Quoting: Guest7 days to die. Bought it myself this halloween - very entertaining.

I bought 7 Days to die as well along with Mad Max :) Liam that's actually a great idea for today's stream! :D

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Quoting: MaCroX95Who do you guys think that the special guest will be? :D

It's stated in the article, the girlfriend will be on the stream.

Oh I misunderstood, I thought that you will bring her in along with another special guest :D nice, will make sure to check out :)

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Who do you guys think that the special guest will be? :D

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@Calvin

I don't completely agree with you, I love big picture mode, it makes browsing through my library easy from couch, controller support is great on steam, VR is becoming a thing on Linux too so I cannot agree that any console can even compare to the bonuses that BPM and SteamOS can have... for example not buying same games over and over again, even when upgrading hardware...

Imagine if they provided some sort of APIs to make in-steam apps like twitch, netflix, youtube... that would make experience even nicer, this would literally crush every concurrence they have in the Living room potential. After that they should just push it out loud and make contracts with game developers for great titles... also maybe providing a streaming feature right off the BPM.

If they do things right they have a whole bunch of potential with SteamOS, Steam machines and also on desktop Linux/Windows gaming market... If they market Steam machines well and SteamOS they might actually gain in the popularity to the point where Linux desktop marketshare wouldn't matter that much because a lot of people would still be playing on Steam machines.

EDIT: Oh and I think that Valve is the first company that might be able to bring 60fps 4K gameplay support to consoles because if manufacturers have already made laptops with gtx 1080 SLIs, it could be easy to make something like that for console-like steam machines. And that is actually a huge deal, I cannot stand the lack of responsivnes and fps on my cousin's PS4

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GreenNo we would not have been forgotten, they would notice there is something wrong with their metrics and adjust accordingly, but they don't need to, see my previous reply.

Unfortunately, the world cares more about money than about metrics. And, as shown, the money is already elsewhere when the metrics could be corrected in the world you imagine.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GreenNo we would not have been forgotten, they would notice there is something wrong with their metrics and adjust accordingly, but they don't need to, see my previous reply.

Unfortunately, the world cares more about money than about metrics. And, as shown, the money is already elsewhere when the metrics could be corrected in the world you imagine.

Very true.

I see the problem that arrises when I'm not playing a game with a windows key shortly after purchasing it, but still feel its not my responsibility to repair faulty counting systems. The ones depending on it for their income or succes of their new OS should fix it. But thanks for the information, learned something new.

This is not about Valve's platform they want to succeed, it is our platform that we want to succeed and support the developers that bring great titles to us, linux users, we use it on a daily basis and we play games on it, :) Steam is what makes that so much easier for us, sure it has its flaws but it is still great! Regarding the counting system: it is not bad, the keys that we would buy from resellers already existed when there was no Linux version around and this is the reason they must give original developer credit for selling that key because it was generated before the Linux version of the game... However, they could improve the counting system of the people's hardware without the hardware survey.

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Quoting: GreenAbout buying only a key "when you are absolutely sure it counts as linux". Its just useless to pay more for a game only to promote linux. The percentage of linux games that actually pay attention to this way of buying is way to low to be significant. Just buy the cheapest key you can get and let valve do their own counting, currently their counting system is broken, i'm not going to pay more for that.

If everyone was thinking like you we would be forgoten already... one of the reasons why developers still produce linux games is a lot of times it's not even worth to them but they know that we are humans too and we like to play games as well so they don't want to be discriminating, and as a thanks we can try and be good to them as they are good to us, otherwise we can go back in 2010 where there were almost literally no AAA games for linux.

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32bit applications are dying at the speed of light, from day to day there are always fewer applications that run on 32bit OSs and the functionality is getting to the point where it would be better to put those resources in maybe something new... it is almost 2017, we need to move forward probably :)

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Quoting: MaCroX95

Quoting: JudasIscariotGood to see more work being done in getting better controller support in Wine. That's the one thing that I can never get to work properly or at all...

Where did you see anything about controller support? I'm dying to get my lego Titles working properly with the controller through wine :(

A lot of the HID support commits in Wine are being done by Aric Stewart who is working on getting controller support to be on par with Windows (that's how I see it anyways).

One source I have to back up my claims is this interview with Aric Stewart himself: link [External Link]

So like Avehicle7887 said, I am referring to "A few more steps towards HID support." :)

Niceee thank you :D I'm a huge retro-gamer and love some of the great Windows classics that are so old we have no chance of getting them on Linux. It will be incredible if they succeed to make it work perfectly so I can hook old games to my non-steam games and play them from my couch and controller :D I'm really looking forward to that! The next big step is probably DX11 :P

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Quoting: JudasIscariotGood to see more work being done in getting better controller support in Wine. That's the one thing that I can never get to work properly or at all...

Where did you see anything about controller support? I'm dying to get my lego Titles working properly with the controller through wine :(

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: liamdaweReally nice to see a guest on the show, and The Linux Gamer too, awesome choice!

Glad to see a cooperation with The Linux Gamer. He's one of my favorite YouTubers.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of his work too! His stuff is always really nicely presented.

Yeah he is really an awesome guy :D I like his approach he is like F*** performance as long as I can play on linux :D I have kind of the same approach but still it is a pleasure to see games that are well optimized!

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