Quoting: EikeIt fails to demonstrate the actual trend from 2018 to mid-2021 as well as in 2023.

The actual trend is that the number is going up over time. The trend line demonstrates that perfectly.

QuoteIs there any reason not to look for a better representation than this?

Arbitrary curve-fitting is not better in any way - it is much worse.

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Quoting: EikeBecause the linear approximation systematically overestimates all of the oldest points and underestimates all of the youngest points (except a single one we would attribute to some measurement error, probably located in the far east). The line doesn't fit, and this not in a "jumpy" way (as to be to be expected), but in a systematical way. The curve to be approximated isn't linear, at least not over the whole time.

So we could either try two linear curves, or some curve with a slope (slightly) increasing over time.

It's not a fit to a curve. It's not supposed to be a fit to a curve, and it's not trying to be a fit to a curve. It's a trend line: a line which demonstrates the trend over time.

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So if it's coming to PlayStation in 2025 and coming to PC a bit afterwards - 2026, say - that's... just in time to be an early release for the Steam Deck 2.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWait, "Naked Snake"? I had no idea Metal Gear Solid 3 was a porn title!

Really? Solid Snake? Snake Eater? And that's what tipped you off?

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Quoting: Mountain ManThere are different kinds of music licenses. The most expensive one grants rights in perpetuity, which is typically the license purchased by television and movie studios. Or they might cut a deal with the artist (or more likely the record label) to pay a small royalty on every sale.

While video games are popular, they do not generate anywhere near the revenue of a top movie or television studio, so game studios tend to have less clout when negotiating music licensing deals

Games publishers absolutely have the revenue to buy perpetual licences. But whereas film and TV studios want to be able to license their products for re-distribution and syndication - which is much easier to do with clear upstream licensing - game publishers would much rather not have sales of their old titles competing with sales of their new titles. So films/TV get the perpetual licence and games get the marginally cheaper temporary licence.

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Seems like a good time to start a new run. I stopped when one of the earlier big updates dropped. And I'll probably give that a go on my Deck rather than my desktop.

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Quoting: Liam DaweTrue they have two different meanings. Problem is the current system requirements get hooked up to what games support natively. Don’t think devs can note Proton in the system requirements without ticking it for Linux, which then results in a broken Linux download since one wouldn’t exist. A way for devs to tick Proton themselves by default seems would be helpful.

I don't trust game devs with that functionality in the slightest. The user picking the Proton version, absolutely; Valve picking the Proton version for the Deck, sure; game devs are just going to mess it up.

A place on the Store page (and robust encouragement of some kind) for developers to be able to say, "yes, we are testing every update to our game in Proton Stable on a machine that meets these requirements before we release it" would be much more useful. And would get those developers more money from me at least. At the moment we're reliant on the invisible hand of Deck sales to do that, with silence from the devs about whether it's working.

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Quoting: sonic2kkNot great, but not the end of the world either way (and with Wine-GE, which many use for gaming over vanilla Wine nowadays, you may have not have been impacted).

I switched to Linux nearly 20 years ago. This game was one of quite a few that I played in the first few years (when I found the time), and then I got a PS3 Slim and didn't get back to PC gaming till around the time that Steam came to Linux. So, yeah, the temporary regression didn't impact me 😉

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QuoteEmperor - Rise of the Middle Kingdom

Wow. I sunk a load of time into that when I first switched to Linux. It worked fine in Wine back then.

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Of course another thing that they're going to have to consider is whether they're going to have to increase the price of their SteamOS HoloIso Windows 11 device to account for the licensing fee or whether whatever deal they managed to get for folding to Microsoft pressure will let them keep the same price point.

"Worse than a Steam Deck for more money than a Steam Deck" isn't a great place to position your product.

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