"Epic is fixing it" while they have money... But they'll have to start making it at some point. And those extra data centres aren't free. Things like power, storage, transfer, backup, people and hardware redundancy cost a little fortune. That debt will sooner or later have to be paid. By us. So lets not fall in love yet. With any side.

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The world holds on spit and wire. The only reason you sleep well is you don't see it, at least for as long as it works. One day spit runs dry or the wire breaks and suddenly... Everyone's a fucking smart ass.

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Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: cprnDamn it... Whenever I see games starting on Itch and Kickstarter but not on Steam I feel like those are going to end up Epic exclusive.

Fun fact: whenever I see games starting on Steam™ but not on Itch (or even having DRM-free demo) I feel like those are going to end up Valve® exclusive. :whistle:

Well, that's an interesting perspective. Never thought of that. I just assumed people always release on Itch as well because it's cheap. But, yeah, DRM on Itch wouldn't pass.

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Damn it... Whenever I see games starting on Itch and Kickstarter but not on Steam I feel like those are going to end up Epic exclusive.

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Quoting: Hori

Quoting: cprn

Quoting: pbTry going into controller settings and *disabling* "xbox cofiguration support", that usually helps.

Wait... What? Thanks for taking interest and yes, I'll try that when home, but how disabling something that runs only in Big Picture would help in vanilla client?

It's not just for BPM. It alows you to configure the controlloer which can be used by the games with your configuration.
E.g. it can be used to allow you to play games with a PS4, where you normally couldn't.
AFAIK you can even remap the buttons kinda like a Steam Controller.

Yeah, I get the remapping part - did that several times. I didn't know what else it's for. I only own 1x Steam and 4x 360 controller and don't have a game that supports e.g. only PS4 controllers so it didn't "come up naturally". :) Thanks for educating!

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Quoting: x_wing[...] Try deleting the proton prefix for the game.

Yeah, I'm a moron. After few minutes of trying to find the prefix directory and failing greatly I decided to just re-download that 46 gigs, why not, I have fast intertubes, right? So I selected the game, dropped "uninstall" and confirmed without noticing my sticky shift made me select half of the library...

Why is there no "cancel" button while accidentally uninstalling 97 games, Valve!?

Why???

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Quoting: kaimanHave you tried verifying the installation?

Yup. Didn't do anything.

Quoting: kaimanOtherwise, you could look at the DXVK logs in the game directory or enable proton logging [External Link] if those are inconclusive.

The thing is there are no new logs or files changed in the game directory after I try to start it from Steam client or command line. There's nothing. And I have the PROTON_LOG=1 %command% in the game's launch parameters but there's still no steam-379430.log in my $HOME... :(

Actually, I tried with 3.16-9 Beta and it works (didn't have to copy DLLs), game runs (freaking slow, like a half of the performance I used to have, but works) and the log is generated then, complaining about overlay lib not loading (but it still works). After switching back to 4.2-8 it stopped working again.

Edit: You know what? I think it's the prefix installation. When I switch Proton version it runs the installation scripts, installs VC Windows patches and DirectX. But for 4.2-8 it doesn't. How do I force run the installation scripts without removing/redownloading the whole game?

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People seem to miss the point.

• wishlist entries are a valuable insight for developers and publishers


• interested parties just lost some of that insight because Valve made people think they need to remove all entries but top 3


• even when you don't end up buying the game you'll get the memo when it's released / discounted / etc if you have it on your wishlist


• hence, above mentioned parties also lost some of the potential audience for their marketing / advertisement


• even if you don't want to buy the game now, the way marketing works is to convince you to change your mind on a split second you receive an ad


• one of the main rules of marketing is not to play with statistics


• Valve accidentally incentivized playing with the statistical tool


• it's not the first time Valve fucked up by making what looks like a beginner marketing mistake, we all remember Steam machines


• no, many people didn't just remove the games they weren't interested in or reordered their wishlist, a noticable percentage removed everything but 3 positions


• charts show how noticeable that percentage was, enough for some publishers to notice


• we still don't know if the line covering wishlist removals includes wishlist orders


• everything and nothing in marketing works or can be tested because open market is not a closed environment, hence, no scientific proofs are possible


• people like to believe in stuff that can't be proved, it's kind of religion


• somebody at Valve, consciously or not, spat in the faces of the marketing gods

I can't put it more bluntly. People believe a line on a chart raises their sales, hence, an entity that destroys this line will be hated.

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Just to make sure: do those charts take into account the fact each wishlist purchase is a wishlist deletion or do we need to visually calculate difference between the two lines?

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I know how it sounds but I'll wait for Steam release, thank you. Would wishlist it already if I could.

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