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.
drm removed
I love Stop Killing Games, a movement against drm stuff. Also the Steam DRM-free list is nice too
GoG, my friend
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.
You are describing my relationship to Fallout 4.
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 👍
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
Same, not enough space?
Or do as I do.
- buy game
- try to fix the game on Linux for 5hrs straight
- learned a lot. worth it.
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Yes, once every time you distrohop.
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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.
EasyAntiCheat doesn’t have an excuse it’s essentially a switch.
Indeed. What sucks is that it is off by default, I figure most small-time devs simply need to be told it exists. I definitely wouldn’t excuse the big players though, most AAA game companies can get fucked for all I care.
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Roblox is working on it there is unofficial way using grapejuice coming soon.
Roblox already updated the client to allow the AC to work on Wine. It works through grapejuice now.
What? I thought Steam VR wasn’t working, I’v checked recently. How did you get it working?
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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.
You can actually use headsets like a Quest 2, Pico 4 or Lynx R1, both wireless and through a wire. Check out ALVR, it works reasonably well!
Good point! I was aware of ALVR, specifically that it supported the Quest, but I wasn’t sure how stable it was. I didn’t know it supported those other headsets, that’s cool!
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.
Yeah, there’s this very obscure match-3 game I wanted to play because of nostalgia. The series peaked with 3 and 4 (and those are the ones we played on the family computer circa 2015) and worked perfectly on Windows. Now 3 works perfectly (in terms of compatibility) but 4 was better (in terms of gameplay). 4 is marked as borked, last I checked. For anyone wondering, it’s The Treasures of Montezuma series.
I don’t agree. There are cases with Windows only root kits for DRM, but there are also games that don’t work because of bugs. You see games coming out that barely work on Windows.
I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux since 2014. Gaming on Linux is so good nowadays, thanks to Proton, there are so many amazing titles available to play. Proton makes it all easy - thanks to it, it’s just a matter of hitting install and play on Steam (in most cases).
There are so many of them, If something doesn’t run on Linux, I just don’t care. My backlog of great games is so big, who cares about some singular titles that are not available.
I’ve recently been playing Baldurs Gate 3, ARMORED CORE VI, Anno 1800 and Battlebit Remastered on my Ubuntu rig. All run great. Neither need any special tweaks (I own them on Steam).
BG3 and Battlebit Remastered are especially stellar.
I recommend BG3 to anyone who likes true roleplaying games with great writing, reactivity and player agency.
Battlebit Remastered is a great multiplayer title with massive 256 player battles and it sits somewhere between Battlefield and Squad (a mixture of arcade and mil-sim elements).
Modern (post DS2) From Software games tend to run flawlessly on Linux. They are one of the greatest developers now. No bullshit, just greatness all around.
I heard a lot of BG3, although I dont have any doubt that it is a great game, I dont think it suits my taste. Battlebit tho, I’ll check that otu.
This comment sounds like chatgpt
I’m just some meatbag, unfortunately, though I’d happily merge with machine If I could.
But only if it’s an open source, penguin style machine.
Isn’t it still true that a Nvidia card is better for gaming with Linux than AMD or Intel?
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.
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 love you Richard Steaman
No, it is actually GNU/Linux+Steam 😒🤓
(Please don’t take this comment seriously, it’s a joke)
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.
Tap for spoiler
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 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.
Minecraft and Dota2 run on Linux :)
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.
Now that is based as hell.
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
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.
