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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: SalvatosI could see the argument working for laptops too, but gaming on a laptop is just sad as far as I'm concerned.

Clearly, you must be just speaking for yourself.

Yes, hence "as far as I'm concerned".

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: SalvatosYou were talking about lack of space. Regardless of whether people already have a TV or need to buy one along the console, a wall-mounted flat panel plus a console uses up a lot less space than a desk, chair and full computer set.

Don't forget the couch without you probably don't want to play games on your TV and now PC is a smaller place in your room. ;-P

That's fair :) I've seen a fair number of people with TVs in their bedroom who would probably play from their bed too if it came down to that, but I feel like consoles naturally invite local multiplayer and that's something I would prefer to do in the living room.

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Quoting: neolithI cannot imagine that being a smart move financially. Most people I know who game on PC have bought at least on of the titles Sony brought over. Only one of them has a PS and most would never get one no matter which games they miss.

I don't know what Sony expected... That people start getting a PS after playing formerly exclusive games on PC? That everyone would start using PSN in one way or another?
They treated their PC customers less than stellar: forced PSN, Denuvo, intentionally breaking fetures on Linux, ports coming a year after their PS release at best... which is a shame, because some of those are technically quite good otherwise. I've always felt that bringing games to PC was a very good idea followed by a couple really bad ones.

After buying Bungie for way too much money, aiming to go full live service with about a dozen games, Concord arguably being the biggest finanical flop in gaming history and Marathon doing meh on Steam I thought they'd make some good decisions now that would make them some money. Seems like they don't want to do it on PC. Bummer. I'd have bought a PC version of Bloodborne in a heartbeat if it'd had been a proper port.

I don't know what'll happen to Sony if they keep making weird decisions, but seeing that they closed Bluepoint of all studios makes me think that a couple more will end up on the chopping block. I wonder who's next. My guess is that Horizon Hunters Gathering will be the end of Guerrilla. Well, we'll see...

So just to give Sony the smallest amount of credit here, apparently it's not actually their fault we've not seen a Bloodborne remake, much less a port to PC. Apparently it's all up to From Software, and they just don't seem to give a damn about it, which is...

I mean...

It's a choice.

Not one I'm happy with, but hey.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

We've made a few tags plural to match other tags: Dogs, Foxes, Vampires, Elves, Dwarves, and Assassins

I see they've gone with Tolkien on the pluralization of "dwarf". 😁 (Which makes sense, given the games using that tag…)

As far as I'm concerned, Tolkien officially changed English so that's the pluralization now. 😁

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Christ, almost 20m playing on a mobile phone? Seriously? Talk about masochists! I can't imagine playing Terraria with any less than a keyboard and mouse, or at least a controller.

Great game, early native Linux supporter, well worth the full price way back when. Congratulations, and thanks, to the developers for supporting the game for this long.

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Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, Stellar Blade and Helldivers have been massive hits on PC.

Stellar Blade in particular was released a whole year later on PC and still had nearly 200k concurrent player on release.

I know they have had a few bombs lately, but I don't see this helping them.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: hell0In my opinion, both are a fool's errand as the games ultimately run in untrusted environments. Imagine if you could edit your account's balance through e-banking and your bank's solution was to require the use of a "denuvo-secured" browser.

You are speaking about banking apps? 😂 Most of them blocking smartphones where people installed GrapheneOS as more private and secure OS and that is an "untrusted environment" to banks. Even worse when you run non Android Linux on phone, because most banks do not even offer an app for other systems than Android/iOS or any alternatives to their apps.

It's not exactly the same. Even if you hacked their apps and ran them somewhere else, you still wouldn't be able to freely edit your bank account. What banks are wary of, is providing customer support because it costs money.

Personally, I believe these bans are stupid and strongly doubt it would increase their costs in any significant way, but I am not a bank exec so what do I know.

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Ghost of Yotei 😭

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This was a triumph.... I'm making a note here.... huge success.....

//edit
Oh, lol. Now I watched the video and of course it had to be this song xD

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Quoting: hell0In my opinion, both are a fool's errand as the games ultimately run in untrusted environments. Imagine if you could edit your account's balance through e-banking and your bank's solution was to require the use of a "denuvo-secured" browser.

You are speaking about banking apps? 😂 Most of them blocking smartphones where people installed GrapheneOS as more private and secure OS and that is an "untrusted environment" to banks. Even worse when you run non Android Linux on phone, because most banks do not even offer an app for other systems than Android/iOS or any alternatives to their apps.

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Quoting: LinasWait, how should I interpret this? The driver branch is R570, but the fixed driver is 535? There is no fixed 570 driver?

I'm pretty sure Nvidia just messed up their table for their press release. From the context of the rest of the table, I expect that 570.211.01 is the version that fixes the 570 branch.

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Quoting: SalvatosYou were talking about lack of space. Regardless of whether people already have a TV or need to buy one along the console, a wall-mounted flat panel plus a console uses up a lot less space than a desk, chair and full computer set.

Don't forget the couch without you probably don't want to play games on your TV and now PC is a smaller place in your room. ;-P

But facts: I do not own a TV and if I would, a console/laptop/computerOnTV could not replace my desktop. So I would have to buy these expensive panels in additional to what I already own and would not even benefit from it, because gaming or watching movies on 32" monitor is also fine from higher distances. In additional I also do not want to buy smart devices and try to get find a good(!) dump TV...

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Quoting: CaldathrasI didn't know there was such a thing as Denuvo Anti-Cheat, but I don't generally play the kind of games that require Anti-Cheat. So, they do both DRM and Anti-Cheat then. From the reactions here, both are a pain in the butt.

Their core business is anti-tamper, i.e. preventing modifications. It makes sense for them to use their technology for both DRM (ensure the DRM system is not disabled) and anti-cheat (ensure no alteration to the gameplay).

