Most of the games I use a controller for need a right thumb-stick and I never got used to the haptic touchpad thingy on my steam controller. Despite its comfort and cool-factor, I went back to my wired Xbox360 controller. It tends to work "out of the box" for more games too, whereas the SC usually needed a community set up to get it working.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: lucinos

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Quoting: GuestQuick, all Linux zealots should storm their forums and make death threats to the developers, their moms, their dogs, and their rabbits! That will show them!

No. Just no.

He was being sarcastic.

I am very much aware of that, however I wanted to make it clear that we don't condone that type of behaviour. What did a rabbit ever do? Apart from constantly trying to eat my sofa...

Hmmm, I heard the rabbit did do ONE other thing. :D

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Quoting: Segata Sanshiro

Quoting: 14$5 upgrade to a remastered edition? That's a good deal I think.

It's not that great when you consider all they did was re-export the existing high-res assets to be at their native resolution. They didn't really "remaster" anything, just took what they already had and rebundled it. It should be a free update really, but if you don't have the DLC, you're getting that I suppose.

Again though, I'm not really complaining since I have both the game and DLC.

The DLC is £3.99 and the upgrade to the remastered version, which includes the DLC, is £3.99. So, yeah, this is pretty great, in my opinion.

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Quoting: Xicroniceally? Take a look at https://postmeritocracy.org/ [External Link] (written by none other than Coraline himself)

Im going to assume that yourisgendereing there is a typo. Please be more careful. There's no room for transphobia in polite discussion.

As to your other points, they've already been brought up and discussed. In summary, these 'attacks' will be dealt with as part of a process that didn't exist before. That process will be refined. Some of these attacks have merit, some don't and it'll be up to the Linux Foundation to sort the wheat from the chaff.

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Quoting: scainePresumably just a different QA process. They'll need to check it doesn't break any of the whitelisted titles. I suppose it's weird that it hasn't hit the beta channel though.

I don't know if this already has been discussed, but the option page seems to suggest that Steam is keeping different versions for different games (a bit like PlayOnLinux)...

Huh - I wasn't aware of that. Makes sense though - once they get something "right", they don't want future versions breaking it. That whole regressions angle is the main thing that I think kills Wine for me. I've lost count of times where previously perfectly working games suddenly stopped working after an update.

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Presumably just a different QA process. They'll need to check it doesn't break any of the whitelisted titles. I suppose it's weird that it hasn't hit the beta channel though.

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Quoting: ElvanexVery well said. :) The thing that pushed me over the edge was when windows literally decided to reboot itself while I was in the middle of an intense gaming session. I'd been getting ready to switch anyway, but at that point, I was so annoyed, I didn't even let it run the update. I just powered off, and nuked it from my system, never to touch it again.

Haha! Love this - because it's almost exactly what I did. When the "Windows is Updating - 0%" appeared, I gave it a minute to tell me how long it would take. When it estimated an hour, I held the power button down, dual-boot to Ubuntu and wiped the Windows partition. That was June or July 2013. Very, very cathartic! :D

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This game is awesome - I poured tens of hours into it. My only gripe at the time is that melee is a bit "busy" and nearly impossible to prevent yourself from taking damage, but the abilities didn't really factor that in, so the game became almost stupidly hard. But it's early days for this title, so I'm definitely going to check back in later.

My ranged character build was superb. Great fun, massive overkill, very satisfying and beautiful, fluid animations. Lots to recommend it.

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I was going to say the same thing as Liam - I left Windows gaming behind a) because Windows Updates kicked in at 8pm on a night I'd planned to play and reported that it would be updating for at least an hour and b) because I was sick of constantly downloading drivers, updating them, restarting, only to see the same issue plaguing my game.

So it's interesting that Marc thinks that a sacrifice was necessary to game on Linux. The only sacrifice you realistically make is a reduction in your available catalogue of games. That's huge for most people, of course, but in every other way, I've found the experience of gaming on Linux to be far, far superior than when I used Windows. I'm lucky to have good hardware, so the performance hit isn't noticeable of course, but I no longer have to worry about my drivers (they update automatically as part of my system, without interrupting me, and taking a minute or less, not hours), dealing with DirectX updates, Mono updates, .Net updates whenever I play a game, or installing drivers for gamepads, calibrating them, or random crashes when I alt-tab to the desktop. Or the registry - why does a game need a registry hack to run?? Maybe that's all in the past for Windows users too now - it's been five years, so anything's possible.

And this is all anecdotal of course, but just thought I'd chime in - I don't see much sacrifice here. You couldn't drag me back to Windows.

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Quoting: DolusCute. And I bet Liam is just going to let that slide too. But it's amusing that you go right to calling me a Nazi just because I point out that this CoC isn't just about "being nice".

I can honestly say that Liam wouldn't "let that slide", Dolus, but since I'm here, now, I'll be clear: there's no room or tolerance for personal attacks on this site. I've remove the offensive comment.

Please, everyone, calm down. Deep breaths, count to ten, take a walk, whatever works for you. This is a divisive topic, all the more so because it probably reflects your own internal ethics, so when someone attacks that, it feels personal.

Let the dust settle on this for a few weeks and we'll see what it looks like.

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