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Quoting: KohlyKohlHow does this free promotion work? Will Feral receive anything from this?

I doubt it since no money is changing hands for the keys and the deal will likely of been made with codemasters but a question to ask fereal perhaps

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Quoting: kuhpunktI'm afraid Epic will make them an offer they can't refuse.

Nooo... Why are you saying that? Did you read something about it, what make you think that?

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Quoting: toojaysI have a Windows 7 partition which I used to boot into every now and then. It's not that all my Windows games work under Proton yet, but I have enough options that booting to Windows isn't worth the trouble. At Easter I switched GPUs from AMD to Nvidia, and I still haven't bothered installing the Nvidia drivers in Windows. Admittedly I will probably get to this next month to take advantage of the free Uplay+ trial to try Asscreed Odyssey.

I do find it interesting to think about the Proton business case. Just throwing some numbers out there. Assume ~100 million Steam users, and maybe 1 million of them use Linux. If Valve spend $3m a year on Proton development, they need to average an additional $10 sales from each Linux user to break even (assuming their 30% cut). This seems plausible to me, but only with a platform the size of Steam.

Developing and supporting an independent implementation of the Windows gaming interfaces in this way seems like a much more efficient use of development effort than each developer maintaining their own ports.

Uh Valve charges way too much, their profit is huge, they're rolling in money, they just wanted a way to combat Microsoft's store. So you don't need to worry or care about whether or not the cut that Valve takes from Linux game sales is enough to pay the devs they have improving Linux and Wine.

Quoting: melkemindThis raises more questions for me. Let's say I already own a copy of Elder Scrolls Online. Can I just log into Stadia and start playing, or will it require a separate copy? Also, if I buy Cyberpunk 2077 on Stadia, will that also give me access to a downloadable copy through GOG or some other store?

Quoting: legluondunetI don't think all this games have suddenly Linux native port.
Google should use a wine clone like Valve already does with Proton?

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As always, emulation remains as a vital part of gaming's history. Not just so we don't lose access to tons of older games many years later when a developer moves on, but so we can play them often better than the developer was able to run them on the system it was originally designed for.

Totally agree!! Emulation keeps games alive!

It would just be so much nicer if it could be completely legal. I get that devs don't want to put any effort into old games, but at least they could just sell the roms/isos on Steam.

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Due to legal reasons, PlayStation 3 titles cannot be distributed online and must be self-dumped from your own PlayStation 3 console or from your computer using a compatible Blu-ray drive.

Completely legal.

Emulation is legal. Dumping games is legal, but how many people are actually dumping their own games? Barely any. And even if they do: it would still be annoying. I'd rather just start Steam, click on "download" and then play it with an emulator.

Well , if you look at that way many PC gamers are also pirating PC games despite how accesible they are. There are many people who has GTX 1080 class gpu's yet still pirating games.

Pirates will be pirates , always.

But buying/playing games on Steam is easier than piracy and the difference is that buying games is possible. I can't buy isos for PS3 games, even though I would.

Buying PS3 games is still possible. Assuming you don't have PS3 , just get a compatible bluray drive then buy/rent/borrow games you wanted and dump them.

I don't want to do that. What do you not get about that? :/

Well, what is the fuss about it then? You won't die if you don't play those game.

It doesn't mean you have to pirate. Just don't play.

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As always, emulation remains as a vital part of gaming's history. Not just so we don't lose access to tons of older games many years later when a developer moves on, but so we can play them often better than the developer was able to run them on the system it was originally designed for.

Totally agree!! Emulation keeps games alive!

It would just be so much nicer if it could be completely legal. I get that devs don't want to put any effort into old games, but at least they could just sell the roms/isos on Steam.

????????

https://rpcs3.net/quickstart [External Link]

Due to legal reasons, PlayStation 3 titles cannot be distributed online and must be self-dumped from your own PlayStation 3 console or from your computer using a compatible Blu-ray drive.

Completely legal.

Emulation is legal. Dumping games is legal, but how many people are actually dumping their own games? Barely any. And even if they do: it would still be annoying. I'd rather just start Steam, click on "download" and then play it with an emulator.

Well , if you look at that way many PC gamers are also pirating PC games despite how accesible they are. There are many people who has GTX 1080 class gpu's yet still pirating games.

Pirates will be pirates , always.

But buying/playing games on Steam is easier than piracy and the difference is that buying games is possible. I can't buy isos for PS3 games, even though I would.

Buying PS3 games is still possible. Assuming you don't have PS3 , just get a compatible bluray drive then buy/rent/borrow games you wanted and dump them.