Quoting: liamdawe

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnd, at the same time, Linux has lost 1% of market share in the Steam Hardware Survey of April.

It went from 0.82 to 0.81, that's 0.01% comparatively not 1%. Like Valve themselves confirmed before, Linux is growing.

Well going from 0.82% to 0.81% is a decline by 1.22%, then we are probably growing as you say since the Survey does not count every single user as well as the total pool is growing so even a 1% decline can be an increase in actual users.

I know what you're saying but my point was more about saying 1% difference, to a lot of people might be quite alarming when our total market share before was only 0.82%. I'm just trying to make it crystal clear :)

Yeah, I hear what you say. Just being anal when it comes to math :-). I do however see that even Steam does this wrong since they show Linux usage as -0.01% in their survey so they calc points but shows it as percent..

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnd, at the same time, Linux has lost 1% of market share in the Steam Hardware Survey of April.

It went from 0.82 to 0.81, that's 0.01% comparatively not 1%. Like Valve themselves confirmed before, Linux is growing.

Well going from 0.82% to 0.81% is a decline by 1.22%, then we are probably growing as you say since the Survey does not count every single user as well as the total pool is growing so even a 1% decline can be an increase in actual users.

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Quoting: NatedawgI'm sure this will have to at least give Valve a bit of a nudge to fix some of the discontentment with developers.

Won't happen. Why? Because Epic is not competing on having those issues fixed, in fact they don't even have a small fraction of all the services that Steam provide. No they compete solely on cash handouts.

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I wonder just how many minutes it would take for say Ryan Gordon to port this to Linux...

edit: And I see that they have versions for macOS and Android so it's more or less already ported.

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Looks very interesting, beeing longing for some Alien Breed type of game for some time now.

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Quoting: drlambI just snagged overcooked 2 after playing it with some friends over the weekend. That game gets intense!

I wish Feral would hurry up and sell Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Can't buy and give away copies that can't be bought! (My wallet says Take your time feral).

Sadly it's still in the outer ring of their radar so it looks like it will take quite some time more before it's released :-(. Watched the movie and replayed both games this weekend so I too incidently was in the mood for Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

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What would you like to see improved next in the Steam Client?

I would like to see some short game description in the Game Details view, as is now I have to go to the store page for some games that I bought ages ago in order to see what they actually are :)

Secondly I'm actually perplexed why Valve have not put some notification feature that tells you that Game X now have new DLC to purchase, one would assume that this would be in their interest.

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Quoting: F.UltraThe EU does not want a single price throughout the whole of EU, this is about allowing products and services to be sold and exchanged freely across the single EU market. They are not against regional pricing.

Understood and noted. But IMO, it sounds more like forcing to sells in one price across EU. That's my interpretation, not expert in EU laws or anything EU in general.

Let's say I'm not a big fan with current EU system right now, for many reasons. So, my opinion kinda skeptical here and there on EU.

But again, what I learned from history is... Any actions will have reactions.

So, if EU still being so busybody like this, I confidently said other pissed governments/entities ensure "Dieselgate 2.0" will certainly happens. And I ensure you, it will be worst than "the Dieselgate" now.

Just we don't know yet which industry will be "jackpotted"..

Again, price is not something that the EU is looking at what so ever, this is only about geo-blocking on the second hand market.

So VW put a NOx-related defeat device in their test cars in order to bypass emission regulations, what on earth does that have to do with EU finding Valve and the 5 other companies breaching the anti geo-blocking regulations other than in both cases a company is found (or in this case, possible found since this is just a preliminary finding) breaching regulations?

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Quoting: tonRI looking at larger perspective. Let's say EC wanted game prices as single, cheaper price basing on EUR. Perhaps €30-40 flat across EEA?
IMO. if EU really asking for "Dieselgate 2.0" to happen if they keeps too nosey like this. Which industry I dunno..

p/s: Also, at least y'all still have rights to criticise. If I done that, probably Black Maria will be infront my house later.

The EU does not want a single price throughout the whole of EU, this is about allowing products and services to be sold and exchanged freely across the single EU market. They are not against regional pricing.

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Quoting: F.UltraWhat's the confusing part? You cannot have a single market if players can segment said market into sections of their own making. Either you sell to the whole EU as a single market or you don't sell at all.

The thing is I don't care how thorough the EU single market is, since I don't have an ideological preference for such things. Sure, the EU is a single market as a matter of fact, and sure, that status is important to many EU bureaucrats. But that isn't a statement about what policy is good for people in the EU. You could perfectly well have policies which violated or attenuated that status but were good policies.
And even if the EU were an actual country that wouldn't preclude the possibility of trade barriers between sub-units; there are trade barriers and "buy local" policies in Canadian provinces and even municipalities. They're not huge, but they're there.

The single market is not important to "many EU bureaucrats", it's one of the fundamental blocks of the whole EU. If the single market is deemed bad policy then this have to be changed through the normal political chain (elections and so forth) but as it stands now the "law is the law" so it's not like the people enforcing the regulation can look the other way just because they feel personally that the outcome might be bad for the people in the EU, that is for the voters and then the politicians to decide.

Just googled around for your interprovincial trade barriers in Canada and I must say that the vast majority of results where from people and organisations that talked about how much problem they cause. Now I know nothing about the state of this in Canada but it sure sounds crazy.

The reality is that most people don't give a damn or really notice them. They are small, and mainly exist for fairly limited local goals. However, right wing politicians have to have something to call out. We've already got free trade with practically everybody, and they've already killed most of the social programs that don't have massive public support. So there have been some cases of provincial pols getting a bee in their bonnet about the horrors of provincial trade barriers so they can have something to campaign on.
But the reality is that there has never been such a thing as completely barrier-free trade; there probably never will be. The argument basically can't be over whether there will be barriers, but about how big and what the barriers will be.
So I don't find the claim persuasive that somehow if any barrier exists the status of the EU as a common market will implode in a puff of logic. There are surely barriers now, some more formal than others. There will be barriers next year and ten years from now, no matter what decisions get made about this particular one.

Okey I can buy that. On top of that, if you somehow can use those barriers to keep Jordan Peterson locked inside Canada then I will unconditionally endorse your interprovincial trade barriers any day of the week!

I would certainly endorse performing that international service!

Me Happy :-)

As a small side note to this whole "debate", the main problem here is not that EU is trying to remove social programs, the problem is that major parts of Europe is now controlled by conservative governments and this have shifted the EU policies to the right. Aka EU is not right leaning conservative by definition, it's just how the European political map looks right now and is why things like Article 11 and 13 is passed (since the majority of the member states voted yes).

edit: I realise that this can be seen as hardcode nit-picking but my issue is that the Internet is so full of the Putin sponsored alt-right groups that are arguing for the dismemberment of the EU that I feel that it's important to distinguish between EU politics and European politics if that makes sense, or in other words the problem is not with the EU as such but with Europe as a whole.

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