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That's a very narrow interpretation. If that was truly the intention then they wouldn't require you to log in to their site to access the installers, they'd just email you a direct link.

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Quoting: CaldathrasAnybody with a Microsoft Account can easily access the program.

AFAIK, that's EU only? Others need to jump through additional hoops?

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Quoting: KoopaMy bet is most studios will stick with the less favorable option for gamers regarding price.

The rational choice is to choose the price that maximises profit in each region. Setting the price too high reduces the number of units sold, and so reduces profit.

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Yeah, the research I saw also suggests there's a "too short" length as well, with lines shorter than ~40 characters causing too much disruption due to having to frequently jump back to the beginning of a new line. But what the optimal length for any given person is will probably be different. Hence more customization options would be great. 🙂

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Quoting: GoEsrIf you consider that DRM then having to log in to their website to download it would be DRM. At some point any digital product you buy is gated behind a service you don't control. The difference to Steam is that you only have to do it once, just like downloading the offline installers.

The point of GOG is that the offline installers should be all you need to access the content you paid for. As such, having to use Galaxy to be able to access cosmetics DLCs you paid for *is* DRM.

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If you consider that DRM then having to log in to their website to download it would be DRM. At some point any digital product you buy is gated behind a service you don't control. The difference to Steam is that you only have to do it once, just like downloading the offline installers.

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However, they also note: "Access to Cosmetic Pack DLCs in offline mode requires launching the game via GOG Galaxy at least once".

So, DRM.

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Lose a climber? Their resources go with them, morale drops and it will only get more challenging.

Isn't that just Peak? 😛

*rereads title* Oh wait, this is Beyond the Peak, my bad.

It weirdly reminds me of the board game Leviathan Wilds, a game that's sort of like Shadows of the Colossus if you and your friends were climbing giant leviathans to shatter the corrupting crystals growing on their bodies to free them instead of killing them. Same kind of 2D vertical climbing mechanics (although you're not roped together in Leviathan Wilds).

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This seems like a double edge sword, prices could go down or up depending of which option devs stick to, and tbh with how things are with the economy around the world I have no hopes of prices going down... My bet is most studios will stick with the less favorable option for gamers regarding price.

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Getting some Shadow of the Colossus vibes from that giant robot in the trailer, interesting!

Oh, I see it has a demo? Might give that a try.

Actually…if a game has a demo, that might be something worth mentioning in the article in case people want to check it out.

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Interesting, sounds useful!

I suspect most people are not bothered by the lack of a Download All button. Like, I get it; I get that itch in my brain too when I go to the Downloads page and see a bunch of things queued up. But if I'm not looking at the Downloads page, I don't really think about it. As I checked just now, I have twelve games in the queue (from a library of over two hundred). At most I might want to play "a few" of those today, but it's not like I'm going to be playing all of them today, so whether they download right now or over the course of the day doesn't really make a meaningful difference to me. Any single game I want to update I can do so, but otherwise, the ability to update twelve games at once – while it might scratch that mental itch – doesn't actually do anything for me, practically.

That's not to say there aren't situations where the ability to queue up everything wouldn't be handy, like if I'm updating my Steam Deck library right before a trip where I won't have connectivity. But I suspect most users wouldn't particularly care if a Download All button existed. (Given Steam's huge userbase, there has to be a long tail of users with just a small number of games, most of which won't all have updates available at the same time – so even if they're prioritizing downloads, they might see two or three rather than 10+, at which point they can just click a few update buttons.)

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Chiaki-ng has turned in to a convenient way for me to stream my ps5 to my friends. No need to setup my capture card. I never had issue with stream quality in my house but when I visited my sister the stream would corrupt every few seconds so maybe this will fix some of that tho I blame the wifi more then Chiaki-ng. I wish their was interest in getting the other platforms that Chiaki supported over to Chiaki-ng.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: elmapulnon gaming pcs dont matter for the gaming market.

It matters, because someone working with Linux is more likely to adopt Linux on private PC, too. And someone who already owns a Linux PC is more likely to try out games on Linux instead of dual-booting all the day along.

Absolutely agree. My experience mirrors the one you've described.

I moved to Linux (Mint's Mate Edition) on my daily driver after my hard drive failed and I couldn't reinstall Windows. At first, I used it mostly for Web surfing, Office tools and digital music file management. As I grew more comfortable, I learned about this Wine thing and started playing around with running games in Linux. Once I got a laptop with an Nvidia dGPU, it was only natural to try Linux there as well. I still maintain a dual-boot with Windows for the odd game that has issues running in Linux, but most of my games are played in Linux these days.

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneIt was also the year of Win10 EOL.

Which, technically, wasn't. With the free year of extended support, Win10 EOL is really a bit of a fiction. Anybody with a Microsoft Account can easily access the program. Even a Hotmail email account counts as a Microsoft Account.

I suspect that the M$ obsession with LLM's, advertising and telemetry harvesting is having more of an impact than the Win10 EOL. Rendering thousands of perfectly good PCs obsolete with Win11's introduction probably didn't help either. Besides, from what I've heard, Win11 just plain sucks.

