Quoting: dpanterSteam sale atm, 67% off including season pass... instabuy on the cheap! ~16,5€ :wub:

10,64 U$D in Argentina!!! (thanks to the regional pricing, I can tolerate this DRM)

Buying it right now for to support the Linux platform!..

I thought there was a 30 days rule about putting a game on sale after the last time it was on sale...

Anyway..
Finally Feral release a game on sale!..

I am waiting the same treatment to Life is Strange: Before the Storm... (which is delayed, but I suppose that the delay is due to the implement of the Japanese language in the windows version.)
And I hope the first episode for FREE, like they did with the LIS.

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Benchmark comparison between this version and the windows version running via wine/DXVK, please!

Can you play it offline?

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Finally!

Sometimes I want to make some gift, but I don't know if the person I want to give the game already have it...
Sometimes I am just curious and I want to know which games have this user..
Sometimes I want to know how many users have this or that game.. With public profiles, a clone of Steamspy is possible.

And I always want to show the world the games I really own...

You really own a game when that game is DRMFREE...

Love You, GOG! Keep growing!

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Quoting: baccilusRise of the Tomb Raider is being shown as being available on Steam in our Country (India). However, after purchasing it, I still can't install it since it says its not available on my platform.

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Quoting: tuubiYou seem quite sure of this. But how much less appealing would it be for a gamer to switch to Linux from Windows if they had to buy again all of their Linux-supporting AAA games ported by companies like Aspyr and Feral, especially if the Linux ports were more expensive? And if it's not relatively painless for them to switch, how likely is it that they'd be here to buy the next game that gets ported?

Would these roadblocks hurt the porters' sales less than what they would win by possibly getting a few Linux-using cheapskates to ignore a key reseller or something? Assuming some of those people wouldn't just buy the much cheaper Windows key anyway and dual boot to play it.

It's in any porting company's best interests to make sure their target platform is attractive to customers, and things like Steamplay might actually be useful here. Every new Linux gamer is a potential customer.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI repeat: Steamplay is the enemy of the Linux gaming..

I agree SteamPlay is bad for Feral. But it's good for new users coming from Windows, they don't have to buy all their games again.

If you switch to PS4, you need to buy the games again... Why? Because is a different platform...
The PC itself is not a platform; the operative system is the platform: Windows is a platform.. and Linux is a platform.. And OSX too..
Different platforms, different licences.

As I said. Steamplay was OK years ago, when the arrival of the Steam machines and the early days of Steam for Linux as a help for the incursion.... In fact, Steamplay was useful for me in 2015, when I continued playing Deadfall Adventures from Windows XP..

But is the year 2018..
Those who didn't join Steam for Linux then, They will never do it, because there are more and more AAA windows exclusives that will NEVER be ported to Linux...
There are few options now:
Play the Windows game day 1 on Windows..
Play the Windows game day 1 on Linux via wine/dxvk
Or wait YEARS for a wrapped Linux port and play it without paying for it because you already got a windows key.. Steamplay is not helping linux publishers with this..

Quoting: GuestAnyway, I would like to see an option to buy an optional separated Linux-only version to show my interest in Linux games as well as dedication to the platform and to make sure I will 100% support the Linux publisher/developer.

Me too..
That is way they need to get rid of Steamplay.. Like Bohemia did with ARMA: Cold War Assault. I hope the final release of ARMA III for Linux will have the same treatment.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoFeral, if You take your self seriously

What a bad way to address people.

Wasn't the spirit... But it may sounds rude, yeah...

Side effects of the hair recovery treatment, I guess...

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It will be good to see a performance comparison between this version and the Windows version running via WINe/DXVK using the same hardware...

On other topic:
Feral, if You take your self seriously and if You really have the publishing rights of these games for Linux and Mac, GET RID of STEAMPLAY..
Linux and Mac versions of Windows games must have a different store page and a different price when the Linux/Mac publisher is different than the windows publisher.

I repeat: Steamplay is the enemy of the Linux gaming..
For example, I have a code for the windows version of Rise of the Tomb Raider from a Humble monthly Bundle and that allow me get the Linux version for FREE,
(And I am sure I am not the only one in this situation) This is not good for Linux publishers...

Steamplay was OK 5 years ago, at the beginning of the SteamOS project, as a help for the OS transition and as a help that allowed Windows users to make a safe incursion in the Linux world..

Steamplay IS OK NOW when the publisher of the Linux version and the Windows version is the same publisher; Layers of Fear and Observer_ are a good example of this.. Aspyr is the publisher of all versions..

But Steamplay is BAD when the Linux version has a different publisher than the windows version...
What is the point of to spend money in getting the publishing right of a game for Linux and to spend a lot of money in the porting process, when people can use a cheapest windows version key for to activate the Linux version??

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Quoting: ShmerlNot to the degree that they are unplayable. At least I didn't have any issues with older games on Ryzen 7 1700X.

Ryzen 2 can help there though, since they raised base clocks by default and it supports better boost.

Not everyone can afford a powerful Ryzen 7... That is why the single core performance of a modest AMD Ryzen 3 vs Intel core i3 is so important for me..

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Quoting: ShmerlMost modern games should depend less on single core performance, that's a thing from the past already.

I know, but what about legacy Linux games? All of them are OpenGL and that thing rely on the single core performance.

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It would be interesting to see a benchmark comparison between the Feral port of Mad Max running in Vulkan mode and the windows version running via wine DXVK...

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I am thinking about to make an incursion on the AMD territory...
The last time was in 2012, with very poor performance and some 32bit games refusing to work...

I am not a fanboy; I evaluate the long time cost-benefit..
At the end of the year 2014, in the war between Haswell vs Vishera, the best long time cost-benefit relationship was in favor of Haswell, that is way I purchased core i3 4170 (still working in a Gigabyte h97N-WIFI, with a GTX 750ti low profile, in my mother's PC with Ubuntu)

I would like to see a fair comparison using the same amount of cores, the same cpu clock speed, the same memory speed with the same latencies, between i3 and i5 vs Ryzen3 2200G.... Ryzen 5 2400G vs i7.. The single thread performance is very important...even today

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