Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: EikeThe trouble with both tactics, "No Tux, no bucks!" for more native games as well as Proton for more Linux gamers is that they didn't work. We tried the former one for years, and Linux ports were on a decline lately, then Proton arrived over a year ago, and the number of Linux gamers didn't rise.

You may be right but I think it's still a little early to tell with Proton. I mean, for most of that "over a year" it's been in beta. Is it out of beta yet, even? And for the most part, the only people who have heard of it are people already running Linux. That obviously isn't going to help people to think of trying Linux.
Proton isn't going to significantly accelerate Linux adoption unless/until some kind of product is released that runs Linux and uses Proton's ready access to Windows games as a selling point. And there's not much point in a company funding Proton (as Valve have) unless they plan some such product (or, OK, maybe just to use the threat of such a product to keep MS from pushing them). But I don't expect Valve, or anyone else, to try to release a product that significantly requires Proton as a selling point until anti-cheat issues are resolved. Anti-cheat just blocks too many of the most popular games.

So I'd want to claim the jury's still out on what effect Proton is going to have. We won't know until someone tries to use it for something, and either succeeds or fails.

Which brings up another concern valve money tap am starting to worry they will go ahh well we tried and we didnt gain any traction.

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: BeamboomA lot of disappointing news in the Linux gaming world this year :(

True, but the rapid pace of development of Proton/DXVK/D9VK and Valve still cooking Linux goodies are keeping me warm and cozy.

Well yes but if you now buy sandstorm are you not vindicating that decision see the linux guys bought it anyway and didnt cost us a dime.

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It was a fun game i backed it from early access but had not played it since last year because it got harder to get a full game so am not surprised. Glad the community will get a chance to keep it alive but hopefully this has not put the studio off making further linux games and hopefully now they know how to make a multiplayer shooter hopefully they try a single player fps with a good story but thats more of my flavour more than anything.

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Nice good to see further progress with this I have personally never been able to get dune 2000 working campaign wise with open Ra using my cd version or the grunt mod version. But being able to play the of and best c and c game with 1080p is good enough for now

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: NezchanAnd not a single one I'm interested in. Which saves me the FOMO, I guess.

The price and content of the subscriptions ensures i will never feel FOMO also i bc i dont believe fomo is a thing and if it has become a thing we need to destroy social media now.

Oh, poor innocent. It was a thing before social media even existed, it just didn't have a catchy acronym.

really because never ever heard of it until this generation not going into a rant about soy extra but its great people are more aware of issues but fomo should not be a thing because fuck it nothing is that important. The only thing that matters in life is your health and your family everything else is fluid.

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Quoting: NezchanAnd not a single one I'm interested in. Which saves me the FOMO, I guess.

The price and content of the subscriptions ensures i will never feel FOMO also i bc i dont believe fomo is a thing and if it has become a thing we need to destroy social media now.

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God I miss the real sales that steam used to have with 90 percent deals flash deals i hope people can find something they want think i have everything i want except Tomb Raider i ll wait till feral launches it and will buy it then.

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If theres a story i ll give it a go if its another monster closet game i ll pass indie fps have come a long way since the days of nothing but shit tons of fps engine games

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Well according to the specs and marketing looks like this is aimed at the gtx 1650 so entry/mid range 1080p card expect the price to reflect that at little bit more poke again according to the marketing than the rx 480

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And it keeps happening just like I sadly predicted once certain developers see that ditching linux doesnt really effect their bottom line I know Liam believes I am defeatist I said realist. Goes back to the old chicken and egg argument we need larger marketshare to matter we can't get that larger marketshare without the games and currently we have some triple A support.However we have lost CD Projkect Red we lost Pheonix point bloodstained and other fig and growdfunded games. Now I know there are great indie games on linux but there is a lot of shite too (thats not just a linux issue)Steam play has breached the gap but I just hope that Proton does not become the only way we see games on linux.

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