Quoting: miroWhat the actual fuq?
Is this for real? You do know that this is designed to kill people, not in a cs-fashion but for real. And all with the currently f'ed up narrative and politics, you are cracking jokes with it.

I can not believe this, what a shame.

It’s not designed to kill people, it’s designed to repel invaders.

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Sure, "our game’s services running on Linux" could have been server stuff, and "improving the Snowdrop engine’s support for Linux" could have just been making the devs' tools work better on Linux machines, regardless of the playable platform. But "Linux is an extremely stable and performance-oriented OS, and you’ll be able to make XDefiant really shine there" seems very unambiguous about running the actual game on Linux.

To me, it even sounds like they want to make it run especially well on Linux (i.e. compared to Windows and/or consoles). It could be that they want to push it hard on Steam Deck. Or maybe they're aiming for optimal performance on cloud platforms (Amazon was hiring Proton/Wine devs back in 2021 for Luna, right?).

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Give a trash company more money to play games I won’t own? No thanks.

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Trivia: The game is made by Simon "Gee" Giraudot, a comic book artist frequently featured by Framasoft, a French FOSS NGO (and probably others) :)
I immediately recognized his style from the video’s thumbnail (the eyes, mainly).

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I remember having to fake Korean social security numbers to sign up for Korean MMOs back in the day. I wonder how long we have left until we need our identities verified to join online games because of bots and AI.

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As someone who develops ancillary tools and documentation for a certain platform and distributes everything for free, let me also give the usual reminder that it’s not just (or at all) about trying to make living wages out of donations. Especially on small, single-person projects, just receiving a 2$ tip with a "thank you" once in a while is a great motivator that keeps the "is anyone even using this?" demon at bay. :happy:

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Similar feeling here. No idea what’s going on in that trailer other than cards being flipped.

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I like how the reviews say you can't even save your progress. I guess even for free it's not worth it :happy:

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I missed Milf Hunter’s win, but I did see one winner who had his Twitch URL as his username and I went to check it out of curiosity. He wasn’t even streaming but his chat was flooded for a long time with all kinds of lulz, obscenity, link spam and ASCII porn. Good for him if he got some new followers as well as a Deck, his marketing strategy paid off :tongue:

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Quoting: denyasisBTW, where did you find that? I was looking around the page in the link from the article, but I must have missed it.

In the contest rules linked at the bottom. Being privacy-conscious, I always read giveaway rules and often decide to pass, but this is the least invasive one I’ve seen in... possibly ever, if we’re talking about company-run contests only. So kudos to Valve in this one.

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Quoting: SalvatosYou can also participate with a mail-in entry if you can’t watch the event live.

And not email. You have to send actual quill-to-parchment and french-kiss a postage stamp mail.

That seems kind of odd. Some sort of legal requirement?

The mail-in, no-purchase entry is a typical requirement here in Canada and I assume in the US as well. Their format specification is really odd indeed, though. Perhaps made specifically to discourage people from actually using that option :P

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