I've managed to find a related comment: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/windows-compatibility-layer-wine-v80-has-a-first-release-candidate-out/comment_id=236658

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So that will lead to native Ubisoft Connect… right? That's something that I've always wanted.

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Quoting: scaineWas there a fundamental change in Wine 8 that have kept them back from using it?

Maybe due to https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/1322 [External Link]

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPLike the Wii games of old, "difficulty" here mostly just comes from an input method that is inferior to what already exists in many ways. Of course, unlike Wiimote, there are definitely some advantages to VR controls and some concepts that are not possible outside of VR.

Wolfenstein 3D is another example. It's lot easier if you can strafe and turn (with a mouse) at the same time instead of being stuck with the strafe modifier key.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumPersonally, I feel what Lanz said is correct, (…)

Oh, absolutely. It's definitely correct, but what it needs is solidarity – otherwise there is not chance of things changing. And that's not what I'm seeing.

In this case there is a video by a gaming magazine that makes fun of PC users for a) not being able to run the game because they should have bought a PS5 instead and b) for never washing themselves.

Very often on Steam you see people making fun of other people that have technical difficulties. Common sighting are:
1) Install Windows. Only morons use Linux.
2) It runs on my system so everyone that has trouble is wrong.
3) I don't care if it works or not, I'm buying it to support the developer/publisher/to spite you/something else.

I've never bought a game that uses Denuvo and avoid buying games that require third party launcher (unfortunately some have been added afterwards). Does it change anything? Unfortunately not.

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Quoting: LanzWe really need to start holding the developers to account for low-effort ports. Too many people will buy it anyway.

But how? The Windows users will buy it anyway – most of them even if the game has an additional layer of inconvenience (AKA always online launcher) sprinkled on top.

If a huge percentage of Linux users does not buy the game due to broken promises, the developers/publisher ends up saying that it wouldn't have been worth it to spend more to satisfy such a small percentage of users.

Edit: What I should have included is that with broken promises I'm talking about the “it will run on the Steam Deck” tweet.

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Quoting: PhlebiacSounds like what happened with Arkham Knight; that got released right after Valve started offering refunds, and it got put to use quite heavily. But if you look at it now, the recent reviews are overwhelmingly positive - so let's hope this game has the same result in the end.

On the other hand there are people that claim that Arkham Origins is the best of the Arkham games despite the many unpatched issues like Killercroc becoming invisible/sound stopping, the non-respawning predator rooms which can lock your progress in the Worst Nightmare challenge track (they even promised to fix it) and the copy&paste fight against Deathstroke (obviously re-uses animations from City and turned into a pure QTE).

I seriously wonder why anybody thought it was good game design to change the challenges from the previous game as something that could be done at any point in your play-through to something that can only be done at very specific points in the story. Also to complete the last of the Gotham Protector challenges requires something that the game actively prevents you to do without exploiting a bug (or using new game plus for a second attempt or the one live mode) since the game stops spawning crimes in progress on the bridge after doing it once in the beginning.

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Quoting: CatKillerThere's some jank at install time and the text is tiny, but it otherwise works well.

Sleeping Dogs: DE or original? I've got the original version on Steam and the DE on GOG. The DE works after activating a virtual desktop without issues and the original apparently not.

I'm not sure what they were thinking with the text size. Not as crazy as F.E.A.R, but still horribly small even on desktop depending on your screen.

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Quoting: elmapulwindows users DONT HATE FREEDOM

Some do. Otherwise I can't explain why so many people demand the inclusion of Denuvo in their games. I simply don't get it.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismSame thing with Source code -- we really aren't prepared if any websites we suddenly loose access -- like how am I going to install a thing from the [ AUR ] if GitHub has issues suddenly, or Email, or Google Docs, or Drive, or whatever really.

Seeing that Google Code has been a thing and was killed about seven years ago, there's been some precedence, but that did not disappear without warning. The strong dependence on GitHub is scary, but on the plus side every git clone contains the history. That's a huge plus compared to svn so there's a very high chance that code can be restored even if the server is gone. Case in point re3: There were so many local copies of the repository when the the access was blocked the first time.

What I'm not a huge fan of is that it seems that most development decisions seem to be restricted to discord conversations so there's no hope that anything will be preserved.

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