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You can now easily run the Epic Store on Linux with Lutris, Epic suggests applying for a grant
26 Apr 2019 at 1:46 pm UTC Likes: 1
When people that refuse to install their client adds up they'll notice. And it's good they do. The sooner they realize we won't yield the sooner they'll stop being a cancer and adopt a model that is functional to the PC gaming industry. Valve is private company. I dunno what kind of cash reserves they have but assuming they have decent reserves they can fight an attrition war better than Epic. Only that for as long as this nonsense goes on there will be repercussions on the financing of their side projects like VR, linux, proton and so on. Especially since they are already dealing with the Artifact fiasco. And that is bad for all PC gaming since Epic is not compensating with its own PC focused initiatives and, as far as they let us know, they have no intention to ever compensate. For them PC is just one platform like another, they just started their world conquest quest from here because being open makes it more vulnerable to market manipulation. Their short and long term strategy is purely to pass bigger revenues to publishers by sacrificing gamers and with no strings to ensure that part of these revenues publishers get go to actual developers (actually recent news looks like Epic has an issue with its own developers). But PC gaming has a die hard number of informed trend setters and influencers. And there is and there will always be resistance.
Most gamers don't see it and stop at Sweeney proclaims of being the savior of the industry, but Epic is actually charging part of the costs of their attrition war on to them (when they do not absorb transaction costs and offer nearly 0 features that require some kind of cloud maintenance cost). Given how much money Epic has it's unlikely that Valve won't be forced to cut something itself in the medium long run. Which means that in the next years PC will lose competitivity to consoles and any other new player (Stadia and such). And I don't want it.
This is a commercial war for PC gaming. I simply want to do my little consumer part to make this madness stop as soon as possible. And I know at Epic they'll notice a little more now that Epic store can not be installed on linux.
26 Apr 2019 at 1:46 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: NeverthelessA nice way to put it! The only downside is: voting with wallets means only "yes" votes will be counted. This way one of the most frequent arguments in favor of the Epic Shop (including exclusive deals) is: "I don't care!".I don't think so. CEOs do have an idea of the market size. Epic can't have precise numbers of how many people are boycotting them but they do have an idea of how much of the market they have penetrated with their exclusives. Remember when they were caught browsing in steam files and uploading the content? They don't sell your friend list to Chinese government but they do get an idea of the size and kind of people with one client or another or both of them and their network.
When people that refuse to install their client adds up they'll notice. And it's good they do. The sooner they realize we won't yield the sooner they'll stop being a cancer and adopt a model that is functional to the PC gaming industry. Valve is private company. I dunno what kind of cash reserves they have but assuming they have decent reserves they can fight an attrition war better than Epic. Only that for as long as this nonsense goes on there will be repercussions on the financing of their side projects like VR, linux, proton and so on. Especially since they are already dealing with the Artifact fiasco. And that is bad for all PC gaming since Epic is not compensating with its own PC focused initiatives and, as far as they let us know, they have no intention to ever compensate. For them PC is just one platform like another, they just started their world conquest quest from here because being open makes it more vulnerable to market manipulation. Their short and long term strategy is purely to pass bigger revenues to publishers by sacrificing gamers and with no strings to ensure that part of these revenues publishers get go to actual developers (actually recent news looks like Epic has an issue with its own developers). But PC gaming has a die hard number of informed trend setters and influencers. And there is and there will always be resistance.
Most gamers don't see it and stop at Sweeney proclaims of being the savior of the industry, but Epic is actually charging part of the costs of their attrition war on to them (when they do not absorb transaction costs and offer nearly 0 features that require some kind of cloud maintenance cost). Given how much money Epic has it's unlikely that Valve won't be forced to cut something itself in the medium long run. Which means that in the next years PC will lose competitivity to consoles and any other new player (Stadia and such). And I don't want it.
This is a commercial war for PC gaming. I simply want to do my little consumer part to make this madness stop as soon as possible. And I know at Epic they'll notice a little more now that Epic store can not be installed on linux.
