Quoting: missingno

Quoting: Eike* Fun. If I were a software developer (or say ten), and you'd offer me $200 millions for a single player game or $1000 millions for making hats for years, I'd take the former. It would provide me with more money than I need and satisfaction. (Developers are humans, too!)

Valve isn't one person making a hobby project. They're a business aiming to maximize profits. If you want auteur-driven passion projects, you will find those from independent developers, not a corporation the size of Valve.

Thy can choose to maximise profits, but they are not forced to.

Quoting: Eike* Abilities. I actually am a software developer, but I couldn't design cool hats. If you got both artists and software developers, it would absolutely make sense to give both groups something to do. It's not like you can throw any x people on any task for x people.

Do you think multiplayer games don't need software developers working on them? Just artists?[/quote]
You deleted what I wrote to avoid this question:

Quoting: EikeBoth points are based on me thinking service software games should last much longer than single player games.

Of course you need both, but if the game flies for years, you need more hat makers than game developers.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: missingno

Quoting: Purple Library GuySeems short-sighted . . . 200 million here, 200 million there, pretty soon you're talking about real money!

My mind boggles at thinking of $200 million in profit as "only" and not worth going after.

Opportunity cost. Why make a game that only makes $200 million when they can make a game that makes several billion instead?

I could think of two reasons actually:
* Fun. If I were a software developer (or say ten), and you'd offer me $200 millions for a single player game or $1000 millions for making hats for years, I'd take the former. It would provide me with more money than I need and satisfaction. (Developers are humans, too!)
* Abilities. I actually am a software developer, but I couldn't design cool hats. If you got both artists and software developers, it would absolutely make sense to give both groups something to do. It's not like you can throw any x people on any task for x people.
Both points are based on me thinking service software games should last much longer than single player games.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Stella

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: AsciiWolfNice, but I wonder why they didn't go with Mesa 24.2. Mesa 24.1 is already quite old at this point.

As a Linux user, you should know that "old" means "thoroughly tested and stable".

Yup, I'd rather have older stuff that works properly than bleeding edge with tons of bugs

That's the opposite of what people guessed why Valve's using Arch now, though.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: fenglengshunIs there an UMU counterpart to Scout / Steam for Linux?

What is "UMU"?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: klh

Quoting: basedThat's not how the world works, easier access being sold is still access being sold.

It also doesn't work the way you seem to think it does. It's not access that's sold, it's a client. Do you think Google can sue Hey for "selling access" to GMail?

I never cared for these stores, but from what I picked up, a normal user(*) does not have access to Epic store on Steam Deck, and would get access by buying this thingy.

(*) A normal user never goes into a thing called "desktop mode" on a handheld console. And yes, I do think that's the "normal" (usual) behaviour.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Could someone test the demo on an OLED Steam Deck?

There's a report it wouldn't work, but it does work on my SD 1.0, and I can hardly believe OLED SD is that different.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: nwildnerWhat a nice plot twist for those(including me) living in places where Seagulls are jerks.

Waiting for the Pringles+Laxatives DLC....

You might - or might totally not - enjoy "Just Crow Things", where a can of beans can make you fly faster. Due to reasons. Recoil principle, ya know.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2537920/Just_Crow_Things/

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Deleted_UserIs there a reason why this game is covered here, other than it looks nice? I mean as far as i can see there is no native linux version planned, it is not based on an open sourced engine, etc.
What makes this game special?

Liam's taste, I guess?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: pb

Quoting: ArdjeIf Steam dies, your access dies too to games that use steam DRM. Only those DRM free in the steam store that are downloaded already will continue to work.

Look, if Steam ever dies, it will be a problem for 100+ million people. I am 100% sure someone makes a small program that emulates Steam DRM and you can use it to run any of the downloaded games that used to rely on Steam client calls. Given the scale, it might even be government-sanctioned, lol.

I'd be more afraid Valve could be going to be publicly traded.
Due to the consequences, and the less small likeliness.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: PoliticsOfStarvingI didn’t see a proper response.. I might have missed it though. We have strong consumer protections here, and Valve doesn’t always see eye to eye with how our laws work. That’s been the prevailing theory.

How about they could sell off as quick as they could produce without further expanding the market?

View this comment - View article - View full comments