Quoting: svartalfI just did, NUMEROUS times. YOU don't want to listen because it doesn't validate what you feel to be the truth- you dismiss actual facts in evidence like what happened with Quake3:Arena as not being even remotely valid. In a store situation, you're buying a PHYSICAL artifact, so it's **NOT** even remotely analogous like you keep trying to do.


Like I said... I can't help you. Keep telling yourself you're in the right...nobody else will convince you otherwise anyhow.

You need to accept the fact that DRM free stores should not and would not track users with invasive behavioral monitoring like DRMed stores do. And then figure out a way to work with that. As I said many times, other porters figured it out just fine, so it's time for those who are still stuck in the dark DRM ages (like Feral and Co.) to move on as well.

TL;DR: user agent stats are good enough, even if they aren't 100% accurate.

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Quoting: svartalfWhy should I- I already had elaborated NUMEROUS examples of why it doesn't work

I already answered why it works, you just said that "oh no, spoofing". Not convincing, and you so far didn't propose any practical method for doing it DRM-free. GOG and Humble have theirs and they work.

If you can't substantiate your claims, don't make them in the first place, that way you won't need this condescending tone of "I'm the vet, and see no point to explain things to you user peasants". It looks more like you have no arguments really. But if you make claims, better substantiate them properly, that's the way discussion should be held.

Quoting: svartalfBrowser ID downloads didn't work for iD on Quake3:Arena, where you could buy any SKU and "patch" it with a downloaded engine install for the other Two OSes. What in the HECK posseses you to think that it will be better "now"?

Not sure how this is relevant. Normal practice in all stores today to sell all versions at once, and you can download them all or one for your particular OS. No need to patch anything. All stores need to do, is come up with some way to calculate usage per OS for such games. It can be an estimation, which is fine. If some industry can't cope with it, it's some retarded industry really. A lot of industries (like advertising) cope with browser ids just fine and built successful multi-billion businesses on them (try saying Google uses nothing USEFUL).

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Bandcamp is great. That's where I check for music first, and they sell FLAC!

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Waiting for the GOG release as a backer.

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QuoteThere are some things that I probably wouldn't have done without them requesting it, such as adding OpenVR support or focusing on certain games early on, or trying to squeeze more performance out of specific workloads.

@YoRHa-2B: Was The Witcher 3 one of those games? It started working with DXVK quite rapidly. I wonder if Valve were interested in that in particular, because of the past ads of "Coming to SteamOS" for TW3.

In a sense, if they'll make sure TW3 works perfectly through Wine+dxvk/Proton, they can at least say that those ads aren't false anymore.

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Very interesting. I was actually planning to buy it, but didn't get to it yet.

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotAre you using Proton though? My guess is no. It's probably not that easy to actually use it outside of steam.

Proton is too Steam specific, so I'm not using it. I didn't find installing dxvk any harder than various other add-ons that are sometimes needed for Wine configuration. Pretty common thing for Wine users.

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Great to see that it's being worked on.

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Quoting: GuestI wonder if GOG makes stats for Windows games bought on Linux and shares that with the publishers… Or if they just count downloads.

They collect stats, but there is no info on what they share.

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Quoting: ziabiceI started to play Tower of Time, and damn, it's good! :)

Good to know. I've bought it on GOG sale, but didn't try it yet.

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