Steam Machines didn't work

They *could* have worked, and no reason why they could not now. But at the time, Proton was not a thing, you could not play your Windows games on SteamOS. There was no hardware subsidies in place, so most of the units were way too expensive for what they offered, and in general I thiuk it was marketed poorly.

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Would be interesting to see if the Chromebooks thing will have an impact. Even if it's significant, I still doubt it will encourage publishers to make more Linux native stuff. However, it might get them to at least make their games slightly more proton-friendly.

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I am so confused. I have an RTX 3060ti by which I assumed the 3060 already existed. Guess I know nothing.

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Well, this at least is one good explanation of why Valve is investing so much in Linux gaming.

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Geeze guys, get a moove on.

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Quoting: sbolokanovAnd unless the publishers keep track for who play via Proton, one is possibly counted as yet another Windows user.

You'll be happy to know that the data available to the publisher from Steam does in fact keep track of how many people are playing on Linux via Proton.

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Quoting: MohandevirThis piece got me thinking... Why is Valve still supporting Linux, at this point, if it all comes to this?

Well, there's good reason to think that Microsoft will slowly be phasing out the "PC" as it is in its current form by turning Windows into a thin client, moving to cloud based software mostly, with gaming being provided by streaming. It's easy to laugh at Stadia, but that too is a real threat to PC gaming in its current form. Desktop PC as it is today will then basically mean not running Windows.

Valve's goal for the contractors working on Proton is to make every single game work on Linux. So yeah, they can either do another round of Steam Machines then, to make sure their catalogue continues to have a place to live.

Or wouldn't it be hilarious if Valve signed a licensing deal with Sony to make the PS6 effectively a Playstation branded Steam Machine?

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Quoting: EagleDeltaI don't think anyone posted this yet, but both games are based on movie properties rather than being standalone IPs

Totally not related. This is entirely just Feral's license to the ports that have expired.

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If this had modding I would try to remake Stunt Car Racer's tracks in this.

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Quoting: hardpenguinI mean they haven't said they meant music licenses. Could be literally anything. For example, perhaps the porting studio issues a license to the game publisher for some part of their work. Or it could be some other part of the game, like middleware.

The way I understand it, Feral license the right do port/sell games from the publisher. This is different to companies like Q-Loc, for example, that are hired by the publisher to a ports.

I guess what I did not realize was that Feral licenses had a time limit on them.

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