A Linux version with separated server/s will wither an die IMO. No point in maintaining it I believe.

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About the Linux'port of SOTTR, there was an update few days ago on their "domesticated" branches. Not sure what that means, just saying.

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"Demoniac", that was Penguin Recordings playing :)

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: dubigrasuI think the future gaming will be predominantly like this, and local stored games will be a thing of the past.
I think we're dinosaurs and we don't know it yet.

Well, that's more or less my point. There doesn't seem to be a compelling use-case for game streaming, so the question remains, why would it succeed? Literally everyone goes "It will replace traditional gaming!", yet nobody could ever explain to me why people would even prefer it over locally installed games. It's pretty much like a few years back a lot of people went "VR will take over gaming!!!", which made me giggle in a similar way, because I failed to understand why it would become anything but the niche product it actually became.

Well, convenience I suppose.
I personally never thought (not many years ago) that I will prefer watching movies and listening music online, yet, despite my rather extensive physical collection of music and films, now I couldn't care less about it, because convenience.
And (while I try to resist to it) I can see myself few years from now playing through streaming because of the same reason.

Edit: Oh, and another thing about what you said about VR vs Streaming. Is definitely not the same thing.
VR doesn't make gaming easier, if anything it makes it more cumbersome and harder, you need a proper place and very expensive equipment, that's not a small feat for the user's wallet and again, convenience.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI do understand streaming music and videos. I don't understand streaming games. In contrast to music and movies, people generally play only a very small selection of games at the same time, so having access to a huge library has not a lot of appeal in the case of games.
Also, hardcore gamers don't care about spending money for a good machine, while they DO care about any sort of FPS drops or ping lag, either of which is unavoidable when streaming. On the other hand, casual gamers don't need to stream either, because their office PC or standard gaming console can run their handful of no-so performance hungry games well enough, and doing so is considerably cheaper in the long run than paying a Stadia sub.

I don't get it, I just don't. It's a bigger hype than Star Citizen, but call me unconvinced that it will succeed.

I don't know if Stadia will succeed, or if Sony/Microsoft/whatever equivalent will do. Maybe is not gonna be one of these, but some other future service not born yet.
But whether we like it or not (I'm not actually) I think the future gaming will be predominantly like this, and local stored games will be a thing of the past.
I think we're dinosaurs and we don't know it yet.

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While I'm aware about the arguments people have against Stadia, I'm also extremely curious to see it in action.
At least for me the tech behind it (Linux/Debian/Vulkan) makes it fascinating.
AFAIK there's gonna be a "free" version of it (still need to buy the games) so there's no excuse for me to not try it, at least once.

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Maybe (SUPER) it was some kind of a in-house joke that got stuck and eventually promoted to official.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: dubigrasuI'd very much prefer to have them keep the left trackpad, since is much more usefull than a simple dpad.

Don't get me wrong, the left trackpad is doing the job. It's just that it gives a weird d-pad feeling. I was just wondering if there are situations where the left trackpad is used for something else than a d-pad.

It is a bad dpad for sure, seems to be an agreement about this. I'm guessing that if someone is heavily into platformers, he's totally not gonna like the Steam Controller, no matter how useful is the left trackpad.
But I think that overall the left trackpad redeems itself through its multiple uses.

Here's a video showing some things you can do with it. Granted, many configuration options he's talking about can be applied now to a lot of classic controllers. When the Steam Controller was released it had a definite edge over a regular controller because of its unique configuration options, but now thanks to Valve's support you can apply that to any controller. Sure, some left trackpad options can be somewhat applied to a regular dpad, since they overlap a bit, but in practice and in the actual gameplay, the trackpad takes the cake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9hcntkvKX8 [External Link]

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Is not the price or the software (you can use the same software on almost any controller). What makes the Steam Controller different is obviously the trackpads.

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I'd very much prefer to have them keep the left trackpad, since is much more usefull than a simple dpad.

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