One of the refunds reasons you can select is “the game doesn’t run on my PC”. This is completely valid.
Or do as I do.
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Buy game.
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Never play it.
I have a problem.
Or as I do:
- Watch videos of Cyberpunk
- Think of buying it
- Realize I still haven’t finished Mass Effect
- Never actually buy Cyberpunk.
Currently I’m thinking of Baldur’s gate 3, but you know… I’ll probably get around to it in a few years.
Buying any game after 3-5 years is the way to go. The bugs are fixed, patches are out, so mods are stable and most of the time you can find a sale where it costs 10-20€. And if you forget about it before that time, that means the game was not worth it
On top of that, there might be a bundle with the base game + a few DLCs + christmas discount or whatever.
I think the last game I bought on release was Fallout 4. I’ll still enjoy a game just as much of it is two years old and only $20.
drm removed
GoG, my friend
You are describing my relationship to Fallout 4.
It’s not that great tbh. I spent maybe 6 hours in it and didn’t get hooked. With BG3 however, I’m at 60 hours and I can’t put it down
You’re allowed to get another game even if you haven’t finished a previous one. You’re only here for like 80ish years so why not sample all that interests you?
This is what I feel. I’ve finished ToTK and Baldurs Gate 3 once(so far…), but beyond that I haven’t finished a game in probably years. Hasn’t stopped me from having fun in tons of games over the years. I usually play for gameplay more than story anyways, with a couple exceptions.
Video game monogamy is a recipe for no fun 👍
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Complex and recent games run on Linux these days.
Not allowing run a game in Linux is, nowadays, a choice from its developer rather then a causality. Proton is a really powerful tool!
If a game don’t run in Linux, via Proton or natively, that’s dev issue that actively blocked Linux.
It is almost always due to the anticheat programs.
Still… There are anticheats that allow Linux, like EAC, Hyperion and many others… If they choose one that does not allow Linux, or choose one that allow Linux but block it, it’s a dev issue
Virtually no anticheat worked on Linux just a few years ago except maybe Valve and Blizzard in-house solutions. Games that are out and already committed to a specific anticheat can’t do much but to wait, so it is not really on them. Changing the anticheat solution mid-way on a released game would piss off so many people you can’t imagine. On a brand new game though, I would agree that this should be considered.
All the games o can’t play on linux are exactly this Roblox and their anticheat blocking wine Tarkov and it’s anticheat etc.
Even VR games with my quest 2 can run on linux just fine
What? I thought Steam VR wasn’t working, I’v checked recently. How did you get it working?
On xorg works fine out of the box altough buggy On wayland you need some launch arguments that I dont remember rn
Edit: actually it might also be nobara making some fixes for it for me Would have to check what it does exactly
Steam VR works fine, but you need a headset that supports Steam VR without needing other software. The main options are the HTC Vive and the Valve Index.
Blaming the Publishers and Devs because it’s actually pretty hard to fuck up a game so that it doesn’t work on proton these days
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If there’s a game that can’t run on Linux in the current year then that’s intentional and it’s not worth anyone’s money.
You almost have to go out of your way to make a game incompatible with linux. Considering wine/proton and their various forks cover the vast majority of things at this point.
Even with ACs, the two most used ones completely support Linux. One is completely out of the box, maybe even as far as linux support being opt out. The other requires you to contact its developers to enable compatibility their end iirc.
ngl i consistently have a better experience running games through wine than using their native versions. linux ports are often completely dysfunctional and it sucks ass
True, the fact that you can play modern AAA games as good or better than windows these days means it is flat out a development issue.
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Although I heard it’s because a lot of the tooling for games doesn’t exist on Linux.
So it would actually be the developer’s developer that is too blame or is that all the job of the developer?
Either way it’s because game industry isn’t as mature as on Windows and doesn’t have enough money to fast track it like consoles do.
Although I guess that is a bit of a chicken and egg problem but not really it’s more a kick back grease my palm corruption issue.
Ps. i know what you are thinking:
'Isn’t this a bit long for a spoiler?"
And to that I say:
‘If you preschoolers could read more than one line without getting scared off I wouldn’t have to bury any nuance in a spoiler tag.’
