Quoting: ImantsDoes DRM really prevents games from pirating? Or it just helps them not to be pirated after 5 hours or so but little bit longer?

It depends on the DRM. Some of it is a lot harder to crack than others, and sometimes developers put not so obvious "gotchas" in the code -- like making guns in an FPS do a quarter of the damage they're supposed to so that the game becomes impossibly difficult -- but no DRM is perfect. Most publishers only really care about hindering pirates for the first week or so since that's usually when a hot game will put up its best sales numbers, and people will be more likely to buy if they can't simply download for free.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887In my opinion there's the most important thing - Ownership.

Games that require Steam running to play are more of a longtime lease than something you actually own. I buy my games DRM-Free because I can play them anytime and anywhere without depending on any service.

What will you do with all your collected games in ten years when no Linux distro ships the old libs it needs to run?
Sure there are some great games that can be played/replayed many times. But these ones normally get remastered at some point of time.
I personally think it's a waste of time and resources to collect games for longer than "a long time lease".

This is where I fall on this debate: If people are worried about game preservation then the warez community already has us covered. For example, people who still have a working Commodore 64 and stack of floppy disks to play their favorite games from decades ago are likely few and far between, but hundreds of Commodore 64 games are available online and can be played with an emulator. Now I am generally opposed to piracy, so I find it ironic that a vast majority of these classic games would no longer exist if it wasn't for the warez community.

All this is to say that if your "lease" ever runs out on Steam then the games you paid for will still be available in one form or another.

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Quoting: GustyGhostGosh, I haven't bought a Feral game since... Warhammer? And on Warhammer they failed to make the online component cross platform even. I have since cleansed nasty DRM out of my life so bhttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/3262/post_id=15363ye bye Steam. Feral if you want me to buy your games you're going to have to loosen that death grip.

The lack of cross platform multiplayer has nothing to do with DRM and is entirely because of the fact that the Windows version uses proprietary math libraries that are not available for Linux or OSX, and without an identical math library in all versions, you will get sync issues in multiplayer. So blame Creative Assembly for that one.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: JuliusBoth endless ocean games should run fine with the Dolphin Emu on Linux ;)

The challenge in that case is to get Dolphin EMU running.

This is getting a bit off topic, but at least on Ubuntu the Dev. PPA works exellent. In my experience definitly one of the easier Emus to get running :)

I suppose I should look into it just to have an alternative to play my Wii games, but really, it's much easier to simply fire up my Wii U and play my Endless Ocean games that way.

Still, this game looks fantastic. I like that it's going to include more "gamey" elements like resource management and so on, but I hope it's unrestricted enough to allow for the relaxed, free-form play of Endless Ocean.

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Quoting: JuliusBoth endless ocean games should run fine with the Dolphin Emu on Linux ;)

The challenge in that case is to get Dolphin EMU running.

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The Endless Ocean series on the Nintendo Wii are some of my all-time favorite "casual" exploration games. They're just so relaxing and mesmerizing, and I've been hoping for a long time that someone would bring something similar to the PC. Looks like I might finally get my wish.

Might almost be worth buying a SteamLink so I can play it from my couch on the "big screen".

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Surviving Mars, please.

Now for my joke:

Why is a penguin superior to a monkey?
Penguins can't open windows.

OK, so it's not a very good joke.

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These random giveaways are why I look through my Steam library every now and then and say, "When the hell did I get this?"

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: shawnsterpAre all these Total War games they keep pumping out actually different? I have a couple but I gotta admit I haven't really gotten around to playing them.

That's what I keep wondering. I have Empire: Total War, and Total War: Warhammer, and they are virtually identical in terms of gameplay.

What? They couldn't be more different as games.

In terms of setting, yes, but in terms of gameplay, there are few significant differences.

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Is the gameplay as good as the graphics? Because those visuals are gorgeous.

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