Quoting: KetilIf you don't know if you will like a game, I think streaming is a great option. I definitely won't download a 50GB game for a free weekend, but I would be willing to stream it. You will obviously need audio and video codecs suited for real time, and I expect you will want a smaller buffer than most live video today use. This will probably cost something in terms of graphical glitches during playback, but I do believe it can be done. A new video codec might be required for a great experience though. You will obviously never be able to reduce the input lag to below the ping, but assuming your uplink is reliable enough, and has enough capacity I don't think you will have to multiply your ping by much.

So you are not willing to download 50 GB for a weekend but to download 50 GB for two hours of streaming?

Oh and don't worry guys, I'm sure Google has more plans than just data collection, oh no.
This is going to be an entirely new advertisement platform. Your games will become billboards, just like web pages are today.

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I hope it will come to GOG or Itch then.

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Will I be a customer? Hell NO!
Most reasons have been mentioned before, but I haven't seen the Google Assistant built into the controller mentioned here.
I hope something positive comes from this.

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I've tried to get into X³ and the tutorial is after all these years still terrible.

Another issue that I experience with it (GOG version, Terran War Pack, English) is that the video volumes are all wrong. I think what's happening is that the music that plays during the video is supposed to play at a low level but instead blasts at maximum volume, totally drowning the narrator's voice. Any idea on how to fix that?

I'll hold off on X⁴ until it's officially out on Linux and on some store other than Steam (GOG currently has the Windows version only).

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For some reason Text renders fine for me (as fine as it can, given the horrible font).
I'm constantly checking for updates and saw just now that there finally is an updated version on GOG. From 1.0 to 1.0.4 this evening. Haven't tried it out yet, but there have been a host of bugfixes since 1.0.

And yes, some devs/games write to ~/Documents still. The HBS Shadowrun games for example. Curious Expeditions used to, until I told them about the XDG spec. Judging from this it's just a matter of inexperience.

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotEDIT: starts on my old Laptop with almost identical software setup. Not a clue what's wrong, but at this point it's very likely some config issue on my part.

interesting note about my initial experience with Arch. A lot of games do fail to start if needed fonts are not installed and there is no indication that this is the problem. So the first thing I would do, it would be to search and install every font that I could find. I can not say if this is the problem, but it was an experience with many games when I installed Arch for the first time.

Thanks, that's one thing I never encountered before. I think most games ship the fonts they use. But yes, my Laptop's installation likely has more fonts, I'll experiment a bit.

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WINE has always been about getting existing games to run and there is a huge catalog of over 20 years of Windows games out there. The only "funny" part is that people are constantly whining about the latest AAA game not working while there are thousands of games out there that do work just fine. Steamplay really doesn't change anything in that regard.

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Thanks lucinos, I have a RX 560 as well. All things are pointing at i3 WM so far. I guess the game can't handle that i3 tries to put it in a fullscreen window. Need to confirm with some other WM.
Player.log indicates an unhandled exception. Unfortunately there is no text config file to possibly work around it.

EDIT: starts on my old Laptop with almost identical software setup. Not a clue what's wrong, but at this point it's very likely some config issue on my part.

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Not quite sure it's a game I will enjoy playing, but I bought it anyway (on itch of course).

Unfortunately it crashes on startup. Arch Linux with i3. Can someone else confirm?

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There is a GOG wishlist entry for it, please vote for it, I'd like to be able to buy the game.
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/aeon_of_sands_the_trial [External Link]

I really like the art style.
On the technical side of things the game is made with my favorite engine, Löve (love2d.org). At lest one of the two bits kids is very active in it's community and releases a lot of his code as free software: https://github.com/SiENcE [External Link]

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