Quoting: GuestThis is a success story of OSS. Steam, Wine and Proton made Linux a viable gaming OS - and that's something to behold, thanks to Valve, Codeweavers and the hard-working linux community!

I don't think I've ever seen so many likes. :)

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Quoting: liamdaweWe've covered all sorts of things for years including Wine and Emulators and no one complains about when we do. Yet Valve come along, improve things for us dramatically in a short time, enable us to show developers we're actually here and a thing.

Well said, Liam. Ten years ago, “gaming on Linux” meant “hacking around trying to get Wine and emulators to work”.

I suppose if you want to put a positive spin on this argument, it shows how far Linux gaming has come that we're having it at all. Me, I just want to play videogames.

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Quoting: morbiusTacoma is quite decent. Not much to do in the game, but the story and setting are good.

I'd agree with that. 10/10 for world-building, but the rest is kind of meh. A couple - literally a couple - of vaguely engaging puzzles, excellent art and sound design. The AI replay mechanic, with the way conversations diverge and reassemble so you can't just stand there and follow the whole thing, is interesting. There's the germ of a much better game there. Predictable story, although the very end was a nice twist. Can't really see any replay value.

Definitely glad I played it. Equally glad I didn't buy it.

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I wonder if I still have my save from the last free weekend. :D

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Quoting: ShmerlI'm not going to buy games from such services (it's like DRM cubed), but the fact that they are pushing Linux and Vulkan is a big boon for Linux gamers, since more engines and studios will support Linux, and if willing, will release their Linux games DRM-free as well.

Of course, if this takes off, they might stop releasing them altogether.

Quoting: silmethI believe you mean ‘we just needed to ask them nicely for their internal Linux builds which they were never gonna publish, and which will never see the light outside of our platform’. ;-)

Yep.

Okay, look... it's too early to pass judgement on this, and it's probably a Good Thing. Although Android didn't turn out to be the Linux-distro-for-phones we all hoped it would a decade ago, on balance it probably has been good for the wider Linux ecosphere, if only by shining the light of attention on the kernel and showing that you can build a major, popular, commercial platform on it. Stadia could be the same: in itself a locked-down DRM-riddled Google nightmare, but introducing the hold-outs in the games industry to Linux.

Let's wait and see.

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I'd almost forgotten about this. That said, the Christmas period is the right time to release something like it, so I wouldn't have expected to see anything until Q4 or late Q3 anyway, and this does look like a reasonable upgrade; the main complaint about the original spec was that it just didn't look powerful enough.

Wait and see. As before.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe approach seems like a pretty fair compromise. The reviews don't disappear, nothing's being censored. And, if you're the kind of person who thinks review bombing is often justified/relevant, you can turn the feature off.

That's more or less my view of it. Although I've occasionally sympathized with review bombs (never to the point of taking part, I should add), it's a very blunt instrument which makes life difficult for potential purchasers who don't care about whatever issue it is that the bombers are excited about. Valve had to do something about it, and this seems like the least intrusive solution. It doesn't hide the fact that some buyers of the game are upset - the bad reviews will still be there - while making sure that the game's long-term rating is unaffected.

And I like that fact that they're not trying to automate the process beyond alerting them that a review bomb might be taking place. Whether it's off-topic or not is a fine distinction, and it's right that it should be actual humans, who can be held responsible, who are making the decision.

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Quoting: dubigrasuA "Half Life 3" folder on his desktop :)

That's what happened to it! Valve sent it to Ryan to port to Linux, and he forgot to give it back.

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Bugbyte, eh? I assume there's no connection with the original publisher of Manic Miner? I mean, with them being Finnish and everything.

Weird to see that name again, though.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: DuncThe Mineclone game/mod Swiftpaw mentions

Awesome to hear!

I've just now noticed I was actually replying to you, hence the weird wording. :)

I blame the plague, or whatever it is I've been suffering for the last couple of days...

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