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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: kaimanI assume that's meant as a compliment :-). If I think back on the series, its one of the aspects I remember fondly. Traveling the wilderness or entering a dungeon required a bit of preparation, lest you run out of arrows or, god forbid, your boots fell apart. You also wanted some blankets and camping gear or resting wouldn't restore much health / astral energy. It mostly came down to a one-time investment and some blocked inventory space, but it helped reinforce the feeling of leaving the safety of civilization behind and going out on an adventure.

For sure it was. If I recall it is one where you could get disease and freeze to death.
Still wasn't as bad as Robinson's Requiem / Deus, in which if you tumbled down a hill, you would break your ankles and have to bandage and heal them. 'Survival' games these days are weak sauce compared to those.

Good lord! So what happened if you took an arrow to the knee?

You became a guard. :P

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Quoting: kaimanI assume that's meant as a compliment :-). If I think back on the series, its one of the aspects I remember fondly. Traveling the wilderness or entering a dungeon required a bit of preparation, lest you run out of arrows or, god forbid, your boots fell apart. You also wanted some blankets and camping gear or resting wouldn't restore much health / astral energy. It mostly came down to a one-time investment and some blocked inventory space, but it helped reinforce the feeling of leaving the safety of civilization behind and going out on an adventure.

For sure it was. If I recall it is one where you could get disease and freeze to death.
Still wasn't as bad as Robinson's Requiem / Deus, in which if you tumbled down a hill, you would break your ankles and have to bandage and heal them. 'Survival' games these days are weak sauce compared to those.

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Quoting: scaineBeen watching Corben stream quite a lot of this, and it runs well, which is really frustrating (for you) because he's on similar hardware, I think?

Nope, he has a much newer CPU and GPU, different distro and different desktop :P

Ha, so not similar at all! As my brother refuses to let me upgrade his laptop / computer for gaming... I had to buy the game for the PS4 so we could play it multiplayer.

Would be nice if he would just embrace upgrades...

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Quoting: DaiKaiser93

Quoting: slaapliedjeExclusivity only happens because $Company pays $Publisher enough to not let others play their game. At least back in the day there was some sort of 'well this platform is more capable and that's why we published it there, as the experience of the game will be crap on other systems...' We no longer have that barrier at all!

Nowadays the only excuse they should have for exclusives is if X company owns the studio, but they'll continue to do it as long as studios accept the deals.

Exclusivity deals are easy money now, while game itself might or might not be successful. You can't get all the money they say, so lets go a safe route... Zero-risks opportunity...

And that's exactly what it comes down to. Make a pretty game, hope some company dumps some cash onto you for an exclusive. Game doesn't even have to work right, as long as it's pretty...

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Sure, I just started playing the new Pathfinder game. Which is also hard to get into because of Valheim finally dropping the new update and I have some that insist I should play that :P This looks good, I'll wait until the Linux release and pick it up.

Edit: Realms of Arkania was an asshole of a game, and fit as well into the 'survival' genre as RPG!

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Quoting: GustyGhost

it complains how the code now runs on platforms it was never released for where the "Defendants have sought to exploit a potential market that belongs exclusively to Take-Two"

I am fluent in tyrant speak. The English translation of this line is: "We want to continue to exclusively deny access to our games to punish users who use platforms that we don't like".

The complaint states something about exploiting markets, but the key thing to note here is that THEY HAVE FAILED TO 'EXPLOIT' THIS MARKET so they have no grounds to be upset when somebody else comes along and does the job instead.

I have saved the repo to my own storage just to be sure any take down requests amount to a game of slashy hydra head.

So I'm curious what people would start thinking if things like this were Linux (or Mac) exclusive. Basically when an open source engine comes along for a commercial game that was normally available only on Windows, if the engine port didn't run on Windows, if it'd 'hide' better from such dipshittery.

But yeah, 'OMG, those dirty Linux neckbeards are able to play our game now!' sounds like some reactions I've read on Steam discussions...

I remember shit storms every time some game which was console-exclusive gets published on Steam. People are really that strange. So people get mad when games work on Linux. And some such people are in establishment and work on high positions in big corporations. But I really hope these people will lose this time.

You know what's funny? The psychology behind that exclusivity is the same kind of psychology around why Flat-Earthers are a thing.

Very much has to do with "I know some secret knowledge that others do not." And there is that same thing of "I can play this game because I bought the 'superior' platform." Exclusivity only happens because $Company pays $Publisher enough to not let others play their game. At least back in the day there was some sort of 'well this platform is more capable and that's why we published it there, as the experience of the game will be crap on other systems...' We no longer have that barrier at all!

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it complains how the code now runs on platforms it was never released for where the "Defendants have sought to exploit a potential market that belongs exclusively to Take-Two"

I am fluent in tyrant speak. The English translation of this line is: "We want to continue to exclusively deny access to our games to punish users who use platforms that we don't like".

The complaint states something about exploiting markets, but the key thing to note here is that THEY HAVE FAILED TO 'EXPLOIT' THIS MARKET so they have no grounds to be upset when somebody else comes along and does the job instead.

I have saved the repo to my own storage just to be sure any take down requests amount to a game of slashy hydra head.

So I'm curious what people would start thinking if things like this were Linux (or Mac) exclusive. Basically when an open source engine comes along for a commercial game that was normally available only on Windows, if the engine port didn't run on Windows, if it'd 'hide' better from such dipshittery.

But yeah, 'OMG, those dirty Linux neckbeards are able to play our game now!' sounds like some reactions I've read on Steam discussions...

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Quoting: const

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: FrawoWell, Valve already made a Linux console and CDPR did nothing.

They did something. They hired VP to do their TW2 port and they probably intended to let them continue with TW3. But since the Steam Machines went nowhere, so did their efforts.

Definitely interesting to know whether they would come back and do it for real if the Steam Deck takes off. Even a Vulkan engine in the game would be a big step.

The shitstorm for the initially really bad port was probably enough to make them stay away. TW3 was never announced by CDPR.

dude there was literally an big banner saying witcher 3 was coming to steamOS

Ha, yeah on all of the marketing for SteamOS there was that giant banner. I think CDPR basically said they never announced it and it was all Valve, or something didn't they? I still need to win The Witcher 2... and I don't want to remove it, as I already hex edited the game so it'd display in 3840x1200... so it sits on my hard drive until I can gather the courage to try to win the fight I'm stuck on :P

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Quoting: areamanplaysgame

In the notice it complains how the code now runs on platforms it was never released for

Am I missing something? I thought there was an exception in the DMCA for exactly this - making software more useful to end users.
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I don't know about DMCA, but that exception is definitely valid in the EU. That's how it's legal to "circumvent" DVD and Blu-ray encryption on Linux - if a product cannot be used in the advertised manner on your system, you're allowed to make it work.

Bringing up the decryption for DVD reminds me of all the old shenanigans... like when Debian used to have a non-US repository because it wasn't allowed to install encryption software in the USA... anyone else remember that?

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We should have a VR section. Real curious how well Proton handles it. I did play the entirety of Half-Life: Alyx in VR. But that's native. I've done Beat Saber and a few others in Linux, but not a wide range of things. I think there needs to be a 'ProtonDB-VR' section :)

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