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Nice. Now fans of purchasing from GOG can have their asses handed to them DRM free

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the Steam version technically doesn't require a Bethesda account either, all you need to do is enable Steam Offline mode before launching (can be disabled again afterwards) and the game will be playable just fine

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Quoting: CaldathrasWell, I'll concede that that's entirely possible. Although, my T580 is on Mint XFCE 21.3 and it does not detect the WiFi printers. Perhaps the applet is not activated by default in XFCE?

I don't know, but it works fine on my work laptop (T14 Gen 6) with Mint Xfce 22.3. Check that "Discovered printers" is enabled in the View menu of your printer configuration panel (system-config-printer).

Thanks. I'll check that the next time my T580 has WiFi access.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyOr could this be people joining Linus' (LTT Linus) Linux Challenge?

That was last year was it not?

Which failed IIRC.

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If only that stupid carrying around that hostages would come to a graceful end. How much fun it was when the hostages that "followed" you just got stuck at a random crate, and you forgot to have a peek behind you while rescuing.

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Quoting: pbPurchasing power rate is great, but milti-variable is way higher that both of them, for whatever reason. And it's not only for PLN, same goes for euro and GBP prices. It's almost like one of the "multi variables" was greed. 🤔

It's not really. Don't forget that $ prices don't include VAT. It says $100 is €85 and 100/85 = 1.176, so it accounts for 17.6% VAT, which is lower than most (if not all) of the eurozone.

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Hoping they add Marathon since Destiny 2 is already there.

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I can remember back a LONG time ago when I had a bunch of downloads to do, and I was thinking "where is the download all button" just not even comprehending the concept that there might not be one, I was just thinking I couldn't find it. Spent a good few minutes hunting then searched the web and was flabbergasted. Still to this continue to be amazed every time I go click every single title one after another.

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I hope devs (and especially publishers) warm to the Purchasing Power Conversion method, it's the only fair pricing really.
I also hope that it won't be abused by the users, unfortunately I have little faith in that...

[edit] I took a peek at https://partner.steamgames.com/pricing/explorer and multi-variable conversion is totally broken as of now. Exchange rate is fair (basically it's back to pre-2022 prices for PLN), Purchasing power rate is great, but milti-variable is way higher that both of them, for whatever reason. And it's not only for PLN, same goes for euro and GBP prices. It's almost like one of the "multi variables" was greed. 🤔

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I love Chiaki.

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Yeah, this is something I've been stung by a number of times. We (PL) get some of the highest prices on Steam, often on par with Switzerland, even though we're not even remotely as well-off as people Western-European countries.

I get developers/publishers would have no clue about all those different currencies and just put in whatever Valve suggests, so I put the blame firmly on them.

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Quoting: PyronickThis new remote download feature in the Steam Beta looks incredibly useful, but it honestly just makes me wish we could do the exact same thing directly through steamcmd remotely.

Being able to manage this on a TTY via SSH, or through a web interface like Cockpit, would be a game-changer. Even better would be an accessible CLI structure so we could easily wrap our own DIY bash/Python scripts or a custom web dashboard around it.

I don't recall how exactly but I can start downloads on steam's website

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Quoting: Liam DaweI really doubt that is the actual real reason, because it's a bit silly if so considering you can just drag them all into the Up Next like I do.

The automated scheduling is intentional, the vast majority of people might have games installed they aren't immediately playing every day, and for the ones they do there is an option to avoid having to drag it at all.

Just to make sure you know about it, right-click on a game and go to its properties. Go to "Updates" then "Automatic Updates", you can select "Immediately download updates" for that title.

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This new remote download feature in the Steam Beta looks incredibly useful, but it honestly just makes me wish we could do the exact same thing directly through steamcmd remotely.

Being able to manage this on a TTY via SSH, or through a web interface like Cockpit, would be a game-changer. Even better would be an accessible CLI structure so we could easily wrap our own DIY bash/Python scripts or a custom web dashboard around it.

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Quoting: Drawing PixelsThe lack of a download all is simply that they want to spread the load on their servers over the whole 24 hours, most people download in the evening after work.

They do provide an option to set specific games to high priority with immediate download, but for the rest of your collection they'd rather schedule those downloads during low traffic periods.

I really doubt that is the actual real reason, because it's a bit silly if so considering you can just drag them all into the Up Next like I do.

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The lack of a download all is simply that they want to spread the load on their servers over the whole 24 hours, most people download in the evening after work.

They do provide an option to set specific games to high priority with immediate download, but for the rest of your collection they'd rather schedule those downloads during low traffic periods.

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Quoting: gaboverstaI still remember many years ago when I bought Age of Empires 3 with both DLC on physical disc. Somewhere on the box it said that the ESO game servers needed for online play would be running until at least 2030.

Has been shut down in 2024, if Google serves well?

Well now I am angry.

You didn't play anymore, but now you're angry you couldn't? I can relate! Didn't mean to make you angry. :)

There are still multiple years during which I might want to play again and was promised that I could. Also microsoft grrrr, of course.

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