Until another game with a multiplayer component gets popular again and ruins everything.

What a bizarrely elitist thing to bash on unprompted. There's nothing wrong with multiplayer. It's good for the medium to have a wide variety of different kinds of games.

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According to the dev, native support is being worked on, but there was apparently a bug holding it up at launch.

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Does this only work on Wayland now, or can I get audio on Xorg too?

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Is it possible to only record game audio and not all desktop audio? There's a setting but it's grayed out for me.

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Quoting: Eike* Fun. If I were a software developer (or say ten), and you'd offer me $200 millions for a single player game or $1000 millions for making hats for years, I'd take the former. It would provide me with more money than I need and satisfaction. (Developers are humans, too!)

Valve isn't one person making a hobby project. They're a business aiming to maximize profits. If you want auteur-driven passion projects, you will find those from independent developers, not a corporation the size of Valve.

Quoting: Eike* Abilities. I actually am a software developer, but I couldn't design cool hats. If you got both artists and software developers, it would absolutely make sense to give both groups something to do. It's not like you can throw any x people on any task for x people.

Do you think multiplayer games don't need software developers working on them? Just artists?

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This is why I don't see Proton as a substitute for proper support. Because if they don't actually support the platform, they could break it at any time and say you're outta luck.

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Quoting: whizseSeems short-sighted . . . 200 million here, 200 million there, pretty soon you're talking about real money!

My mind boggles at thinking of $200 million in profit as "only" and not worth going after.

Opportunity cost. Why make a game that only makes $200 million when they can make a game that makes several billion instead?

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Supposedly Portal 2 was a large part of why Valve moved away from single-player games. They wanted the level editor to become another live service, and for a brief while they tried to sell hats. But people just finished the campaign, put it down, and never bought those hats.

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Quoting: Claude_LibWhat I really like about Deck and what competition doesn't seem to get is the solid hardware base. The game developers only have one device to optimize their games for instead of countless Ultra Turbo Deluxe revisions. About the only thing I like about consoles over PC and what I liked about Apple before they too started releasing X Pro Max models every year, heavily fragmenting the hardware lineup.

Optimizing games for just one target hardware spec hasn't been the norm in a very long time. Everything is multiplat. And everything that's on PC has to run on a wide range of PCs.

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Quoting: eldakingThis depends a lot on what clothes you wear. I have some cargo pants where the pockets could fill a small laptop, but if you wear women's clothing then it is never happening.

Never happening? Mini handhelds have been a thing for quite some time. I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus on sale a year ago and ended up putting far more time into it than I ever did the Deck.

Surely it's a matter of time before someone gets SteamOS running on a device in this form factor.

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