Quoting: melkemindMaybe I'm just hoping for the best, but this seems like just an omission or maybe bad English. Why would they need to offer you the option to change your platform if the alternative option wasn't a refund? If there were no second option, the wording would be, "Mac and Linux users will receive the Windows version instead." I could be wrong, of course.

The other options besides Windows would be the various console versions.

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QuoteI also have a confession to make, I have still never played Psychonauts. Am I mad? Should I seriously set time aside to play it?

It's worth it for the milkman conspiracy alone.

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A Hat in Time is a very pleasant surprise. I'd mostly given up hope on that one.

Quoting: Naibooo nice!!!
My daughter is sort of getting to the end of Yooka-Laylee and while Psychonaught2 would be great, its delayed. A Hat in Time looks a perfect free-world platform game

Poi is lovely if you haven't already heard of it.

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Quoting: subI like that tweet

https://twitter.com/retroremakes/status/1070080659887144961

I don't understand what he's trying to get at. He just seems to be vaguely asserting that things are bad and need to change over and over again. What exactly does he think Valve is doing wrong? What is this "power difference" and "antagonism" he's referring to? What does he think Epic is going to do better?

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Quoting: 0aTTthe people who are complaining now don't want a trading card game, but something else. HalfLife³ for example.

This is a total straw man. Most of the negative reviews on Steam are by people who bought the game, presumably because they wanted it. Many of them even speak favorably of the gameplay, so this is just patently false.

Quoting: 0aTTpeople just want this cheap F2P garbage.

The main reason people are comparing this unfavorably to f2p garbage is because it has the same business model as said garbage, but without the thing that makes that business model even remotely tolerable: being free.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: elmapuli like the idea of the hypervisor, but i still think its an scam.

even if its not, sony will announce ps5 soon, microsoft may already be planing the next xbox and switch just launched, i'm afraid there is no rom for this thing, even if it have, it will not bring many new gamers to the table, we will have the ones who already play on ¹linux + the ²atari fans


¹(wich means we will not receive new games because the install base was not increassed and we will waste money on hardware wich have an cost per unit, instead of games)

²(there arent many anyway)

i think the Intellivision new console has an better proposal than this thing, at least its unique.

While the PS5 and so on will continue pushing their AAA graphical realism powerhouse approaches, Nintendo released their classic consoles which sold like mad - seems to me there's still a market for this sort of thing.

Nintendo's classic consoles were $60 - cheap novelties (not to mention manufactured scarcity, which drove collectors batty). This thing is priced like a full console. It may find a niche among hardcore collectors and tinkerers, but I don't see it making any impact on mainstream gaming without some knockout exclusives. Like, Nintendo quality exclusives. We'll see what, if anything, they have planned in that regard further down the line, but, frankly, I'm quite skeptical.

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Quoting: GuestThe interesting thing about Ion Maiden, is that while it uses Eduke32 as the basis, they intentionally made the texture format incompatible with the Eduke32 release. This is questionable due to the license, since it is derivative of GPL works, but the engine pieces that load textures is actually covered by their BUILD license. I'm not a lawyer but I don't think that the licenses are even compatible due to being linked.

When 3D Realms published the sources to Duke 3D and Shadow Warrior under the GNU GPLv2, they did so with a linking exception for the BUILD Engine. EDuke32 and Ion Maiden are in full compliance with these terms.

Quoting: GuestStill, I doubt they will officially ever make Ion Maiden supported in the stock Eduke32 release.

Quoting: GuestI hope you intend to allow for that version of the artwork to load in the Eduke32 public release once the final game is released. The ability to modify and change the games built on the BUILD engine were one of it's most successful assets.

Yes, we do plan to allow the user to drop a newer EDuke32 binary into the game and run with updated code. However, this will only be true with the release of the full version, not the preview campaign.

Quoting: GuestI attempted to get more information a while back on their Freenode IRC channel, and was met with outright hostility.

Quoting: GuestTo make things clear, after the last interaction on the IRC channel from the main developers, the experience was less than professional. I personally don't have any need or intention to rip art assets, however, I do want the ability to run newer eduke32 code. I will be watching this game closely and if the team does not act in good faith, I will release the information more publicly than in a comment section and with full source code changes. You can also scramble the header format and I have the ability to figure that out as well. We can play the cat and mouse game or be friendly and everyone wins.

I hope everyone in this thread recognizes the incredible amount of disrespect it takes to approach a developer with an ultimatum like this. Our interactions in the EDuke32 IRC channel were neither hostile nor unprofessional: https://pastebin.com/XRNJy1E9

mos6510, please quit misrepresenting our studio with malicious half-truths.

I don't think mos was coming from a position of disrespect so much as an honest misconception of the licensing, and a misunderstanding of your intentions. In the log you posted, you said "You can explore when the full game is out" once, and the rest of your conversation seems to be against modding -- presumably specifically in the context of the preview, but that didn't really seem explicitly clear to me, so to me it kinda reads as mixed messages.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear you're planning to support vanilla eduke32 in the final version. Thanks for the clarification.

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Quoting: wojtek88

Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: GuestNo Feral port, no money. At some point, we need to support those who support us, dude. I love the Tomb Raider reboot games but won't play Shadow without a native port, unless 3 or more years pass and Feral decides not to port it.

