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Valve are making the Index VR kit available in more countries
25 Nov 2019 at 5:48 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: sub
Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: Beamboom
Quoting: F.UltraWell that is what being outside the EU gets you (combined with being a small country)
Sounds unlikely. We're member of EEA, and have access to the inner market of EU. And absolutely everything else of hardware - including Vive who it looks like Index is based on (same base stations) - is here. But The Valve hardware specifically is not. I know of no other products in the same situation. Never heard of.
My guess is, Gabe traveled there once and also had food that poisoned him, so no Valve products for Norway!
Don't you have that delicious fermented fish?
That's us their friendly eastern neighbour of Sweden that have the famous fish (surströmming) that you can find in every "let's puke" video on the Internet :)

Valve are making the Index VR kit available in more countries
23 Nov 2019 at 9:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: Eikeate at a snack bar
Never eat at a snack bar. Don't matter what country you're in, you'll hate it after the snack bar.
Beg to differ, here in Göteborg we have one place, Lasse på Heden, that's categoriced as a Gourmet Snack-bar and that place is really, really good. Not to mention the "Gourmet Sausage" (Gourmetkorv) place that we have at the train terminal who servers 60 varieties of excellent sausages.

Valve are making the Index VR kit available in more countries
23 Nov 2019 at 8:57 pm UTC

Quoting: Beamboom
Quoting: F.Ultra
Quoting: BeamboomEurope is NOT covered. It's not available in Norway.
Strange, it's available here in Sweden, 1079€ though (which of course is basically free for you rich Norwegians).
I know, and since it's only sold through Steam I can't just drive across the border and pick it up in a shop either. I'll have to get a Swedish colleague to buy it for me on his steam account and get it transported to me somehow.

It's really odd, this. It's the same with all Valve hardware: No Norwegian distributor deal.
Well that is what being outside the EU gets you (combined with being a small country), now this will be a guess completely outside my area of competency but since this is related to hardware it's quite possible that it have to do with electrical appliance safety regulations where you just need to apply for a single one inside the entirety of the EU but probably need a nation by nation one for every other country (don't know if the Norwegian / EU treaty covers this aspect).

Valve are making the Index VR kit available in more countries
22 Nov 2019 at 5:25 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: BeamboomEurope is NOT covered. It's not available in Norway.
Strange, it's available here in Sweden, 1079€ though (which of course is basically free for you rich Norwegians).

Supernatural horror adventure ASYLUM looks creepy as hell in the latest footage
22 Nov 2019 at 4:42 pm UTC

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo
Quoting: DrMcCoyI'm still a bit miffed they migrated off their own FLOSS engine to Unity
The Argentinian devs always make the same mistake: They waste a lot of time developing their own game engine in the name of the independence, instead of to use a 3rd party game engine and to focus all the efforts in the game itself.. (being Argentinian myself, I know how they think)...Is a cultural issue.
6 years late, Cordes learned the lesson..
I'm gonna buy it for to support the small Argentinian gaming industry.

I wonder what kind of game He can make with Godot.
Did there even exist any good free 3d party game engine 6 years ago? Unity was still sold with only a commercial license back then and so was Unreal.

We Happy Few for Linux and Mac being refunded, to get an "unofficial" beta
12 Nov 2019 at 6:13 pm UTC

Quoting: rustybroomhandleThey could just switch to a "Proton, but supported by us" type model, like with No Man's Sky. As in not a native port, but the devs still care to make sure it works.
That would require that they have the skills to do that.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition released with Linux support
6 Nov 2019 at 6:22 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: pete910
Quoting: F.Ultra
Quoting: pete910
Quoting: F.Ultra
Quoting: rcritSadly it won't install for me. It will only download the shader cache and not the game.
Yep the very same thing happens to me now, before I cound't even proceed to the checkout on Steam and now it only downloads the shader caches... Not a brilliant release this...
Not to be funny but it seems to be an issue at your end, the rest of us appear to have had no problem with it, including myself.

Hardly Ferrals fault, No ?
The purchase problems where clearly Steams fault since they had some filter that decided that one of the included DLCs in the bundle (and the bundle is the only available item for this game in my region) was already present in the game itself so it refused to continue.

However the "only download shader cache" solved itself, once the shaders where downloaded the game appeared in the download queue. So it was just that it didn't appear in the queue in the normal way.

edit: and in no way have I blamed Feral for this, this is all on Steam.
Ah, I see what you mean. Never looked at what downloaded first as set to install then left it.

The wording used came across like it was aimed at ferral screwing up to me, Sorry.
Nah, Feral is gold!

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition released with Linux support
6 Nov 2019 at 6:10 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: pete910
Quoting: F.Ultra
Quoting: rcritSadly it won't install for me. It will only download the shader cache and not the game.
Yep the very same thing happens to me now, before I cound't even proceed to the checkout on Steam and now it only downloads the shader caches... Not a brilliant release this...
Not to be funny but it seems to be an issue at your end, the rest of us appear to have had no problem with it, including myself.

Hardly Ferrals fault, No ?
The purchase problems where clearly Steams fault since they had some filter that decided that one of the included DLCs in the bundle (and the bundle is the only available item for this game in my region) was already present in the game itself so it refused to continue.

However the "only download shader cache" solved itself, once the shaders where downloaded the game appeared in the download queue. So it was just that it didn't appear in the queue in the normal way.

edit: and in no way have I blamed Feral for this, this is all on Steam.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition released with Linux support
6 Nov 2019 at 5:59 pm UTC

Quoting: rcritSadly it won't install for me. It will only download the shader cache and not the game.
Yep the very same thing happens to me now, before I cound't even proceed to the checkout on Steam and now it only downloads the shader caches... Not a brilliant release this...

edit: never mind, once the shares where downloaded the game suddenly appeared to download.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider Definitive Edition released with Linux support
6 Nov 2019 at 8:20 am UTC

Quoting: Patola
Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo
Quoting: slapinAs I understand it is not available yet as Steam page does not have ability to buy the game, so news are premature.
EDIT: Feral Store key works, so it is only a problem on steam.
Maybe is a regional issue.
The game is available for sale in Argentina.


Sadly the Trial version wasn't ported...
Wow... Your regional prices are 1/4 [External Link] of my regional prices (Brazil)!! How come?
That's regional pricing for you, it's also 16% of what it costs in my region (3923.95ARS). However that bundle is the one that is unpurchable at the moment since they have added some DLC that is already included with the base game (and the base game does not exist as a separate package)...