Quoting: BielFPsI hope Wayland become default to the next Ubuntu LTS version too. In my opinion this would help developers to realize that wayland is now the standard and start to port their apps to it, since Ubuntu is still the "main" distro for those entering the Linux world.

Well, the right way to do it would be getting major applications to run flawlessly in Wayland -before- declaring it standard, and breaking all things that aren't yet ready for it. Not the other way around. You don't push stuff to production systems before they aren't absolutely ready for it, and I am not convinced that Wayland has reached that state yet.

Anyway, I am probably going to jump ship soon anyway. I have been a long-time Ubuntu user, but their push towards Snap is a dealbreaker for me. The point of Linux to me is that it's not controlled by a single corporation who can dictate me what to do with my system, and if I wanted an Appstore-like monopoly in my ecosystem, I might as well buy a Mac.

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Quoting: PangaeaAnd yet they have fuckscrewed every single of those game they have 'released'. They should be deeply ashamed of themselves. I look forward to the day they go out of business. If there is any talent in that shack, they'll find other jobs. Maybe they'll make something worth a damn too then.

You're either a complete troll or have zero clue what you're talking about. Probably both. I played all these games when they were a new thing. I played all these games now. The enhanced editions do about as good a job as possible in capturing what these games were about and making it possible to play them on newer machines. Some people really need to shut up and get a clue before spitting rude nonsense into the world.

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May it be a lesson to the industry that there are limits to how much you can milk people with shady monetization schemes. It might work for a long time, but eventually people are going to notice that they're getting nickeled and dimed.

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Amazing that they still call this an Alpha. Code Red would have released it already! :tongue:

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I love this game! I hope they will continue polishing it. It could really do with an engine upgrade at this point. There are so many awesome mods out there, but you can install only that many before the engine starts crashing. I also would love to see a proper North American city theme one day. Our cities just look different than they do in Europe, and it would be nice to have it in game. There were mods around that did that, but they got broken by game updates.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicImagine if a large AAA game studio made a game with Godot that produced hundreds of millions of dollars worth of profit? Throwing a few hundred thousand back to Godot would be pocket change for them, cheaper than hiring an entire dev team to work on an internal game engine for sure. Godot gets better and the studio can continue making great revenue off games and don't have to worry about licensing fees.

I can't see AAA studios switching to Godot anytime soon, but what you described might just as well happen with smaller and medium sized studios, looking for a hassle-free engine with a hassle-free licence without having to write it from scratch, which they won't have the capacity to do anyway.

120k is quite a game-changer for Godot. No idea if they already have plans for the money, but it should be enough to implement a few serious new features to make a splash with, and draw some more devs into using the engine. Let's hope there will be more such donations. :)

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyMan, suddenly I feel ahead of the curve. As a university employee my email is through work, I have a vestigial Facebook page which I visit maybe once a year, I don't have files in the cloud. I do buy stuff on Amazon some, but not enough that I'd have any big worries if I was somehow locked out of it. I do have some kind of Google ID, but I only use it for, like, if I'm reading articles with certain fairly common comment systems and want to comment I'll use the Google ID.

I use Google phones and even a Chromebook, but I am not using their cloud at all. The apps sync to my own Nextcloud instance. I am no longer employed, but my e-mail is provided by the same hoster I rented the webspace from, so it's not Google, either. I am using a few throwaway G-Mail accounts for signing up for newsletters and forums, which I couldn't care less about loosing. No Facebook. No WhatsApp. No Instagram. No TikTok. I use DuckDuckGo as "front end" for Google, so they know considerably less about me than about most people. I never purchased any apps or other content from the Play Store and I don't use Google Pay, either. Losing my Google account wouldn't make me lose too much sleep, really. I'd just make a new one and transfer my devices to that one.

I have to admit I am a heavy user of Amazon and have been since the days they were still a bookstore. I would love to see some more competition in that business, honestly. I do order with smaller stores when there is any around having similar offers, but off-line shopping has largely left my life even before the pandemic and I have no desire to have it back.

All in all, the only online service that would make me even bust out a few cusswords if they dumped me would be, well, Steam. I haven't downloaded all my games, only the ones I've actually played . . .

Same. Steam going out of business would suck. But by big-business standards they're not THAT evil, so I would think they would give you ample time to download your purchased games before closing shop. Not sure about the DRM, of course. The matchmaking services would be gone, too. Let's just hope it doesn't happen! :)
Them blocking me I can't see happening. I don't play any Valve games, so their Anti-Cheat thingie can't trigger on me accidentally. And I don't participate in the Steam community in any shape or fashion (except my immediate family, there is nobody on my friends list), so it's hard to conceive a scenario giving them even the weakest reason to ban me.

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Quoting: kon14Gaming on an LTS release or a stable branch is like shooting yourself in the foot.

Unless you're on really old hardware that doesn't support Proton (or other modern tools) and barely gets any gpu related updates anyway.

That makes no sense at all. Steam will update Proton automatically and your graphics driver will update when the system does (in case of NVidia you have to add the correct launchpad PPA to your repositories, but that's all). Both of that happens whether you're using LTS or not.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Guest

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Quoting: GuestActually, "Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially."

Translation: Making AAA games costs money.

Google must have been really shocked to find out. It was such a well-kept secret that making AAA games costs money!

And...I dunno. EA and Ubisoft seem to be quite successful making AAA games and Google is 100 times (or 1000?) richer than these two companies combined. *shrug*

They have established studios.....

That is the point people keep missing, because they just have to get their bit in on Google. Creating and maintaining a game studio, one big enough to do costly AAA titles is a huge and extremely messy thing that just isn't Google. Clearly so. Yes others can do it, because they have a long history and started off making smaller games and scaling up.

I'm no huge fan of Google overall (I'm even moving away from gmail after being with it since the start!), despite liking Stadia, but the overwhelming urge people seem to have to just not think things through about commenting on it is either ignorance or just plain stupidity to make a dig at GOog.

Not sure if that "plain stupidity" thing was aimed at me. I suppose so, because you quoted my posting. Ok...Thank you, I guess...

As for your comment, maybe your point would have hold some merit if Google had hired a few dozen freshly graduated devs from college and told them to start coding random stuff, but they didn't. They hired VERY experienced people to build up, and software development is a business I would say Google has a little bit of experience in, don't you think? At least it's not like your neighborhood bakery trying to get into game development without having seen a computer before.

Anyway, if dissenting opinions are met with that level of hostility, I better go do something else.

EDIT: Fun fact: I don't hate Google. Except if buying Pixel phones and Pixelbooks from them is now considered "hate". Judging from what I can see they tried to open a new field of business (cloud gaming), realized that it is going nowhere, and cut their losses. That's just a sane business decision.

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Quoting: MohandevirHave you tried buying PC hardware lately?

Actually yes. Last Christmas. And spontaneously decided that my old PC will serve me well for another year. I know that -right now-, gaming PCs are almost impossible to buy.

But unless you're trying to say that the pandemic (which is ultimately the root cause for this) will become permanent, this is not relevant for the future of cloud gaming vs local gaming. The hardware market will eventually return to normal conditions.

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