It still leaves some characters as bad or unplayed at any given time.

Chen under 1% according to this. https://www.dotabuff.com/heroes?show=heroes&view=played

If you had a 2nd map that gave the inverse of that then all of a sudden the game is better.

LoL’s success is because it’s a casual game.

It’s not about making the first one more fair, you aren’t going to have 100 characters equally valuable on a single map while making those characters unique.

If you have 10 maps though you can make those 100 characters equally valuable as a combined average across those 10 maps.

Though that matters more in a competitive game than a casual one. Actually LoL’s lack of skill based competitive nature is likely why they don’t do that. Someone who plays once s month will have an easier time learning the game if it’s a new character that does the same as everyone else than if there’s a new map that makes the characters have to play completely different.

LoL’s problems come from it. With no map variety the only option is more characters.

And due to this whomever is best at that map is the best. It leaves a lot of dead characters and variety can only come by changing the characters every so often rather than having a map that fits their given strengths while another highlights their weaknesses.

But a shop is all I want Steam to be.

Not in the ranked rotation, doesn’t count.

Maybe it’ll have more than one map.

Getting language from the store is still the game’s fault.

If the US opposes values Valve has then they should.

I’m not going to pretend Valve cares about these causes though.

Let the server admin/mods deal with it.

Games shouldn’t be serious about anti-cheat.

You could use a usb sd card reader but it’s more a comment on how this is a nothing burger.

You can do that on any computer…

DMCA incoming.

but windows binaries will not run directly on Linux hence they’ll need reinstalling in that case.

Create a wine prefix, point it to the binary.

On Lutris this is “add already installed game”

On Steam this is “add non-steam game”

Though if you point your steam library to the location of the games it will detect them as already installed, then you can go to properties and tell it to use proton or set all non-linux games to use proton. (Proton is a wine wrapper with a steam dependency)

Nothing to deal with, either use a distro that comes with them or download them during install.

You will have to reinstall with your other solution.

Though if you have it on a separate drive you can add them to lutris or steam and use the existing install.

Buy any and grab a linux iso.

No need to give money to Valve.

The very first game on the list;

Absolver - Boss re-matches are locked behind an online requirement. Boss loot too. As well as some techniques that can be used in offline play but can only be learned online. Absolver also installs the invasive EAC anti-cheat software even for single player and won’t start without it.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singleplayer_games_with_drm/page1

GOG has DRM, they call it Galaxy.

They really need to split all those things off.

Are they a store? A launcher? A forum?

They should pick one thing and let other people do the others.

Try Immortals Fenyx Rising

W10 still has higher market share than Linux and most of the decrease can be seen in the W11 increase.

When they aren’t reading donations they’re begging for donations or reading an ad. I don’t know why anyone watches it.

https://ryzom.com/

Wouldn’t this work?

Rationality is rare.

Oh, I thought related articles was the end of the article.

Weird not to include that image, thanks.

Confused, it was a reply to celebrating Halo on PS5, where does the ‘destroy immigration’ part come in?

“First one’s free”

As in you get infinitely more by buying than you are given for free (hence why people buy them) is always the sign of a well intentioned business.

Selling is the problem, it makes it actual gambling.

Brand and billionaire loyalty.

Market saturation.

While it might not feel like the % of games working on Linux this is just the natural result of more games being added to ProtonDB

People are already opting in to use Windows though.

Just knowing Steam, it’s shovelware.

Look at OS user numbers, most people aren’t the slightest bit savvy with a computer.

I’ve run into a few games that only have split screen on console so there’s that I suppose.

Lost me at “proprietary”

Not like anyone ever runs a game with admin priveleges or anything, right?

I would hope no one runs userspace software with elevated privileges.

Recommend 1000xRESIST if you want a story game.

It just replaces prices actually dropping.