| ▲ | robomc 4 hours ago |
| Yeah I mean... can I play Fortnite, BF6 or the upcoming GTA on steamOS? |
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| ▲ | Normal_gaussian 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Probably not. Kernel level anti cheat is the problem. I know BF6 isn't proton safe. Fortnite is the same. GTA VI will probably run single player on proton fine, GTA V does. Multiplayer will probably not. The multiplayer with kernel level anti cheat will keep Sony safe through at least another generation; Microsoft is less safe as they're so vulnerable this generation anyway. |
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| ▲ | bathtub365 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It’s unlikely you’ll be able to play GTA 6 on any PC platform as it’s only coming out on consoles. |
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| ▲ | Agentlien an hour ago | parent [-] | | At least to start. Microsoft strongly encourages all Xbox games to also come out on PC, though they sometimes release later. I cannot find any game developed originally for Xbox Series X|S where this hasn't happened eventually (and the developers definitively aren't still working on the PC version). |
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| ▲ | wraptile 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| These are not winner games these days. Gaming trends are so fast that indie games like the one where you play a duck with a gun is what's driving the gaming community these days. |
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| ▲ | itsn0tm3 an hour ago | parent [-] | | I would say that‘s a bit overly simplified, as much as the indie or indie like game scene is thriving, so is the online multiplayer scene. Gaming is huge and just because one thing is big doesn’t mean another is not. Not a zero sum game here. | | |
| ▲ | wraptile 34 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Sure but not being able to play 4 games is not an indication of success either way. It's not 2012 when you had to have Call of Duty - you can not have battlefield, cod or fort nite and still never run out of incredible, popular games to play. | | |
| ▲ | SkiFire13 2 minutes ago | parent [-] | | If you have a bunch of friends that have battlefield/cod/fortnite and want to play them, they will still do so without you, or at least heavily pressure you into getting them. |
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| ▲ | brendoelfrendo 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No, and I understand if that's a deal-breaker for you, but for me I refuse avoid kernel level anticheat wherever possible, so I'm none too fussed about it. If a game wants to run malware, it can do it on a console where it's nice and segmented off from my general-purpose computing. |
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| ▲ | rowanG077 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That you are talking about a hypothetical game not running says enough... |
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| ▲ | rvz 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If any game has DRM or anti-cheat technology which BF6 does and even most AAA games, then it cannot play it at all without it. That is going to be a no go for any SteamOS device when an highly anticipated game gets released on day 1. |
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| ▲ | ethmarks 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think that the idea is that if you get enough users on Linux, it seems foolish from the game studio's perspective not to add Linux support to their anticheat. | |
| ▲ | hlfshell 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | ARC Raiders runs fine with anticheat on Linux. As does the Finals. | |
| ▲ | aaomidi 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Market pressure can change game studios behavior. | | |
| ▲ | LexiMax 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Battlefield 6 might never run on the average Linux desktop, but I could see a future where it would run on Steam hardware in an end-to-end Secure Boot environment. Gamers don't like playing with cheaters. |
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| ▲ | lanfeust6 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Fortnite came out in '17, at some point it's no longer going to be relevant. |
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| ▲ | jsheard 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Counter Strike came out in '99 and it's more relevant than ever. Some games just keep going and going. | | |
| ▲ | Ferret7446 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I hate to break it to you, but CS is not relevant. How much money do you think it makes, compared to recent top sellers or live service/mobile games? | | |
| ▲ | refulgentis 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | About $1B/year. CS:GO is the highest grossing game on Steam, according to some sources, all agree its top 5. Why is that irrelevant? | | |
| ▲ | jsheard 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Also consistently the most played game on Steam by a fair margin. That doesn't necessarily make it the most played PC game since some big titles like League and Fortnite aren't on Steam, but it's at least close. |
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