Valve are a bunch of gamers who just want to do cool things and make the gaming ecosystem better. They use the Steam Store as a way to give people access to the stuff they are doing.

This has built up a lot of good will between gamers and Valve/Steam.

Amazon/Epic/Google et al are a bunch of corporate suites who want to milk gamers for as much money as possible, and are trying to set up stores to do so, and use those stores to push even more money grabbing ideas from the suites.

They have next to no good will with gamers. In fact, due to their other areas of business, they likely have negative good will, and people fully expect the rug to be pulled out from under them at any point no matter how many free games they give away. See: Amazon Kindle.

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I can organize a refund for you out of pocket.

Out of pocket? I had to check the definition of this to make sure it meant what I thought it meant, and it does - "having lost money in a transaction"

They aren't losing money in this transaction, they are just returning it to the person who gave it to them in return for a Linux version.

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I think that them putting "energy-efficient" in their announcement is a poke at the new nvidia cards. I'm just hoping they also poke fun at nvidia's price and don't try gouge the consumers.

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I wonder if any of the Unity employees who were laid off would consider contributing to Godot as a "f-you" to Unity.

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Quoting: GuestAnticheat is so dumb. It's just like DRM... The only thing that reliable stops cheating is a paywall, but that of course would destroy games like fortnite. The only remotely acceptable anticheat is VAC anyway. That one doesn't need access to your credit card either.

Or my preferred solution - private servers. But then they can't sell you hats.

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Quoting: fenglengshunI'm pretty sure it's already useable with Nvidia, not long after Nvidia released GBM support? It could always be better, of course, but there's problem with Wayland and then there's problems with Nvidia

Last I looked into it there was still a problem with qt5-wayland and GBM, which in turn makes using KDE+Wayland+NVidia an unpleasant experience. It is a Qt5 problem though that the KDE devs are waiting to be fixed upstream.

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Quoting: SamsaiWe know for a fact that the anti-cheat itself won't support Proton. There's no way they will bother to create a kernel module to replace their rootkit, not to mention even if they did the kernel module would become incompatible in no time. The best they can do is either fall back to a higher trust mode or just disable multiplayer while allowing games to start. Or it's just words to get over this particular PR blunder.

In one of the Denuvo PR blurbs defending their actions, they said the software was only done at a kernel level so they can get access to security features offered by the physical CPU. I don't know what features they were referring to, but it could be possible that these same hardware features are accessible to user space on Linux, so it only requires changes to Proton to function. That is a bit of a leap though.

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Quoting: GuestPortal was based on what a modder did (correct me if i am wrong).

Portal was based on a proof of concept called Narbacular Drop, which used the Sketcher Engine, so I don't think it counts as a mod of an existing game, which in turn would mean it wasn't based on what a modder did.

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Quoting: eldakingI think there was one more step [External Link], with Improbable claiming that Unity had explicitly told them they were not in violation and the entire "notified one year ago" was solved.

Anyway, it is certainly an advancement on one front, but proprietary software is still a huge liability.

As for the other companies involved, you know what would be actually cool? If Epic, instead of opportunistically giving money for people to use their (equally proprietary) engine, open sourced Unreal to actually solve the issue. Or if Improbable partnered with Godot instead.

Unreal Engine 4 is already Open Source. Do you maybe not mean change the license to be a more permissive royalty free one?

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Quoting: km3k

At the time we started development, Adobe was strongly supporting Linux

I don't really buy this. When I bought Anodyne in 2013, it was a struggle getting it working on Linux even with the developer and other Linux users being very helpful in the Steam forums. This wasn't a new situation in 2013, so when they launched their kickstarter in 2012, Adobe's support for AIR on Linux was definitely not "strong".

I get that they thought they'd be able to make it work on Linux with AIR, but let's not put all the blame on Adobe. There has never been good Linux support from Adobe.

According to Wikipedia, Adobe AIR dropped support in version 2.7, which was released in June 2011. The Banner Saga launched its Kickstarter in March 2012 and promised Linux support on 6th April 2012, almost a full year after Adobe had already dropped Linux support.

I don't think ANY blame can be put on Adobe. They announced a year before that they no longer supported Linux, it didn't just come out of nowhere.

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