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- Comment on Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future 1 week ago:
Linux market share is still very small, so it makes perfect sense that devs make their games for Windows: they get Linux compatibility for free. Developing a native Linux build requires extra investment for next to no return. There are lots of bad Linux ports that run much worse than the Windows build running through Proton.
Larian released a Steam Deck optimised build of Baldur’s Gate 3, but only because one of their devs really wanted to make it happen and most companies don’t work like Larian.
If Windows market share was <30% then maybe the economic incentives would be the other way around, but there would need to be a project like Proton that lets Linux games work on Windows.
- Comment on Revisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designed 1 week ago:
EpicMegaGames was legit back in the 90’s, regardless of what a slimy, backwards, CEO Tim is today.
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 1 month ago:
“Now pay us lots of money and we’ll give you more genius insights”
- Comment on Eric Barone, the guy who can't stop updating Stardew Valley, says the words "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2" 7 months ago:
You’re technically right: it means ‘everything up to’, so not a full guarantee but the next best thing. In usage it means ‘a guarantee in all but name’.
- Comment on Eric Barone, the guy who can't stop updating Stardew Valley, says the words "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2" 7 months ago:
No, it’s saying if he cared about money he would be more likely to make a sequel. Him caring about money would all but guarantee a sequel.
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 11 months ago:
Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077, the Resident Evil games. Even Frostpunk sold well enough to expect a sequel to do better.
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 11 months ago:
Because Baldur’s Gate 3 didn’t disprove that?
- Comment on Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023 1 year ago:
They are smaller, more familliar numbers paired with more appropriate units that people have heard of
- Comment on Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023 1 year ago:
How about billion Gigabytes, or million Terabytes?
- Comment on Star Labs recently revealed the StarBook 7 a 14-inch beauty 1 year ago:
They have a disassembly guide and the 1 year warranty isn’t voided by replacing parts (or changing firmware). I can’t speak to parts availability.
- Comment on You can turn on Scottish slang in the subtitles, reminds Still Wakes The Deep developer 1 year ago:
Scots is considered a dialect, no-one calls it slang.