Quoting: IrisNebulaImagine going to a store and demanding a new copy of your game because you lost the game CD you bought there last year and being angry they won't service you.

If it was on a platform like Steam which would mean you'd be locked out of new installations, then yeah, that would have been a big deal.

I'm still waiting for a game CD delivered to me by Itch. No, I didn't bought a game CD that's the whole point. I had to make an account at Itch - which would be unnecessary if they would ship their games on a physical medium. And with this account I just demand nowadays that a pure digital copy of the game I bought is always there for me to download again. Otherwise modern gaming wouldn't be feasible anymore nowadays with tons of GBs of games you would have to archive yourself.

Either it is seen as industry standard that online gaming shops with user accounts keep copies of your games save for downloading or customers will probably soon stop buying games they don't plan to play immediately.

But the so called "backlog" of games many users have is a relevant source of income for the gaming industry.

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As a customer I don't know who is responsible for this breach of trust. The only thing I know is: I won't buy ANY games anymore from Itch.io. I'm serious. Itch.io is dead for me from this moment onwards.

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Plasma [External Link] looked very interesting as I watchted Giantwaffle on Twitch trying out the demo. I don't know whether the demo is playable with Wine/Proton.

"Plasma is an engineering sandbox. Unleash your creativity with fun and intuitive robotics, physics, and visual programming tool."

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Maybe a video which explains some tricks using KDE's file manager Dolphin could be useful for all the new KDE (= Steam Deck) users now.

Like, how you can customise it. I like to display the editable path e.g. so that I can right click and copy the full path of a directory. Or how you can search and filter (I like the filter bar) or add shortcuts to directories at the left pane or display more infos on the right pane or add more columns and sort them.

Maybe just a short video which points new users in the right direction so that they realise that all those options are there and that Dolphin is a mighty file manager - something they might not expect on a "console" like hardware.

And another powerful and useful software for all those Steam Deck users might be Okular, the PDF reader.

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At first I was very sceptical about this update, too. The dev logs didn't make sense: So many changes to what purpose?

But after playing the Beta and now the full release I have to say: The game plays not very differently. The main changes are that you can do more stuff with the "unity" ressource so religious empires are less at a disadventage now. And because you can't mitigate your empire sprawl now by just building some extra buildings (administrative centers) it's wise to not just take every system or planet right away. It adds more depth because you should think a little more how you want to expand instead of just taking every system and spaming buildings. And you have to think which ressource you want to go for first: research or unity or a mix of both.

But the most important parts of the update are the improvements to the AI and to the performance of the scripts calculating everything in the game.

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Didn't they add multiplayer some weeks ago?

I guess that's the "culprit" for the new Twitch fame (which might then made the sales go up):

The Twitch streamer "Sacriel" said some months ago while playing the singleplayer version of Project Zomboid that the devs should invest all resources they can muster to finalize the multiplayer feature. Then Project Zomboid might become the new Twitch hit, he added. Games like PZ with multiplayer would automatically create that emergent storytelling streamers and viewers like so much (see GTA online...).

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo this is very popular. Can someone explain to me the appeal of a game where you drive trucks around, much the way real people only do when they're being paid and have few options?

It's interesting, isn't it?
The game demonstrates that user experience still isn't quite understood. There are factors involved which can not just be summerized on a list to tick off and you have a great game.

I for instance think it's somehow fascinating that a drive from Bergen (Norway) to Zurich (Switzerland) takes around 3 hours in real time (game time: 30 hours) and you drive and drive and drive and the landscape, buildings, roadsigns are changing, you "experience" a journey.

And of course: The success of ATS and ETS is unthinkable without the success of podcasts. :wink:

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After watching hours of "Let's plays" I finally bought Starsector (native) to invent my own sci-fi space opera while knowing that I will probably need hours to get a grasp of all those deep game mechanics. A true exploration game: exploring space while exploring how to fly, fight and make a profit.

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Quoting: soulsourceThere is an important piece of information missing regarding Ubuntu: People should imho only use LTS versions. The non-LTS versions are horribly unstable (bordering being completely unusable), and will only lead to frustration.

My personal recommendation would still be Debian Stable. Apart from the installation process (Debian has by far the superior installer) it's like Ubuntu, but a lot more stable. And I really mean _a lot_ more stable.

It seems that it's always a trade-off between latest drivers and updates (and the freedom to install newer software versions) versus a very reliable, stable computing environment. For me Mageia hits the sweet spot here as a very stable distribution for the non tech savvy user with lots of testing by the distribution maintainers and with major upgrades every 1.5 years. But I totally see that users have different needs, like a user of Void or a user of Debian (very) Stable. :happy:

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Quoting: AsciiWolfJust make sure to install Steam on Ubuntu from Valve website [External Link] and not distribution repository. The distro one is outdated and problematic, even on 20.10. It will hopefully be in a better shape in 22.04.

This is the opposite I'm recommending everybody in the Steam forums (for any distribution). Because the distribution makers have the same package and more knowledge of their distribution than the user or even Valve. Is this claim based on anything?

In Mageia (mageia.org) installing Steam via the distribution repository starts a script that fetches the latest Steam client from Valve and installs it. Works flawlessly for me since Steam came out for Linux. Doing it this way ensures that all the necessary dependencies are installed prior to installing the Steam client, I guess.

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