Linux gamers are also the most enthusiastic for DRM-free. So GOG's lack for them is even weird. Now they ask money again.

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There is also Zoom Platform to get DRM free games:

https://www.zoom-platform.com/ [External Link]

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Quoting: damarrinEpic published the game. All the money goes through them.

Quoting: dziadulewiczWhatever the case; Epig is not going to last with this business model (and attitude) of theirs much longer.

As long as they have the cash cow that is Fortnite they will be around forever. They can burn through billions in other parts of their business. You don't follow the gaming market, do you?

Look, it is you who got it wrong: it wont be on Steam for a quite a while, that's how contract with Remedy is. Like with Microsoft with Alan Wake it was around 7 years. After that all changed. Being an original publisher isn't anything permanent.

Alan Wake 2 deal with Epic could be around the same time, maybe longer, but not anything forever permanent.

Fortnite is nothing sort of forever either :tongue: IMO this basic information has nothing to do with totally following gaming market ...

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Quoting: Micromegas

Quoting: IrisNebulaImagine going to a store and demanding a new copy of your game because you lost the game CD you bought there last year and being angry they won't service you.

If it was on a platform like Steam which would mean you'd be locked out of new installations, then yeah, that would have been a big deal.

I'm still waiting for a game CD delivered to me by Itch. No, I didn't bought a game CD that's the whole point. I had to make an account at Itch - which would be unnecessary if they would ship their games on a physical medium. And with this account I just demand nowadays that a pure digital copy of the game I bought is always there for me to download again. Otherwise modern gaming wouldn't be feasible anymore nowadays with tons of GBs of games you would have to archive yourself.

Either it is seen as industry standard that online gaming shops with user accounts keep copies of your games save for downloading or customers will probably soon stop buying games they don't plan to play immediately.

But the so called "backlog" of games many users have is a relevant source of income for the gaming industry.

LOL yep :happy: no one was blaming itch.io or talked about CD's but still so many grasped it that way.

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I read it that they kind of left Epic Games Store, after doing very badly ("limbo") there. So in that light this is also good news because of Steam (and Linux gaming).

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Could someone put up a screen shot of that https://twitter.com/CounterStrike/status/1704541038633959492 [External Link] tweet? It seems without an account you can't even read messages no more in that god awful "X", and Nitter seems to be blocked. How nice? In this day and age. Nice freedom Musk :sick:

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Quoting: Seta

Quoting: pbIn the meanwhile, which one is better, OpenLara of CroftEngine?

Neither. Tomb1Main [External Link]

In all seriousness, OpenLara's scope includes supporting tons of devices, so outside of TR1 its progress seems rather slow.
CroftEngine looks like pure eye-candy.

So either of those three will work for TR1. I don't see other ports outside of these for the rest, though:

TR2Main [External Link]
tomb3 [External Link]
TOMB4 [External Link]
TOMB5 [External Link]

One question is, which ones of these work with Luxtorpeda? Luxtorpeda https://luxtorpeda.gitlab.io/ [External Link] changes the game engine to open native in Steam for example when enabling it from ProtonUp https://flathub.org/apps/net.davidotek.pupgui2 [External Link]

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: heidi.wengerIs it true that Roblox profits from child labor? And there are other shady things going on too? https://lemmy.world/post/3690921 [External Link]

Linux is guilty of this too. Look at this, real shady stuff!
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=690b0543a813b0ecfc51b0374c0ce6c8275435f0 [External Link]

But if Roblox profits from child labor, it is awful and no joking matter.

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Is it true that Roblox profits from child labor? And there are other shady things going on too? https://lemmy.world/post/3690921 [External Link]

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: heidi.wengerRed Hat is now owned by IBM which once aided in committing holocaust. Why does IBM get away with this to modern day? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust [External Link]

To this and every other "IBM IS BEHIND THIS!!!" posts above I just want to point out that Red Hat representatives have come forward (they did this with the recent GPL thingy) and said that IBM have not directed Red Hat in any way shape or form, they exist as a independent brand under IBM and so far IBM have left them alone.

That may be, or it may not be that IBM have not adviced Red Hat "in any way shape or form". One thing is clear: Red Hat's ways and behavior has changed drastically in just few months. If IBM is not behind this, the situation could be considered even worse then. Red Hat was one of the bastions of freedom.

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