Quoting: appetrosyanQuestion: why do people care about achievements?

To get the feeling of having achieved something. Sometimes those are neat challenges.

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Quoting: TheRiddickStill good games that hold up well today. I do wonder if Alex is using Source 3.0 engine (has that been announced yet)

One thing for sure, EPIC games has lit a fire under Valves arse by showing them that MAKING games and exclusive deals still matter. Motivated Valve to start making games again which is great news people! We may yet see a HL3 come to life!

Source 3? It's using Source 2.

Epic has nothing to do with this.

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Sonic has awful gameplay. Bad games. Have been bad games, will be bad games.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI think you missed my point entirely.

What's your point then? :/

I read that as "saving is no argument, because might need the money elsewhere."

Your argument was that VR has been around a few years. Think a little bit more outside your own situation. For some people, they weren't in a position then to save specifically for VR hardware and may not be right now.

Then this as well:

Quoting: kuhpunktShit can always happen, sure - but you can still save some money. That's what I did. I don't have much money to waste, but $10 a month? If people can't put that much money away each month, they have bigger problems than a hobby like gaming.

I know plenty of people who can save £10 a month, but not to then go and spend that on VR hardware. This is part of my point. You can save 10, 30, 50 a month AND need it for other things.

~£350 for a second-hand Vive is still a big cost, that's without going up to the Index at what close to £1000? That's on top of getting your PC to a standard of power even needed for VR in the first place, on top of living expenses, saving for a rainy day, saving for an emergency and so on.

I am/was in that situation. I didn't have much money back then, I don't have much money right now. I put some money aside for 3 years and put the priority on a VR headset, because I really really wanted one.

Could I use that money for other/more important things? Maybe, but that's no argument against saving for something you really want. I couldn't afford an Index right now.

But that's what saving is for. Otherwise you literally couldn't put any money ever into your hobby. How else do you justify spending money on games?

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Quoting: Liam DaweI think you missed my point entirely.

What's your point then? :/

I read that as "saving is no argument, because might need the money elsewhere."

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Quoting: orochi_kyoNow according to VR owners, what I need is to get a better job, or not eating something else than rice or bananas so I can get the money to play any new possible Valve game from now. Good luck with that Valve, I think Stadia has a chance if they put in perspective that people doesnt need to "upgrade their PCs every two years" to play the newest games.

VR was announced in 2015. You could have saved some money each month.

I think the "just save money" argument can be defeat pretty easily. Anyone can have a bit of savings tucked away, suddenly vanish in the blink on an eye due to life and unexpected issues. My roof, for example, has a nice leak in it. That might suck away any attempt at saving for a good year or two due to the possible cost of it. Just save money per month, is not a good or valid argument for a huge amount of people.

Shit can always happen, sure - but you can still save some money. That's what I did. I don't have much money to waste, but $10 a month? If people can't put that much money away each month, they have bigger problems than a hobby like gaming.

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Quoting: orochi_kyoNow according to VR owners, what I need is to get a better job, or not eating something else than rice or bananas so I can get the money to play any new possible Valve game from now. Good luck with that Valve, I think Stadia has a chance if they put in perspective that people doesnt need to "upgrade their PCs every two years" to play the newest games.

VR was announced in 2015. You could have saved some money each month.

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Quoting: fagnerlnI've read some """ journalist """ saying that it was a flop, but for mostly of the early review from my favourite sources is telling very positive things. I bet that Google will improve it soon, adding more feature and games.

Why the snarky nonsense?

That was Jason Schreier, a very big deal in the business and not "some """ journalist """"

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1196766382584672256 [External Link]

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Quoting: AciDFor a website promoting Linux, and hence the freedom it brings, I'm ASTONISHED by the very, very narrow views some of the commenters are trying to explain here.

A law will give the consumer more liberty, and you see that as bad?!

Please.

Also, for those who keep repeating 'stores should drop the French market', you first need to understand how the EU market works.
Scratch that, those of you talking about how X could affect Y should first take a deep breath, then learn how a free market work compared to one with monopolies (which you are promoting).

I still can't believe we are seeing those type of comments on a Linux website!

Not every "freedom" is a good idea. The current system works very well. This will disrupt it with no benefit.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: torbidoI don't think that it will provide any noticeable results with non Steam games. Correct me if I am wrong.

It makes a difference for Vulkan games. Nothing to do with Steam specifically.

Is there any review or an article to backup your words?

Why would he? It's a DRIVER improvement.

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