I personally think a 30 percent cut is high in todays time especially with the budgets, pricing and amount of players/sales generated nowdays.

That said, it's not as if they do not provide a service. It would only be problematic in my eyes if they did actively prevent the developers to distribute on other stores.

If there is no competition with better pricing and a good user base, that's hardly Valves fault. And it's not as if their cut went up, it was always there.

And ... an app like Steam is not tremendously hard to make, especially for big players. That they do not succeed to compete has other reasons. And if the big players wanted they could unite and do a platform, distribute their titles for free there and allow others for a 10 percent cut to distribute on their platform.

Allow steam keys for games to be imported for free, make the pricing better than on steam, there you go, you do have a competitor.

Nobody is willing to do that, everyone who creates stores wants the cash cow business for themselves, sells at the same price as steam or only a little bit below that, and has 25-30 percent cuts on games not from them too, and therefore does not succeed. Since I will not switch either if another platform has no reasonable advantage for me as user, neither will developers.

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Seems to have introduced some fresh issue in Solus (https://discuss.getsol.us/d/6667-wine-66-breaks-cant-load-dlls/4). May be caused by the actual fix to the issue mentioned above.

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Oh, Alan leaving. Will be interesting where he shows up again. I can see that there are few challenges at Canonical more and more becoming only a distributor for guys like him. Innovating is less of a topic now, more maintaining.

I'm sure he found something interesting. We'll see end of the month on which shore the tides washed him up.

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I really never played it. As a fan of C&C and Starcraft I should really play this one ...

Especially since I like campaigns and they do have one :-).

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Divinity: Original Sin 2

No, I did not read that. It's not there.

Oh damn, weekend wasted.

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Incredible what kind of popularity this game has.

And it perfectly well shows... it's not AAA what makes a good game. A good concept, implementation and uniqueness to some point.

With all their popularity they may exhaust their user base so they will not gain too many sales after launch. But I guess the money coffin is filled enough to finish it with a good profit. Judging Odin... he and the team will work on the game until Odin is pleased... I think financial resources are there for that now.

I am happy for them, I already bought it but despite the 10 hours I played I will wait ... until Odin is pleased to play the rest of the game.

Congrats (again) to Iron Gate. It's those stories which make me believe there is still room for fun and unique games.

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I always find them overpriced, this one included.

Preinstalled Linux is no must for me.

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When they talk about vulkan rendering fixes, has this any impact on VKD3D/D9VK or is this their Vulkan implementation they are talking about?

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With those numbers we gotta hope Odin stays on the ground.

While that kind of success and money is well received, it often leads to over ambition and failure.

Let's hope the world tree keeps him and the team well grounded.

Lets hope the norns are in good will of what Odin favours.

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Hmh, never thought about that for my home / couch setup. Not the Linux-PC side... that's one anyway, but I could put one of those Raspberry Pis to use and use it as a console setup for steam link on PC... never even came to my mind. And probably still can make use of those nice Steam controllers? :D.

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