Quoting: TheRiddickI think eventually however Valve will need to make it so Indie developers can pay less on their platform, maybe they can tie it to the release of Source3.0 engine? I don't know...

Most games on Steam are indies. If Valve make things more expensive for the big guys then they'll pull out (rather than, say, EA starting to put their things on Steam again) and the platform suffers. That's why, when they did do a price cut, it was the games that sold lots of copies that benefitted and not the squillions of tiny games.

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Quoting: seamooseIn particular, from Rosen's blog post: "But when I asked Valve about this plan, they replied that they would remove Overgrowth from Steam if I allowed it to be sold at a lower price anywhere, even from my own website without Steam keys and without Steam’s DRM."

"This plan" wasn't just selling their game elsewhere at a lower price, which everyone is free to do, and they do, it was

QuoteI decided that I would provide my game "Overgrowth" at a lower price to take advantage of the lower commission rates. I intended to write a blog post about the results.

He wanted to publicise how he was giving Steam customers the worst deal and try to ride the notoriety to more sales. Given Valve's longstanding policy of "don't habitually give Steam customers the worst deal," they said no. He tried to wave his willy around and then stepped on it himself.

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Quoting: scaineMakes me wonder if the entire purpose of the lawsuit was so that Wolfire Games could price their games differently on other stores without any comeback from Valve as to the practice. Was it an "unwritten rule" that your game would be thrown out of Steam if you tried to do so? I can't imagine how that would stack up in practical terms. Not many games are ever thrown out of Steam and when they are, it's for highly public reasons.

Such a weird lawsuit.

Valve's rules are, essentially, "don't take the piss." This guy allegedly cornered some CSR and said, "I'm gonna take the piss," and the CSR said, "don't."

With Sweeney egging him on on Twitter, maybe he thought Valve would give him some money to go away.

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Quoting: Dan_igrokI wonder how those results are computed. Are these based on total connected users every day? Are they based on a sample of users? On all users at one particular moment?

A window pops up asking if you'd like to take part in the survey. If you say yes, it collects up some information about your computer and sends it to Valve.

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Quoting: hardpenguinAlong with their Steam mobile app updates I wonder if they are FINALLY doing unified webdev and are just gonna re-use same or similar components on all type of screens: desktop, mobile, and big picture.

I just checked the Steam website on my phone, and it's the same as the Steam mobile app, complete with the "you're viewing the new mobile version" message, so it looks like they've already unified those, too.

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Quoting: CybolicOh, that new library management is excellent news! It even supports moving a game to a different library directly from the listing!

I don't know if you've seen what they're intending for the Steam Deck.

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Quoting: AnzaIt's bit of a shame that it might make people quit the game as the coolest things are introduced after that. Pace literally gets faster in the chapter after Route Kanal.

I was going to say that I might give it a third try, maybe using this update, after I'd played some more of the games that I've never played before...

...but then I thought of using the Deck to play games on the toilet (multitasking!) as "clearing your backlog" and now I can't unthink it.

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Quoting: hardpenguinAlong with their Steam mobile app updates I wonder if they are FINALLY doing unified webdev and are just gonna re-use same or similar components on all type of screens: desktop, mobile, and big picture.

They said in one of the IGN videos that the new Steam Deck UI is using the same bits as the Steam desktop client, rather than being a separate product like BPM was.

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QuoteFor people who are still somehow yet to play through Half-Life 2 and the episodes, perhaps this Half-Life 2: Remastered Collection might end up being the best way.

I haven't. I loved the first one to bits, but I never got very far in the second one. I gave it a shot a couple of times, but I just couldn't get into a groove with it.

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Quoting: BeamboomI see so many talk about Stadia this and Stadia that, like running on the Stadia servers requires a Linux build.

It does. Stadia instances are running Debian with AMD graphics. They aren't running Windows.

QuoteWhere did that idea originate from? The way I see it it's exceptionally logical, to he borders of being guaranteed, that Stadia are running the games using a transitional layer, very likely Proton or a derivative therefrom? I mean, with "unlimited" processing powers of a data center there's next to no argument to NOT do do...?

Approximately 3 included DXVK with their Stadia build. Stadia have recently relaxed their stance on translation layers to allow more than that, and have started including tooling of their own for that purpose.

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