Anyways it’s getting late and I just took a melatonin and I don’t want to stay up too much longer because that really messes me up when I take melatonin and still can’t sleep, is that just me? Idk maybe leave a response answering it so I know you found this.
Thanks for asking and have a good night Love and kisses yours truly random guy on the Internet.
You can hang up now that was the end, what are you waiting for? Is anyone actually going to read this far? You know when the comment turns to rambling it is ok to stop reading.
Seriously, go! This is obviously a waking melatonin induced nightmare, this isn’t interesting.
Ok, I am actually going to leave now, don’t worry about me I don’t actually get nightmares from melatonin but I’ve heard it’s a common symptom but I’ve been actually prescribed it by a sleep doctor I know for a fact that I do need it go worry about something important.
Anyways now that I’ve weeded out all the illiterate people we can talk about mature subjects like they used to on late night TV so the kids didn’t watch anything spicy although that was kids shit compared to what we have now So what about that war with Iran? That was some crazy shit huh? I mean I don’t like when people die but like war is a necessary part of life I personally believe there is no good in war and the only good from war is what you get from it the consequences of war might be good even if you disagree with the actual killing of people so I guess my opinion is that if the war in Iran leads to a better tomorrow then it was worth it, not “Just” because once again you can’t be a good person and kill another person you would need a God to dictate that since you cannot self declare yourself above an equal but you can take the most rational actions possible and in the end aren’t we all a collection of action? And wouldn’t the best action taker be the most moral person?
I don’t know but I really do have to let you go now good night and tell your mother I love her, actually love is a big word tell your mother I banged her and now we don’t know what to do with you, actually don’t tell her that but is there a chance you could like I don’t know not be here anymore? It’s not you it’s me well that’s not true at all it’s entirely your fault and you will probably go to hell but just remember your mother still loves you, not me though but you should also remember your mother is an Idiot.
Anyways good night.
I’d just like to interject for moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, Steam/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Steam plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning Steam system made useful by Steam Proton, DXVK, and vital Wine components comprising a full OS as defined by Valve.
I mean, it is not a fault on Linux’s end. We have all the tools we need in the form of wine and dxvk, it’s the game which fails to work due to some obscure dependency or a mandatory rootkit. One great example is genshin- the game itself works flawlessly, but it has a rootkit which obviously does not work on Linux and you have to patch it out.
Now that is based as hell.
If it’s anti cheat stopping it I blame the game. If it’s a bug or poor performance I just say oh well it will work one day.
Yeah I can’t play rainbow 6 siege since I switched to Linux but I’m staying strong. Fuck ubisoft. And fuck my friends for trying to make me go back to windoz.
Well, you can’t blame developers to not cater to their 1% player base. Especially since that group usually have the most problems and requires more development time.
Is it really that much detached from macOS though? They can dist to Mac then Linux shouldn’t be much different, right?
I was just thinking about this the other day…like games are optized for windows usually, but windows is not optimized for games. A fresh Windows 10 runs at 2gb ram on idle. It all went down hill for gamers when Microsoft killed xp
RAM is the cheapest upgrade possible, unless you’re trying to run a game on 8GB in 2023 idk why you’d be that concerned with RAM usage.
Perpetual software bloat should not be encouraged; idling at 2GB is fucking insane
Really? My arch install is idling at 2.8gb. Picom (310mb), XOrg (160mb) and pipewire (140mb) are big chunks, and kitty isn’t cheap either but the rest is mainly sub 50mb services that all add up. I’m not running anything heavy like Gnome or KDE either, just bspwm and 2 polybar instances (one for each monitor).
How heavy is your kitty? It usually averages at 40-45 Mb on a new window for me (with custom zsh with starship and some plugins, and customised neofetch)
Yeah that’s weird, after a
systemctl soft-reboot, both picom and xorg’s memory usage is way down. Either way, it’s still not that unreasonable to see Windows idling at 2GB.
Especially if they use an engine that natively supports Linux, they have no excuse not to release a Linux version.
There are tons of reasons my dude. You can still have platform-dependant technologies in your game even if the base engine itself supports linux.
