Quoting: winateSo if this does continue weekly, could you please add a dedicated tag like “Prime Gaming” so I can filter them out? For now, I’ve added “Amazon” to my filter list, but that seems to catch other articles as well.

Sure thing, happy to make categories clearer. I've added a Prime Gaming tag so people can follow directly or block directly if you so wish.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumHonestly if you want to stream games just do it yourself with Sunshine or Steam Remote Play.

Why pay someone else for something you can do yourself? :huh:

Because not everyone has a full desktop PC capable of it, that's part of the whole point really.

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Quoting: SlimmGuess it doesn't work on Wayland. Crashes the whole Stema app.

Works here and i'm on KDE Plasma Wayland.

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Quoting: LachuI thought NVidia Gefore Now requires NVidia GPU, but Steam Deck have AMD APU :-)

It has never required an NVIDIA GPU, that's part of the point of it, it's a cloud gaming service that works mostly anywhere with an internet connection.

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Quoting: AnzaDarktide and Hexarchy have redemption deadline December 2025. Easy to miss unless you check the games more closely. Unless you have habit of activating everything right away, then it doesn't matter.

Unfortunately that is controlled by publishers, not Humble. Still, a whole year to do a 2 min job of actually claiming and redeeming your key…

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Quoting: hjahreThe image in the article is from Locomotion, right? Transport Tycoon is more or less the same as Transport Tycoon Deluxe. But I guess it's not abandonware anymore

Was supplied by Atari, replaced with a correct one I just took.

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Quoting: soulsourceI hope this isn't bad news for the OpenTTD project.

Why would it be? It's an original open source project.

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Valve have now marked it as Unsupported on Steam Deck

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Quoting: WYWLooking at the Steam reviews it looks like Apex is dying. It's been getting massive negative reviews since July, 43% positive reviews in the last 30 days. And 33% positive reviews so far today since this news dropped.

Looks like they are panicking and trying to find any easy solution to their bad image, but they just created more bad press in doing so.

Lifetime ratings are now at 68% which is "mixed" and will be turning off new players looking for a new game.

Outside of ratings (which can be often ignored), the stats on SteamDB [External Link] paint a pretty clear steep downwards trend for the game. Still a 24 hour peak of 139,866 people though, and this is just on Steam - they will no doubt have a lot of console players too keep in mind.

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Quoting: BeemerThey should put up stats. I want to see:

• Total Linux user count pre-block


• Total of Windows user count


• Pre-block count of users allegedly cheating


• Post-block count of users allegedly cheating

The statements of "we've identified Linux OS as being a path for a variety of impactful exploits and cheats" and "this will impact a small number of Apex players," seemed a bit at odds. If it's such a small number, how are the hacks "impactful".

They install a cheat into your system to prevent cheating. It honestly should be illegal to do that.

They have all the metrics they need on their end to kick users or ban them. This is exactly what A.I. expert systems are for.

This type of comment *always* seems to appear, and I'm seeing a lot of it across social media in reply to this news. I'm really surprised people don't understand, so here's it in simple terms.

There's a difference between counted players, and cheaters when these situations appear.

The number of Linux players will be (in percentage terms) low. The statements aren't at odds at all. Even a small number of cheaters can cause huge problems for the whole of the player-base, of which is mostly not-Linux.

You could have 100 Linux players, 1000,000,000 Windows players and 2 people on Linux doing cheats that affect everyone. That's what they mean. We've seen this info repeated by various developers, that Linux enables the cheats because it's harder for devs to block.

Hope people get that now.

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