That’s not the statement we are discussing as what he said.

We could wake up one morning and find out there’s a $10 monthly fee to access Steam’s “services” including every game you ever purchased.

When did this ever happen on any game console, or service ever? Isn’t this some kind of “fear mongering”? Also wouldn’t this be illegal? Because we purchased the game and Valve would effectively take all access away for all games. I don’t think your argument what could happen is warranted.

Having a “Monopoly” that occurred naturally isn’t illegal. Misusing the position and eliminating any competition is illegal. Besides that, the monopoly situation is open and there is competition. They just suck. Imagine filing Nintendo a lawsuit for having a monopoly in handheld consoles…

Does anyone know if it is working on Linux (or Steam Deck)?

Hmm, never read that. I will test this myself with bunch of different Shaders, if any of them has a similar effect. It might be because there are many Shaders that simulate the CRT effects and can be customized.

Microsoft trained people into believing that updates are dangerous.

Such an advice can only come from a Windows user…

At least here in Europe we had SCART for CRTs. SCART is multipurpose connection, that supports variety of cables, including RGB. There was no adapter needed.

And that’s not a coincidence. Not all, but the best pixel artists took the limitations and quirks of the tech from that era into account when designing. Not only the CRT technology with scanlines and other properties, also the cable connection you got plays a huge role. Not only on SNES, but also very apparent on the Mega Drive / Genesis. Nowadays I play old systems on emulators only and don’t want to miss a good Shader which simulates old CRT effects. They get pretty close to the original thing (depending on the shader and depending on to what monitor you compare).

I have several hundred hours in Paladins. The game has some unique features, but it suffers from some issues it had. Someday it stopped working on Linux. Also the developers stopped updating and working on the game, as far as I know, so it’s effectively dead.

I noticed, that’s why I gave some examples to what “I” understand under that term. Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll open a tab and look at Deeprock Galactic. I know the name of the game, but never looked how it functions.

The tags explains it a lot. I do not agree with the users or developers giving this tag to those “random” games. Most of these are not Hero Shooters in my book.

Every one of those work on Linux, I’m literally in comp queue in Rivals right now.

Me too. I type while waiting for matches. These games were just mentioned as an example what I understand as Hero Shooter. And we don’t have many to choose from. I didn’t say they don’t work, i played each of them for hundreds and thousands of hours.

Wait what? Those are totally randomly picked games, that do not meet the criteria of being Hero Shooter. And you even eliminated one that has at least hero shooter elements to it, Apex Legends. I do not think that Gears 5, Titanfall 2 or Quake counts as Hero Shooters, at least not what I am envisioning. Also Call of Duty??? Really?

Edit: Maybe I should be more specific, as the term Hero Shooter seems to be understood too broadly. What I understand under this term is Team Fortress 2, Overwatch and Marvel Rivals. Deadlock is an hybrid and that is okay too. I also like Apex Legends, even if its main gameplay loop is not. With these constraints, I don’t have many to choose from, that also play on Linux.

Yes, I know I am in the minority. Hero Shooters and anything going in this direction are my favorite online multiplayer games. And we don’t have too many to choose from, at least stuff that is also playable on Linux. Therefore I am always open to any new game that goes into this direction and want to see if its for me.

There it goes… one of the few new games I was interested into… this will surely not work on Linux (or Steam Deck) then.

I probably won’t buy any Nvidia card again too (but never say never). You never want to (yes I contradicted myself right after the previous sentence… sigh) have less competition. I hope Nvidia loses its market leader position and operates head to head with AMD and Intel. BTW this is a similar reasoning as to why I don’t want Xbox to go away from console market, regardless of what you or I think about the company.

Just checked it, didn’t play since Sep, 2024… I will install it this weekend and check out what game mode that may be.

Fun fact: Game requires 33.33 GB space… Half-Life 3 confirmed?

It’s essentially a MOBA with first person hero shooter elements. The MOBA part didn’t speak to me, but I really really want to like this game.

Looks just like Horizon 5. :D But in Japan setting off course, which is very interesting to me. Its one of the few Microsoft IPs that do well in recent history.