not tried it but I think if you have a normal computer you can stream using the normal steam client.

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until steam gives an option, I think there is a simple solution. Just leave the linux in an open beta? This way proton would be the default and maybe not in this case but in others it can be useful to have access on the linux version.

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Quoting: KimyrielleThey should have delayed the Windows version by half a year. I guess that would have doubled our market share right there. :D

As I have said before, my opinion is that they should give a free version only for linux that you can get for a limited time of a couple of months for example. Whoever gets this can play the game for free but only on linux. If he wants to play on windows/mac or does not get that in the limited time of the offer he has then to buy the game. What do you think of that idea? If I were Valve I would do that to help linux market share, not the exclusivity thing.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThis post seems like it should also be an email

nah, I like that it reminds publicly that gaming on linux has a statistics page once a moth. And anyway an email would just be spam for me.

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I propose one simple rule:

Do not buy any game that the developer is not actively testing it on linux. It is not that hard to just install a free linux distro and just run your game. If developers can be at least convinced to at least test their builds on linux that would be a huge win for linux as a platform.

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This kind of error would be bigger, the smaller the percentage of linux is as more and more distros would fall in the black hole. Obviously it is present for more months and the miscalculation would be a lot bigger in our darkest oct-mar months.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: GuestQuick, all Linux zealots should storm their forums and make death threats to the developers, their moms, their dogs, and their rabbits! That will show them!

No. Just no.

He was being sarcastic.

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