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Quoting: Purple Library GuyValve is frankly a really weird company. I'm sure all the other companies look at it and think, to quote a certain Dr. from Austin Powers, "Not Evil enough".

Why would they? Valve is nowhere near the open source contributions of other closed source companies (e.g. Apple & Microsoft).

Valve has a market cap of 78 billion. Apple has the highest market cap in the world, 2.752 trillion - some 35 times the size of Valve. Microsoft has 2.211 trillion, Google 1.773 trillion. We are talking about one or two orders of magnitude of difference. Valve are a store that sells games, a super large store in its niche, but those others are world powers comparable to the richest countries in the world. And software is one of their main products, though ever more giving way to "software-as-a-service".

Edit: to make it clearer, Valve is 0.078 trillion, and less than 3% of Apple.

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This is seriously cool of them. Not like a huge thing (they have already done plenty of those), but still a display of goodwill and openness that is completely uncharacteristic for a big corp releasing their own console.

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Plenty I'm interested in on that list, though those are mostly unexciting games that already run well on Linux and on whatever old hardware you might have laying around in a box. I can play Stardew Valley and Dead Cells, impressive! xD

But I noticed Total Warhammer on that list, and that's exciting - a heavy AAA game, and some hope that "proper" strategy games will work with the Deck controls and screen size.

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Finally Windows users can see what they were missing all this time. Maybe Windows gaming is finally going to become viable? xD

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QuoteThere’s only going to be one single tier at $11.99 / £8.99 / €9.99 - with regional pricing and more regions supported,

If they do add regional pricing for Brazil (and local payment methods), that would be a huge improvement that would make up for all the negative changes they have been making.

Other than that, I feel they are simply chipping away at everything that makes them unique; they might not become worse, certainly not all the time, but I don't think they will remain relevant. Another subscription, might be a good deal once in a while or for some people, but it will compete more directly with everything else.

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QuoteThe developer was also quite responsive when an issue appeared with Proton, submitting their own bug report to Valve that ended up getting fixed.

Ooh, time to reinstall. It stopped working after an update and I just didn't bother looking it up at the time. Very good to know the devs themselves went to this extra mile (well, maybe not an entire mile, but a few extra meters at least).

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A really cool game on sale is Death Crown (needs Wine): https://co5monaut.itch.io/death-crown

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Quoting: LoftyWhat this small list of games show is that you don't need a mega expensive GPU to enjoy quality games.

And Honestly it's not all that bad in some ways, If we keep seeing this as a trend then we can expect some really creative titles to come out that run on lower spec systems that optimize and take advantage of the existing power available.

Considering how much AAA sucks nowadays, not having a mega expensive GPU probably helps.

More seriously, not only quality games, but quality brand-new games. We don't need a recent GPU to enjoy the old "classics", obviously, but people are still making great games today without those crazy requirements. And not games that are good because "gameplay is more important than graphics" - Loop Hero for example looks incredible.

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Quoting: hardpenguinCheck out earlier games by Four Quarters! Lots of really interesting stuff with unique esthethic: https://fourquarters.itch.io/

Damn, I didn't know Loop Hero started as a game jam project. Shows how much potential those jams can have.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere's something I'm not understanding. Apparently,

Quoteyour character automatically walks around and engages in battle with various creatures.

So like, what do you do?

You equip his gear, and choose his skills. But more importantly, you build the loop he goes around - you can place graveyards that will spawn skeletons for him to level up and get loot, or cities where he can heal and get quests, or terrain that will give passive bonuses - but after building so much, you get to the boss battle. Some terrain can speed up the character's movement, so that fewer monsters spawn before you get to each place - but then you miss on the regeneration over time, for example. Some things can make monsters spawn faster, or make monsters stronger, for better loot. There are even combos of terrain that do different things, and that you must discover by playing. And it has a meta-progression like a roguelite, where you carry over some resources after a run and use them to unlock more things for future runs.

It mixes many elements of various game genres - roguelite, autobattler, deckbuilding. But it does not quite belong to any of those.

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