Buying the product gives people the right to use it
It’s implied, but it’s not clear - which is why whenever you “buy” software you actually buy a license to use it which clearly states how, where and by whom it may be used, on how many devices, under which conditions, etc etc etc.
I play a ton of mouse driven games that don’t have gamepad support and it works great there. I would not even consider emulating the mouse with regular sticks, but with touchpad it’s very comfortable
Since there’s no license file, it defaults to all rights reserved, which means full files can’t be redistributed.
I’m not a lawyer, but I would argue this actually means that even people who get it from Gumroad can’t use it “legally”. There should be a license which expresses your intent.
Most likely your software will work via bottles or wine
No, for the examples above it will not. Quite a lot of professional software will not run under wine (and a lot of hobbyists use professional software) - games work particularly well because they mostly do their own thing and depend less on Windows-specific APIs. And if you use a VM via Winboat then you’re just using Windows in the background, which is a workaround, but kinda defeats OP’s argument that there’s “no difference”.
To be clear: I’m daily driving Linux and I’ve not booted into Windows for more than a year. But it’s just wrong to say that they are on par with each other for a lot of usecases.
I thought I was going to pass on it, but now I’m kinda hyped to replace one of my aging xbox controllers with this one.
so they would have to write and support a completely new userfacing application that would have to run on 3 different OSes and inject into games upon launch. a bit too much effort considering 99% of the audience will use it with Steam.
The project is closed‑source
It’s not though. It may not be FOSS, and by omitting a license you do keep the copyright by default, but it’s definitely not closed source either, it’s “source available”. Unless I’m missing the joke?
that leaves browsers,
That leaves audio production (with a bunch of Windows-only plugins), video production, photo editing, CAD…
Sure, you can re-learn your entire stack and get by, but that’s a far shot from “ridiculously little difference”. Dropping familiar complex piece of software like Ableton is a hard sell for folks (and it’s OK).
Played the demo and liked it, but way too many games in my backlog at the moment, so will pick it up later at some point
By remaking those games they could indruduce the game to whole new audience who would never play the yanky outdated versions.
This is where we disagree.
Most gamers now will never experience that story and those who do, will not get the same experience i got, because they will look everything in the game as a product of its time and the focus will be on the retro aspect, not on the game it self.
If they play a remake - they will not get the same experience you did either. It will be different even if they remake it shot for shot - because story is also a product of its time. And if they don’t remake it shot for shot and make changes to adapt it to modern “standards” - then it’s a different, derivative game vaguely inspired by the original piggybacking on the name.
I mean… Yeah, if your goal is to make bingo-card-creator-as-a-service then it makes a LOT more sense to make it into a website and not a desktop app. Not sure why this is presented as a revelation of some sort (besides this being an ad for the bingo-card-creator-as-a-service in question)
Also - it’s from 2009?
If there’s anything to learn here it’s that you absolutely can follow in Ross’s footsteps and organize a movement that will fight for what you deem important. He said multiple times “I’m doing this only because nobody else does, not because I’m a good fit for this”.
“let’s not do this because it’s not as important as X” is a bad argument, because the alternative is not that Ross suddenly picks some other topic and starts to drive it, the alternative is that nothing happens at all.
I’m too dumb to beat it, but it’s genuinely great
I take it you haven’t played Pentiment
I’m of a firm opinion that no game needs a remake. Fixing up old games so that they can be played on modern systems - yes please. Remaking the same game but “”“better”“” - no thanks, I’d rather see something original and new come out
There are some exceptions like Pathologic 2 which is basically a remake but also a reimagining, but those are exceedingly rare.
DX12 games suffer a pretty hefty performance penalty on NVIDIA videocards. It’s getting better with the new drivers and recent fixes in Proton, but for now if you own NVIDIA - it’s usually on par or below Windows performance, for the more recent games. Still acceptable in my case tho
I’m still in my first timeline, but I have already
Can highly recommend
Does it get to occupy it for pouring their money into finally making gaming on Linux viable?
I hate Denuvo as much as the next guy but it’s literally Steam Deck Verified
I was not arguing against it functioning as a barebones xbox-like gamepad - that should’ve been done IMO. I was arguing against “splitting up SteamInput from Steam” - that would mean extracting all the fancy stuff too, and that’s the difficult part.