Quoting: KimyrielleSo gamers spend hundreds of dollars on multi-GPU rigs just to squeeze a few extra frames out of their games - and people now expect them to tolerate completely unnecessary and completely unavoidable lag in their games, and dedicate a big portion of their bandwith to streaming a game they could play in much better quality locally? Apparently gamers don't mind spending money on hardware, otherwise they wouldn't do it.

On the other end of the spectrum, casual games run on the same low-end machines you'd still need to stream games on anyway.

I don't even get who game streaming is targeted at. It seems to make zero sense for all possible audiences.

If you have a gaming machine under your desktop, nobody expects you to buy all your game on Stadia. Stadia isn't targeted at people who have their own expensive gaming rig. Stadia is targeted at all the people who like to get into gaming without paying big money upfront just for the possibility to buy a game. There are countless people in China or India who fall into this category. Google mentioned a potential of 2 billion customers.

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Quoting: eldakingAndroid runs on a Linux kernel, but not only is it incompatible with GNU/Linux but they have moved as much as they could into their own proprietary app suite to make it harder to distribute a non-Google version.

As far as I know, you can install GNU utils on your Android device. Android has it's own DE and uses a lot of stuff that is not common on desktop installs, but that doesn't mean that the kernel is not compatible. Non-Google versions do exist in many variations. You can't install software that depends on Google Services, though. But that's up to the developer of the software.

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Quoting: ajgpI dont have enough free time to make a subscription gaming service worth it. My hope is that this will drive some more Linux Ports, or at the very least push Vulkan adoption so I can use Proton/Wine.

I really wish subscriptions services wouldn't be so fixed on monthly prices. What about daily? Or hourly? Even minutes are easy to do. Just pay for whatever you actually play and make fair prices. Why not making certain games €1/hour and some games €0.1/hour. That would be a story intensive short experience and a monster-grinder respectively.

There are so many options, yet the industry is fixed on monthly prices.

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I've not played Stellaris for very long, about 40 hours. (Which is not that long for 4x games...)

To me, those 5 bullet points sound like additional anomalies/special projects, which consist of a few short text screens, a small image and a 3d model. Is that about right?

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I wonder when the first PS4 emulators will show up. As the PS4 (and the XBox One) is pretty much 99% a standard computer, it shouldn't be too hard to pull that off. At least there would be very little actual hardware emulation needed.

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Quoting: stretch611In general, only a small percentage of people leave reviews.

Thats true because not many people feel the urge to write their experience down so that other can read it. However, many people have a strong motivation to somehow express their frustration with something. I'd say that review-bombing is typically done by people who wouldn't write actual reviews.

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Wow. So many people go nuts about something that can be configured. Steam shows how this should be done so that everyone gets what they want, but some people blindly assume that something has been taken away from them and go nuts. For those people, it doesn't seem to make sense to actually read if their fear is true.

I'm sure there will be people review-bombing Valves games because of that. In their view, they show how right they are about their behavior. In my view, they show that this configurable feature is needed.

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Quoting: MalThat shouldn't even be explained. When someone decides for you what you are entitled to express your opinion on, that someone is free to shit on you.

This is not what happens. You are still able to review-bomb however you like, it's just being flagged like that. Other users are still able to see and read your review and your opinion just fine. It's just the overall score that has some new rules for calculation, and even that is configurable.

For example, you liked a game and gave it a good review. But a different new game from the same publisher has some kind of issue in your view, and you are really mad about it. You go and change your review of a different game from a different developer in order to express your disdain for the publisher.

That's one example for review bombing. For me, that is abusing a tool in a way that it never was intended for. Of course, I understand the frustration of the lack of a tool for that. If you ask me, Valve should implement ratings for developers and publishers. That way, people can express their views on these entities.

Quoting: MalBut in 2019 claiming that software is just a bunch of binaries and that everything around it from support, publisher policies, associated media, distribution platforms, pricing, DRMs, EULA and so on are totally unrelated to the product, have 0 effect on customer experience and thus must not be subject to end user review... frankly speaking: it's bullshit.

It's not that there is never a connection between those things. Just as much as there is not always a connection between them. It depends.

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Quoting: MalA sad day for consumers.

Huh? Why?

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Just something I thought to add: They intent to improve the general render engine as a goal for Godot 4, and they want to implement Vulkan. It's two good things planned for the same release, though they don't depend on each other. OpenGL and OpenGL ES will still be available, and those will also benefit from the improved render engine.

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