Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: KuJoPUBG in Stadia.

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER. :D

Can you play that together with friends on Steam in some way?

No, PUBG on Stadia is Stadia to Stadia with keyboard/mouse or Stadia + Consoles if you're using gamepad.

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Quoting: TiZI noticed you using they/them to refer to Ethan. Is Ethan non-binary? I don't remember any statements regarding gender being made one way or another, but if that's the case, I would like to know so I can use the correct pronouns moving forward. :)

It's just a habit of mine, it's how I've pretty much always described people, even in natural spoken conversation. I rarely use he/she and it's nothing to do with gender.

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Quoting: no_information_hereNice. I enjoyed the demo. Good mix of challenge.

(No clicky link to the Steam page this time?)

Woops, fixed.

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Update: Added a wee bit more info and thoughts.

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Quoting: jrt

Seems odd to see such a big shift announced so abruptly, with no other reasoning.

I don't think that this was abruptly. The Index never listed MacOS as an official platform and indicated therefore a MacOS drop for months. The reason they support linux as much as they do is to get away from Windows getting more restrictive and Apple walled-garden like. Proton also does not officially support MacOS, making it a significantly worse choice for VR gaming than Linux. Apples decision to not support Vulkan was the nail in the coffin imho.

Sure but Valve also helped to liberate MoltenVK, specifically so they could use Vulkan themselves on macOS. Noted that yes, Index never mentioned macOS but this news still did come out of nowhere with no prior other hints or discussion that I can see.

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Quoting: GuestGranted, I haven't tried Stadia *snip*

Well, right now you don't need to pay a penny when you sign up. You've got nothing to lose but time and possibly gain a new way to play games. Worth trying at least and keeping an eye on.

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Quoting: KohlyKohlThe trailer in the article is region locked and doesn't work in the US.

Oh sorry, seems I grabbed it from the UK YouTube, have switched it for their generic named channel which I assume doesn't have such issues.

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Update: Added a note on sale price for SFV and a video.

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Quoting: GuestThey've already removed the necessary files by the looks of it - didn't even give people a warning who might otherwise have had a chance to download and backup everything (assuming it could be run without Steam), or provide an archived copy somewhere.

I understand they want to stop support, but yanking it so suddenly isn't a good look. And that's for the free game - if they do this for the paid version, that really wouldn't be a great idea.

On the one hand, it's the dev (or publisher, or whoever) responsibility to give fair warning and allow continued access to something that was paid for. On the other, it's not the first time this has happened and it might be nice for Valve to step in somehow to stop developers (or whoever) being able to do such a thing. Maybe keep a rollback for a month or two, notify users that it's about to disappear and give them a chance to grab it.

As of right now, the Linux build is still up there but they removed the launch config so you would have to run the Linux build manually from the installed folder. That is, until they remove the Linux content depots too.

I agree Valve should do something about it for paid games, as a question of fairness to consumers using Steam. I did email Valve about this particular issue, twice, when other games (Rocket League, Rust) removed Linux about giving people assurances and their PR team never replied about it.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: GuestProton is typically a viable option for most of these companies. They can still continue to support us with most likely minimal effort. If they are not willing do to that, screw them. I get that they can't all support us natively, but with the tools available to them now not support us at all is bullshit in most cases if you ask me.

"Supporting" Proton still requires not only a conscious effort to test their games with Proton but to also fix their game, somehow, if they break it with Proton in an upcoming version. It's complicated and since they don't work with Proton directly, they might end up breaking it anyway since we're a niche and wait on Valve/CodeWeavers which wouldn't be a priority (we assume) unless it's a whitelisted game. At least with a Linux build, they control it and they can fix it. There's upsides and downsides to all methods - is more my point.

Never said supporting Proton required zero work. Not sure where you got that notion from buddy. Right now we won't have the game supported on Linux. I'd take almost anything over that.

I'm simply mentioning why supporting Proton isn't something developers are suddenly going to do, especially in cases like this. Nothing more, didn't mean to infer you thought it was zero work at all, just giving some extra perspective for you and anyone else interested that's reading the comments.

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