• SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
    26·
    3 years ago

    One of the refunds reasons you can select is “the game doesn’t run on my PC”. This is completely valid.

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      3 years ago

      Or as I do:

      1. Watch videos of Cyberpunk
      2. Think of buying it
      3. Realize I still haven’t finished Mass Effect
      4. Never actually buy Cyberpunk.

      Currently I’m thinking of Baldur’s gate 3, but you know… I’ll probably get around to it in a few years.

      • INeedMana@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 years ago

        Buying any game after 3-5 years is the way to go. The bugs are fixed, patches are out, so mods are stable and most of the time you can find a sale where it costs 10-20€. And if you forget about it before that time, that means the game was not worth it

      • Ricaz@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

        It’s not that great tbh. I spent maybe 6 hours in it and didn’t get hooked. With BG3 however, I’m at 60 hours and I can’t put it down

      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
        0·
        3 years ago

        You’re allowed to get another game even if you haven’t finished a previous one. You’re only here for like 80ish years so why not sample all that interests you?

        • Perfide@reddthat.com
          0·
          3 years ago

          This is what I feel. I’ve finished ToTK and Baldurs Gate 3 once(so far…), but beyond that I haven’t finished a game in probably years. Hasn’t stopped me from having fun in tons of games over the years. I usually play for gameplay more than story anyways, with a couple exceptions.

  • BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br
    7·
    3 years ago

    Complex and recent games run on Linux these days.

    Not allowing run a game in Linux is, nowadays, a choice from its developer rather then a causality. Proton is a really powerful tool!

    If a game don’t run in Linux, via Proton or natively, that’s dev issue that actively blocked Linux.

  • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    3 years ago

    Blaming the Publishers and Devs because it’s actually pretty hard to fuck up a game so that it doesn’t work on proton these days

  • GenBlob@lemm.ee
    31·
    3 years ago

    If there’s a game that can’t run on Linux in the current year then that’s intentional and it’s not worth anyone’s money.

    • LinyosT@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      3 years ago

      You almost have to go out of your way to make a game incompatible with linux. Considering wine/proton and their various forks cover the vast majority of things at this point.

      Even with ACs, the two most used ones completely support Linux. One is completely out of the box, maybe even as far as linux support being opt out. The other requires you to contact its developers to enable compatibility their end iirc.

    • frazorth@feddit.uk
      0·
      3 years ago

      I don’t agree. There are cases with Windows only root kits for DRM, but there are also games that don’t work because of bugs. You see games coming out that barely work on Windows.

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    True, the fact that you can play modern AAA games as good or better than windows these days means it is flat out a development issue.

    Tap for spoiler

    Although I heard it’s because a lot of the tooling for games doesn’t exist on Linux.

    So it would actually be the developer’s developer that is too blame or is that all the job of the developer?

    Either way it’s because game industry isn’t as mature as on Windows and doesn’t have enough money to fast track it like consoles do.

    Although I guess that is a bit of a chicken and egg problem but not really it’s more a kick back grease my palm corruption issue.

    Ps. i know what you are thinking:

    'Isn’t this a bit long for a spoiler?"

    And to that I say:

    ‘If you preschoolers could read more than one line without getting scared off I wouldn’t have to bury any nuance in a spoiler tag.’

    Anyways it’s getting late and I just took a melatonin and I don’t want to stay up too much longer because that really messes me up when I take melatonin and still can’t sleep, is that just me? Idk maybe leave a response answering it so I know you found this.

    Thanks for asking and have a good night Love and kisses yours truly random guy on the Internet.

    You can hang up now that was the end, what are you waiting for? Is anyone actually going to read this far? You know when the comment turns to rambling it is ok to stop reading.

    Seriously, go! This is obviously a waking melatonin induced nightmare, this isn’t interesting.

    Ok, I am actually going to leave now, don’t worry about me I don’t actually get nightmares from melatonin but I’ve heard it’s a common symptom but I’ve been actually prescribed it by a sleep doctor I know for a fact that I do need it go worry about something important.

    Anyways now that I’ve weeded out all the illiterate people we can talk about mature subjects like they used to on late night TV so the kids didn’t watch anything spicy although that was kids shit compared to what we have now So what about that war with Iran? That was some crazy shit huh? I mean I don’t like when people die but like war is a necessary part of life I personally believe there is no good in war and the only good from war is what you get from it the consequences of war might be good even if you disagree with the actual killing of people so I guess my opinion is that if the war in Iran leads to a better tomorrow then it was worth it, not “Just” because once again you can’t be a good person and kill another person you would need a God to dictate that since you cannot self declare yourself above an equal but you can take the most rational actions possible and in the end aren’t we all a collection of action? And wouldn’t the best action taker be the most moral person?

    I don’t know but I really do have to let you go now good night and tell your mother I love her, actually love is a big word tell your mother I banged her and now we don’t know what to do with you, actually don’t tell her that but is there a chance you could like I don’t know not be here anymore? It’s not you it’s me well that’s not true at all it’s entirely your fault and you will probably go to hell but just remember your mother still loves you, not me though but you should also remember your mother is an Idiot.

    Anyways good night.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    Paladins is a pain for this. Game runs fine on proton, and all it needs is some work with EAC to enable linux on multiplayer but despite all the requests they’ve yet to bother.

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    At this point I wouldn’t be suprised that some dev companies are taking Microsoft kickback money under the table. There is really no excuse for a game not to work on Linux natively on 2023.

    • Elderos@lemmings.world
      11·
      3 years ago

      There are tons of reasons my dude. You can still have platform-dependant technologies in your game even if the base engine itself supports linux.

  • MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    Yeah I can’t play rainbow 6 siege since I switched to Linux but I’m staying strong. Fuck ubisoft. And fuck my friends for trying to make me go back to windoz.

  • ChiefSinner@lemm.ee
    0·
    3 years ago

    I was just thinking about this the other day…like games are optized for windows usually, but windows is not optimized for games. A fresh Windows 10 runs at 2gb ram on idle. It all went down hill for gamers when Microsoft killed xp

  • MooseBoys@lemmy.world
    0·
    3 years ago

    I blame Linux distros for being too complicated and unintuitive for 95% of the population, which in turn gives it a negligible market share from a game development perspective.