Yes DRM can often hurt sales, but like I was saying, only the online portion may need DRM or at least purchase verification. That is sadly unavoidable.

You must ONLY play single player games or you'd understand the issue with multiplayer cheating/hacking/botting, all of which is unstoppable if no DRM exists.

In saying that, some multiplayer games don't need it, like Outward for example.. Makes no sense. I'd even argue that MechWarrior5 doesn't need DRM!

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Yeah I guess, the problem with DRM is that its CRACKED within 12hrs of release anyway, it really isn't fixing the problem of piracy all that well. Perhaps 12hr window is worth the hassle of DRM nonsense, I dunno? (in particular I'm talking about DRM on single player components of games).

What I would like publishers to do is just setup a ingame sign-up thing when you go online, and have that somehow verify your purchase (key or login to store). I've actually seen some games do that, quite sensible IMO without disturbing those who just want to play single player part of a game.

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Doesn't feral have their own store? isn't that the proper way to get their games for Linux?

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Quoting: Shmerlreleasing on GOG unfortunately.

Some games can't come to GOG due to lack of DRM, have you seen what happens to multiplayer games when there is no drm and anyone can grab a copy and just play online? death is what!

In saying that, some GOG games now have DRM components for their Multiplayer or online features, so those who loved sniffing their own farts will have to think twice about buying games on GOG also :)

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Its a C++ Intermediate language conversion thingo or something.

Anyway once this comes out I might play around with it a bit and test out vulkan support, see why so many developers ignore vulkan when using Unity3d.

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The Linux VRR thing never worked very well for me, always ended up causing flickering and blank screens on my freesync monitor, despite working perfectly under windows10....

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Feral ports have generally worked better then steamplay stuff, performance wise etc so hopefully they keep doing them. I know there will still be those who refuse to support feral, only accepting from developer native releases, but that is the way some of the Linux community is sadly.

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Valve should really fix their adding non-steam game system, it creates broken links and also when you update the shortcut info it will generate another gameID folder, kinda crazy bug.

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I thought they had a full wood finish one coming? guess that was too expensive to do.
I do hope this console does well, would really love to see Atari make a comeback, thought I doubt this is going to be the killer app that does it for them.

EDIT: Apparently it will have a wood finish, interesting, wonder how that will be done.

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tech support hell, lol

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