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EA AntiCheat could spell trouble for Steam Deck / Linux
14 Sep 2022 at 8:41 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: revliscanoGod, please send us a good football game that is free from all this EA's crap!!
Well, this year's Fifa will be the last made by EA. They will do their own game then and Fifa will give the license to other developers.

Seems I'll be replaying Half-Life 2 again soon but this time in VR
31 Aug 2022 at 5:12 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Beamboom
Quoting: kuhpunktI hope somebody does a non-VR mod. Not everybody can afford a VR headset and I'd really like to play it.
... Then play hl2? This is just a VR mod for that game.
And here I thought the joke couldn't be more obvious :sad:

Seems I'll be replaying Half-Life 2 again soon but this time in VR
30 Aug 2022 at 12:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

I hope somebody does a non-VR mod. Not everybody can afford a VR headset and I'd really like to play it.

Valve spoke to IGN Japan about the Steam Deck, here's a few takeaway points
5 Aug 2022 at 1:39 pm UTC

At 11:33 they are also using a slightly different model. The speaker thingy looks different and the menu buttons at the top are different as well.

Stray is the most wishlisted Steam game and it's Steam Deck Verified
12 Jul 2022 at 5:27 am UTC

Quoting: furaxhornyx
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Mountain Man
Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: kuhpunkt
Quoting: GuestWindows only, shame... When i saw the trailer it looked like a nice game.
Why is it a shame?
Are you asking that because you don't know the person's answer or because you do know and you're waiting for their reply so you can give them a hard time?
Proton is great, but I don't think there's any point to razzing people for preferring Linux native.
The reality is, Proton is a perfectly viable option for Linux gamers that, in many cases, gives native-like performance and grants access to hundreds of games we would otherwise never get to play on our operating system of choice. It's also a reality that even if every single Linux gamer boycotted every game that didn't offer native Linux support, it would not compel a single developer to suddenly produce a Linux version to take advantage of what is, by all accounts, a negligible sliver of the market. I wish it weren't it so, but those are the facts.

So, in the end, refusing to buy a promising game because it can only be played in Proton reminds me of the adage about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Refusing to buy a game that doesn't run natively on your OS of choice is perfectly legitimate, and maybe we GNU+Linux users shouldn't be so damn quick to buy Windows games.

Maybe if Valve only gave the "verified" tag to GNU+Linux native games (that run flawlessly), developers would have more incentive to actually port games to our OS and ultimately support them.
You can be sure that if only native games can get the "Verified" status, and windows-only game could be "Playable" at best, we would see a drastic increase in Native versions :wink:

Or maybe that's Valve's long-term plan ? Once a lot of games reach the "Verified" status, change the rules so that they will "lose" that precious badge if they don't go Native... Evil, but perfect :grin:
I seriously doubt that.

Stray is the most wishlisted Steam game and it's Steam Deck Verified
11 Jul 2022 at 5:10 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestWindows only, shame... When i saw the trailer it looked like a nice game.
Why is it a shame?

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE arrives on Steam — plus it's Steam Deck Verified
17 Jun 2022 at 6:10 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: itscalledrealityTrue and in the US Final Fantasy 4-6 used to be Final Fantasy 1-3, because the original Final Fantasy 1-3 was never released in the Americas.
Final Fantasy 1 was released in the US as Final Fantasy 1.

They then skipped FF2 and FF3.

Final Fantasy 4 was then released as Final Fantasy 2 in the US.

FF5 was skipped

Final Fantasy 6 was then released as Final Fantasy 3 in the US.

Quoting: itscalledrealityTrue and in the US Final Fantasy 4-6 used to be Final Fantasy 1-3, because the original Final Fantasy 1-3 was never released in the Americas. So it’s possible his Steam version is actually Final Fantasy 4, but I think that was corrected and the original Final Fantasy 1 got a crappy graphics update. The original experience (graphics and balancing) is perfect to me.
FF 1 to 6 all got a Pixel Remaster and are all numbered correctly.

Linux user share on Steam hits second highest percentage in years
3 May 2022 at 2:04 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: LNX
Thanks though to Proton
for killing native linux games development
Proton hasn't killed that. Natives were dying before that... and Valve promotes natives for the long term.