I'd be curious to see if any games decide to bootstrap DXVK or similar without wine directly into their game / engine. I am curious if it would make porting easier, or even be a functional idea to porting to Linux.

Most people on Linux are pretty BIG on maintaining as much control as possible -- programming is no different -- why license and deploy proprietary dependencies when a in-house alternative can be a better fit.

In web programming it's pretty much the same -- why include 100 different javascript libraries with conflicting dependencies written by some dude across the planet and unsupported when you can just go minimal and maintain as much project control and independence.

A good example is there used to be a WordPress plugin -- NextGEN Gallery, that got sold and bought, and come version 2.0, the JSON API completely changed thereby ruining weeks of work due to API version incompatibility.

These are the kinds of problems you get when you rely on other people's software. Being Store Agnostic is a pretty smart move.

/rant

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Gonna follow this.

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Valve has the highest profit % per employee out of any company in the US.

They should jump on this and get him in a passionate place making improvements to the whole.

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This greatly increases my likeliness and interest to buy Itch games.

I pay money so that someone else can organize, update, and manage my games.

I currently own 0 Itch games. So this could be a game changer for me to come abord.

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Been waiting a long time on this one, glad I will be playing after Beta is over.

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Nice, SS1 is still towards the top of my most anticipated and excited for.

Looks like they are on track and doing well.

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Quoting: GuestI feel this game has been so under-rated over the years

Loved the original natural selection and also love natural selection 2, it always irked me they never became as big as something like counter-strike because NS is fantastic and not THAT hard to understand how to play once you get the general gist of everything

In hindsight I think that the game was extremely CPU and GPU hungry and this probably was one of the "setbacks" to it becoming "widely popular".

IIRC One time I loaded the game and it took 2 or 3 minuets to update the map data file to the new layout just so I could play the game. (I can't recall if I was still on spinning disk 7200 RPM or SSD at that point), on a Laptop that would be painful. (It was prior to getting to the title screen, I would have appreciated being able to move around the menus and options while it did it in the background.)

I remember having a $400 GPU and cranking the settings up as high as possible and I couldn't get a crazy frame-rate, I had choppy issues on my i7.

Look at games who do the opposite -- Minecraft and Terraria will run on a potatoe. Or rather, any laptop lying around even if it has a shitty Intel GPU. (We all know Intel is awesome and stable as fuck but for gaming doesn't deliver much on the GPU juice.)

Also, being a "for-profit" game and not free-to-play, I honestly think they could explode if it was Free to Play and they borrowed a page from DOTA 2 TI Championships.

This year alone IIUC DOTA2 raked in 100 million dollars, 25 million of which when to the prize pool, 11 million of which went to the #1 champion team.

Not including profits from skin purchases and other things. They essentially have added a RPG circle to their game to get players to complete compedium books, challenges and other things to win prizes.

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Highly recommend this game, it has local 4 player multiplayer and covers a genre that hasnt been filled on Linux. Its pretty fun and immersive and the retro graphics kickass in addition to solid mechanics.

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or just make a category called windows and add those gsmes to it and collapse it. no big deal.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: dubigrasuI know what I think about this.
I know what you think about this.
I just wanna know what Feral thinks about this.

Head Feral Linux guy left recently.

Perhaps he was (Hollywood term) "hip to the chase".

He left to work on Unity...Which really needs him. But, I am sure Feral are going to be fine as I will personally use and buy a native version over Proton (am I nerd when I think of Star Trek?).

Your FACTS are not helping cultivate FEAR or FUD, lol.

Because now that we suddenly realize that SteamOS becoming a success is still in the roadmap, we must shift our pessimism to some other Linux thing to be affraid about -- suchas Feral Games having X-negative impact / bullshit.

If we could just hold off the FUD for at least 24 hours please.

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