I’ve done some in this community it repeatedly over the course of ~2 years. If you don’t want to make an effort why would I.

Nobody cares about Linux, it has user share close to a margin of error in a poll of 1000 people. Valve employing 3 Linux devs doesn’t offset damage to consumers and devs.

There’s GOG, there’s Itch. What’s wrong with them?

Did it run better?

and the bulk of the users can enjoy being forced to upgrade to ~~hardware with even more spying being the only difference just to run a shittier version of their old operating system~~ rental cloud compute and game streaming. I'll reassess when gabe dies or if they start firing off u.s. politics level red flags but worst case I have drm free/stripped copies of every game I might play again or recommend on offline hdd and tape.

„Gabe wouldn’t do that to me”.

I hope their Android store offers a good experience and succeeds since Play Store just sucks. But Valve pretty much made Linux gaming, if you saw what it looked like before they got involved you would understand. And they are the only big video game company that still does some good stuff in addition to the bad stuff. Epic burned 95% of their good will among gamers, if not all of it. They allowed play 2 earn and other crypto shit just to be contrarians, delisted and ended support for old Unreal games and are pretty much just The Fortnite Studio at this point, which itself is seen as an amalgamation of everything wrong with gaming by some, they struck exclusivity for highly anticipated games so that people have to buy it from them, stories of crunch and Tim defending and supporting every new technology gold rush [including Grok producing fucking CSAM](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney-185520504.html?guccounter=1). It's not hard to see why people have so much animosity towards them.

GOG recently got on my radar since I heard they'd be focusing more on Linux support

I saw what it looked like. We had native ports and Wine (rebranded as Proton by Valve so that it looks like their own product). EGS is just one store. Devs don’t even bother releasing games outside of Steam and you can’t make the same argument against GOG or Itch.io.

Even if GOG gets Linux support it won’t make the devs come there.

Totally left us hanging. What a tease.

What's eurojank?

> (video games, slang) Video games from Europe (especially Eastern Europe) with ambitious concepts but lacking in execution and sometimes exhibiting unintended glitches. as per Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eurojank) I was under the assumption the Styx -devs were german, but apparently the studio is French. Either way. I also don't recall any specific glitches, but the first game has a bit stiff climbing mechanics where you can (and will) do some unintended jumps to void etc. Basically "AA game" instead if "AAA big budget game"

literally just said I would reasses if he died OR things went that way

Aren’t you bothered by the fact that most Valve games these days rely on gambling for monetisation? Aren’t you bothered they don’t make an effort not to advertise gambling to children unless forced to like in Netherlands or Belgium?

> By the time a game shows up on a giveaway it has been out long enough that there’s lot of discounts for it That's often but not always the case. For example, the first ever giveaway in Dec 2018 was Subnautica, which was released in Jan that same year. Occasionally other stuff has only been out a couple years, which means it's showed up with discounts before but probably not deep ones.

I don't mind not having large games, even if it ends up being an indie fest I'd be very content with that

Indies don’t release there either. I wrote about an observation in this comment thread - small devs are no longer releasing their games outside of Steam because they need all sales to go into one pot - if they split it between stores they rank lower.

that should absolutely be regulated globally and it better damn well include roblox and literally every gacha and shooter game too. Parents should really be doing the wallet voting and politician mailing there but I've seen dads quiet their kids by letting them roll gacha on the phone while waiting to pay for food and when I told my friends about the pedos on roblox situation they told me off saying I don't know what its like to have kids... When the parents are happy to feed their children to the machine what the fuck can I do about it?

Your screenshot doesn't support your text, and from what I recall they say that: - if you put your game on sale cheaper elsewhere (but are selling steam keys), you need to have a similar (not even identical) sale on Steam at some point. - You can't undercut Steam's price and sell the freely generated CD keys that add the game to a steam account elsewhere for a lower price. That's it. It's actually about the CD keys, not the game itself. There's no rule about selling the game on another store, using that store. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys#3 Your screenshot there seems to be quoting this page, in fact. You're welcome to check the documentation out, or find any other source that isn't bad reporting based on a lawsuit that wasn't successful?