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

I'm 90% sure Proton plays are counted as Linux ones. Probably read that here in an article.

Now, if some games have other, internal, Steam-independant reporting for platforms that wrongly count WINE as Windows, that's of course a different question.

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Seems about on par for Feral's communication (or lack thereof) to not really explain, announce or communicate anything at all. Unless pressured into it - and even then you only get boilerplate text.

I'm glad the company exists and they do a good job development-wise.
But whoever's responsible for their communication needs to get some education on what their job actually is or look for a new one.

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Quoting: CountVladHmm... the "Chicken Chamber" is kept warm by the computer, right? That just strikes me as a food poisoning incident waiting to happen!

"Hey, there's still some chicken there from last month! And it's still hot, too!"

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Quoting: GuestFWIW, i'm not pointing the finger to the developers alone, but to the entire ecosystem.
Wasn't early access an option?

Do consoles even have early access?

Anyway, I'm sure they were going on the (probably correct) assumption that only a same-day full release on all platforms would get them the maximum amount of purchases & pre-orders.
Early access would quite probably lower the amount of people willing to pre-order or to purchase to begin with.

After all, no game could possibly do justice to the hype that was around Cyberpunk.

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What is "naff" naming?

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Quoting: GuestIt's almost sad, to see Valve stepping up with so much effort into something that's reportedly so buggy..

On PC, it is at least playable, though.
Enough so that many have/had a pretty great time with it despite the bugs.

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Not sure if I misunderstand what it is, but wouldn't it make more sense to have a system that automatically translates game achievements into the right format for a given platform?

At least from a developer's perspective, what would be most useful would be to code your achievements once and then have them work on all platforms (Steam, GOG, open source) without having to do any platform-specific coding. It would just detect if you're building for Steam/GOG/etc. (or you set a flag) and automagically work.

Of course, this would also work the other way around, if e.g. Steam supported an open source platform and converted it to its own system automatically. But I do find the chances for that relatively low.

But (again, if I understood this right), this platform would actually increase the work for developers. That's a pretty tough sell.

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This update made me finally get the game.
I know I wouldn't be into playing with randoms anyway (I never like that), so it was important that the bots be somewhat functional for me to play solo or with friends and everyone said (before this update) that they are not.

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Quoting: HexatopeI highly doubt you'll see RetroArch on Steam, due to legality concerns behind the acquisition of game and bios ROMs. Not something that Valve would want to get involved with, I'm sure.

Nothing about emulation itself is legally concerning.
As you say, it is about the roms (bios & games) - none of which will be offered via Steam or RetroArch.

Now, naturally, I and every other person that ever used an emulator owns 100% of emulated games & systems and made all copies of all ROMs themselves.
And it will likely remain that way until the day all these games become old enough to have their copyright expired.

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This game is just wonderful, can't recommend it enough.

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