Though imho Riot (League of Legends) approach on the matter is less clamorous but more enlightened.

Instead of putting all the money in a single prize they use it to finance different leagues and tournament in many continents thus allowing a wider and healthier professional scene.

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Though for Fortnite it kind of makes sense I guess since it's more like gambling than a sport.

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Modern Soccer is based on an English mod of an old Greek ball game. Lucky them at the time they didn't invent copyright yet!

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Nevermind. I think MS patched the controllers. So the link moved to modern drivers by default. But I'm on the penguin and my controllers do not auto update. They still run the old driver. There was actually a new entry in system menu to switch the link back to classic drivers and that fixed it. :P

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Quoting: dude

Quoting: MalVery OT question. My 2 xbone s controllers stopped to work with steam link last week. They pair with BT just fine but then whatever key I press nothing happens. Forget and re pair doesn't help. I didn't have the time to troubleshot the issue seriously but it doesn't hurt to ask if anyone else had this issue too.

Try installing xpadneo.
It solved all my problems with wireless xbone pads.

My issue is between the controller and the steam link itself. I can't even navigate steam link menu.

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Very OT question. My 2 xbone s controllers stopped to work with steam link last week. They pair with BT just fine but then whatever key I press nothing happens. Forget and re pair doesn't help. I didn't have the time to troubleshot the issue seriously but it doesn't hurt to ask if anyone else had this issue too.

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Quoting: johndoe

Quoting: Purple Library GuyYou are telling everyone how to act--in a nutshell, that none of us should criticize public figures in general or Tim Sweeney in particular. And in a rather pushy way, tending to approach the hot-under-the-collar, although you're not getting personal. This seems preachy. I don't know about anyone else here, but personally, it gets my back up some.

Maybe this is because I'm older than the most people here and think differently.
I for my part want EGS for Linux - you not?

Heh... the small scope yes/no question trap. To make people lose sight of the big picture.

What I (and most of us here I think) want in general as users/consumers is not being manipulated or straight out coerced. We are especially in love with freedom.

In that regard yes: having EGS on linux is part of what I want. It gives me more choice.

Though I hope I don't have to explain with another textwall how the additional choice power derived from having EGS on linux would be overwhelmingly overshadowed by the despicable anti consumer practices Epic is actuating with it. In the big picture it would still result in a net loss of freedom.

So in the unlikely event that this happens, I'll definitely boycott it.

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Quoting: johndoeAgain some people here are bashing against someone they DON'T KNOW.
Is Tim Sweeney someones uncle etc. here??? I don't think so.

Even his tweets might not be from himself.

People always tend (ME included) to interpret things into something that wasn't said.
I mean... when someone says his favourite color is PINK, it does not immediately mean he/she is gay.
It "might" be so, but you "really" don't know.

Yes, Tim Sweeney made "exclusive" deals with developers/publishers and what now? Did he force them to do it? NO. So, is he evil? No.

Saying bullshit about someone you don't know because it does't make you comfortable is a waste of time and leads only to another game client which will never be released for Linux - thank you.

Instead we should at least try to convince people to support us and not whinge around.

Man... he's a public person releasing public statements and running a company making very public disruptive actions that have very real impact on our hobby. Ofc we interpret and give a judgement on what he's saying. Especially against what he's actually doing.

He can complain as much as he wants about the suspicious, inquisitive, sometimes paranoid nature of the average linux user out there (it's part of that serie of tweets, but Liam left it out to not prompt an obvious flamefest I guess). We have a brain and we use it. Being part of a community that looks beyond press statements and vague tweet promises is a strength. Being resistant to manipulation and PR brainwashing is not a weakness.

Facts are that today he's making PC gaming worse. Now. It's visible and we feel it. He claims that it's a worth sacrifice for a better future. Fine. Which better future? For who? When? How? Apart from the jingle that "competition is always good" and "steam makes often more money than devs" (both very true statements yet small and incomplete fragments of today's gaming big picture) he has never provided a real, practical, concrete or even credible scenario of how this will benefit users. And actual developers. Some guarantees? Some facts? Today we only see how his cartel is benefiting big publishers and occasionally some known indie with a successful kickstarter campaign at their back (congrats to them, I understand. Good luck with the next kickstarter campaign though). The vast majority of unknown indie devs are barred out EGS "selected catalog" eden. While devs already with a publisher contract have already negotiated their compensation and have 0 power on those additional revenues EGS offers. And remember that big publishers have never been so profitable as they are today for their shareholders. Yet games are designed over micro transactions, gambling and it looks that in near future even non skip-able commercials rather than user experience. While actual devs are always expected to crunch. And sometimes get paid for it, sometimes not and sometimes they become redundant after release. It doesn't exactly make me positive that more moeny to publishers translates to happier devs and better games and better gaming services. So can he explain exactly how in practice his actions will compensate in the future all the damage they are doing now? Nobody see the future I know. But he as a CEO has a vision. He should be able to transmit it to us. I mean the non obvious part. The obvious one (more revenues for big pubs shareholders) it's pretty darn obvious.

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Quoting: GuestHe usually talks a sensible talk, but rarely walks a sensible walk.

Nah he just builds his lies by adding some dust of truth into the poisonous concoction. It's the basics of lying really. Yet it requires some innate talent to do it effectively.

In reality you do whatever it takes to reach your goal without caring about anything but your interests. Then however you can always tell a story where you do what you do for the greater good. The 2 thumb rules are ignoring certain hard to defend arguments (like exclusives not allowing actual competition, or publishers already doing record margins by extreme monetization practices at the expense of gamers and developers, or the real service quality of his launcher) and instead focusing on others that you can retell to support a story that makes you the hero (like the revenue split thing for indie developers, or the Steam supposedly being a monopoly, or competition is always good). By ignoring the arguments that are indefensible you don't legitimize them and you also reduce their visibility. Instead by focusing on the arguments that you can use in a positive narration you help those emerge as they are retweeted and cited in the press articles. As long as you drive the narration and don't allow indefensible facts to be part of it you can drive it wherever you want.

In real live interviews breaking this frame and forcing the real facts back into a story not build for them is what ballsy journalists do. And typically the interviewed either continues to ignore the facts, miserably fails to make them part of his story in a convincingly way or leaves with some excuse which is probably the smartest thing to do. But in the age of Twitter is all to easy to cultivate your story. Sweeney will never reply to tweets that he can't retell in a positive way. And by concentrating only on those we slowly lose sight of truth.

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Quoting: fagnerlnI like the idea of Tim talking about Linux, maybe we will receive a native port of Fortnite sometime

? Read his lines again. What he means is that if the Wine guys figure out how to run Fortnite on wine, he has no issues starting to sell it on linux too (with wine)

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QuoteDoes this mean ever game developer has an obligation to release their game on every store? No, it’s their creative work, and they have a right to choose how to distribute it. That includes the right to negotiate store terms and reject stores that don’t pay them adequately.

I certainly agree on this principle. But I still oppose with all my strength in my body and soul to exclusive deals. They do not bring good period. Had those publishers decided not to go on any store that offers them at least X for every copy sold I would accept with any reserve their choice. That's competition and it works.

When instead an external force takes money from other markets to bribe sellers into joining their cartel it's not competition, it brings nothing good to the market and the consumers. If I were the one running Steam I would never reduce my fees even if I could afford it simply because with epic exclusives nothing will change on my side. I could even give devs 100% of the sales, still exclusive deals would keep away publishers from my platform. And this doesn't even account all the damages to customers. If we were talking about financial products instead of videogames, having all bigger dealers joining together in a cartel would be forbidden by the law.

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