Is a remastered edition or a forced update of the same game?

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Quoting: no_information_hereI may be wrong, but I have never heard a dev say "We don't need to port to Linux, those people will just buy it anyway and use Wine."

I think John Carmack said something like that [External Link]

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This time FERAL did the things right; they released the game with a launch sale...
But I was hoping to see the prologue / Episode 1 for free, like they did with Life Is Strange.

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Very informative...
But, in a few words.
Is OpenGL obsolete because it doesn't make efficient use of modern CPU's??

Now, for the sake of porting windows games to Linux and for the sake of the performance of those ports, instead of using OpenGL, is not more convenient to teach Linux how to speak D3D11 (like gallium9 does with D3D9)?

Vulkan can be the future, but is not the standard in the actual blockbuster games.

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This is another behavior of Valve that justifies my dislike for Steam as a whole. :sick:

This new system will lead to more and more and more garbage than the actual bad situation. :><:

Quoting: CheesenessOne person's garbage is someone else's personal touchstone.

And for garbage I am not talking about taste.
For garbage I mean those games with serious technical issues, those games that don't even run and those games whose development wasn't finished.

If right now Valve wash its hands when a newly released game (or a re-released shovelware) doesn't want to run, imagine the future with this new system. You gonna have 200 broken garbage games per 1 good functional game... :(

I know there is a refund system, but that is not the point here.
The point is that Valve doesn't care anymore about the technical quality of the games sold in the Steam store: They release games without even test if each game works. (take a loot at Bioshock Remastered, for example)
And that is bad for the consumers.

Quoting: LiamDaweHaving a much more open system with no fees would remove a lot of the hassle while Valve is still likely to make a ton of money, I mean Valve do take a cut of all sales at around 30% anyway so what do Valve have to lose? Of course, even more trash will make it through, but that is why we exist, why Steam curators exist, Steam reviews and so on. Steam and the internet as a whole has many systems ready to help people sift through junk.

Of course NOT!
Is not people's job to curate the games released at the Steam Store; that is Valve's job...
Is their store and everything that happen inside Steam is their responsability..
The problem is that they just don't want to be responsible anymore
They just want money (that 30% cut) without even working for it..

Steam is going to fall by its own weight.

(Please, save this post in a frame for future references :) .)

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Quoting: liamdaweAll big releases go to Steam, that's basically a standard for PC gaming (apart from EA/Blizzard games). You either have to learn to live with it and accept some compromises, or stop complaining about it as it's likely not going to change.

Following that logic, all PC games should be released only on WINDOWS, because WINDOWS is THE STANDARD for PC gaming. You either have to learn to live with it and accept some compromises, or stop complaining about it as it's likely not going to change

...but, guess what? Indeed, a lot of people don't want to learn to live with it and don't want to accept those compromises and, indeed, they complain about it..

All those people who are against the standard for PC gaming are the reason why you have big games released on Linux.

When a publisher infect a game with DRM, is because that publisher doesn't trust its consumers.
A publisher that doesn't trust its consumers does not deserve a single penny.

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Will the Episode 1 be FREE, like they did with Life is Strange?

Now, Feral, be good and port Rise of the Tomb Raider if you want my money.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTThe great discount just shows how the game got abandoned. :/

If the GTX 480 will be able to provide FPS > 50 one day (which it should) I'd be buying the game. Since the game seems to be abandoned I don't feel like this will ever gonna happen.

I don't think that Deus Ex Mankind divided is abandoned... Just check the SteamDB [External Link] activity

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This is the ticket of the Steam support about the use of the same credit card on two or more steam account...
I hope you understand the spanish.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI use G2A for to buy Steam Wallet codes for my steam Linux account ...
Because, You know, If you don't spend at least 5 U$D per year, Steam limit your account and you can not even add friends.

No, they don't. That's the limit on a Steam account at the start.

Even if you are right, there is another problem: You can not use the same credit card or paypal account on two or more steam accounts... I asked that to the steam support. :(

So..Steam wallet codes are the way to go when you manage more than two Steam accounts like me...

Thanks to G2A and their payments processors (PayU), any argentinian gamer without an international credit card can buy steam wallet codes or steam, Uplay or Origin keys and pay them with argentinian pe$os cash on a Mercadopago agent.. :)

That is something that Steam, Humble, Greenman, GOG, etc will NEVER NEVER NEVER do because, unlike G2A, they don't understand how the real economy works outside their bubble...

I respect G2A (and I buy steam wallet codes there two or three times per year) because they accept my cheapest currency... ^_^

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