You can now easily run the Epic Store on Linux with Lutris, Epic suggests applying for a grant
25 Apr 2019 at 10:39 am UTC Likes: 4
25 Apr 2019 at 10:39 am UTC Likes: 4
Thank you lutris guys to give me the possibility to not install Epic Game Store client.
Mr Sweeney took away my ability to vote with my wallet by taking away the games he bought from the penguin, but now you gave it me back. And I choose to not support his anti consumer and anti pc gaming initiative.
Mr Sweeney took away my ability to vote with my wallet by taking away the games he bought from the penguin, but now you gave it me back. And I choose to not support his anti consumer and anti pc gaming initiative.
Aspyr Media confirm the free "Ultra HD" DLC for Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel is coming to Linux
5 Apr 2019 at 11:32 am UTC Likes: 3
5 Apr 2019 at 11:32 am UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: HopfenmeisterPetition: While the "PC-Version" of Borderlands 3 is an EPIC-exclusive, release only the Linux-Version on Steam.That goes against the whole exclusivity strategy. The idea is to destroy the alternatives and take you prisoner. If you allow for an escape route instead of taking prisoners you're just making people flee that way.
Aspyr Media confirm the free "Ultra HD" DLC for Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel is coming to Linux
5 Apr 2019 at 11:27 am UTC Likes: 1
5 Apr 2019 at 11:27 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: FireBurnOh. Right. My bad. This proton thing makes me confuse on what is native and what is not when it comes to old titles.Quoting: MalThere's only Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel native on Linux atmQuoting: FireBurnI really hope they release a remastered Borderlands 1? This one is already released. And free even, if you got Borderlands classic on steam at least.
Aspyr Media confirm the free "Ultra HD" DLC for Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel is coming to Linux
5 Apr 2019 at 9:32 am UTC Likes: 2
5 Apr 2019 at 9:32 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: BielFPsNice news. Unfortunately since Borderlands 3 will be Epic Store exclusive, I have almost no hope about having a linux version (with is bad since I'm a big fan of the Borderlands series)One CEO makes hole in the wall, another one appears to build another wall behind the wall. The road to freedom is long tortuous.
Aspyr Media confirm the free "Ultra HD" DLC for Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel is coming to Linux
5 Apr 2019 at 9:27 am UTC
5 Apr 2019 at 9:27 am UTC
Quoting: FireBurnI really hope they release a remastered Borderlands 1? This one is already released. And free even, if you got Borderlands classic on steam at least.
Steam Play was updated again with Proton 4.2-2
4 Apr 2019 at 11:07 am UTC
It's a shame actually apart form the cutscenes the game works flawless.
4 Apr 2019 at 11:07 am UTC
Quoting: TorqachuI hope one day they resolve problem with CEG (warhammer 40000: space marine) and the FMV in darksiders warmastered edition.It doesn't unfortunately, I tried yesterday. Cutscenes are still skipped. Though there is a report on warmastered proton page where a guy claims it was able to see them with a fix.
So only the vanilla version of Darksiders and Darksiders 2 would be missing to have my entire collection of steam running in proton.
But with warmastered and deathinitive edition this is a minor problem.
It's a shame actually apart form the cutscenes the game works flawless.
Valve have put out a new Steam Client Beta, it's small but good for Steam Play users
29 Mar 2019 at 1:14 pm UTC Likes: 2
29 Mar 2019 at 1:14 pm UTC Likes: 2
Nice thing for the invisible cursor.
Though this remembers me how annoying is when you play games in big picture mode with controller and the cursor sits there in the middle of the screen. (more so if you steam link and pc is in another room). Ofc it's not a Steam issue, it's a game issue. But maybe is there was an option to launch game in big picture mode and "default" the cursor on bottom dx this could be worked around.