In my opinion, both are a fool's errand as the games ultimately run in untrusted environments. Imagine if you could edit your account's balance through e-banking and your bank's solution was to require the use of a "denuvo-secured" browser.

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We clearly still have a long way to go before people understand SteamOS is Linux, the Steam Deck runs Linux.

I hope they never clock that SteamOS is linux personally, because it means you can trojan horse asking for linux support by saying "SteamOS/Steam Deck/Steam Machine support please" and they won't have their higher reasoning skills shut down and go on the defensive. Even if this results in stuff being made "only for SteamOS" this is nothing SteamDeck=1 %command% doesn't usually fix.

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Don't believe their words, believe their actions.

In the past they've almost always ported the titles you really want to play to PC a couple of years after release. It'll probably continue on like that, and time will tell if not.

The hardware isn't profitable right now due to AI price surges on hardware, and their software isn't selling because so many people have gaming PCs that are more and more similarly priced to consoles. In order for consoles and their own % cut store to make sense, they need to keep things interesting on their platform. I don't know of any ps5 games I want to play, mine collects dust. Unicorn Overlord was the last really exciting one for me and that is not new.

Nintendo is doing just fine keeping the walled garden for their handful of franchises. There is a reason why they never release on PC and aggressively litigate anyone bringing the capability to PC (or even building competing titles on PC, looking at you palworld!) - they know their golden goose is laying golden eggs that players cannot help but smash that preorder button on and the scalpers are eating real good with each hardware and collector release.

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Wait, how should I interpret this? The driver branch is R570, but the fixed driver is 535? There is no fixed 570 driver?

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We've made a few tags plural to match other tags: Dogs, Foxes, Vampires, Elves, Dwarves, and Assassins

I see they've gone with Tolkien on the pluralization of "dwarf". 😁 (Which makes sense, given the games using that tag…)

Quoting: RavenWings@TheSHEEEP
They generaly removed tags that are IPs. Also, Warhammer games are already really upfront about what they are in the title ;)

Yeah, the release had this paragraph about it:

And lastly, there are a number of tags that apply to specific intellectual property, an attribute that community-sourced information like tags is not well suited for. These collections of intellectual property are typically already covered by the developers and publishers setting up franchise pages to collect together officially all the content shared by that IP.

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Nvidia just released 580.159.04 today.

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I didn't know there was such a thing as Denuvo Anti-Cheat, but I don't generally play the kind of games that require Anti-Cheat. So, they do both DRM and Anti-Cheat then. From the reactions here, both are a pain in the butt.

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Using Denuvo is how you can make sure I'll never buy your game.

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Quoting: SalvatosI could see the argument working for laptops too, but gaming on a laptop is just sad as far as I'm concerned.

Clearly, you must be just speaking for yourself. I've been gaming on laptops for nearly 15 years now and I couldn't be happier. I also know a number of people that prefer to buy gaming laptops over desktops. Of course, with the advent of the handheld PC, their preference may change. Me? I find the screens too small on a handheld PC. I wouldn't mind a laptop with a 15in screen and the Steam Deck/Machine guts, however.

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Considering the amount of SC fixes lately, I'm glad that I stuck to my usual rule of waiting to buy hardware 1 year after release.

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These are relatively old versions, seems like the disclosure NDA time extended beyond the driver release date. I'm on 580.142 and Kubuntu 24.04 is not the most bleeding edge distro

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The game has crashed, and I've encountered game breaking bugs, like being unable to complete certain quests due to bugs, on my Xbox. So, it's pretty fair to say that it's probably due to them pushing out the game too early in general, rather than trying to make it run worse on Linux.

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It's so odd how both xbox and playstation were all comitted to pc, and now are just like "actually nevermind" lmao. Like too bad guys, I already switched to pc when you started releasing your games there, realized that the grass is greener on this side, and now I'm never switching back 😁

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You were talking about lack of space. Regardless of whether people already have a TV or need to buy one along the console, a wall-mounted flat panel plus a console uses up a lot less space than a desk, chair and full computer set.

I could see the argument working for laptops too, but gaming on a laptop is just sad as far as I'm concerned.

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Capybara?

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Most seem sensible, and I did not now Elves already existed since dwarves were added.

Desktop Companion - Games that only use part of your screen and keep you company while you do other things

Here my only reservation is to exclude from the definition Fullscreen games. I see many like Cast & Chill which has the tag already, or lofi-girl-likes study apps that use the whole screen state and are definitely used as desktop companions, like 2nd screen monitor

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Sure hope they fix the stuttering, hard to enjoy racing games if they stutter all over the place

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Mostly reasonable changes as far as I can tell.

However, I'd like them to flesh out dynamic collections in the library by allowing OR tag matching instead of just AND matching the way it currently works. Maybe even allow excluding certain tags. Manual overrides by dragging games into or out of a collection should keep working of course.

For example, you could then combine 'cozy', 'relaxing', 'wholesome', and similar tags in one dynamic collection.

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Quoting: SalvatosI feel like that would be an argument for consoles rather than against them. A lot of people don’t need desktop computers anymore since they have an OS in their pocket. Adding one device next to your TV isn’t as space-consuming as putting a computer and its peripherals on a desk with an additional screen — not to mention handhelds.

You're assuming everyone has a TV, which is false. Among single young adults, almost 40% have no TV in their household. Young pairs - 15% are no-TV. Why would they buy a console? Steam Deck sure, but a PS or an Xbox? The numbers will only grow, as over half of young people don't watch TV, so they increasingly see the TV set as a waste of space and money. Consoles in their current form factor are as good as dead. Either they revive PSP or they go bust. But sure, let them try exclusives first, see how that goes. 🫡

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