Quoting: Eike

Quoting: 14Are you used to seeing a final price before you put stuff in your cart? In the U.S., tax gets added to Steam purchases during checkout. Actually, sales tax gets added to a lot of online retailers now. It became law in my State not that long ago if I remember correctly.

At least in Germany, it's law that consumers have to be shown full price including VAT from the beginning (online as offline). (And that online retailers have to pay them, too, which seems obvious to me). The tax part of the price is shown explicitly in the end on Steam.

Ah. Yeah, we don't have that. That would be kinda nice, especially for things that get higher up in price like $60, $200, $500, etc.

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I dread updating Proton because I'm afraid that it will make me download DoS II again. I have a backup, but it takes a lot of time to extract... can always start the process and walk away I guess. Just annoying. We'll see!

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I'm glad this was posted because my Windows gaming buddy just talked about No Man's Sky a couple of days ago and mentioned how much it has changed, and that it was fun now. He also said that there was decent cooperative play as well. That made me think, "Huh, I wonder if that runs in Wine or Proton... probably not." And I never checked. It's nice to hear that it does indeed work in Proton. I am still preferring GoG + Wine for the very few Windows titles I play, but it's nice to know there's an easy Steam option.

Will I pick it up? Well, probably not soon. My buddy and I are already trying to complete Dungeons 3 and Torchlight II before we get Division 2 on PS4. After that, perhaps.

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I never played the Doom games. I did play a tiny bit of the really old Wolfenstein on my uncle's computer when I was a kid. Not sure if I'll get it since I'm mostly into story-based games these days, but the quick movement and action do look fun.

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Quoting: tuubiNote that if you're in the EU at least, $2 is the price without VAT. Due to the way Itch.io and some other smaller stores deal with the whole EU VAT MOSS process, there doesn't seem to be a way to see the final price until a couple of steps into the checkout process. I'd be so much happier if I could just set my country in the preferences and see prices with tax in Itch.io listings and game pages.

I paid 2.48€ in the end.

Are you used to seeing a final price before you put stuff in your cart? In the U.S., tax gets added to Steam purchases during checkout. Actually, sales tax gets added to a lot of online retailers now. It became law in my State not that long ago if I remember correctly.

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I think I need this.

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I really liked Dirt 3 but not really Dirt Rally, so I'm glad to see this coming for us!

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Free? Might as well give it a run.

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Wait, it can activate my discrete GPU? Ooo, I need to try launching KotoR on the laptop this way!

EDIT: Well, I didn't do much of a real test, but KotoR *felt* smoother and a tad prettier. Also, my laptop fans were not as loud. Yay!

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Quoting: 14

Quoting: mylka

Quoting: crt0megaI'd rather have Origin (:sick:) on Linux than this.

they are working on an linux engine
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/eas-experimental-halcyon-game-engine-has-vulkan-and-linux-support.12840
now we know it is surely for stadia, but maybe even origin comes to linux one day

Quoting: CorbenWell, regarding to Sergey Galyonkin's tweet [External Link], they are looking for Linux engineers. In that thread it's about getting Pheonix Point to run on Linux... via proton or wine or whatever.

i think Phoenix Point is the perfect game for stadia. latency isnt that important

Man. Phoenix Point is actually a game that would make me wonder if I should give in and play it via Stadia (if it became possible). I'd probably hold out and not get it during an exclusive period. Hard to say.

i dont know. they droped linux a few month ago, because it was too hard and now they are back on it because google came around?

and of course now they made it epic exclusive.
i like xcom games, but i rather play xcom again, or hard west, or Attack of the Earthlings, or battletech, or, mutant year zero, or even crookz.... than support this

Yeah, I know. I'll even add more games to the list you started: Fell Seal, Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, even Wesnoth. And I do own both Xcom games and Battletech. I definitely don't need Phoenix Point. :)

The pricing model and usage policy of Stadia will probably have the biggest effect on whether I take a stance on principle... and how much more of the exclusivity garbage continues.

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