Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: EhvisIf Stadia stops supporting it

Or you meant if Google stops supporting Stadia? Well... Just like in the old days, when a PS, PS2 broke down and you couldn't buy an new one. Game Library gone. The PC gamers are lucky, in that aspect.

I don't think this is a proper equivalence. There are always extenuating circumstances, but when you have the game yourself, there is this sense of having more control over the situation. I can still play my Playstation games on my PS3, for example. Many people can still play their older console games in an emulator as well.

With Stadia exclusive titles, there may not be any physical or digital copy available outside of Google's servers, and so no way for anyone to provide an alternative means to continue playing if Google decides to stop providing the game.

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It will be interesting to see if any of the games on this list which are already out but not available on Linux become available. For example Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The other two in this series are already available for Linux.

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This is the second time today I've read the phrase "true RPG." What the heck is that?

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Quoting: Creak@Valve: less sales, more updates, please?

I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPNot to downplay the device, but a feature like that should simply become available via tablet/smartphone (+ controller attached, of course). I don't really see the need for an extra piece of hardware here, to be honest.

I don't personally expect it to be a success. But consider trying to play games on a tablet/smartphone while holding a controller--you can't also hold the tablet/smartphone, so you will need to put it somewhere and that somewhere will have to allow it to be propped up in a stable way where you can see it properly while gaming and the controller itself won't block your view of the screen. Even with one of those little prop-up-a-tablet thingies, that lets out planes, trains, and automobiles, not to mention buses and many coffee tables (too low). With this you would presumably be able to play on the go, with real PC games, plausibly even continuing the same game you were playing on the PC at home.
So there's at least one use case. Dunno if that's going to be enough, though. If nothing else, to sell something like this in big numbers what you need is a big advertising/marketing budget to prompt people to think they should buy it because it is a new shiny electronic thing. I don't think they have that budget.

There are brackets you can buy which connect to your controller and phone to support the phone just above the controller. I have one for my dual shock 4 controller, and it works quite well without much button obstruction. In this case I would probably want a Steam controller for the mouse input and hope such a bracket also exists for it as well.

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I have been eagerly awaiting this product for some time. To be able to port around PC games is interesting to me.

Regarding the alternative via phone, does this really work well? I tried Steam Link maybe over a year ago. My Linux PC is directly wired to my 5Ghz Wi-Fi router, and my phone was about five feet from it, and it's simply unusable. It was like VNC at its worst. If this has changed and now I can even play over LTE then WOW, times have changed and I need to catch up.

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I don't understand why Linux fragmentation is an issue. First, should the Linux Standard Base have largely homogenized Linux distributions to reduce such potential issues? Secondly, why isn't there an official "standard" distribution? I think Arch (and perhaps Linux From Scratch) try to minimize making any changes to the libraries and core software packages from the original developers, so it seems like that should be considered the "default" Linux desktop configuration. Deviation from the default should be the onus of the distribution, not the game developer.

I can understand a binary software release needing access to a software library not normally available on a system. In those cases, just statically link the library in. Since this is not open source software, we're already outside the scope of code reuse, and besides, it's not like people are firing up several games at once, so the image bloat isn't really an issue.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Maath$173 for a video game is hard pill for me to swallow.

Yeah, yeah, someone always says something like this. Then someone else points out that in terms of $ per hour played, it's still a great deal compared to most games. And that the notion you have to buy all the DLC to get a decent game out of it is greatly exaggerated; I myself have, I dunno, around half of them?
Then there's usually some back and forth. Maybe we could skip it this time? Edit: Oops, already too late!

Ah yes, I see it now. I became aware of this business practice at another web site and another Paradox title. I checked this one and baulked at the price. But, then, people pay thousands on Star Citizen. Perhaps the personal economic decisions of video game purchases is not an interesting topic of discussion.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: Maath$173 for a video game is hard pill for me to swallow.

Choose an alternative:

a) The first version of the game released is declared "the video game" and they never add any new content to it.

b) They continue to add content to the game, but do it entirely at their own expense, never charging you extra.

c) They develop all this extra content at their own expense over the course of many years, and then release it all as "the video game".

d) They release the first version as "the game", and then future expansions are sold as standalone sequels.

Since I'm a gamer from when games came on plastic cartridges, I would choose A. Or perhaps C. From the gamer's perspective, either of those is identical, if you aren't following their development.

Or perhaps I would choose E: make the game and all DLC free-to-play, and let the whales subsidize it by buying skins. I'm currently playing Path of Exile, entirely for free, and I can't possibly imagine this game giving me $173 worth of value. The current gaming industry is weird, to say the least.

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$173 for a video game is hard pill for me to swallow.

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