Quoting: scaineI follow a lot of indies on Twitter who genuinely despise Steam. Not just for taking a 30% cut, but for taking that cut and giving almost nothing back. They argue that the lure of the biggest audience for gaming is useless when Steam's algorithms are geared to only highlight AAA or "popular" content.

The same argument and frustration is often voiced around Play and Apple's store - they take their 30% cut but unless you magically put out the next minecraft, factorio or limbo, you're gonna languish with pitiful sales until you go out of business.

If you don't sell anything, you won't pay. And if you have to rely on the additional few percent per sale you can get on alternative stores you have been doomed from the get go.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceI can't stand it when I see people on forums saying how "game x" has some issue on Proton or Wine and hopefully the developer makes a Linux version some day so they can play it properly. They fail to see that they have no more leverage, they already own the game and the publisher and developer has their money. If someone wants to buy Windows games then by all means do what you want to but it is delusional to think that buying the game without Linux support will somehow make a publisher change their mind about Linux support.

But it happens. Not often, but it does. Most recent example would be Metro Exodus. (OTOH we have publishers who drop their well established Linux ports.)

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Quoting: CyrilI didn't buy anything on Humble for a long time, and I'm pretty sure I won't in the future.
I hope a lot of people will simply boycott them...
And

QuoteToday we’re sharing some updates coming to bundle pages and how they will help us continue to support charity.

Yeah, sure!

Which other store out there supports charities at all?

As for the other posts here claiming their "disappointment with HS" - what did you expect? The first Indie Humbles (11 year ago) were the first time I could professional games for Linux at all. Nowadays I have a backlog of hundreds of games (quite a few AAA titles among them). Even a proper Humble Indie Bundle would hardly be exciting nowadays - you've seen it all before on Steam already.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoSO, no benchmark tool included?

There is one on the command line, but according to Phoronix it's currently not working properly.

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Well, that was to be expected. The campaign ended in March 2017 and they wanted to deliver 18 months later in December 2018. They didn't reach any stretch goals, so feature creep was not to be expected. They delivered 4 years or 48 months after the campaign finished. Interestingly enough the somehow managed to finish a Mac version but it still reeks of incompetence on several levels.

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Had the same mouse pointer issue - for me it appeared some revisions ago: Had the game's own cursor and a system cursor on screen. The latter one never disappeared.

Though other issues remain:

• amdvlk gives abysmal frame rates (< 30fps) while radv racks up 100+ fps easily.


• After a few games overlay graphics (like messages, the progress bar, markers of bases, etc.) get messed up by partially disappearing and/or sporting rainbow-like background colors. This again is more frequent with radv than with amdvlk.


• Quite frequently the "checking files" period when launching the game takes ages despite residing on an SSD.

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Quoting: legluondunetI enjoyed playing the first opus: a video game with such quality: humor, reflexion, action, ambiance...
Is this second opus as good as first one?

I assume you have been living in a cave somewhere out there for the last ten years. A little heads-up: We've had a pandemic for more than a year now. Just in case you are wondering...
Back to Portal 2: It improves on the first one in every aspect - storyline, mechanics, content. (Naturally the whole portal idea was not new anymore.)

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Quoting: bubexel

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: bubexelIt reminds me people saying same at half life 2 because it had no software rendering and no everybody can afford a video accelerated card. When you play for first time 3D games with a good accelerated videogame you don't want anymore software accelerated games. Same feeling i have with VR. I have a problem with flat games atm to be honest.

Not the same thing. Hardware accelerated rendering was a better replacement for software rendering. However, VR gaming is not a replacement traditional gaming. It is an entirely different beast that needs a different approach to games. I would love to have more high quality VR games, but I don't want to give up the regular ones.

It's exactly the same thing. VR is a better replacement of Flat Monitors. 3D games was not replacing tradicional gaming, we still have 2D release gamings.

No, it is not. Quake II superseded Quake which superseded Doom which superseded Castle Wolfenstein. And in the case of Quake I and II you could still play the game without 3D acceleration. Slower and less attractive but otherwise still the same game.

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Quoting: bubexelIt reminds me people saying same at half life 2 because it had no software rendering and no everybody can afford a video accelerated card.

In 2004? I assume you the complainers could be counted on ten fingers. By that time 3D cards had been on the market for about 8 years and Quake II from 1997 had already set the de-facto requirement of a 3D card.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

QuoteWe'll do our best to convince developers and publishers to allow Linux users to participate in competitive modes. Still, we must be honest with them and disclose our reduced detection capability on Linux.

They won't, even though it just means 1% of their player base might be able to cheat easier.

Actually this might be a boost in Linux gaming never seen before.

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