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Originally posted by Dragnadh View Post
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Originally posted by Nevertime View PostOK, I uninstalled steam on wine when this article first appeared telling myself that I'd wait for a native version before I'd play again... Soooo..... is it time to give up and reinstall via wine yet? or should i hold out till xmas?
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Originally posted by grantek View Postwine is practically a supported platform with Steam if the games support it. Probably one of the things that make it both easy to technically port to Mac and Linux, and hard to justify from a business perspective.
Its why I question the whole idea that wine damages company?s interest in producing native linux games.
I'd need to at least download the game illegitimately to make sure it was working before purchase.
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I hope that Steam for linux isn't going to be as intrusive and spyware like as steam was for Windows. Steam was basically the straw that broke the camels back for gaming for me. I really haven't played anything but quake live since. The company did not need the program running all the time, they did not need to know every time I fired up for a single player game. They did not need to be sending information about my gaming tendencies back to their servers.
If steam for linux is something that I run when ***I*** want to update my games or download new ones but then never see again until next time I want to perform those tasks then it'll be a nice piece of software and I'LL PAY FOR GAMES.
When my only recourse is to be treated like a criminal by the company, then I'll do just that. I'll play cracked games and cracked games only.
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Originally posted by getut View PostI hope that Steam for linux isn't going to be as intrusive and spyware like as steam was for Windows. Steam was basically the straw that broke the camels back for gaming for me. I really haven't played anything but quake live since. The company did not need the program running all the time, they did not need to know every time I fired up for a single player game. They did not need to be sending information about my gaming tendencies back to their servers.
If steam for linux is something that I run when ***I*** want to update my games or download new ones but then never see again until next time I want to perform those tasks then it'll be a nice piece of software and I'LL PAY FOR GAMES.
When my only recourse is to be treated like a criminal by the company, then I'll do just that. I'll play cracked games and cracked games only.
I'd rather have a good game and be treated like a criminal then have a really really bad game. Since a good game (i.e. something LIKE COD, just an example, or Crysis) is pretty much only accomplished by a company, due to the vast content and organization required.
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Originally posted by getut View PostI hope that Steam for linux isn't going to be as intrusive and spyware like as steam was for Windows. Steam was basically the straw that broke the camels back for gaming for me. I really haven't played anything but quake live since. The company did not need the program running all the time, they did not need to know every time I fired up for a single player game. They did not need to be sending information about my gaming tendencies back to their servers.
There's a content delivery service.
There's a DRM service.
There's a matchmaker service.
There's a community component.
There's an anti-cheat component.
And so on and so forth.
Not all games choose to use anything other than the content delivery service (Caster is available, for Windows and MacOS, sans any more than classic copy protection via Steam... Elecorn only uses it as a "portal" to sell their content out of and uses the forums as the place for the fans to go...)
While I am not defending the DRM aspects thereof, it's the studio's choice to use/not use the DRM parts of Steam.
If steam for linux is something that I run when ***I*** want to update my games or download new ones but then never see again until next time I want to perform those tasks then it'll be a nice piece of software and I'LL PAY FOR GAMES.
When my only recourse is to be treated like a criminal by the company, then I'll do just that. I'll play cracked games and cracked games only.
You EXPLICITLY don't want to be talking that way in any public forums. I can relate about not wanting to pay them if they're going to treat you like a crook- but it's thinking like the aforementioned that has perpetuated and made things like DRM WORSE, not better. You're not entitled to the content, no matter how much you want and how much they treat you like a crook. If you don't pay, you shouldn't play- PERIOD.
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