Quoting: LakortaI have high hopes for this console :)

I want to be positive, but it seems that people claim that current Atari brand has nothing to do with the fathers of one of the greatest consoles in history.

Quoting: liamdaweAlso, something that was missing from Valve's Steam Machines, which the Ataribox will have is proper access to streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, HBO GO and more. Which was also confirmed in another of their Facebook updates. I assume this means it will have proper applications set up to just tap and browse.

I hope they will invest money and will prepare native client instead some shitty browser based integration.
If they will provide shitty browser based integration, I will be first to wish them failure. Hope it won't happen.

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Quoting: adamhmThere are also quite a few older/classic games on sale on GOG atm that I've made Wine wrappers [External Link] for:

Crysis [External Link]
Crysis Warhead [External Link]
Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut [External Link]
Deus Ex GOTY Edition [External Link]
Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition [External Link]
Freedom Force [External Link]
Freedom Force vs the Third Reich [External Link]
Hitman: Codename 47 [External Link]
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin [External Link]
Hitman 3: Contracts [External Link]
Jade Empire: Special Edition [External Link]
Mirror's Edge [External Link]
The Saboteur [External Link]
Sid Meier's Civilization IV Complete Edition [External Link]
Total Annihilation Commander Pack [External Link]
Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico [External Link]
The Witcher Enhanced Edition [External Link]

You made me wonna play Hitman games :D.
Let me ask you few questions. Do you have:
- This project source stored anywhere (github / bitbucket / gitlab)?
- Project page (somewhere outside gog forum so people won't be forced to go through whole discussion to read important information),
- Video of recorded gameplay of games that use your script,
- Plans to support other titles?

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Quoting: g000h

Quoting: wojtek88@g000h While I love Linux and I love playing games on it, I am not going to forget about Sony titles. I have PS4, I play on it all the time. The only rule I have is: Never buy on PS4 games that are already released on Linux. I can't see how would I help Linux gaming if I weren't buying Uncharted series games...

Well... two obvious ways to me:

1) You spent your money on a PS4 game rather than an Linux game. One less Linux game being bought and going into the analytics.
[You don't feel you would be doing more Linux gaming, if you hadn't bought a PS4 and PS4 games to use on it?]

2) You're playing a PS4 game instead of a Linux game. Hours of Linux gaming being lost in the Steam/publisher analytics.

In general I see your point. But I have an impression that you try to make players guilty in place where they aren't the ones you should blame. I am really pleased that you are Linux only gamer, but I don't think your attitude is helping in any way.
I rather spend the money on games that aren't on Linux in PS Store and for games that are on Linux on Steam than switch completely to PS4. (FYI reading comments like yours make me wanna leave Linux gaming at all, because main reason I spend money on Linux is because I want Linux gaming to grow, not because I think that current ports quality deserve the money).
Anyway, I don't think you should see people who play other platforms as people who are responsible for condition of Linux gaming (that according to what you said is not as good as you want it to be). I think that current condition of Linux gaming is slowed down because of few reasons:

1) Valve would be able to count Wine gaming as Linux gaming. If I recall correctly, Worms: Armageddon recognizes when you're using Wine, so I assume there is some information in Windows register, that would allow you to determine when you're using Wine.
Having that in mind - Steam could count marketshare in better way.
2) Valve should also make it public why did they announce Witcher 3 coming to Steam OS and it never happened. It looks bad and it makes the whole platform look bad.
3) Valve should explain why did they announce many Steam Machines manufacturers, and then they forgot about Steam Machines (the page with Steam machines shows how does Valve treat Steam Machines [External Link]. I don't know if you guys remember how many manufacturers were announced, but just take a look how does this page look like).
4) Valve should make a move with Steam OS. Maybe some kind of roadmap for Steam OS, maybe announce plans with the platform, provide information about 3rd party applications like Netflix, Youtube, Spotify, etc.
5) Valve should prepare 2nd generation of Steam machines and do real launch this time - with bundles containing great titles. Before that Valve has to bring big 3rd party companies on board in order to provide big titles to Linux.

Don't get me wrong, I think that Linux gaming is in position I wasn't expecting 5 years ago (and I guess almost nobody here expected). And everything good we have we have thanks to Valve. The problem is that Valve is the only big company that can push Linux gaming forward. And without their attention we will loose everything we earned.

P.S. @g000h do not attack other Linux gamers. Let them do what they want. We all vote with our wallets and as long as we spend money on Linux games we support Linux market.
Forcing people to be Linux only does not help. But admiring people who leave at least penny on Linux games is something we all should do.

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@g000h While I love Linux and I love playing games on it, I am not going to forget about Sony titles. I have PS4, I play on it all the time. The only rule I have is: Never buy on PS4 games that are already released on Linux. I can't see how would I help Linux gaming if I weren't buying Uncharted series games...

