Madden... interesting. Seeing how Microtransactions were in NBA 2k20 and the late FIFA titles, anyone with experience on how microtransactions are there?

I basically do not want micro transactions at all in single player gaming, not in any mode. I did hear Madden is not as bad as others, but ... well, that bar isn't exactly low.

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I do not see this as a really bad thing. Other projects with little manpower do the same.

As long as it's not a legal binding CLA or similar I usually do not object. It's their way of defining how they want to run their project.

To be true to call it CLA is a bit overstretched, since it has nothing to do with the code licensing, other projects put things like this in the contributing section and simply deny everything which does not adhere with the rules there.

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Quoting: nepountil they shut down -> How many PAID services Google did really shut down in the past (PAID is important here)? Unlikely - but what happens if Valve shut down Steam? This is a problem for all DRM- or "plattform-protected" games. So, what is an "own game"? If it isn't open source, you really don't "own" it at all. Even GOG games can be a problem if the developer stops supporting them (missing libraries, no support for modern OS, and so on).

I'll say to that, before Steam with its userbase shuts down it's bought and the service will be maintained in a way or another.

For Stadia, google shut down many paid services in the past due to limited use.

I do not see that with Stadia, the big bet investment is done, maintaining it will not cost them a lot. Gaming is a long term bet, and if they want to get into that market the product will need to be kept up for at least 5-7 years to see if it can succeed. If it fails it will have cost google, which they can afford, if they succeed they got a long term money machine.

With android almost everywhere and phones replacing a computer soon with a dock... it is a good bet and the tech is good enough to succeed.

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Quoting: spayder26Stadia, where you pay full retail price to rent games until they shut down, and where an expensive subscription gives you trials and 30 cheap games (which between old, bad, and indie ones, are worth of 20 bucks as a whole on sale).

Still not getting their value proposition against using your own games in services like shadow.tech

I get to play AAA titles which I probably would only have played through once or twice like AC Valhalla or Cyberpunk, on Linux, on a machine which could not remotely hope to run them properly even on Windows.

And I can play from the couch on the TV if I want to.

And shadow.tech has crazy waiting times at the moment. 6 month until you get access... I'll forget the games existed till then.

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Finally. Unsure yet if I will buy in early access or at release though...

Still have AC Valhalla and Cyberpunk to finish on Stadia.

But I will buy it, that's for sure.

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Been on Arch for over 7 years and in the end started hopping again. Got too lazy to setup things complicated I guess, and got mad at opt depends required to get MTP working in Dolphin didn't get installed and it just kept throwing errors at me (we had windows phones at work, they only had MTP as option).

Took me a while to figure what's wrong. And that's why I do not want any arch-based distro, since they will never deliver the best desktop experience out of the box.

But I needed something more or less rolling since I want to be pretty up2date with the libraries I target. Which left me with Solus.

Not always as fast as I'd like with updates, but mostly they have good reasons (I really needed kernel 5.9, which they blocked due to a regression with certain hardware), so I had to run a custom kernel.

But in general I'm very happy with Solus, and it's year 4 now since 1st of January, I never looked back. Which is surprising considering how often I hopped 2013-2017.

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Sad, but ye. When there are licenses expiring...

This means the end for feral getting cuts on linux sales, so it's probably right the original publisher is not advertising it.

Wished they have had some permanent agreement, but when it comes to licensing that's hardly ever done.

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Just subbed Stadia and bought Cyberpunk and AC: Valhalla. I'm only playing on HD, so no 4K, and my connection is about 75 MBIT.

The experience so far has been really better than I expected. So far no lags, no disconnects, stable experience, easy launch. On top of that, no disk space used, no downloads required.

Due to my system growing old, and me being reluctant to replace it, if it makes it to actually have enough titles.. why not. I'm not really in on the game streaming, I keep thinking how often I really have time to replay a game (except of KCD, DA:O and M&B Warband which I got combined more than 1k hours played).

Only thing which bugs me is that my KDE tray keeps popping up when I press escape to exit an in-game menu ... there may be some workaround, but it annoys me (my workaround is hitting the windows button twice :D).

For me playing on linux a streaming concept could work. My setup changed moving to one place with my better half, I'll in future only have a work laptop with docking station and no gaming PC any longer, so remote rendering and a good connection may get me rid of my gaming rig. I'd prefer it coming from Valve though. Just personal preference, also considering what they did sponsor in the Linux gaming marked I'd like to keep giving them some love back. But that will need Valve to get the gears turning and bringing out some serious hit in that direction.

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Certainly looks cool.

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I'll probably try Stadia for this. I doubt my RX460 will do, and I have no plan for a beefy and louder GPU.

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