Quoting: g000hWith these various 'currently free' games coming to Steam, e.g. The Dark Mod, QueToo, maybe others - I hope two things continue:

1) The game stays a free game.
2) The game is still available as a non-Steam DRM-free installer package (for people who prefer not to use Steam).

Fair enough if you monetise a brand new game, but taking an already-free game and then converting it to a paid-for game is "not on"

Honestly, I wouldn't be against paying for a good game. I could care less for the price, if the product is free as in freedom.
For example, they could sell it on Steam (and leave it DRM-free, by the way), and still offer a torrent or an alternative way to freely download it. Or a paid DLC to pay off their efforts a bit.

Of course, I say that at a moment I can afford paying for games, which hasn't always been the case. I appreciate free games, and I did so even more as a child :)

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That gives me an idea... Couldn't OpenMW be put on steam as a mod (ie, requiring Morrowind's game files)?
(Of course, that wouldn't want if you only wanted the engine, but Steam is mainly for games, not engines)

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Nice, I didn't know about this one, I will check it out soon.

However, this makes me think about the Half Life movie Gabe Newell confirmed they were working on. I think it will likely be during the seven hours war, with follow-ups on the resistance around the globe.
I think it is unlikely that Gordon Freeman will make more than a short appearance in it (or just be mentioned by someone).
Another fanfict I like is "A place in the west" (available on steam, I think it was featured here as well). The second chapter should be out this month.

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Quoting: BeamboomI don't understand, how is that tweet from Valve a teaser on VR on Linux? It doesn't say it's on Linux? Or is this dude dedicated to Linux development?

It says "RADV + AMDGPU", which is the open source AMD Vulkan driver stack on Linux. So, yeah, basically it's on Linux ;)

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiT@Feral: Will it be vulkan? Are there any vulkan ports to be announcet right now? :)

I asked on Facebook. They said its opengl. Vulkan is coming later in the year, it wasn't clear if they are planning Vulkan for an unreleased game or for titles like Hitman and Dues Ex that have a DX12 back end already.

They already confirmed last year that Deus Ex MD will be their first Vulkan title (that they will add Vulkan support for the game in Spring 2017).

To clarify, we haven't announced what our first Vulkan game will be, nor a timescale of spring. We're aiming to get a Vulkan game out in the first half of this year.

If you got Vulkan tangled up with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, that's because we talked about Vulkan during a Deus Ex: Mankind Divided live stream. Which was nice and confusing, woo.

Please be Skyrim,please be Skyrim,it's already ported to Vulkan.

I recently had a crazy though about this one: Remember the Steam Summer Gateway trading cards from a few years back? They all represent Linux games. All but Skyrim. This, plus some other anecdotal evidence like early Steam Boxes/Controllers promotional videos let me think that a port was actually planned, then cancelled; although it was probably well underway (and running, if you want my opinion, unless they experienced big technical hurdles, which I don't expect). So, what happened for them to cancel the Steam OS launch? Steam OS "failure" as a platform (I feel like it will come back, but not yet)? That's a bit of the usual chicken and egg problem, though (which is getting better with the increasing number of games available). I guess they probably feared that it would be too hard to provide support for it (then, I would be happy wit an "unsupported" port).
This is my best guess. Let's just hope that the situation will change at some point in the future.

Now, if you allow me...
WTF, Feral? You guys are way too fast for me. I used to be able to play and finish every game that was out on Linux, and then to play it over again before a new one went out. I am starting to wonder if I should start cherry-picking my Linux games instead of buying everything in bulk (to be fair, I stopped doing this some time ago, there are now too many Linux games).
Well, I will go on for now, anyway. You guys rock.

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For those who complain about their disk storage, I recently (October, IIRC) bought a 6TiB hard disk to build myself a new NAS... I shouldn't have connected it to my computer to transfer data in the first place. As I was running out of space (other hard disks: 250 GB, 500GB, 1TB), mostly due to steam games (for Linux, and then some from a distant windows era, but it allows me to use wine), I started installing my new games on it. Now, with the total war series, Mad max, Tomb Raider, XCOM, Bioshock and Co (documents included), it's half-full and I don't want to detach it anymore. That's what's waiting for you, fear THY MIGHTY GAMES.

Well, this leisure activity is becoming expensive (both in terms of money and time -- and space).

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Quoting: WorMzyAwesome! :D

So was this the Fort du Kremlin-Bicetre teaser, or is that still a mystery?

I think that was it, since it's not on the radar anymore.

I'm not sold on the episodes. I just heard about it on this thread, sounds like I'll have to investigate before I buy it. But I won't buy it before it's out and we have some reports, of course.
I never played Hitman before, thank you for bringing the series to Linux! (I was in the same case with tomb raider, and I loved it).

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Quoting: CreakI'm sure there are a few pros as well, but I doubt they will ever overcome the cons.

I won't argue with that, but there are a few pros that come to my mind:
- If you want to do something really special, sometimes designing your own game engine makes it easier.
- Having an engine tailored to your needs can really make a difference in terms of size, debugging experience, and complexity
- Having a codebase that you really know (on an intimate level, if I may) can be of great help sometimes.
- Your own engine can give a distinct feeling to your game, and I guess that's the main reason people go for it.
And a handful more that have already been mentioned.

Of course, the cons usually outweigh the pros quite a bit. But in some circumstances, it can make sense.

Quoting: ArdjeAnd yes, I assuming a he, as no one has ever proven to me that there are actual females on steam too ;-). JK.

Well, at least four of my steam friends are, as I know them IRL. Granted, that's not much and it doesn't literally prove anything, but that's a start.

Edit: I am wondering if The proportion of "female gamers" among "Linux gamers" isn't even worse than among regular gamers.
Beards are often associated with Linux users, after all :D

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I recently had a discussion on Steam regarding the grey key reselling market, and noticed that the URL g2a.com was censored (without any feedback for the sender).
I take it as another proof that this marketplace is very, very shady.

Also, it seems this screenshot (and more so, the reply) is taken out of its context. Where is the story they are referring to?

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