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Quoting: Sputnik_tr_02

Quoting: slaapliedjeWonder if it works with Diablo 3. So, my friend finally convinced me to play it.. and then it stopped working in Wine.

I suppose they broke it when they updated it to drop support for XP. Unfortunately it runs worse in Windows 10 than it did in Linux with Wine.

You can use PlayonLinux to choose which wine version you want to use with the game. That is handy when regressions like that happen.

As far as I know some time ago there was an issue with Diablo 3 because of Battle.NET changes, not because of Wine regression.

Anyway, it looks like Diablo 3 is gold in 2.19-staging, so it should work very nice.

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Quoting: mrdeathjr

Quoting: wojtek88How does the NieR: Automata perform like? In Wine DB I can see it's silver.

Does anyone managed to play the game?

As super maintainer of NieR Automata in last time test works but FAR mod dont work (CSMT are required for prevent flickering)

View video on youtube.com

However i dont recommend wine vanilla for test DX10/DX11 games because lack of many staging patches (many staging patches allow work many games)

But next staging aka staging 2.21 wiil be interesting because add this vanilla DX11 patches more staging

^_^

@mrdeathjr your work always amazes me.
Just out of curiosity - do you update Wine HQ DB from time to time? From your video it looks like NieR: Automata works very well. Are you going to post your results as silver / gold / platinum for Wine 2.21?

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How does the NieR: Automata perform like? In Wine DB I can see it's silver. Does anyone managed to play the game?

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Quoting: Leopard(...) We need Bethesda like companies and their games to grow. (...)

Very good point. I would take that further. There are few companies, that are competitive with Valve:
- Sony
- Microsoft
- EA
- Ubisoft
It seems, that Microsoft and EA are working together (EA Access on Xbox for example) and EA and Ubisoft have no problem with releasing their games on Sony and Microsoft platforms. However, I would say, that having Sony and Microsoft on board is impossible (they have their own platform and do not publish anything on other platforms), having EA and Ubisoft is very very unlikely because they have their own clients and stores and they have no interest in making Valve stronger.
But there are companies, that make big titles and may be significant to bring bigger attention to Linux:
- Bethesda
- Rockstar Games
- CD Projekt Red
- Activision
- Blizzard
- Konami
- Square Enix (Partially with us already, but we need Raise of the Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy series etc)

Just imagine how good would it look like if Steam Machines would be reborn with bundles with:
1) Steam Machine + Diablo 3 + GTA V + Fallout 4
2) Steam Machine + Final Fantasy XV + Starcraft 2 bundle + PES 2018
3) Steam Machine + Max Payne 3 + Raise of the Tomb Raider + Metal Gear Solid V
4) Steam Machine + Doom + Call of Duty WW2 + Witcher 3

You must admit that such a bundles are something that you would throw money at. At least I know I would.

Valve Steam Machines project is so far a disaster, and I wish you all that there will be new version of it with much much more money invested in the project.

Quoting: dannielloSo... Good luck for Windows 10S - Metro only system where Steam cannot be installed. It could be "wake up" signal for Valve...

That's exactly what I wish for - but I guess Microsoft is not that stupid - they learned their lesson and Windows 10S will be only for schools, public services and for poor regions of world. Rest will have normal version of their system, and this will make both Microsoft and Valve happy with situation as it is, and there won't be new push for Steam machines...

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Vulkan only - means I won't be able even to run it, because I am still on GeForce GT 540m. For me it's sad, but I wish you all good time with the game.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Lakorta

Quoting: GuestWell, if you bought the game through the PSN or you have the discs i think is pretty legitimate to download them by torrent.

It isn't in most countries. For one, the torrented version may differ from the version you bought/own, also torrenting not only downloads but uploads too.

Sony isn't giving me the option to download the raw data from their PSN servers to my PC, i'll do whatever i need to do for playing MY games, i have more than 800 games on Steam and i'm against piracy, but i'm not a Sony/Valve/Whatever bootlicker.
And yes, torrenting means uploading too, but i'm not responsible of people downloading isos thet they didn't paid for. That's Sony's problem, just like Atlus, they don't want to release their games on PC because they have some shitty contract with Sony or something and now cry about P5 on emulators, well, i didn't invent capitalism so that is none of my business.
In the other hand, i've paid 2 times for Disgaea, just because devs released their two first games for PC (Linux included on Disgaea2), paid 2 times for a lot of games to be honest, if they realease Demon Souls and Dragon's Crown on Steam i'll buy both, and i can still play them on PS3, but i hate consoles in general, hate their resolution and crappy framerate.

Have you ever read PSN terms of use? You do know you accepted them and you agreed to them? If so, why do you behave like a child and pretend that you do nothing wrong while breaking the rules you agreed to?

Don't get me wrong, I would like to pay once and have rights for the game on any platform (that's why I use Steam) but it does not work this way. If you download PS3 games through P2P vel torrent you break the law of many countries, because of sharing it as well. You also download something else than what you bought and that's also not ok. That's how it is.

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