To add the "other opinion"...I really don't bother with demos. Now, that's coming from somebody who almost never buys game at full-price, either. But for the price point I am willing to invest for most games, I am confident enough to just buy them based on what I know about them.

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Quoting: CorbenWho would've thought EA would ever go back to Steam...

Steam is where the money is, because it's where (most of) the gamers shop. I guess EA thought because they're EA, they can dictate their customers anything, including migrating to their own little store that has really nothing to go for it other than being annoying. I guess EA's numbers were hurting and the management finally realized that their games don't get noticed as much anymore, since they chose NOT to be on the world's #1 marketplace for games. Which is really a silly thing to do.

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That's a great workaround. Thanks for posting it!

Origin is really one of the worst pieces of software ever written. It's mindboggling, really. I get the idea that real talent probably doesn't want to work for EA in the first place, but compared to their games, Origin isn't THAT complex. Do they really put every intern they get on Origin to hack away?

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Quoting: gabberI would not want this in my pony online, sure. But I _DO_ want it in a game about shooting each other. Bring on the banter, that's part of the game.

That's quite honestly the impression I have of a certain part of the MOBA/Shooter crowd. People who just don't mind insulting and belittling others for fun and to feel a little less pathetic than the person they are in real life. Not everyone playing these games shares your point of view, thankfully. But enough to make me not touch this type of game with the proverbial 10-foot pole.

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I made an itch account just for this! Really incredible collection, even if it will take me like a year to sort through it. :)

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1-2% of a lot of money is still a lot of money. If that math doesn't work out for you, sure, go ahead and drop GOG and/or Linux. But if these 1-2% didn't cover at least the cost of keeping multi-platform deployment in mind (I am avoiding the word "porting", because in 2020, if you have to "port" your game to other platforms, you did it wrong in the first place), your game wasn't worth publishing in the first place.

Yes, harsh. The truth sometimes hurts.

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Quoting: gustavoyaraujo

Quoting: Xaero_VincentThere appears to be a nasty new issue (probably introduced by a change in the EA Origin client) that breaks any game on Steam that uses the EA Origin client via Proton or Wine.

I hope this gets fixed soon so I can play Mirrors Edge: Catalyst that I just bought.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3937 [External Link]

That's why I avoid to buy games from other stores than Steam.

The game was purchased on Steam. It just has a dependency on Origin as well and it's the Origin part that is broken.

These hacks at EA can't ever NOT break Origin running in WINE every 2-3 months, it seems. One really wonders how they manage to break such a relatively trivial piece of software all the time, when WINE can run applications ten times more complex than that just fine.

I hate EA so much. I wish Paradox would finally make a Sims clone the same way they replaced SimCity with something way better, so I finally wouldn't have to bother with their garbage platform anymore. For the time being, Origin still seems to run in Lutris, though.

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If they choose to go Epic exclusive I am sure I will find a way to punish them with my wallet.

I don't think it's overly likely, though. Paradox is probably THE most Linux friendly publisher out there, and they know as well as we do, that the Epic Garbage Store doesn't run on Linux.

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Since the editor is super lightweight anyway, running it in a browser is probably not THAT much a needed feature, but hey, I can appreciate it as a cool tech demo! :D

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Just for the record, but ESO is running absolutely FLAWLESSLY on WINE or Proton. No Stadia needed to enjoy it! :D

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