Those older Nvidia cards haven’t got updates on Linux in many years, so their performance will always be worse on Linux than Windows and any driver issues aren’t going to be fixed.
It’s just another reason why proprietary drivers suck.
It’s a launcher for other game launchers, but it doesn’t provide downloads for other launchers.
Most publishers now go for their monthly licensing model for Denuvo.
But I think Sega must have some kind of perpetual contract as an early Denuvo adopter they don’t offer anymore, because otherwise they’d be losing money on the monthly payments for their older games.
As for Ubisoft, they just love DRM. They’ve had games stacking 5 different types of DRM before despite the obvious redundancy.
The Nazi rune company hangs out at the Nazi bar? I’m shocked.
Yet they barely support playing on an OS you actually own and only really support the proprietary DRM-filled Windows
Even EA have realised at this point that nobody wants their launcher and it damages sales, and stopped putting it in their new games (except Sports titles for some reason)
Ubisoft will keep making bad decisions until it bankrupts them.
Tencent already has an alternative in China known as WeGame, it only has government approved games so if any Chinese gamer wants the majority of games they’re going to use Steam.
When the competition (excluding any stores operating at a loss to build marketshare) is charging both developers and gamers more, they’re less bothered about Steam taking 20-30%. Consoles charge 30%, have extra fees, take a cut of third party keys (or restrict them altogether) and require a mandatory subscription for online play/cloud saves, while disallowing third party stores on their hardware.
All of the Steam Controller’s actually distinguishing features wouldn’t work with XInput though. If you’re not interested in that stuff you’d save money going for a basic Xbox controller or third party one.
I imagine it’s like the Deck where desktop mode has 2 modes so you can switch to use it for non-Steam games.
Thank god for Australia, can always rely on them to one-up our stupid vague UK laws.
The worst part is it’s probably started with good intentions, but then they base serious allegations on “media reports point to” and start using it as an excuse for more surveillance and ID verification.
The HDMI forum is made up of those TV manufacturers, so I doubt they’d help push an open standard that’d earn them less.
It’s interesting how people ascribe a game or series’ failure to whenever they became disinterested in it. Saints Row 3 and 4 were the best selling games on the franchise.
The problem with a price war is Valve is “just” a multi-billion dollar company, very impressive for their size but a $100bn company like Sony and especially a $3 trillion company like Microsoft could squeeze them out of the market.
And they would have to subsidise the cost by far more than Sony/Microsoft do due to the smaller scale of production and more expensive newer contracts.
As long as it’s comparable price or cheaper than a pre-built of similar specs or building a similar build yourself, they’ll be a market for it. There’s always people looking to get into PC gaming and existing PC gamers who want their Steam library in a console form factor.
Is this improving their product? These changes benefit users on non-Valve hardware playing any game on Linux (including non-Steam games). Like I’m glad Valve is funding talented free software developers to work on whatever they want but the benefit for Valve is very indirect.
Right now it’s at the very top of gog.com
The realistic question is how would you enforce something like that, the recent push for age verification has been terrible for privacy and security.
People have already been streaming VR from Steam Machine to Quest devices, so something doesn’t add up.