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No problem when trying to get older, proprietary games running on #GNU-Linux so far with Wine. But does the community recognize that with on-going native games on "Linux" there is also more native proprietary nonsense coming within? For example to talk about telemetry-data sent through #Unity-engine? And there are enough other examples. But hey: Getting more support for games seems good though. Not when all the really free pendants are forgotten and websites like "GamingOnLinux" just keep talking just about those proprietary products and even though platforms full with #DRM. This "big hooray" for more gaming has also negative side-effects, but nobody wants to talk about that! Kinda joking, do you? But keep going to make another unixoid copy of Windows. Won't help, but it seems that your pragmatism is stronger than reasonable thoughts. #Stop-Playing-Bullshit
@throgh I'd really love to see some great games on Linux, however I just don't wanna miss the good quality (gameplay-wise) of the "bigger", proprietary games, like there's no FOSS Hitman game or anything close to that available, even smaller games are almost 100% closed.
And looking at GOG (which has it's own problems) doesn't make me hopeful that there will be any change in the industry, since most of the publishers even hesitate to release games DRM-free #sad
@decentralizedpeer The problem lies within many parts: First of all we pay for "entertainment", which is okay. But right on the other side: What would be if games are created completely on the base of donations? Yes, there is crowdfunding, but that's only a little starting point. The major problem is that free projects and implementations need support. But when looking after sites like "GamingOnLinux" my hope fades right away: No balanced reports! And that's already the standard when looking around. Of course I have for example "The Dark Mod" as free, libre version of "Thief", talking about my favorites. But having even more balanced reports about things going around in the open-source game-landscape could make this also more attractive in a whole.
