Quoting: FireBurnI really hope they release a remastered Borderlands 1

? This one is already released. And free even, if you got Borderlands classic on steam at least.

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Quoting: TorqachuI hope one day they resolve problem with CEG (warhammer 40000: space marine) and the FMV in darksiders warmastered edition.
So only the vanilla version of Darksiders and Darksiders 2 would be missing to have my entire collection of steam running in proton.
But with warmastered and deathinitive edition this is a minor problem.

It doesn't unfortunately, I tried yesterday. Cutscenes are still skipped. Though there is a report on warmastered proton page where a guy claims it was able to see them with a fix.

It's a shame actually apart form the cutscenes the game works flawless.

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Nice thing for the invisible cursor.

Though this remembers me how annoying is when you play games in big picture mode with controller and the cursor sits there in the middle of the screen. (more so if you steam link and pc is in another room). Ofc it's not a Steam issue, it's a game issue. But maybe is there was an option to launch game in big picture mode and "default" the cursor on bottom dx this could be worked around.

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Quoting: sneakeyboardI'm sure the streaming service will be its own headline, so I'll just keep it short and say that this is the start of another market to be heavily influenced by giant corporations' greed.

We don't even know how much actually. Cloud gaming has the potential to be either the best thing ever or to the ultimate catastrophe for us gamers.

In the past music streaming services battled each other with exclusives and other anti consumer practices. Pirate bay forced them to be more reasonable with their plans and now you can choose Amazon, Google, Spotify, Apple and so on for their service, not for their catalog, all at a reasonable price.

Video streaming started all right. But now that greedy video makers try to eat the streamers slice, the market is about to learn the same lesson. It's already starting to be rather annoying.

The battle of the launchers as it is called the Epic/Steam conflict doesn't much differs from the above. In the end the market will settle to a balance were everybody is happy.

But Game streaming? If developers stop to even release desktop versions there will never be a version to pirate in the first place. Then the shit that Epic store is pouring on us today will look like an utopia. Guys like Sweeney and the likes will be free to charge you as many monthly fees as they like. Then you will either start a mortgage to access all the games you like or will need to choose every month what you will like to play. Which for me it sucks: when I want to play, I know what I want to play in that moment, not one month before. Not to mention that in the world of curated shops/cloud services little gems like Undertale, Stardew Valley, Factorio and so on would never have a chance to even exist. Which means worse games to play overall.

Ofc that's just the worst case scenario. The best one is that it ends like for music. We get all the games in the world, at reasonable price and with many streaming providers to choose from. But for me, the kind of person I am, I will stop gaming entirely if the worse case scenario is what is coming. But since I feel that I can't really do do anything to stop it, I will just live by the moment and enjoy my Steam library for a few hours before another Sunday ends and a work Monday begins. :)

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And so, one day, they will buy third party games and release them exclusively on linux. And I will be forced to stand up for the windows junkies out there. This gaming world is so messed up.

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: MalA sad day for consumers.

Huh? Why?

That shouldn't even be explained. When someone decides for you what you are entitled to express your opinion on, that someone is free to shit on you.

Like:

You're not entitled to have an opinion on a game getting a new DRM (and one day you find out you can't play your product anymore).
You're not entitled to have an opinion on a developer moving his game form one platform to another (and you planned to play with friends but now if he buys he'll be on a separated platform).
Your're not entitled to have an opinion on a game getting a change in price policy (again maybe you planned to play with friends, but with the new pricing they're cut out)
You're not entitled to to have an opinion on a dev promising something and then not delivering (you bought because you trusted the devs, but they took money, showed you middle finger and you can't even manifest disappointment)
You're not entitled to to have an opinion on a publisher enforcing a new EULA that kills streams and videos (maybe you like to imitate pros on twitch when you buy game or you like to stream/youtube yourself)


And so on. Those are just examples of -in my humble opinion ofc- legit opinions that covers aspects of the product that do influence your experience but that the average authoritarian redditor would dismiss review bombing. Unless he's one in the minority being damaged ofc. In the end the real issue of this age is lack of empathy on the Internet.

Then I'm all for better review system, more clear, that allow you differentiate score between aspect of the product. I'm also open to discuss when a review tool is indeed abused, like when the mob punishes a dev for his legit ideas and opinions rather that for actual actions that had an observable effect on customer fruition of the product.

But in 2019 claiming that software is just a bunch of binaries and that everything around it from support, publisher policies, associated media, distribution platforms, pricing, DRMs, EULA and so on are totally unrelated to the product, have 0 effect on customer experience and thus must not be subject to end user review... frankly speaking: it's bullshit.

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A sad day for consumers.

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Quoting: subHaha.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/b15k8g/epic_games_launcher_appears_to_collect_your_steam/

No.

But not really surprising if this SteamSpy guy is now in charge at Epic.

Well. Look at the bright side. It could be worse. They could be scanning you hard drive looking for words like China, Xi Jinping or Winnie the Pooh.

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Steam stream service over the Internet. It might be that my next rig is actually an aws instance or something of the likes.

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Quoting: TcheyI' ve reported the games i tried, but now i don't have any more game i want to try on Proton, so i don't report anything. I mainly have native Linux games, and overtime, my library went from "Windows only" to "Some Linux" when i was dual booting, to "99% Linux only" since a stopped dual booting about 5 years ago.

Maybe it's the same for many others ? That's a part of why the reports are going down over time.

Like you, all my windows games are older than Steam for linux.

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