Just imagine saving your company in millions of dollars in licenses? It so easy to jump into the "Open Software wagon" once this software has the quality of a paid software, so what Epic and Ubisoft did wasnt some altruism towards "Open Software" is a way to save them millions of dollars in buying licenses, hiring developers and research technologies.
Wonder how for Tim Scammey Open Software is something cool but Open OSes arent that cool.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80wait do people play danger zone i thought it was a ghost town online

What makes you think that aside that you maybe dont like the game or at least this mode of the game?
It is as easy as press Join and youll find yourself in a match in 2 minutes or less, if you dont live in the Antarctica.

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Quoting: kuhpunktI actually think that the people at Valve already do a good job. Scam gets deleted, trash isn't promoted. I've never been recommended actual crap. I'd actually have to go out of my way to search for this stuff. I think most people just overreact here.

Wow, someone in this site that actually lives in 2019, most people just watch old Jimquisition videos and loves to attack Valve with the "too much garbage games on Steam" argument.
Since the "new releases tab" were changed to "new and popular releases" this problem was pretty much resolved, all those games like "Spinner simulator" are only visible if you search specifically for it. Sadly that causes some good jewels to get under the rug, but I dont think these AAA kids actually cares for those games and its developers.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPYou can't showcase a game in six seconds - or if you can, you have a super simplistic game on your hand.

That is pretty much your opinion, I can tell with this six second trailers when a game is not for me. It is up to devs to make the right video.

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Quoting: GuestThe video game market is broken as shit. You have publishers gouging money from gamers everywhere you turn, so people turn to other sources in order to buy games for less. Its been happening for decades. Remember when copied games were sold in the market for a fraction of the retail price?

This argument could work in the 90s, but it is not as easy to steal a physical disk or a cassette than a key.
The problem you explained is already solved, if DLCs and lootboxes annoys you, dont buy those games and get some other games. Even some AAA games are way too cheap on sales.
We are almost at 2020 and we have stores with local currencies and local payment methods, stop justifying this trash and trying to sound smart about it. G2A is as trash as it users and defenders.

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The inside wars, this will keep just happening until someone big jumps on the scene and make some distro easy to adopt for the people who want to switch. Then everyone else should have to adapt to this distro or just fade away into oblivion.

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What is a CEO?
They are these greedy guys which job is to cut cost at spending to secure more revenue, to do this, shareholders are offering big cuts from the revenue or some big boost to their salary. Then CEOs becomes those bad guys who order products to be lower quality, take jobs to China or Mexico in order to pay less and fire people making dozens to thousands to lose their jobs. Im glad this 4ssh0l3 is not paradox CEO anymore.
What a CEO want from PC gaming? Going back to those days where local currencies, workshop, local servers and reviews were a mere dream, they hate Valve just gave too much control to the user, they want a barebone store where they have full control of what people is saying of their product. Im not surprised of devs thinking this way, devs hates their own customers, they just see us as open wallets, as some of your claimed Paradox is really known for having overpriced DLCs on their games, they just dont give a damn about you.

Now this idiot claims it cost nothing, still EPIC takes 12% for doing "nothing". Just EGS propaganda based on unchecked facts.

Some first world people around here should burst the first world bubble you live on, Im pretty sure you feel so important you live on Europe, Canada or USA but Steam is a good store for anyone else who live outside of those big walls you put around your country borders, offering currencies and local servers, yeah Steam have a central america servers to offer me steady download and cool online gaming. IM pretty sure most of you doesnt even know where my country is. Enjoy EGS, an elitist store for first world kids.

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Quoting: subBut we're losing momentum.
And it doesn't feel right currently.

A thing most Linux users are ignoring mostly on purpose, but Linux is not going nowhere, until the casual user may use a Linux distro as they do use Windows, with details like right-clicking on an executable file and creating a desktop shortcut or right clicking your desktop and accessing your monitor settings or formatting a Usb drive from the file browser, everything with a single click.

I love my low resource consumption Linux distro but oh, can I recommend it to my family, friends or fellow PC gamers? sadly not. Things that are quite easy to do on Windows, well takes two-three times more time to do on most distros. Not even mention that Snap and Flatpack stores arent by default installed on some distros because the personal preference of the developers. These kind of stores makes life easier with single click installs but it seems Linux developers hates single click things...

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Pretty much agree with the points Swiftpaw has been sharing, my priorities are first buy Linux native games then if I still have money and if there isnt more Linux games on my Wishlist I could buy a Windows game.
But if you buy a Windows game, youll get a Windows game and devs will make more windows games.

Funny how people pretend Proton/Steamplay could be a game changer to make people to switch, first Linux should have a real "desktop" distro as Pierre Lois Griffais said in his twitter. It was pretty stupid that a change on the linux kernel which was only intended to affect the server side of Linux actually broke the Steam app on most linux distros.
Second Linux should be easier to use as desktop, its a pain in the ass to make a shortcut on any Ubuntu distro, a thing that on Windows takes 1 second.
Fix how Linux works as a desktop first then maybe youll be see people switching, before that, Steamplay is not even worthy.

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Quoting: liamdaweHonestly, I think it's crazy how many people turn their noses up at Wine. I've said it before and I will say it again, without Wine letting me play some games on Linux in the early days I simply wouldn't be here today.

I now take what I can, where I can. If I can get a game working on Linux, officially or not and have fun with it that's what matters most. The majority really don't care about the little details, they just want things to work.

Im a Wine user too, but the way you present it is the source of all the problems in the world. "I take what I can where I can", yeah, we are always "picking up the crumbs from the master's table". Its true the majority wants mindlessly to play video games, but if everyone would be thinking like you, Wine should not exist today.

Wine developers doesnt just take things where they can, they create things. They just dont want to play and use things, they make things to work. What you have said is disrespectful to what you are supposed to defend.

And the fact your comment got 36 likes, well, I dont know what Im doing here. The reason I get from people who uses Windows is the same you are using, they want things to work. As a Linux users we should be straight with the fact we always have to do the extra mile. So you only wants things to work? Why the ... are you using Linux?

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Quoting: kneekooMaybe some people don't know or have forgotten that Valve was bad-mouthed in the Linux community before they worked on a Linux client.

Any source of this, because I dont recall anyone on Valve saying "Linux is not good". Now not even Epic is being bad with Linux, they just dont care.

Quoting: kneekooThere's no excuse/defense in my earlier post. EPIC, Valve, GOG, all have shady anti-consumer practices - yes, even GOG. They all do it for money...

Those people there steal, so I steal, those people there murder so I am a murder, these kind of arguments are just too old.

Quoting: kneekooEvery business wants our money - it's the purpose of their existence.

Even in this era of radical capitalism, some companies respect the environment, some pay good money to their employees and left them go to home at 5:00PM, it seems that you rely on your "everyone else do it, so" argument, to justify how shitty Epic is.

Quoting: kneekooI don't put faith in businesses. I look at them pragmatically, and try to get the best from them, just as they want from us. It's only fair.

Pragmatism is not a word that describes you. I dont know why you almost write a wall of text when you could only resume your reasoning in the old argument that "one just have to follow the trend, the status quo"
There are people who goes according the status(you) and others who try to change it with little things as not installing or buying games from companies like Epic. Maybe things will not change today, but it will change eventually, if companies are as shit as you say, I try my best to keep my participation at a minimum level. The worst thing I can do is installing another shitty launcher and store and the reason why Liam is trying to shove Epic through our throats beats me but Im not installing this and when Valve or Gog or anyone else does shitty things, I go to their social media and tell them directly, not wasting time playing the pragmatic guy who thinks everything is shit and nothing can be done about it.

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