Quoting: GuestEpic can buy as many "Exclusives" or timed exclusives as they want. I wont use the Epic Launcher. If i want Metro i just gonna buy it for my Xbox One.

So you resent Epic's business practices and try to protest them by instead handing your money to a corporation that created one of the most locked-down and vendor-controlled devices on Earth?

*slow clap*

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Quoting: GuestThis is also all the more reason why everyone should support official Linux support by developers that's DRM-free so not tied to any one particular store.

This would work really well, since we have such an overabundance of DRM-free big box titles on Linux...

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It's not a new business pattern. Corporations don't want to compete (that's for the labor force), so they are trying to monopolize entire industries (not sure why the name Facebook came to my mind now), or when they can't, at least their own market. Like Disney pulling their stuff from Netflix to set up their own little streaming monopoly for their productions you won't get anywhere else. Or grocery chains buying other stores just to close them down, so people don't have a choice where to shop anymore. I could go on all day long. Baseline is that all sufficiently large business is evil. Which is why we'd need regulations against such practices, but they keep telling gullible people that regulations are bad, so what can I say?

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I haven't deleted my Win partition yet, so I am technically not Windows free. But no, I am not really using it anymore.

On topic: THAT's a feature I wanted Lutris to have for ages. Glad that they added it! :)

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So they made a game for an already over-saturated market (how many card games did we see the past 2 years or so?), compete against a firmly entrenched product (Magic The Gathering), and in a genre they have no experience with, while about 90% of their fan-base was hoping for something completely else (HL3)...and somehow thought that would go well?

I call that optimism!

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In contrast to real life wine, this particular kind of wine is better consumed fresh rather than old, so I guess most of us are using dev builds anyway. But it's great to see that the stable version is out now, so they can once again go to work on new features and improvements! I am really curious to see what they can come up with in the 4.x series, after the giant leaps made in 3.x! :)

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoBut that is the main problem with the gaming on Linux: We need true game developers and not just porters...
Porters are a second class citizens in the development world because they don't create any content, they just adapt content created by others.... Is like to compare a translator with the original writer..

Maybe, someday, Valve will pay Feral for to make a game.

I quite honestly prefer Feral porting somebody else's AAA games instead of trying to add to the pile of low-budget games we already have thousands of, like Aspyr.

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Quoting: KimyrielleIf I remember right, Valve already hired the person behind DXVK, so it's not that they aren't getting compensated for their work.

Literally me. That's why I mentioned it ;)

Haha, I had no idea! I guess I didn't exactly tell you news then!!! :D

Thanks for your hard work!!!

OpenGL is still fine for low graphics titles but for intensive games Vulkan is a must.

That's something you might want to tell VP.

Then again, if they are stuck porting terrible games with terrible sales expectations I can't really blame them either.

Seriously, most of the stuff they're porting I've never heard of before. I keep forgetting that there even -is- a company left porting games to Linux other than Feral. On their website they list ARMA III as their only game in development right now - and if my memory doesn't totally betray me, Liam reported a while back that the Linux port of that game will no longer be actively worked on.

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Quoting: YoRHa-2B

Quoting: tuxintuxedoOn the other hand, people who work on Wine and components (or simply Proton) will never see that money while doing the work itself.

Well, it does give Valve more money to throw at the parties involved in Proton development.

If I remember right, Valve already hired the person behind DXVK, so it's not that they aren't getting compensated for their work.

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Quoting: tuxintuxedo

without the developer of these games even have to support or cooperate with us

That's quite risky. You pay for a game, but the devs basically give you no guarantee it will work. On the other hand, people who work on Wine and components (or simply Proton) will never see that money while doing the work itself.
Remember, a simple update can change many things in a game. And Proton needs to deal with it somehow. It would be more than necessary to have the developers in the back giving a helping hand.

I covered that aspect in my post already, so I will just say that I take a 5% chance for the game eventually stopping to work on Proton over NOT having Proton and the game never running on Linux in the first place.

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