Quoting: Sir_DiealotI'm less optimistic.
It's a win for Steam for sure. If you are buying at other platforms this has zero benefit.
It could mean fewer games will be ported, which is going to make our situation is getting worse.
I hope that at least Steam is going to put some resources into the WINE project.

I don't think people with a no tux no bux attitude will change because of this. And others probably already bought windows games to begin with. I don't really see much reason for things to change.

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I'm quite positive about this as well. I've never been against Wine, but I'm usually to lazy to try anything since I have plenty of native stuff to try. Especially having to run a second copy of Steam inside Wine was a bit of a nuisance to me. To such a degree that at some point I even investigated installing a Windows game with steamcmd and trying to insert a wrapper like that.

And now they have done exactly that.

And now it's just install and see. And for stuff that doesn't work, it's probably still better to give it a go manually or use Lutris to install it. If one can find the time to do that.

As compatibility grows, I may actually use it for a couple of things. For instance, the other Bioshock games came with my copy of Bioshock Infinite, which I'm curious to try at some point.

It'll be interesting to see where it goes.

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Quoting: NaibOk so it is out and it is rough...

Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, this is about what I expected. Doesn't look good for a public release though.

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However, Curse of the Moon now installs and plays with the new Steam Play. My xbox360 controller worked perfectly. I'd have been sorely disappointed if it didn't though. :D

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Quoting: pbEventually they will run out of feet and might shoot themselves in some more vital organs...

That one might be making Windows a subscription service.

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Quoting: fabertaweEdit: It would be nice if there was a way to differentiate the proton compatible games in my list. A separate drop down category on the Library menu would be nice.

I actually put all the Windows games in a "Windows" category. This category disappears when I select Linux games. But it would reappear if any of those games suddenly becomes available on Linux. I don't have a proton supported game, but this may work for that as well. (unless you turn proton on for all win games of course)

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One thing I find a little worrying is that we've never actually seen a video with more than a couple of people in the match. Here it was only 6. Makes you wonder if they ever tried it with a hundred.

Edit:
Looking at the new video it is also kind of odd that it's not visible on which side of the "circle" you are. Doesn't look like it shows on the map either.

It also looks like it's way too easy to shoot out the walls. But maybe that's just due to test settings.

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I'd turn music off in a game like this anyway. If the music was even from the game. The sound is really annoying indeed, but they said in the comments that it was on their to do list. And apparently they changed a few already. Still, it was quite obvious that they didn't have a real sound engineer working on it.

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The most interesting thing in the list is probably Beat Saber. Which is one of the more interesting VR titles and possible very interesting for those that own a vive.

Otherwise it looks like you can download games from the Linux client (in combination with that "enable Steam Play for all titles") now and run them using something else. I'll have a peek at that at some point because even though I didn't specifically buy them, quite a few Windows games have ended up in my library.

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Quoting: liamdaweDoesn't currently work for me. Purchased Doom like a good reporter to test the feature out, needs you to enable it for all titles and...Steam Client crashes.

That's actually kind of ironic. Since DOOM was pretty much trivial to set up a year ago when they did the free weekend.

Practically this won't really change much for me. My money is still for the devs that actually support Linux.

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