Quoting: hardpenguinDragon Age: Origins is fully playable with Proton if you would like to start your adventure with the series ☺️.

The last great BioWare RPG before they got bought out by EA and run into the ground.

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My plan is to start using Wayland when X11 is no longer available for my distro. I see no hurry to switch.

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Love the retro 3D graphics, and the price is right.

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Therein lies the problem. Steam Deck Verified is all Valve, it’s nothing to do with the original developers of the games that are being checked.

That's the current state of Linux gaming in a nutshell: it's all on Valve. Other developers haven't jumped on the Linux bandwagon like I had hoped they would after Valve proved it's a viable market.

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Quoting: pbWhich one do you think it is?
1. Corporate cost-cutting
2. Preparing for a future antitrust (look, we're so open!)
3. Actually caring about open standards

Laying the groundwork for a future version of Windows that will be based on Linux?

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The inclusion of LinkedIn is not confusing at all. Many business have active LinkedIn accounts. Granted, it's more a site for making professional connections and may not be of interest to consumers, but it makes sense that Valve would include it.

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Microtransactions and in-game currency basically prey on the same psychology that gets people addicted to gambling by disguising how much money is actually being lost. And just like gambling, you have "whales" who will spend tens of thousands of dollars without it really registering just how much money they're throwing away.

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Quoting: Mountain ManThe short version is that Valve has finally closed an unintended loophole in the Family Sharing feature.

It is closing it, but all I'm saying is that it was very much intended, not unintended.

Steam was ~10 years old when Family Sharing was introduced (and PC gaming in general hadn't been more than a niche until another 10 years before that) and lots of gamers had siblings and friends to share games with, nephews at best, so that's exactly who Valve targeted with that feature.

Now Steam is ~20 years old, their playerbase demographic grew older and has little kids now, so they changed it. Good for them, but 100% intentional.

Seriously, picture 2013 in your mind. Remember, smartphones almost new, burgers cheap, Game of Thrones still in 3rd Season. How many people did you know that were both Steam Gamers and parents? I knew none. Compare that with how many you know now :smile:

I don't know how old you are, but parents with kids have been playing video games for decades.

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Quoting: IrisNebula

Quoting: Mountain ManThe simple fact is that family sharing was always intended for use by people living in the same residence, primarily so that parents could share games with their kids. If your sister is living on her own, then the expectation is that she will buy her own games.

Look, don't get hung up on the name "Family Sharing". Think of it as "local sharing" for a better understanding of the use case.

See the problem is that this isn't true. The new one certainly is primarily so that parents could share games with their kids and is very obvious. But it still fails to cover all families, like Liam's where there are 2 households involved in a kid's life. It's "Houshold Sharing" with a misleading name.

But for the system we had in place for so long, people claiming, like you, that it was always intended only for close families is, I'm guessing, your assumption. Because Valve themselves wrote in their description about the feature that it's made for sharing with your family, guests and friends. That's why there were restrictions like locking an entire library when one game was open, a limit of 10 devices, and needing a local login for every machine you wanted to authorise. And a lot of us had been using it up to this point like this, you visit someone, login, share your library and can keep 2-3 siblings and 2 really good friends on it for example (specifically my use case). And that's now being taken away, so it's valid criticism that we don't like the change.

I understand of course that the changes made are fantastic for parents with 1-2 little kids living in one home, which is a lot of people, so I get why it was done. I still don't like the changes for myself and others, they are restricting a feature we've known and used for 10 years.

The short version is that Valve has finally closed an unintended loophole in the Family Sharing feature.

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The performance improvement was literally just removing Denuvo.

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