Canonical should rename their distro in TrumpOS or something..

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I was shocked that the store had so much issues on Wine anyway.
Still, as long as there is no (official) BattlEye or Easy Anti Cheat support for Wine, nothing significant will change. And I fear this will be very long the case.

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Quoting: etonbearsIt is complicated, but I'll tell you what I believe is true, though this requires some detail ( sorry! ).

Wow, very informative. Thanks for this great post!

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Quoting: ryadMoreover Valve was not really successful producing hardware recently (not to say ever?).

Steam Controller?

Seriously? You call the Steam Controller a successful product? Common...

How many have been sold? How many would it need in your opinion to call it successful?

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1712946892833213377 [External Link]
1.3m by the end of September 2018. Compared to the competition, the sales figures should be at least five times higher in order to be evaluated as a success.

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Quoting: ryadMoreover Valve was not really successful producing hardware recently (not to say ever?).

Steam Controller?

Seriously? You call the Steam Controller a successful product? Common...

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In my humble opinion, the VR hype is dying just like 3D TVs a few years ago. Nobody is going to miss them once they're out of market. Moreover Valve was not really successful producing hardware recently (not to say ever?). They're a great software company and they should focus on their main competences.

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I've bought Fallout 4 GOTY since I thought, it shouldn't be a big hassle anymore thanks to Proton.
Well... I was wrong. Although I tried several suggested workarounds, the game just won't work as fluent as expected. Issues like broken sound (despite Protons FAudio in 3.16-7), wine freezes on quit, quirky mouse and keyboard input spoil the fun of the game for me.

At least my all-time-favorite CS:GO works like a charm, thanks to a native implementation.

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As a big fan of the series (own and played all of their Metro titles), I'm also quiet disappointed.

I wasn't going to buy the game on release due to their DRM and missing Linux support. However I really thought, they are going to remove Denuvo eventually and Proton probably would make it possible to play. I even hoped for a later Linux release since of their engagement in the past.

Well, that hopes are gone now. Even if I would accept their decision to publish the title exclusively on Epic Store, the client is just garbage on wine.

Just sad, I really respected Deep Silver...

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Quoting: GuestAm i the only one who believes battle royale in general sucks and is overrated?

I was of the same opinion. But you really should give it a few tries. It's actually quite funny.

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As a long time player (4k hours, almost all on Linux :D ), I was really skeptical in regard to this "game changing" update (including the F2P model).

But I have to admit, after some DZ games - solo as well as in teams - the mode is actually surprisingly fun. Sure, it's not CS in the classical sense that we (almost) all love. But it is a CS-like game, with lots of action, excitement and completely new possibilities and potentials. For me, it's a great addition to the normal competitive mode. The frustration factor isn't that high either, because you don't have much to lose at the moment and can quickly dive into the next game.

I guess there will be a lot of improvements in the next few weeks. In particular, I'd like to see a little more ammo, performance improvements, and fix some minor but annoying bugs, especially in looting or sound (I hate it when the drone sound doesn't disappear). Also the increase of the number of players is conceivable in my opinion.

I've never been a fan of Battle Royale modes before (of course, because the typical representatives still don't run despite Proton), but I have to admit that my opinion has changed a bit thanks to DZ.

One more word about the F2P discussion: I have the impression that a large part of the community has already (once again) provoked the downfall of CS:GO through the F2P model. From my point of view this is total nonsense. Valve has done an immense amount of behind the scenes work on the cheater problem over the last two years. Vacnet is constantly improving and I think the Trust Factor concept is actually working. I haven't had an obvious cheater in my games since the update and it has been very, very rare for months that people have been suspicious.

I'm really glad that Valve still shows so much commitment to this game and often (though not always) listens to criticism from the community. The next big thing will hopefully be Source 2, based on Vulkan.

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