Unfortunately Steam sales aren't what they used to be after they got rid of the flash sales. Still the best time to buy from Steam of course but some of the excitement's gone and the deals aren't as good as they were.

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Are there any lists of open source patreons in general? Would be interested in seeing something like that.

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Quoting: WorMzy

Has this price cut made you more likely to buy one

Nope. :P

Still can't see VR taking off. The PS4 variant's "only" ~£340, and that's still too much to pay for such gimmicky tech in my opinion.

I think it's far from gimmicky but if you're a really active gamer the content can still be a little limited (even on Windows). The tech itself has a fairly wide variety of uses. Not just your traditional gaming but fitness, meditation/relaxation, new kinds of cinematic experiences, social... What it adds to even just the gaming is not some one-time trick as far as I'm concerned. Being able to look around and interact with the game world with your own hands that are perfectly tracked (as opposed to the hopelessly inaccurate Wii-style motion controllers) is a very powerful interface.

Personally I had pretty much stopped playing games because I no longer found them all that interesting and then came along VR. For me it's been a revelation. I do admit it may not be for everyone but that doesn't mean it's a gimmick either. The recent Oculus price drop has sold a lot of headsets so I wouldn't be so sure about it not catching on either.

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Their approach has been similar with the VR version. It's also terrible last I heard.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTJumping on the train of games nobody wants. Actually nobody
wants to play Hearthstone but Blizzard throws money at it to make it look big. Maybe the same will happen here?

I don't know where you're getting that from. HS is definitely genuinely popular as you can see from how much it's watched on twitch, how many people actively participate on it's subreddit etc...

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Quoting: TiedemannI must try this. I can't stand the LoL type RTS stuff :P

The landing pad thingy reminds me of Dune and some units looks like upgraded Red Alert/C&C.

Me neither, even if Dota happened to be be built on top of an RTS originally it isn't really an RTS and luckily I don't think most people claim it (or other games in the genre) to be one either. Both the "MOBA" and "ARTS" monikers are stupid but at least the first one doesn't give anyone the false impression that these games are somehow similar to RTS when they have very little in common with them.

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Sadly this game has apparently been a complete commercial failure for them with just a few thousand copies sold. I just bought it, mostly because it seems like a great game for VR but glad to see Linux support as well.

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The idea of strapping the controller to your hand is that you don't have to hold them all the time but that's not because of hand fatigue. This makes grabbing and picking up ingame items natural because it will feel like actually taking hold of an item instead of just pushing a grip button on a controller you were already holding in your hand.

One of the other interesting features about this controller is that it has capacitive sensing for each finger and can even track the angle of the fingers when they're not on the controller.

Overall looks like a great direction for VR hand controllers, I just wish they got rid of the trackpad in favor of a thumbstick.

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Quoting: denyasis

It will be really nice to have Galaxy on Linux, as I really personally hate keeping track of each individual download. I do have a number of games from GOG installed and going through them one by one to see if they need an update is not something I have time to do.

I'm sure you know this, but there is an open source GOG client for Linux. It's lgogdownloader. It's a CLI downloader for GOG games. Personally, galaxy or not, I'll prefer this. I can run it on my headless file server to download updated versions of my games without having to add bloat to my gaming machine. I don't really have a need for all the other "features" clients like steam or galaxy offer. I just want to download/update the game and this does it.

I'll admit, lgogdownloader isn't perfect, but it is simple, lightweight, and honestly, probably more useful to me than a client like galaxy. Note if only there was a steam variant, lol.

Edit: typos, typing on a phone is horrible! How do you do it!

This is awesome, was wondering if someone had done something like that. Looks like it just downloads, is it feasible to script an install too? This could make me start favoring GoG again, I completely agree that even more important than a Galaxy client is if tools like these are possible.

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Heh, I'd expect that to be solved by a single apt-get on something Debian-based so I'm not really sure why you're so happy about it being so easy on arch.

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