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Quoting: MasterSleortThank you and pardon me for missing that :)

It's well hidden! :-)

Moments like this make me wish we had tags to indicate people from the industry, but they would have to be optional of course.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoSo, my theory was correct!
If We buy LIS 2 now on the Steam store using the Linux Steam client and play it only via Proton, Feral will get their cut.

But a smaller cut, apparently? Since they prefer if we wait until the actual release. I wonder how that works. Or maybe it's just so they have better figures to show to publishers about how useful the ports are.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: RadiarionNOTE: Is it possible for someone to create an easy install nvidia drivers package for linux vergins like me? Just a thought.. If not, anyone have an idiots guide (and I mean complete idiot) to installing nvidia drivers on mint 19?

Go to their Unix drivers page [External Link]. Pick a version, download it and run the file. That's about it as far as I remember :)
Edit: And reboot, of course.

Um, no you can't just run the file. You have to drop to terminal and shut off display manager. It's not that hard though. On mint I only need to control-alt-f1, then cd to the directory where the .run file is stored. Type in "sudo service lightdm stop" then "sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-*". Then choose the prompts that are already highlighted. Really though unless you just like installing and testing the very latest drivers (like me) then you don't need to do anything special with mint. Either just use driver manager or add the ppa from https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa [External Link] , that page tells you how to add it.

Hm. I thought they had made it achievable through the GUI in recent years. Must have been something else. Maybe LAMP.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: RadiarionNOTE: Is it possible for someone to create an easy install nvidia drivers package for linux vergins like me? Just a thought.. If not, anyone have an idiots guide (and I mean complete idiot) to installing nvidia drivers on mint 19?

Go to their Unix drivers page [External Link]. Pick a version, download it and run the file. That's about it as far as I remember :)

Why would you install manually on Mint when you can use a PPA and forget about manual updates for the rest of time?

I don't know, I haven't used a PPA in a long while and the driver manager really doesn't seem to do much or say anything.

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Quoting: RadiarionNOTE: Is it possible for someone to create an easy install nvidia drivers package for linux vergins like me? Just a thought.. If not, anyone have an idiots guide (and I mean complete idiot) to installing nvidia drivers on mint 19?

Go to their Unix drivers page [External Link]. Pick a version, download it and run the file. That's about it as far as I remember :)
Edit: And reboot, of course.
Edit2: I was wrong, disregard this :)

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Curse of Monkey Island? Hnnng I haven't yet decided whether I'm okay with buying Steam Play titles but man this will be in my cart in a heartbeat if I do.

Quoting: HadBabitsHmm, I debate getting Nidhogg. Played it before with the missus, and while I enjoyed it immensely, she became immensely annoyed with me XD (I mean, why would they give you a throw sword button if you're not supposed to use it? :P)

Based on my SSBM history, I would totally be a sword-thrower in Nidhogg :P

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Quoting: nitroflow

Quoting: Salvatos

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Quoting: Keyrock

Quoting: BrisseHaven't really gotten into any of these card games (except The Witcher 3 minigame :D ). I was mildly interested in this as a potential entry point, but then I learned...

Additional packs of cards will be $1.99, each pack has 12 random cards. You will also be able to buy and sell cards on the Steam Market.

...that it has gambling mechanics. No thanks.

In fairness, this is exactly how physical trading card games work. You buy packs of cards and get random cards inside.

I know, but that doesn't make it not gambling.

It isn't gambling because you always get something for your money though, this is how loot box type micro transactions skirt around gambling.

Legally speaking, sure, but spending money to get something that may or may not be entirely devoid of value to you, or whose value is essentially random within limits, in addition to being arbitrary and subject to changes made to the game, is hardly better than risking your money in a game of chance. At least in most games of chance, you can walk away with your money and your earnings aren't designed to keep making profit for "the house," unlike Valve taking a cut of every subsequent trade in this case and controlling your Steam wallet. Unlike WotC with MTG, Valve owns the entire ecosystem this game exists in. You may or may not get your money's worth in entertainment, but you will definitely not make any real money out of it. So I would agree that it is not gambling in that sense, but arguably it is worse than gambling.

This applies to every single purchase you make on your steam account though, you can't make any real money because you can't transfer anything on your account short of selling the whole account.

Correct, but unless you're a compulsive buyer, the odds of the games you purchase vanishing before you play them and your money being wasted* are fairly low, whereas a blind booster purchase can easily turn out to be a net loss*.

*relative to whatever value you place on those entertainment services

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PoE II didn't do great according to this guy [External Link].

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Quoting: nitroflow

Quoting: Brisse

Quoting: Keyrock

Quoting: BrisseHaven't really gotten into any of these card games (except The Witcher 3 minigame :D ). I was mildly interested in this as a potential entry point, but then I learned...

Additional packs of cards will be $1.99, each pack has 12 random cards. You will also be able to buy and sell cards on the Steam Market.

...that it has gambling mechanics. No thanks.

In fairness, this is exactly how physical trading card games work. You buy packs of cards and get random cards inside.

I know, but that doesn't make it not gambling.

It isn't gambling because you always get something for your money though, this is how loot box type micro transactions skirt around gambling.

Legally speaking, sure, but spending money to get something that may or may not be entirely devoid of value to you, or whose value is essentially random within limits, in addition to being arbitrary and subject to changes made to the game, is hardly better than risking your money in a game of chance. At least in most games of chance, you can walk away with your money and your earnings aren't designed to keep making profit for "the house," unlike Valve taking a cut of every subsequent trade in this case and controlling your Steam wallet. Unlike WotC with MTG, Valve owns the entire ecosystem this game exists in. You may or may not get your money's worth in entertainment, but you will definitely not make any real money out of it. So I would agree that it is not gambling in that sense, but arguably it is worse than gambling.

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Quoting: NezchanMy problem is that while I like card games, I'm also terribly bad at them, and don't really have a card game guru to teach me, walk me through deckbuilding and the like. So while I like the mechanics of TCGs and the lore and the art, I just can't justify paying up front cash for a game I already know I'm going to suck at and become frustrated by long before I start to gain any degree of competence.

That's one advantage of the F2P model, at least I can goof around with a game like Hearthstone for that brief period of time before my incompetence catches up to me.

That's one thing I like about Faeria. On many occasions the puzzle mode has made me go "oh, I can do that?" and strategize differently, and since the missions are preset you can retry them in a variety of different ways until you beat them, and try out new approaches as you do. I've gotten to a point where I can beat most regular missions with my main deck, but also sometimes I'm faced with a very specialized challenge and I know what kind of cards I'll need in a focused deck to counter it. It's been a really fun experience so far, and the tactical play on the board adds a much-needed dimension to take out the dryness of "just deck-building," in my taste.

Unfortunately for you it's not free-to-play anymore, but I find that there's plenty of solo content to justify the price if you don't want to measure up to more experienced players (I've played over 40 hours so far, all against AI).

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