• SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
    20·
    2年前

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

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      2年前

      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
        2·
        2年前

        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·
        2年前

        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·
        2年前

        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·
          2年前

          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
    5·
    2年前

    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
    3·
    2年前

    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
    2·
    2年前

    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.

    • frazorth@feddit.uk
      0·
      2年前

      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.

  • MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2年前

    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.

  • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2年前

    Especially if they use an engine that natively supports Linux, they have no excuse not to release a Linux version.

    • Elderos@lemmings.world
      11·
      2年前

      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.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
    1·
    2年前

    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·
    2年前

    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.

  • ChiefSinner@lemm.ee
    0·
    2年前

    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

  • Junglist@kbin.social
    0·
    2年前

    I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux since 2014. Gaming on Linux is so good nowadays, thanks to Proton, there are so many amazing titles available to play. Proton makes it all easy - thanks to it, it’s just a matter of hitting install and play on Steam (in most cases).

    There are so many of them, If something doesn’t run on Linux, I just don’t care. My backlog of great games is so big, who cares about some singular titles that are not available.

    I’ve recently been playing Baldurs Gate 3, ARMORED CORE VI, Anno 1800 and Battlebit Remastered on my Ubuntu rig. All run great. Neither need any special tweaks (I own them on Steam).

    BG3 and Battlebit Remastered are especially stellar.

    I recommend BG3 to anyone who likes true roleplaying games with great writing, reactivity and player agency.

    Battlebit Remastered is a great multiplayer title with massive 256 player battles and it sits somewhere between Battlefield and Squad (a mixture of arcade and mil-sim elements).

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
    11·
    2年前

    Well, you can’t blame developers to not cater to their 1% player base. Especially since that group usually have the most problems and requires more development time.

    • intrepid@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2年前

      I don’t remember exactly who, but there was one game developer who was all praises for that 1%. The Linux users were the most prolific testers who sent back detailed bug reports with ways to recreate the bug, logs and often core dumps even. That 1% helped the devs, as well as the other 99%.

    • Goku@lemmy.world
      1·
      2年前

      Is it really that much detached from macOS though? They can dist to Mac then Linux shouldn’t be much different, right?

  • MooseBoys@lemmy.world
    0·
    2年前

    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.