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woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu do games w I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

Aren’t we all supposed to be against monopolies, steam needs competition

Steam is not a monopoly. The vast majority of PC gaming revenue is made outside Steam. Fortnite: EGS only, not on Steam. Minecraft: own web storefront and Microsoft Store, not on Steam. Roblox: I think it has its own storefront, it’s not on Steam.

Steam has an estimated revenue of 8.6bn out of PC gaming’s overall 45bn. It’s very far from even approaching 50%, let alone surpass it.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/50-Years-of-Video-Game-Revenue-Dec-30.jpg

I don’t mind other storefronts. What I mind is people spreading the false narrative as if one of the most widely installed storefronts (EGS because of Fortnite) is somehow the little underdog.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu do games w I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store

No, Steam games do not have DRM by default. By default Steam is a mere download manager. For Steam DRM to be applied, the publisher has to run the drm_wrap command: partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm

Feel free to use SteamCMD: developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD

Where do you get those lies from? I’d kinda get it if Steam’s documentation for publishers was behind a NDA wall but it’s public.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu do games w Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away

Xbox is locked down and barely has any security issues on user hardware.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu do games w Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away

Not a single Microsoft game runs natively an Windows ARM.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu do games w Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away

Also it’ll be running windows

Xbox’s Windows is not the same as PC Windows.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu do games w Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away

So, Microsoft – how’s Windows for ARM coming?

Phil Spencer doesn’t know his employer makes ARM computers. Not even Microsoft Solitaire Collection has a native ARM port.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu do games w Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support

Probably not. The main culprit is probably the bundled, Chromium-based web renderer (CEF), not Steam itself.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu do games w Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support

My Steam Deck runs most games just fine.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu do games w Nintendo has lowered its Switch forecast after sales fell 31%

Also the market is pretty saturated at this point. People who want a Switch got one years ago.

woelkchen, 7 miesięcy temu do games w Nintendo has lowered its Switch forecast after sales fell 31%

Backwards compatibility on both Xbox and PlayStation cause problems as well.

By default Steam Deck users are presented with the “Best on Deck” tab in the store which is for verified games only.

Deck allows for tinkering and unverified games but it’s not the default experience. As a daily Deck user you should be aware of that.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

And yet somehow I still doubt we’ll see it until Linux gets a much higher marketshare.

CD Project is doing nothing to improve that market share, hence why I don’t care to spend any money on GOG.

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu) do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

GOG is funding the FOSS Heroic Games Launcher through an affiliate partnership

GOG has an affiliate links program. Heroic signed up for that. GOG isn’t specifically funding Heroic. Wake me up when CD Project / GOG is hiring a developer of Mesa or something along those lines. You know, an actual part of the technology foundation that’s being used by a wide range of Linux distributions.

An office worker sitting at a desk somewhere at a Linux-running PC is benefiting from technology advancements upstreamed by Valve as part of Steam Deck performance improvements.

Edit: GOG’s “funding” is an advertising tracker:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1aec85c6-672f-4cdd-a3b6-c78bce8aa1a1.png

woelkchen, 8 miesięcy temu do games w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

Steam is not the evil corporation people pretend it is.

Indeed. They’re not saints either but for my personal demands, they offer the best arguments right now. I rank funding improvements to the FOSS Linux stack higher than a DRM-free pile of shame. That may change in the future but for now I prefer Steam over GOG. CD Project is a rich company. They could make a Linux version of Galaxy, put it onto Flathub, make it behave well under Steam Deck Game Mode, and put a tiny fraction of their revenue into Linux improvements.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu do games w Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft

Mario & Rabbids Kingdom Battle was a rare gem from Ubi.

You’re probably right (I never played it). Completely forgot about it.

woelkchen, 9 miesięcy temu do games w Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft

Maybe Ubisoft should for once make a good game (OK, Rayman Raving Rabbids for Wii was a fun romp for a bit). I’m constantly baffled how a company this shitty that’s constantly making super derivative games got so big in the first place.