Though this remembers me how annoying is when you play games in big picture mode with controller and the cursor sits there in the middle of the screen. (more so if you steam link and pc is in another room). Ofc it's not a Steam issue, it's a game issue. But maybe is there was an option to launch game in big picture mode and "default" the cursor on bottom dx this could be worked around.
Epic Games new 'Epic Online Services' will support Linux and it's free for developers to use
24 Mar 2019 at 9:47 pm UTC Likes: 1
In the past music streaming services battled each other with exclusives and other anti consumer practices. Pirate bay forced them to be more reasonable with their plans and now you can choose Amazon, Google, Spotify, Apple and so on for their service, not for their catalog, all at a reasonable price.
Video streaming started all right. But now that greedy video makers try to eat the streamers slice, the market is about to learn the same lesson. It's already starting to be rather annoying.
The battle of the launchers as it is called the Epic/Steam conflict doesn't much differs from the above. In the end the market will settle to a balance were everybody is happy.
But Game streaming? If developers stop to even release desktop versions there will never be a version to pirate in the first place. Then the shit that Epic store is pouring on us today will look like an utopia. Guys like Sweeney and the likes will be free to charge you as many monthly fees as they like. Then you will either start a mortgage to access all the games you like or will need to choose every month what you will like to play. Which for me it sucks: when I want to play, I know what I want to play in that moment, not one month before. Not to mention that in the world of curated shops/cloud services little gems like Undertale, Stardew Valley, Factorio and so on would never have a chance to even exist. Which means worse games to play overall.
Ofc that's just the worst case scenario. The best one is that it ends like for music. We get all the games in the world, at reasonable price and with many streaming providers to choose from. But for me, the kind of person I am, I will stop gaming entirely if the worse case scenario is what is coming. But since I feel that I can't really do do anything to stop it, I will just live by the moment and enjoy my Steam library for a few hours before another Sunday ends and a work Monday begins. :)
24 Mar 2019 at 9:47 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: sneakeyboardI'm sure the streaming service will be its own headline, so I'll just keep it short and say that this is the start of another market to be heavily influenced by giant corporations' greed.We don't even know how much actually. Cloud gaming has the potential to be either the best thing ever or to the ultimate catastrophe for us gamers.
In the past music streaming services battled each other with exclusives and other anti consumer practices. Pirate bay forced them to be more reasonable with their plans and now you can choose Amazon, Google, Spotify, Apple and so on for their service, not for their catalog, all at a reasonable price.
Video streaming started all right. But now that greedy video makers try to eat the streamers slice, the market is about to learn the same lesson. It's already starting to be rather annoying.
The battle of the launchers as it is called the Epic/Steam conflict doesn't much differs from the above. In the end the market will settle to a balance were everybody is happy.
But Game streaming? If developers stop to even release desktop versions there will never be a version to pirate in the first place. Then the shit that Epic store is pouring on us today will look like an utopia. Guys like Sweeney and the likes will be free to charge you as many monthly fees as they like. Then you will either start a mortgage to access all the games you like or will need to choose every month what you will like to play. Which for me it sucks: when I want to play, I know what I want to play in that moment, not one month before. Not to mention that in the world of curated shops/cloud services little gems like Undertale, Stardew Valley, Factorio and so on would never have a chance to even exist. Which means worse games to play overall.
Ofc that's just the worst case scenario. The best one is that it ends like for music. We get all the games in the world, at reasonable price and with many streaming providers to choose from. But for me, the kind of person I am, I will stop gaming entirely if the worse case scenario is what is coming. But since I feel that I can't really do do anything to stop it, I will just live by the moment and enjoy my Steam library for a few hours before another Sunday ends and a work Monday begins. :)
Epic Games new 'Epic Online Services' will support Linux and it's free for developers to use
22 Mar 2019 at 11:57 am UTC Likes: 8
22 Mar 2019 at 11:57 am UTC Likes: 8
And so, one day, they will buy third party games and release them exclusively on linux. And I will be forced to stand up for the windows junkies out there. This gaming world is so messed up.