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Rocket League can now be played online across Steam and all major consoles
15 Jan 2019 at 6:48 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: pete910There dosn't have to be a specific or any reason
If there is no reason, then it's just weird. Not reaching more users is bad for both developers and users that they left out.

Rocket League can now be played online across Steam and all major consoles
15 Jan 2019 at 6:39 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: pete910Have it on GoG. It dosen't mean they are pro DRM or not.
That's exactly what I was asking. I.e. why not.

Rocket League can now be played online across Steam and all major consoles
15 Jan 2019 at 6:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: pete910That an the fact they may not wish too.
Not wish to what? I don't quite understand. Unless you mean they are pro-DRM or something?

Valve have detailed some changes coming to Steam in an overview post
15 Jan 2019 at 6:28 pm UTC

Quoting: Doc AngeloBut you could give an example where the original developer also made the Linux port and decided to not put the Linux version on GOG themselves, despite GOG not having a problem with it. Is there such a game?
Actually, most cases are like that. GOG only reject games if they have serious technical problems that developers don't want to address (Metro case is like that if I remember correctly).

In the vast majority of cases however, when Linux version is missing, developers simply don't want to bother to work on releasing in the smaller store for the smaller platform. So GOG Linux users get the short end of the stick.

See Age of Wonders III developers saying it very explicitly.

Rocket League can now be played online across Steam and all major consoles
15 Jan 2019 at 6:25 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: pete910Because they do not wish too ?
And why wouldn't they wish to have more users?

Linux hardware vendor Entroware has unleashed Hades, their first AMD CPU desktop
15 Jan 2019 at 12:27 pm UTC

Quoting: BrisseIn Ubuntu's defence though, the only reason you need PPA's is the rapid development of Vulkan games and Proton. As things mature, the need for PPA's will go away and just sticking to the latest Ubuntu release, or even LTS with latest HWE should be fine. Even now it is mostly fine unless you run into issues trying to use Proton.
That's not a very good excuse. Things can be changing fast for a number of different reasons. New Vulkan features, optimizations and so on. And what's next, OpenXR for example? That will also be rapidly evolving. So having a preset for gamers makes sense, especially if so many gaming stores herald Ubuntu as their primary supported distro.

Rocket League can now be played online across Steam and all major consoles
15 Jan 2019 at 12:20 pm UTC Likes: 1

Why is it still not on GOG yet? Looks like they released it on every console already, so apparently it doesn't need Steamworks for multiplayer.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
15 Jan 2019 at 7:23 am UTC

I'm done here, you aren't listening anyway.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
15 Jan 2019 at 7:20 am UTC

That doesn't change the the fact, that others offer longer support.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
15 Jan 2019 at 7:14 am UTC

That's because AMD pushed them to do it. Asus are known for dropping support way too early.