Strange how the insecure Windows, which is targeted by every malware out there is actually more secure for anti-cheat :-D

If they had the anti-cheat software open, it could benefit from free fixes done by the people in open source community. It's not a coincidence that the best security libraries are open source (and the linux is dominating the server world). Yes, they have their issues, but these are usually fixed quickly, but in the security by obscurity you can have zero day threats that nobody actually knows about (except those who are using them for their own benefit) and nobody is fixing them.

Security through obscurity doesn't work in the software world.

Other thing that could solve this situation is to have anti-cheat software only on server side and don't bother with using it as another DRM on client. In this case you can control the server as you wish and if anybody connects with rigged client, you can just block it (It shouldn't be that hard to validate the client, plenty of services are doing it already in the open source world).

Only thing that makes really sense is the support for various kernels. But same as above, stop rigging the clients with anti-cheat and do a better security on server side.

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I must say that the video showed me some of the flaws of crypto I wasn't aware of. But as he said on the beginning of the video the bank funds and bonds are scam as well. Thanks for sharing the info and video.

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Quoting: PhlebiacDoesn't it seem like they are starting this process rather late? Especially since it was originally supposed to ship in December?

My reservation is saying "After Q2" as well; I guess by that time there will be enough reviews to get a good idea of whether it's worth jumping in or waiting for an updated model.

I would say they are working on this for some time already, just are in testing phase now and the information are getting to the Steam Store slowly.

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I just like the idea of having something to play on and don't really need to sit in chair + playing games from my Steam Library. :-)

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Installed from Flathub, thanks for sharing, I was looking for something like this.

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Quoting: elmapul370 million dollars may sound like a lot, but its not, the cost of production of an modern game can go easy to something like 200~250 millions, and those companies dont make games for margins of profit lower than 20%.
not to mention that the money dont belong to a single person who might be an good person that believes in linux/free software and want to see it suceeed, it belong to a bunch of stake holders so its very unlikely we can convince all of the parties involved to support us.

For big budget games, around half the cost goes on marketing (so platform doesn't matter). The biggest chunk of the remainder goes on asset creation - models, textures, motion capture, voice recording, scripts, and so on (where platform doesn't matter). The next biggest chunk goes on the game engine, with particular emphasis on the rendering loop since it's so critical to performance. Platform doesn't inherently matter here, but some platforms have poor support for some rendering APIs. The part where it really matters which platform you're on - your compile target, how you handle files, how you handle input - is a really tiny part of it. If you're not using a platform-specific engine, then adding another platform is cheap.

What isn't cheap, and what scares people away from new platforms (other than simply being bribed for exclusivity), is testing and support costs. It needs to be clear that those costs are going to be significantly lower than the additional revenue that they'll get from the new platform, and that they couldn't make as much extra money by doing something else (like adding new languages).

It's sad to see that most of the big companies are giving more money to marketing than actual development. I understand that you need marketing so the market is aware of the product, but the product itself should have some quality and not only good advertisement.

I would say that if they spent less on marketing and more on making the actual game, it will be much better for their revenues. But I didn't saw any actual numbers, so it's just my opinion.

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Quoting: OdisejGOG has quite a few problems. First of all, the prices of old games went up quite considerably. Recently they added some Star Trek games for 10€ each ... no thanks. It is also simply more convenient to buy on Steam (wonderful Linux support), quite a few games I would be interested in are also not available on GOG. And there seem to be issues with developers as well. One time I contacted one about supporting Linux on GOG (there was a Linux version of his game on Steam) and he did not sound happy about GOG at all. Don't know why and did not ask.

From what I read and hear (even from Minigalaxy developer), the API in GOG is not good and it's hard to use. So even the developers like Steam in this case much more than GOG, because it's less burden to publish the game there than on GOG.

For example in Minigalaxy you sometimes get wrong information about the game from API, like what is the correct executable for the game. It would be much better if they just make it open, so people could improve it.

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I was actually surprised to get the Survey popup yesterday. So I immediately filled it and sent it. It was some time till I saw the survey last time.

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Quoting: fearnflavioI think the only games I have there are The Witcher 3 and Cyberbug which I regret it because I simply forget I have those games. Since I use only Steam and Heroic most of the time.

You could add them to Steam as non-Steam games. Which also gets you controller support for games that don't natively support controllers.

And you can use Proton with those games too. :-)

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Quoting: JVargasOn my end I can say that I only buy games from Valve.
They helped me actually not having to boot windows for gaming.
Don't need another reason really.

Main reason to dump the Windows dualboot for me as well. I could play games I wanted under Linux thanks to Steam.

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