I finally got it into playing oxygen not included (in a way that I can actually manage to get by), and that's after hours of youtube watching and wiki reading.

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Quoting: lelorrainIt works only one way with Steam. A good example is the large discount Steam offered recently on "Horizon Zero Dawn", but it was NOT discounted on GOG, still at the initial Cdn$60 which was the same as on Steam ...

See the post above that leaked a piece of the policy. It says they don't want to create disadvantage to Steam users, so if publisher offers discount elsewhere, they should do it on Steam too.

If the publisher offers discount on Steam but not GOG, really it's on them for being unfair. You can't really expect Steam to force them to put the game on sale on GOG because it went on sale on Steam.

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I don't think the claim that thay you can't sell cheaper elsewhere is true even *with* steam key. Back when humble bundle actually had good bundles, I most certainly bought bundles for 20$ (a good deal of which went to charity) *and* got steam keys for ~10 games each.

I only buy on steam now, because yes they absolutely deserve their cut with all the work they are doing for Linux graphics. And if it wasn't for steam, they'd all be stuck in a windows store monopoly with no escape, so drop the lawsuit man, stop wasting everyone's time.

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Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47Which means Stadia has an advertising problem. If only there was a multi-trillion dollar ad company that could help them! Oh, wait, there is. Google is the one company that ought to be able to turn around any advertising failure. The fact that Stadia has an advertising problem, IMO, means the higher-ups at Google aren't taking it seriously.

To be fair, google has an advertising problem for all its products (so I don't think it means a lack of seriousness). Yes, it's an advertising company, but that means they have the infrastructure to get other companies' ads to people. It doesn't mean they know how to make ads themselves.

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Finally a native release that happened because of Stadia.

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Quoting: ixnariI tried playing Shadow Tactics a while back. I was having fun right up until mission 5 or so (the one with Hayato and Yuki), then I found myself saving every other minute, because the slightest misstep resulted in a mission failure. It felt like I was supposed to progress throught the mission in a very specific way, leaving little room for creativity and improvisation.

How was the game for everyone else?

You always have options, but yes saving every 5 seconds is pretty normal, lol

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Quoting: slaapliedjethey don't even allow Firefox to use Stadia, right? They only support Chrome?

I think it's just a matter of Firefox not having implemented the right codecs. Obviously they only tend to chromium, but Google never intentionally tried to make anything exclusive to chromium as far as I know

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Quoting: t3gI can’t wait for Stadia to die out since it’s one big circle jerk here. I get it... Stadia runs Linux but it’s closed off.

I don't think you understand just how much Stadia is funding Linux graphics and Vulkan tools.

I'm not sure anyone does. I get the vague impression they've maybe been doing some of that, and I've tended to assume they must be because there's things they'd want improved to make Stadia work better, but as far as I can tell they've been pretty dashed quiet about it. Do you know anything about what they've actually been doing?

hlsl to spir-v, ANGLE, swiftshader, off the top of my head.

Google helps behind the scenes, so you need to look at developer help rather than end user desktop help.

Also spirv tools (validation, diassembler etc), lunarg contracts, Vulkan CTS work contracts, working on the Vulkan spec itself, etc. Stadia doesn't use mesa, so that's why there is no activity there. I would be surprised if they didn't contribute to the kernel.

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Quoting: t3gI can’t wait for Stadia to die out since it’s one big circle jerk here. I get it... Stadia runs Linux but it’s closed off.

I don't think you understand just how much Stadia is funding Linux graphics and Vulkan tools. You may not use or like Stadia, but you are benefitting from its existence on your desktop.

It would do us all good if Valve is not the only one interested in Linux.

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Quoting: Bumadarhovering the mouse over the first instance of the word

Not mobile friendly!

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