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Latest Comments by Comandante Ñoñardo
BATTLETECH has a new story trailer to show off
15 Apr 2018 at 12:43 am UTC

This has triggered memories in me... Memories from about 20 years ago, when I played a DEMO of a game called Mechwarrior...
That game was much better by the way..

Wine 3.6 is out with work towards high DPI support and BattlEye fixes
14 Apr 2018 at 12:49 am UTC Likes: 3

Meanwhile the paid version of WINE, Crossover, is stuck in the version 2.8 :><:

Steam revamps profile privacy settings, Steam Spy no longer able to operate
13 Apr 2018 at 12:02 am UTC Likes: 1

The good thing is that the Steam Hardware Survey [External Link] is back online..

If You go to DirectX [External Link], there is an empty list of VULKAN SYSTEMS (LINUX OR POST-XP WINDOWS WITH VULKAN GPU)..

Steam revamps profile privacy settings, Steam Spy no longer able to operate
12 Apr 2018 at 4:31 pm UTC

Interesting article related to this topic at GameIndustry.biz [External Link]

And an interview to the creator of SteamSpy [External Link] about this.

Steam revamps profile privacy settings, Steam Spy no longer able to operate
11 Apr 2018 at 11:59 pm UTC

Quoting: vestaby
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThis is bad...
Quite opposite, GDPR is being enforced next month. The two-year transition period is finally over, May 25 is the date businesses are required to be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation [External Link].

If some services made themselves dependent on harvesting user data without clearly asking the individual users for consent, it's their own fault if the skies are coming falling down on them. Dirty business practices deserves no sympathy and they've had their time to fix their problems.
Privacy isn't dead as some believe, it's just getting started, with GDPR we are starting to recovering from the plague of violations and fight for the rights citizens should have had from the very beginning.
I am Argentinian, so I don't care about that GDPR...
I do care about the complete lack of statistics; even though (for now) the Steam STATS [External Link] is online, The Steam HWSURVEY [External Link] is unavailable..

With no one who can check all the market info that Valve release to the public, We can not know if They are telling the truth or if They are lying...

Steam revamps profile privacy settings, Steam Spy no longer able to operate
11 Apr 2018 at 3:20 pm UTC Likes: 2

This is bad... Specially when you are a new publisher and you need to know the total number of steam users...

Thanks to SteamSpy We know there are more or less 290 million steam users...

SteamSpy added transparency to the very limited info provided by Valve...

Indeed http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey [External Link] doesn't work anymore..
When a company add a veil of darkness to the info that was public few days ago, is because something really bad must be going on.

Feral Interactive to show off Rise of the Tomb Raider on Linux next week live on Twitch
11 Apr 2018 at 12:33 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: sbolokanovBummer, folks.

I got the following answer:
If you're wondering who to request GOG releases etc. from, you can certainly put your requests to us and we'll listen. However, GOG isn't viable for us at the moment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/8axa70/rise_of_the_tomb_raider_coming_to_linux_this_month/dx49t3m/ [External Link]
I wonder what they mean by "not viable"?
I guess that is because GOG's userbase is small...
We know that, according to SteamSpy, the steam user base is about 290.000.000.... meanwhile the GOG user base is unknown bacause CDProjekt refuses to release that info...

Or maybe is because Feral ( like most publishers) just don't like the idea of gamers owning the games they legally bought..

Feral Interactive have released an open source tool that’ll help get the most performance out of Linux games
10 Apr 2018 at 6:25 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ShmerlThey were asked multiple times, why they never worked on games that aren't Steam exclusives, but Feral never gave any sensible answer.

Actually, they gave an answer to sbolokanov:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/feral-interactive-to-show-off-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-on-linux-next-week-live-on-twitch.11543/comment_id=118863

Feral Interactive have released an open source tool that’ll help get the most performance out of Linux games
10 Apr 2018 at 3:19 pm UTC

Is there a version for Ubuntu?
I wonder why there isn't an overclocking tool for the GPU like the ones available for Windows.