Yep, it’s something to consider when looking at multiplayer games and how “friendly” the developer/publisher has been in the past.
Rockstar, for example, has always been super shitty towards PC gamers.
Apex Legends was a bit of a surprise to me, and especially the doubling down with that stupid chart.
The big issue is when they randomly add it in the future. You can’t buy games assuming they’ll continue to work.
I switched from EmuDeck to RetroDeck, mainly because I wanted to sync everything between multiple computers using SyncThing and EmuDeck throws data everywhere (mainly due to using Flatpaks).
I set up RetroDeck the way I wanted it and then I ran the installer for EmuDeck, choosing the option to uninstall (was a while back, my mind is hazy on the details). It actually did uninstall it, though I think I had to delete a couple directories. It was pretty cleanly uninstalled, from what I recall.
Now I only have to sync one directory for RetroDeck, which also makes backups easy. The install also feels a lot more simple.
For the time being, Proton is good enough for me. I think devs/publishers refusing to enable their chosen anticheat to work with Proton is what is holding things back now for tech people. For other people, there’s even bigger challenges, and I doubt they even read up on these “tech nightmares” so they’re good with just continuing on with Windows.
I’d love to see another player, but I don’t think this is it.
Maybe I need to give Cyberpunk 2077 another shot.
I’m sorry, 175 GB? WTF with these game sizes.
Before private lobbies in GTA, I remember blocking ports for GTA in my firewall except to my friends’ IP addresses, which worked for a while.
GTA Online has terrible monetization and Rockstar are openly hostile towards PC as a platform, but I wouldn’t call GTA mediocre at all. There’s nothing quite like the attention to detail or breadth of GTA games. If you’ve played a few GTA clones, you’ll know what the competition looks like and it’s not even close.
That’s true, but those days are long behind us. Now, games are released in an unfinished state and require, at the very least, a day-one patch for any hope of a non-buggy experience. It’s sad affairs everywhere in all aspects of the industry.
Can report that ALVR with a Quest 2 works great.
Unpopular opinion, but hype for GTA 6 died to me when they showed their disdain towards Linux users. They’ve always been shitty towards PC, but enough is enough.
I remember the physical media PC game days. At the end, the games had horrible copy protection/DRM. I remember not having an internet connection for a while and I went to buy a game that I could play. All the games on the shelf had a notice on the box that said “internet connection required”. Single player games needed to be activated, and if you ran out of activations you either had to contact the company to reset it or you were shit outta luck. I far prefer the combination of Steam and GoG.
Publishers already tried this (EA, Ubisoft, etc) and it didn’t really work. They came back to Steam.
Hopefully they add Linux support soon.
Apparently, Linux hosts do not show up when setting up the connection. Hopefully Linux support gets implemented ASAP.
I did take a look at them and bookmarked one of the news sites, thanks 👍
The only issue with that is their prices go up if their costs go up. Kind of like how grocery stores claim that theft causes prices to go up. It is their money, though it does feel bad paying them.
I feel like the Android client for ProtonMail is really slow. Switching folders is painful.
I also tried sharing calendars with my wife who is still on Gmail and didn’t have great luck there. I decided I’ll just forward invites to events to her, though I haven’t had a chance to test that.