ZERO excuse for geolocking to ever exist. we have technology beyond our wildest dreams to freely and instantly share content anywhere in the world and fucking corporate hogs can’t let a single good thing exist.
Games that have native Linux versions are uncommon, but Steam on Linux includes a program called Proton, which provides a Windows-compatible environment so that games made for Windows can run without being manually ported. It isn’t exactly the same, so some games don’t work quite right, which is why not every game is compatible with Steam on Linux.
Any game that’s compatible with the Steam Deck should run fine on any other Linux system, as long as the underlying hardware is powerful enough.
Games that work are generally exactly the same. If you sit down in front of a Pc already running the game you cant tell the difference.
Sometimes you need to fiddle a bit to get a game working. Sometimes you click play and you play. Some developers dont want you to play their games so they dont work (anti cheat).
Most things work very well. Some games are more fun to get working than playing the game in my experience.
If the game is reasonably well-coded, there’s not going to be any obvious difference between a game running on Windows, a game running native on Linux, and a game running using Proton.
I mean yeah, you could have some performance impact (usually light, occasionaly not so), maybe video not playing (some games use video formats for cutscenes which can’t be distributed on Linux installs), or maybe issues with windowing (Tropico 6 has an weird bug where the game mouse pointer has a bit of offset compared to the real one, until you change screen size).
But in most cases, if it works, it works the same.
Timed exclusives suck. Thank goodness Valve don’t attempt that nonsense. I’d love to see Epic sales figures on how popular TH1+2 actually was and whether the exclusivity was worth it.
Please God no. Valve is the only video game company I have any respect for. If they sell out, there will be nobody left. It’s a terribly sad time for video games at the moment, and I’ve been playing them for 40 years.
Well, CD Projekt had the entire Cyberpunk launch fiasco and ID is now a part of Bethesda who basically ruined their IPs so I can see how you could lose respect for them
True, but my reference was for all the past work. You can appreciate the past and condemn the present products, its not like they committed a crime that they have to be unrecognised.
Who’d have thought that they have eyes and can do basic math?
Valve is a money printing machine with a ludicrously devoted client base, it’s a no brainer to want to buy it, but it’s not publicly traded so good fucking luck LMAO.
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