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Please note that save file compatibility between versions is not guaranteed. If you have an important 2.3.3 game going, please roll back to that version before trying to load the save in 2.4.

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It could be so simple.

Put the skins in the Community market and sell them for money to the gamers.
Why is that so difficult?

And Valve could also just regulate the prices by the amount of skins that are available.
They could also easily do auctions with limited weapon skins.

So you can see what you pay your money for and everything is fine.

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Quoting: KeyrockValve quick on the update as usual. I read somewhere that DXVK 1.4 may yield The Witcher 3 improvements. Maybe they're for AMD users because I'm not sure how much more you can improve performance on my Intel/Nvidia setup.

It feels smoother for me, in Witcher 3 since the update. So there could be changes, that improved TW3 (and others). But that is just a feeling as I can't measure it.
I am on Nvidia too.

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Quoting: ZeroPointEnergy

Quoting: einherjarBut all this does not happen to a digital copy of a game. The pre users were smoking or played it a lot, or they had dirty fingers while playing... DOESN'T MATTER. The used copy is always as good as an unused one.

I'm not sure why you all get worked up about such minor details. It's pretty obvious that digital and physical products are not the same.

Yes, so the reselling can not be treated the same. It is not a minor detail. If you can sell something millions of times, without it getting worn down, it is not a minor detail.
The developer must get the money for his job with a significantly lower amount of sales.

Quoting: ZeroPointEnergyIt is an illusion that those markets will regulate themselves. They themselves are pushing for laws as much as they can to cement their full control, like for example the law that prevents you from tampering with DRM even if they shutdown the online service and the product you purchased becomes useless.

But regulating them in the same way as physical goods (that can only be sold a limited time) is also not the best idea.
Of course a lot of things can be made better - but in a smart way. And this seems not to be a smart way.
It leeds us to even more "software as a service" and monopolism.

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Quoting: ArehandoroWhen one buys a 2nd hand book, film, album or game, does the content differ? Is the content less enjoyable because the medium it comes in isn't in mint condition? In my case, I know the answer to both questions (NO).

For me, the content of a book is less enjoyable, if the book is crumbled, stinks because the pre owner was smoker or has stains for example from dirty fingers. The binding of a book also breaks down through use.

But all this does not happen to a digital copy of a game. The pre users were smoking or played it a lot, or they had dirty fingers while playing... DOESN'T MATTER. The used copy is always as good as an unused one.

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This kills small and medium dev studios and leads to more monopoly by the big ones.

The big ones will then hardly go to force you to things like stadia. There every thing is fine. You just pay for the service of game streaming.

Google Managers will be very pleased by this decision.

I think one can not treat a digital copy exactly the same, like a physical good. The digital one will never "wear up". It stays in the same quality.
So the devs have to go for higher entry prices or just make the game "free" and get on our nerves with micro transactions.

And we will get less titles like the Witcher series, if this is adopted in more countries. You can only develop those titles when they sell for a long time. But with a "used" Games market, this will just not happen.

Digitization at Europes best...

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: pbProprietary office suite? Software store? I thought Manjaro was just arch with more conservative approach to packages, but it seems that it's to Arch something like Ubuntu to Debian? I'll stick with the vanilla distro, thank you very much. ;-)

I was kind of wondering why anyone would want a non-Free office suite that wasn't Microsoft Office. I personally don't want Microsoft Office, but there are reasons someone would. Anything else has all the disadvantages of LibreOffice from "not being MS Office" and I find it hard to imagine it being as good as LibreOffice in terms of features unless someone sank ten billion bucks into it which you'd think we'd have heard about, and then on top of that it'd be non-Free. What's the use-case here?

I use Softmaker Office since about a year. IMO it is much better then Libre/Openoffice. Much better handling of MS Formats, extremely better usability. It is also much more speedy and less bloated.
IMHO it is worth the money, as I have never found a problem with a MS Format sent to me. Libreoffice was worse in nearly everything.
I actually have no problem with it being closed source or that I have to pay the devs for their good work.

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Quoting: KimyrielleIn all honesty, 32 bit stuff DOES need to go at some point. I mean, for how long is Linux supposed to carry on that old baggage?

That Steam (which is one of the most important Linux applications there is, and is maintained by a multi-billion dollar business) STILL doesn't have a 64 bit client is quite frankly unforgivable.

Honestly, how many multi-billion dollar companies offer a great gaming client like steam?
I forgive it easily and with our about 1% marketshare, we should be a little bit cautious with "elbowing out" - it may result in a "we don`t support Linux anymore - sorry".

And playing "old" 32 Bit games is also not that unforgivable, isn't it?

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It is a bit "meeh". I can't really tell them, wich 32 Bit libs I need - I don't know how to find out....

So I asked for my printer driver and the spotify client.

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Quoting: chancho_zombie

Quoting: einherjarI tested Proton 4.15 GE with Witcher 3. The mouse behaviour is broken then. Sometimes the mouse hits an invisible barrier. I do not have this problem, with the official Proton.

that happens to me with Hellblade and Just Cause 4 if I alt tab, the character can't fully turn around anymore only to a limit. Is that your problem? and that happens to me with the official proton too.

I had this issue without alt-tabbing out. It happens randomly but not with the official proton.

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