Icrontic writes: "Steam is being ported to Linux, and it's running well. Could a Valve Linux distro be far away? Let's call it Gabenix..."
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
Valve's march towards Linux and having Steam on Mac is a way for Valve to keep Microsoft from taking PC Gaming for granted and also a way to reach gamers on other Operating Systems.
Windows has been a very nice and enjoyable OPEN platform for gaming but if Microsoft does anything to disturb the flow of openness in gaming, Valve can easily leap to another Operating System with ease.
OpenGL is just as good as Microsoft's DirectX api and can be used on Mac or Linux. So in other words PC Gamers can play PC Games WITHOUT Microsoft software being on their PC's.
Their march towards the land of free software, donations, and mandatory trials, sounds profitable.
Linux isn't going to be the solution.
I actually can see the "gabenix" distro as very possible since valve just announced that the first software that are not games on steam will be released soon. Seems suspicious to me on why they would release non-gaming applications even though we don't know what the actually applications are yet.
Eventually there will be an Operating System on PC that has people dropping Windows.
Will it be Linux or a Linux based OS who knows but it's gonna happen and when it does companies like Valve will be first in line to ditch Windows completely which seems to be the trend anyway as Devs wanna program directly on the GPU without an Api!
i strongly believe Apple will OPEN UP OSX and start selling it on the PC. That move will only make Apple even more Billions.