Quoting: Talon1024The organizations and companies that support individual Linux distributions don't place restrictions on third-party developers either. However, most proprietary software developers don't release for Linux because the market share and fragmentation of Linux is generally not profitable.

you are ignoring that most repositories from most distributions refused to distribute proprietary software, didnt had any way to purchase then (up to until today i guess?) and lack any form of DRM, wich is especially hard to enforce on an open source system...

those are the main reasons why they dont relase games for us.

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Quoting: ShadowXeldronThe Yuzu and Citra takedowns basically put me off purchasing any new Nintendo titles (at least for their current platform; to my knowledge they get nothing off the secondhand market for the obsolete stuff so I'm still collecting for that), and this only gets me to go further. If they don't want us playing their games, then we won't.

Yet I'm nowhere near as furious about this takedown as the last one? Don't get me wrong, I'm still mad, but I guess it's because I was actually affected last time on account of actively being a Citra user when it happened. I have got Lime3DS installed, but it's only really a matter of time until they go after it.

actually the second hand market give then money.
i mean, if an person sell an game, this person might use the money to purchase an new game from the same company.

on the other hand, if such person is stuck with an copy they cant sell anymore, they might think twice before investing again in an game with no resell value.

[update]
i dont know if the term resell exist, so let me rewrite that:
no value in the used market.

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Quoting: EssojePeople ask me why I don't support Nintendo games or products. I give them a list of the outright shitty stuff they've done to their fans throughout the years.
Another line added.

can i borrow this list?

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the best way to fight against cheaters is match maker, put then to play against thenselves

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: elmapulits even possible to fix that without breaking the functionally of all existing printers?

Create a MITM Print Server? Maybe from a Raspberry Pi? As for how you get the files from the device to the print server -- that's up to you really.

(Of course this implies eliminating cups from all LAN devices except the print server which is connected via USB or whatever.)

i mean... software update...
your scenario is realistic for tinkers and companies but not for the average joe.
unless someone plan to sell an new class of devices...

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its even possible to fix that without breaking the functionally of all existing printers?

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from the thumbnail of the article, i would say:
the so called remake is just an stupid take on the original art direction...

i never played this game, and probably should, but... the mainstream game industry dont seem to deserve my money, they could just re relase the game and focus on new ideas instead, this seems stupid.

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Quoting: StellaUnfortunate as it is, this is why Linux native actually is better. Socially and economically, it is the only reliable way publishers indicate actual support for Linux. They don't just throw out some software and let Valve put a checkmark on it. If they use a wrapper, it is part of their internal build, and doesn't appear to be a "Proton game." And all this was entirely predictable from the beginning. If any Linux user says "I won't pay for games that aren't actually supported on my computer" then other Linux users routinely ridicule them on sites like this.

If Proton is there forever and Valve does nothing to shift publisher behavior then we are all just waiting for Proton and Steam Deck support to inevitably die due to the failure of Valve's subsidy. Then the carriage which brought Steam Deck users to the dance will turn back into a pumpkin and the entire Linux gaming market, now hollowed out by the exodus to Proton, will disappear as the entire Steam audience switches to Windows on some small device suspiciously shaped like a Steam Deck.

except that many linux games that did supported linux natively stoped working after a few time because linux dont have an strong comitment to backward compatibility, meanwhile wine/proton do.
its much easier for the linux comunity and companies like valve to put effort into ensure that wine/proton never break than ensuring every game in the world never break.

for an company, porting to linux means wasting 10% or more of the income of the game into porting to an platform that would generate 1% more money, wich means they wasted more money than earned, it was possible to make a profit when linux had no games, because the developers had no competiton, but that is not sustainable when we do have competition.
if we relied on native ports without finding any way to expand the market we would be doomed to fail just like we failed in the past, where we did had some AAA games in the doom era, but not much more than that.

with the current strategy at least we have a chance.

valve is in a much better position now than in the past, they didnt had enough money to convince everyone to port their games, and companies had little incetive to do it thenselves.

now its different:
1)valve can expand the market, by creating an new market (portable pcs)
2)valve can expand the market by targeting regions that were unlikely to buy games on pc but likely to buy on handhelds (eg: japan)
3)on linux, valve barely have any competition, wich means that most of the games sales on the deck would be on steam, at the same time, if solutions like heroic, lutris, and others evolve or if other companies start supporting linux, then valve will lose sales but at the same time microsoft will lost dominance.
4)the cost of porting games is too high, there is no economic of scale in doing that, if most companies use the same game engines then the cost of those engines to support linux is more feasible, but still valve (and us) would have to count on the engine developers to treat linux as an first class citizen, so writing translation layers is the only feasiable solution, it has economics of scale because it affect all games, so even if it cost more than the profits of an sigle game its still viable.


now... there is this... sabotage if you ask me...
but i hope that isnt enough to kill our momentum, maybe people can use something like geforce now to keep access to this games, afterall, they already need an internet connection.

if the worst came and valve realize they cant compete without those online games, then they will have to make exclusivity deals/exclusive games, a lot of people will complain and they arent likely to do that, but it will be that or the death of linux gaming.

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honestly i dont think this is a good idea.
strixpoint already proved you can have arm consumption on x86 hardware, and valve is already wasting a lot of resources making proton and testing all the games, in fact, steam receive new games faster than valve can test then, now imagine if they add another target (arm) and want to have an good performance on it?

maybe seling on android can pay for the costs, but i dont think mobile gamers will change the type of games they play, making an steamdeck 2 arm based... it seems to soon for that.

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Quoting: Stella2) Valve only tests a game once, and then usually never again, which is problematic because proton keeps getting better, but also like pointed out, DRM and anti-cheat get added to games. At the very least they should add the proton version this was tested with

that is wrong, there are tons of games they tested again and again to see if its working now.
you can check it by yourself making an list of unsuported games that you wan to play on checkmydeck.ofdgn , then checking if something changed, i have a list with 153 titles that were unsuported but now 49 of then are playable/verified

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