This.

They've already ported the first two games, so it's pretty likely they'll port the third game at some point... I don't like the fact that they're (the reboot "Tomb Raider" games) not on GOG.com, but I'll absolutely buy the other two games because Feral look after us, so the least I can do is look after them, by purchasing a full-price copy of the second and third games (with only rare exceptions, I refuse to purchase Linux games at a discount)(unfortunately, I was still-booting when I bought the first game though!).

In theory I agree with you guys. Feral is a company, that we owe most of the AAA titles. We need to support them as much as possible.
But...
Without clear agenda of releases it's not ok to expect from us that we're not going to buy new games, that just works, because they may have port in next 2 or 3 years.
We need to adapt to new reality, so as Feral.
I also don't like "No Tux, no Bucks" approach for Proton titles at the moment. Valve invested money in Proton / Wine / DXVK. Now very often I read that people are going to use Steam Play only for titles that they already have in their libraries. Personally I think this is the worst approach that you can imagine. Of course while testing Proton that's fine, but when it's released, only buying new titles that are meant to be run on Proton will generate real money return for Valve's investment.
Sure, we can buy 3 years old titles to achieve that, but very often 10 titles that are 3-5 years old will cost less than just released game.

So maybe it's good idea to buy few titles that are not so old and run well with Proton instead of writing everywhere "No Tux, no Bucks".

Valve doesn't care which or how many games you buy, they only care how much you spend. They get the same cut either way if you spend $60 on one Windows game or 6 ten-dollar Linux games. The purpose of Proton isn't to drive sales per se, it's to make Linux a more credible threat to Microsoft. If Proton emboldens someone to uninstall Windows, or to just use it less, or to try Linux for the first time, those are all big returns on Valve's investment, even if they never buy another Windows game.

I'm not necessarily saying you should never buy newer Windows games to play on Proton -- it's up to everyone to choose how strict they wanna be about supporting Linux devs -- I'm just saying you don't need to overthink "repaying" Valve for Proton.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Smoke39

Quoting: GuestActually....wine was already in pretty good shape without funding from Valve. Gallium-nine never had backing and was in excellent shape, though has fallen by the wayside it seems.
But this is really my point: people are praising for Valve for....good business choices?
I've never said their contributions are useless though - far from it. And their contributions help outside of themselves at the end of the day. I just find it odd how people are so willing to give credit to Valve for things that others have done instead. Give credit to both, I say.

This article is specifically about Valve integrating wine into steam, and about their funding of DXVK. People are praising them for these specific things. The notion that anyone's giving them credit for anything else seems to be something you're cynically reading into things yourself.

That notion is from people's comments, not the article.

I understand that you're referring to people's comments. I'm arguing that you're inferring things that people aren't actually saying.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: GuestIf it makes people feel better I can point out really great things Valve have done (mostly around Vulkan tooling and drivers). But I have to ask: if wine didn't exist, if dxvk didn't exist, would Valve have tried to create either?

You can ask the same thing about Linux and choosing it for their projects like SteamOS. Would they create their own OS to avoid Windows? That's the benefit of FOSS. You can use existing work and contribute back.

Quoting: GuestAnyway, Valve does this for Valve. Not for GNU/Linux. I hope people realise this. And yeah, Valve can be congratulated for investing things that help out, but the way I see it, the victory is not from Valve. It's from wine developers. From doitsujin and all who contributed to dxvk (which, yes, has some partial help from Valve). It's from open source tools that make this possible, it's from open source drivers that make this possible, it's from Khronos for the amazing work they've been doing on Vulkan. It's from Lutris showing that this is indeed possible. That's where my praise is.
That's why I don't feel the need to rave on about Valve - I'm too busy praising all the foundational and open source work that hey're building on. Valve have simply picked the best solution, and I do congratulate them on bankrolling things and helping improve that solution. It's just....hmm....to me, and I stress "to me", ranting about Valve ignores all the hard work that is being built upon, and I've never liked that.
So I just like to comment to make people aware of how awesome wine can be, how awesome open development is, and how great it is that GNU/Linux makes all this even possible.

Sure, it's all by those developers. But Valve funded them and without that funding, progress would have been a lot slower, no doubt about it. So Valve deserve credit for contributing to FOSS projects instead of their own walled garden / silo.

Do they have selfish motives? Likely, they aren't doing it just for charity. But result is still positive. A lot of progress in Linux itself is driven by major for profit companies who use that very progress for their own benefit. That doesn't make their contributions useless.

Actually....wine was already in pretty good shape without funding from Valve. Gallium-nine never had backing and was in excellent shape, though has fallen by the wayside it seems.
But this is really my point: people are praising for Valve for....good business choices?
I've never said their contributions are useless though - far from it. And their contributions help outside of themselves at the end of the day. I just find it odd how people are so willing to give credit to Valve for things that others have done instead. Give credit to both, I say.

This article is specifically about Valve integrating wine into steam, and about their funding of DXVK. People are praising them for these specific things. The notion that anyone's giving them credit for anything else seems to be something you're cynically reading into things yourself.

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