All those games and they don't have the game [External Link]. Google marketing needs to up their game.

Spoiler, click me

Also can you all imagine what opportunity it can unlock for us Linux gamers? Witcher 3 with Vulkan renderer and giving CDPR more linux development experience.

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Free weekend seems more appropriate for Stadia than local stores. Imagine installing a 30 GB game, waiting a while for install, only to remove it a day or two later.

Quoting: PatolaWe gain a lot of Freedom with Stadia because of the titles we could not play otherwise, like Destiny 2. We also gain freedom from expensive hardware configurations. Is it worth the loss of Freedom of how we play these titles? Not saying it isn't, just a philosophical question. Maybe a rhetorical one, that does not even need to be answered.

No, it's not worth the loss in my opinion. That's what some Stadia users simply can't get through their heads. They think everyone should be like them and play Stadia where as we all have our preference. Some prefer streaming, others local. It's so selfish and obnoxious to think that everyone should buy into Stadia simply because YOU love it.

The issue I have with Stadia is I don't trust it to turn out into a good thing in the long run. If it grow and becomes successful, will it become a great streaming service? I think so. I think that growth will likely affect availability of games being playable locally.

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Quoting: EikeQuite a healthy number!

Indeed. The 3-5% marketshare reports I think are just bogus.

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Quoting: TheRiddickI really want a AMD GPU but they will need to basically COPY PASTE RTX/NGX features and match or beat 30 series in those areas for me to notice them.

Question for RDNA 2 isn't whether they can provide compelling features like DLSS and RTX, but if RDNA 2 will be supported with new features that come in 2021 or for RDNA3.

Imagine buying a RDNA2 card, which is 20%+ cheaper than Ampere equivalent) and in early 2021 you get RTX and AI upscaling or some other magical feature? That would be a big win.

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RX 5700 XT prices is lousy. They were planning to sell it for $450 but slashed it to $400 before launch. It should cost $350 or less. Let's hope Intel can disturb the balance in GPU market like AMD has with Zen for CPUs.

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What's their intentions with funding Blender?

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Quoting: EhvisAll Linux users will be thrown into icy waters? :tongue:

That's where the freshest fish are!

Seriously though, many gamers views on gaming align with Linux principles. DRM free and libre lincenses (modding) to mention two. So Windows gamers can be considered penguins that have never sought out the bountiful sea (Linux). It's contradicting how we want EAC and other anti cheat to work on Linux, but this is a necessary evil.

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I reckon this will be accurate depiction of how gamers on Windows will react once EAC support is solidified:


Such good news. Especially the part about not wanting to circumvent EAC, so likely hood of it being blocked is low.

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I hope their anti cheating solutions succeed to a good degree so that other developers deploy it. Then Valve should not have a hard time making the suite of anti cheat software working with WINE. Assuming they are delaying doing it until they have gotten things figured out on Windows first. Even with EAC/BattleEye support for WINE there is no guarantee that developers will continue to use them in future.

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Quoting: compholioIt definitely looks like we leveled off our decline, and maybe even have a bit of an uptick (percentage-wise) now. Note that the more recent data has that fuzz because there's a bunch of missing data there for /r/pcgaming/ (not sure why that's the case, but I'm not going to go to the trouble to try and clean it).

If not uptick I am confident Proton helps retain users. No point in people switching to Linux if they switch back to Windows the next week after.

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