THE HANDSOME COLLECTION is still on sale: -97%
if you dont buy it now, you never will

i wonder how many linux gamers play it right now. since the sale the numbers went up very fast. its in the top5

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Quoting: BrisseOkay, that's your opinion and your choice, but I think it's important that it's brought up so that people understand what they're getting into with Stadia. Personally I've de-Googled myself almost completely except watching videos on YouTube so it's natural for me to be sceptic about getting into Stadia.

so you dont have a phone? or do you trust apple more than google?
also everything is connected. you dont have to go to google.com to let google know sth about you

who knows.. maybe this side is on a google server, or you have to use some google traceroute to get here, you pressed play on an embedded youtube video.... baammm they got you

they know your IP, with that they know in which city you are, they can look up what this IP did in the past.... lets say 1 hour..... they see you used youtube, and so on..... they made a fingerprint of you

the only way to avoid this is, to use proxies.... change your IP for every website you visist.... NEVER log in anywhere

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again

i use android, google, google maps, google docs sometimes, firefox and chrome

what dont they already know?
the only thing i can think about is watch dogs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7sl507GSrw

you just cant hide or are you guys all using proxies, tor, fake mails, never buy anything online

once the data is out..... it is out and it doesnt matter anymore

i understand your concerns, but it is way too hard to hide a digital fingerprint, so fuck it.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: mylkai dont see your point?
what does google see? when and which game i am playing? steam also has this data, even if you are offline

Technically they can see how you play. Whether you go the pacifist route or go full genocide run. Then they can decide (probably incorrectly) what kind of person you are and share that with other people/organisations that should not know that. Just an option.

same with steam
how do you think a game knows, when you get a achievement?

which game do you have in mind?
i mean i kill everything in rage 2....
i threw torches at random ppl in assassins creed.
if you are playing hatred, or postal.............. everyone knows what you are doing

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Quoting: NeverthelessYou are beeing closely watched while you play. No privacy setting or alternate software can change this. Even on "shitty" Win10 you can simply go offline and play GOG games. People using Stadia might stop buying gaming PCs and hurt that option deeply and forever.

i dont see your point?
what does google see? when and which game i am playing? steam also has this data, even if you are offline

netflix sees when and which movie you are watching? sooo?
they dont care about me. they just show me: "you already watched this episode"

what data does google get, which they didnt have already?

i use google for searching
i use an android phone
i use google maps for navigation
i use firefox/chrome

google knows so damn much about us. stadia cant make that worse

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Quoting: MohandevirMmmm...

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3401136/destiny-2-is-coming-to-steam-in-september.html

Will it support linux (Stadia build)? Will the Windows version run on Vulkan? Will it be playable with Proton?
Not my kind of game, but it's still a big title... No? I'm not familliar with the game.

Baldur's Gate III on Steam too... It's probably just that, but the coincidence makes me wonder.

its F2P and stadia is also free. i am not sure if it makes any sense to make F2P games for any other platform than stadia... maybe for slow internet connections

but if you have like 50mbit, why would you download it? you have to be online... duuuhhh when you wanna play it, it takes 0 space on your drive (steam says 105 GB), its completely silent, you dont have to pay for higher power consumption

if stadia is really that cheap, SHADOW will have a hard time

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i think stadia already has a pretty nice library

especially ubisoft using VULKAN is a big step i think

bethesda already does it, enix lets feral do the work

there are a lot of VULKAN games and why would they use DX in the future, when they have to use VULKAN for staida.... and maybe PS5?

when i see how smooth rage2, doom and wolfenstein works on my PC i am looking forward to more AAA vulkan games

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Quoting: MaathIt will be interesting to see if any of the games on this list which are already out but not available on Linux become available. For example Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The other two in this series are already available for Linux.

i wonder who gets the money for stadia sells
feral, or enix

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Quoting: kompressorHey guys,

Dev who made the post here.

Support is IMO the best metric. I totally agree. If it runs well, doesn't crash, gets regular updates - those are the things I think are vital.

Proton and Wine have done an incredible job making Linux gaming bloom like I've never seen before. Talented porters have always been around but they have a really tough hill to climb - they have to hand port, test, and release each title individually. This is really high friction! Proton isn't perfect, of course, but for zero cost, zero effort I'd submit it is INCREDIBLE. I didn't even realize there WAS a Linux port until I looked into Proton.

I can't overstate that. This is, by far, the game with the most positive feedback on the Linux port that I've ever worked on. That's inclusive of the comments in the forums and here, many of which are obviously critical in one way or another. And that includes games that did ship with hand-built Linux support!

In my eyes, shipping hand-built Linux releases means giving you a product that is updated less often, tested less well and which takes more effort/money all around. Games can get dropped on the floor - we see it all the time. But Proton is a lot more likely to have good Unity support and be updated for many years to come. I'd bet on Valve over the average longevity of an indie studio every time.

You can take away from this what you will - either that I'm dismissing the key issues or that I'm being pragmatic - but what I see is Linux support that is easy for us and that works well for our users. And that makes me happy.

Thanks for reading.

lets see how stadia will change it. i guess wrapping proton around games like assassins creed costs to much performance. google has to pay for every WATT, so i think they want real native linux games on stadia

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Quoting: sarmadHmmm... why couldn't Valve provide a similar line up of AAA titles at the launch of Steam Machines? They could've been successful if they provided such a line up.

because stadia is 1 OS and 1 set of HARDWARE..... mostly AMD

steamOS runs on every hardware with different drives and so on. more to test
also back then VULKAN wasnt a thing

i hope they bring their games to linux on steam, gog and itch too

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