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Quoting: PsynoKhi0"Playing the game in the first week or two" after release, purchase, or installation?

Most likely purchase, since Valve has to pay the publisher at some point…

Well obviously... The thing that bugs me is that it would mean you'd have to download the game and run it for it to count as a Linux sale. That makes no effin sense.
Can't they just check the client's version that is most used for the account the games are purchased for?

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Quoting: anthNote that this only works with purchases made on Steam itself, and playing the game in the first week or two on another platform will override that.

A couple of questions:
"Made on Steam" being through the client or on the store web page, but not through bundles, correct?
"Playing the game in the first week or two" after release, purchase, or installation?

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Quoting: DamonLinuxPLBuuu AMD drop support for my HD5850 :/ Now I need change my GPU to NVIDIA.

Erm... No and no.

Support for you card has been moved to the FOSS stack. That is much less dramatic as any of those "they dropped support, full stop" posts make it to be.

And with support being moved to the FOSS stack you get even worse performance as Catalyst already offered. Switching to Nvidia is IMHO the only reasonable move.

FWIW, Phoronix has also made some benchmarks and it seems that for certain games the new driver is even slower: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-crimson-linux&num=1 [External Link]

First, performance delta or not, my point still stands. AMD didn't "drop support".
Second, what mirv said.
Third, nvidia's legacy drivers updates are by large limited to kernel/Xorg support. Extremely rare bug fixes, no performance fixes, no new features. And obviously no documentation nor significant code drops to help the Nouveau devs - who BTW lamented that the 900-series were a major pain to work with.
By all means, pick you poison. But recommending nvidia as a cure-all is ludicrous at best.

P.S. I seem to get good at being polite while replying to nvidia PR-type posts... Now if you'll excuse me, my tongue is bleeding profusely from all the biting...

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Quoting: DamonLinuxPLBuuu AMD drop support for my HD5850 :/ Now I need change my GPU to NVIDIA.

Erm... No and no.

Support for you card has been moved to the FOSS stack. That is much less dramatic as any of those "they dropped support, full stop" posts make it to be.

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Quoting: CaldazarFor some reason people didn't quite listen to Gabe Newell when he stated what SteamOS was all about.
Did he claim better driver support? More Games? That DirectX 12 would suck over OpenGL 4?

No! What he claimed he will do is to end walled gardens. A machine and OS you own, meaning you won't get sued if you hack it to build a freaking robot with it. Hotz, anyone?

No, with that you don't make a glorious entrance with fanfare and dancing babes and surely not with exclusives (cursed be their names). You put a foot in the door, being just there, getting better from year to year, version to version. Just waiting for the time to be right, when the likes of Sony or Microsoft screw their customers over yet again.

Your patience is running dry? Think of how you felt when you first had to install Steam to play Half Life or something.
I didn't even get past this point back then.
Look where Steam is now and compare SteamOS entrance to that, then you get the bigger picture.

Those are a couple of points I'd like to see brought up in reviews, but unfortunately consumers seem to have the attention span and the memory of oysters.
Who else than traditional PC gamers have more to win from a viable alternative in the PC gaming space? How many vistas and win8 does there have to be before people realize competition is the best leverage they can use? Did the xbone get rid of the mandatory online+kinect requirements in an act of kindness from redmond?

Every review of a Steam Machine should be one line: "Get one, then send an e-mail to the devs of your favorite, currently unsupported gaming asking for a native port. Bonus points if you mention that performance should similar across hardware vendors."

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You mention the wireless controller for the other pad was still plugged in, however did you use the Steam Controller wired or wireless? I'm curious about the receiver's performance and battery drain.

That's something that has been bugging me for a while: how Steam (never tested Steam OS) tends to be finicky with gamepads when you have more than one plugged in. The first one tends to get picked up at once, but the second needs to be reconfigured everytime, with the first one disconnected.

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Quoting: mr-eggThe situation is almost entirely AMD's own fault.

If you take into account:
- intel barring OEMs from offering Athlon64-based rigs back when the latter slapped the P4 silly, actions made public 10 years after the fact and for which intel got a mere slap on the wrist from the EU
- intel cheating in synthetic benchmarks such as BapCo and Cinebench with seemingly no consequence
- TWIMTBP titles disabling basic graphics options when detecting a Radeon
- nvidia drivers throwing specs out of the window and devs taking a bite because why the hell make an effort and write decent code, $$$ FTW

then it's a PRETTY BIG "almost"...

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1st world problems... Went from "there are too few good commercial games on Linux" to "I'll never empty my wishlist backlog". :D

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Remember the game was retailing for $14 or so at first, they (rather, he) lowered the price not too long ago. That might have deterred some people.

I think I got my copy 1 or 2 days before the price cut :P Not regretting the purchase however, it's a really charming game, with a really neat "retro done right" effect. There's some definitive effort put in that game.

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Quoting: burnallGang beasts crashes after introduction video on my computer. I know it's early access but still.

Change the update channel to "unstable" (ironically enough), you get much more features - such as costumes, new beta arenas, and... well... it works. Also, Gang Beasts is hilarious, must-have party game IMO (same goes for Battleblock Theater, Lethal League, Towerfall: Ascension, and som R'n'R Racing inspired game I can't remember the name of atm)

P.S. Awesome bundle, will wait for the second half however, as I always do, so that I can split my money among all participating devs as I please.

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