Quoting: Purple Library GuyYou may well be right but I'll be kind of disappointed if so. I keep hoping they've got some kind of Big Plan that will eventually, when the stars align properly, usher in the forever-awaited
Year of the Linux Desktop (TM)

I am confident they have a plan. Stadia, Xbox (XGP, XCLOUD, console), EGS and other stores are threatening Steam as a business. Even UPlay is doing good.

Valve's next venture will be hardware. They have begun with Index and it will go from there.

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Gabe did mention he admired Nintendo for how they handle both hardware and software. The groundwork they are laying could be very well for a relaunch of Steam device. In Steamworks Development (2019 year in review) there was this quote at end, after bunch of plans were listed:

And of course we expect to release lots of improvements to Steam TV, Chat, the Library, the Store, and other existing features.

There are more projects that we're not quite ready to talk about just yet. Interested in helping out? Please send us your feedback on what's important to you, and if you want to join us in the trenches, we're always hiring.

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Quoting: mao_dze_dunOnce again, I read the comments on something "controversial" like cloud gaming and remember why we can't have nice things on Linux...

People comments is a reflection of the issues with these streaming services.

Stadia could become a detriment in that if it becomes dominant it can undermine local releases of games. Not to forget they are already doing a bad thing, exclusivity. There are other concerns too. Stadia does have potential to be successful by leveraging cloud servers, such as the features they have and are working on. Yet even at this early stage they have resorted to one bad tactic already.

Geforce Now unlike Stadia is using Windows servers. This is negative for gaming on Linux. With Stadia improvements are made that will be of benefit for proper Linux (desktop distributions). Most obvious thing is that it uses Vulkan, and that will be a very important for native game development on Linux.

I take issue with your comment. If you view posts made about Steam Remote Play or/and Play Together you will find many positive comments. And those two features are streaming using your own computers. Should everyone dig a hole in ground and stick their heads into it like a ostrich? These "nice things" (Stadia and Geforce) aren't as nice as you make them out to be. If they were you'd see overwhelming support for them.

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Quoting: GrazenYou *own* the games as much on Stadia as you do on Steam - in fact the licenses are similar across Steam / PlayStation / Xbox etcetera. People in the Linux community seem to be confused about what "owning" a game means... users are licensing games... big difference. The fact that you can't store every game that you license locally on Stadia is a different issue - but then I don't store every game I license via Steam or any other platform locally either. TO do so would be a tad... anal.

License or game, whatever. You can make backups of games that are DRM free on GOG and Steam. You can't do that on many other stores/platforms, so I disagree with you that you own games on Stadia as much as you do on Steam.

It seems like a smokescreen whenever someone wants to tell people that they don't own games on Steam as much as you think you do. First thing that's mentioned is "You're buying a lincense", and it's almost always brought up in context of a service or platform that isn't DRM free or threatens the freedoms a DRM lincense provides.

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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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