Well i have been playing serious sam first encounter vr yesterday and today ^^

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Omg, that game is the kind of games i love, and with coop online, my wet dreams come true. I will buy at linux release!

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More absurd what you said. What diference make if its a rent or its a propierty about the crossplatform dilema?

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I will put various examples, netflix or spotify.

You need to have a new account or pay again for use it on a phone? or your smart tv or on your pc, linux or windows or whatever?

Simple Not. Steam should be the same, you buy a game and it should work on steam, doesnt matter where you have steam installed.

Do you imagine they do the same with opengl, vulkan or directx? Selling games depending on wich engine is build. It's absurd all games have option to change the engine if its available. All games should have the option to run in other OS if its available.

Really stop talking about it, you are going to shooting your feet.

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Quoting: Nor Mantis

Quoting: TheRiddickThen you and others who look at it like that are shortsighted I'm sorry to say.

Its about platforms, CD VHS MP3 are all different media platforms that can run on different devices. WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS PC, PC is NOT multiple platforms, it is ONE! GET IT? I hope so.

Sorry I don't get it. In my opinion PC is not a platform, the OS is the platform and no different than a Saga Genesis and a Super Nintendo, a VHS or Beta-Max, BlueRay or HDdvd, CD's or records, Netflix or Amazon. That is why it is called cross-platform gaming.

I agree with Liam on this.

Then steam is a platform like neftlix or amazon that are crossplatform sofware, since run on linux, mac and win.

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Quoting: Aryvandaar

Quoting: bubexelIt work perfect for you, who love linux. But when friends ask me to try linux and they get dissapointed because not all their games works on linux now i just need to sum that no one of their games will work because they have to buy them all again. Yes sure, its a great idea... bleh

Linux gamers aren't just gamers. We're also Linux enthusiasts, or at least people who aren't very fond of Windows. If people come to me asking for advice to try Linux I will give it, but also with the cold hard truth of Linux vs Windows.

You are right, but this proposal about pay again in linux make the Linux vs Windows MUCH WORST that is right now.

Do you think people will buy again their games to test if it work nice in linux? What if they don't like linux and want back to windows? what a mess

Your ideas are just a problem to people to give a try linux. I think companies should pay a fixed price to porting companies and not make them gain cash for the sales.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI agree on paying for Linux games when you already have the Windows version in your steam library, because is the only thing that makes the gaming on Linux a serious business and is the best way to track Linux numbers...

And publishers should get a higher cut from the Linux version than the cut they got from the windows version, if Valve want the success of Steam OS... Example: If We want big publishers like Activision or Bethesda releasing their games on Linux, Valve must give them an offer that they can not reject: a higher cut than Windows and consoles.

I disagree with those who want to get the linux version as a DLC of the Windows version they bought years ago, because that is to treat Linux as a residual of Windows.

I disagree with those who thing that Steam is a platform.
Steam is an store and a DRM; the platform is the OS where the Steam client and the games are running.

Licences must be per OS if we want to attract publishers, Developers and porters.

To want that a licence of a game from the Windows platform must be valid on the Linux platform, is like to want that a licence of a PS4 game platform must be valid on the Xbox one platform.

I don't understand why Feral, publisher of the Linux ports they make, don't list their ports apart from the windows version.. They are loosing a lot money, because a lot of people are playing their ports for free, due to the Steamplay.

If You switched from Windows for never come back, the best way to support Linux is to forget about the Steam account from your windows era, open a new Steam account and buy the games again.

In my case, I have two machines; one with a legit Windows 7 and another with Ubuntu (the one I am using for to write this)
For to support Linux, I created an steam account just for that [External Link] and I re-bought a lot of the games I have on my windows steam account [External Link].

I support the gaming on linux so much, that some games like Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Mad Max, Alien isolation, Shadow of Mordor and a few indie games are only present in my Linux Steam account...

(sadly there are windows games in the linux steam account, because they came bundled)

I am thinking about to do the same with GOG.

It work perfect for you, who love linux. But when friends ask me to try linux and they get dissapointed because not all their games works on linux now i just need to sum that no one of their games will work because they have to buy them all again. Yes sure, its a great idea... bleh

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What will be next? Nvidia or AMD graphics? Vive or Occulus? a game for exactly diferent PC configuration or what?
Its' only 1 platform and its called PC. Doesn't matter what OS im using or what graphic card or sound card... camon guys.. where is the spirit of PC?

-Ey dude try linux is nice to play.
-oh, nice idea... oh wait! i should buy all games again! no way!

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I will stop using windows to visit webs, because real web surfing is only on android.

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/android-challenges-windows-as-worlds-most-popular-operating-system [External Link]

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i missed it ... sniff

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