This is hardware thought for everyone, not like that VR thing...

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Congrats to Linux users!!

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I need a new FULL AMD PC now.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: TheRiddickI think eventually however Valve will need to make it so Indie developers can pay less on their platform, maybe they can tie it to the release of Source3.0 engine? I don't know...

Most games on Steam are indies. If Valve make things more expensive for the big guys then they'll pull out (rather than, say, EA starting to put their things on Steam again) and the platform suffers. That's why, when they did do a price cut, it was the games that sold lots of copies that benefitted and not the squillions of tiny games.

Let alone that Valve is the only company that allows putting ANY game. TBH more than half of the indie games won't be accepted in other stores because they are just half-done games. I don't see any other store having the half of the game's Steam has just because of the open-door policies of Valve, but TBH if you want to be treated like the big ones, release a game that actually looks complete. Do not mention Cyberbug 2077.

But you think a game like Hades has that sort of worry? It was a good indie game that sold millions on Steam, so they got the lower cut. Valheim too, another amazing indie game, got the cut. Do you want to get a lower cut? do a good game that sells.

But people want indie devs with games with less than 50k copies to get the AAA treatment,lol.

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The lack of malice around here is astounding. This guy just literally dares to present a lawsuit with ZERO evidence and people are just guessing what could be the motivation of this person nobody knew about before this lawsuit.

Valve doesnt need to delay this, doesnt need to put anything on hold, if this lawsuit goes to court it will only show that the whole thing is some trolling just to give to consumers the idea Valve is evil, literally political stuff, "my contender is bad, evil and mean and make other people accept ruthless conditions, but I don't have any proof of it, vote for me".

Personally, I want Valve to be the evil Corp some people around here think it is, and counter-sue this guy and take every single dime from him and take his crappy game out of Steam. He knows what he is dealing with, a company that wants always to look politically correct, that is the reason he didn't sue EA, Epic or Ubisoft, he could be in jail now, because those companies doesnt give a dime about what customers think, just put some game for free and people will completely forget how 5h1tty they are.

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Quoting: WorMzyAside from remakes, Resident Evil hasn't produced a decent game in over 10 years. Not heard much about Village, but I don't have high hopes. Regardless, if it doesn't have native Linux support, I'm not interested.

Capcom is going bankrupt cause you do not care. But the other 99% of Linux gamers will be fine with just clicking play on the game in Steam and able to play without the need of Dual Boot.

Damn Valve and it's 30%(25% in this case, this game will get easily over the million copies sold), they should be getting nothing, so Linux gamers can go into oblivion again. So much arrogance coming from the 3-4% of the market.

I love Linux but some Linux gamers are not conscious they mean nothing to most developers out there.

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One of the oldest selling arguments used in the market is when the salesman or saleswoman tells you if you heard people don't like this or that is because they didn't try it and if they did they didn't try it enough.

Again Liam used it here.
It seems people who don't like pasta are because they haven't eaten enough quantity of pasta.
Or People who don't like Baseball is because they haven't played enough hours.
Or if people do not like this product is because they haven't used it enough.

Despite VR is expensive it is not hard to find a mall or a videogame store without VR devices in an exhibition, so I think maybe, just maybe, people actually tried enough, and even if they like they see it as some sort of device one would be using for a few days then going back to easier to access experiences, not talking about money, but the fact that taking a cellphone/joystick in your hands is WAY EASIER than strapping things to your hands or head.

So maybe people had their VR time and they found it doesn't worth 1000$ plus a good enough PC yet, even if this thing gets as low as 100$, playing on mobile will still be easier. At least in mobile gaming, Linux is the world leader.

The future of gaming? It is already here, it is mobile gaming.

It is a matter of time the converts get bored of preaching this new uncomfortable new belief to get back to their old religion. Happens almost every time.

Have a good day.

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I copy this from their blog, this response is superb and it shows this lawsuit is just an opportunity for some "Saul Goodman" to make a name. This is going nowhere and I feel very sorry for Steam haters.

"Your whole case sits on the following claim:
"But when I asked Valve about this plan, they replied that they would remove Overgrowth from Steam if I allowed it to be sold at a lower price anywhere, even from my own website without Steam keys and without Steam’s DRM"

Can you elaborate on who exactly is this mysterious "they"? In what way did you communicate and with whom? Why is this vital information missing from the lawsuit?

I'm asking this because when communicating with in the past, I got the exact opposite response - that their parity terms only apply to 3rd party sales distributing their Steamworks keys, and that's reasonable because they don't charge commission for them.

This is also what the Steam distribution agreement itself specifies, and what countless other real-life cases demonstrate (Indie Gala transitioned to DRM-free giveaways of games that are also available on Steam a for a few years now). So to me, it sounds like you either misunderstood the answer you got, "they" misunderstood your question, or you spoke with someone on no actual authority to tell you that."

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Rosen believes that Valve is "taking away gamers' freedom to choose how much extra they are willing to pay to use their platform" and that it's believed "this is part of why all competing stores have failed".

Epic has EXCLUSIVE games that aren't on Steam, still 60$ on release. Remember the last Hitman game?

So Steam is not stopping EXCLUSIVE Epic games to be a lower price, still full game prices tag.

Good luck.

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Two supermarkets in a town, one big and one small.

A tomato producer supplies both supermarkets. Also, the producer sells the tomatoes on the farm.

The big supermarket tells the producer he/she will be the main provider of tomatoes as the producer won't sell the tomatoes at a smaller price anywhere else including the farm.

So a bunch of options.
If you want to keep selling your tomatoes in the big one but lower the price, lower it everywhere, the small and your farm included.
If you want to lower the price in the small supermarket just take it out from the big. If your tomatoes are good enough people will driving to the small supermarket or even your farm, or the producer can hire a delivery service to get the tomatoes to people's door.

The blog is pretty much demagogy, "dear gamers" what? what this has to do with us? Are we getting being kinda forced to choose price over service? What if the small supermarket does not have returning policies? What if the tomatoes on the farm don't have quality assurance, and to return a product I need to drive all the way back again? What if the farmer does not allow other tomatoes consumer to speak with each other about the tomato's quality? Or if he picked the bad tomatoes to be on the top so they are the first picked.

Steam wasn't just a thing that born from anywhere, before Steam game developers sold their games in their websites, and they didn't allow bad reviews or honest opinions, neither accepted returns.

They want to sell it lower in other stores? Guess who is the BIG WINNER here? EPIC selling Steam games at a lower price than Steam. XD

DEMAGOGY...

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