I did a quick try of VoxeLibre and I don't think it will be replacing minecraft any time soon. In my short try I saw two major issues:

1. New player experience is pretty bad. If you don't know what you're doing, you're going to have a hard time.

2. World generation. This can be split into how it looks and how appropriate it is. I'm not a fan of how it looks. It feels too unnatural. But I suppose this is subjective. The practical aspects are a much bigger issue. First try: I got spawned on the slope of a giant mountain sticking out of the water with a few patches of ice around. Traversing it was a pain, so I quit and generated a new one. Now I got spawned in what looked like a desert. I need wood. Trees? No trees. Started running and found a town. A partially destroyed town because the world generator decided to generate a crevice right through it. Still no trees. Run further. After a while I find a second town. Also partially destroyed. After that town I finally saw the first tree. By then it was night of course.

As long as stuff like that happens, the majority of people will not be taking it seriously.

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But have they learned how to do key rebinding?

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Denuvo means Linux players will be locked out of their game cycling through Proton versions whenever a new update comes out and momentarily borkes the game.

That is Denuvo anti-tamper. This is about Denuvo anti-cheat.

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Of course this isn't going to make gamers happy. This is meant to make investors happy.

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Most of those have been given away for free at some point. I guess most people will just never check what they have in other libraries.

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Wait? Wasn't the last release like two months ago? Right?

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In theory private ownership could go either way. But with $36B in investments and $20B in debt, I imagine that monetization is going to get insane.

Maybe the UK (and the world) should start looking into what all these predatory monetization schemes are doing to the brains of their precious children instead of trying to police public forums and pushing the real problems further out of reach.

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To me, this demonstrates why I don't use HD texture packs on old games. Some higher res textures, some models with increased poly count, but nothing in the world was changed to match. Now everything just looks out of place. You can't just slap high res textures on the environment and then leave it as the same large flat boring surfaces and expect people to go "oh, what a nice upgrade". Art style is what matters, graphics are secondary. It seems that memo has been lost somewhere.

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As far as I heard (not that far), it was limited to 8bitdo controllers. At least, I'm not having issues with my ancient xb360 controller.

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I did make an effort to finish finish Hollow Knight earlier this week (even if it took a mod), so I'd better go try right away!

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