• qaz@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    The thing is that people don’t want to get that new game that that seems so fun to find out that it doesn’t actually work. Other games not working is seen as a sign of potential future trouble.

    • rbos@lemmy.ca
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      28 days ago

      The same people will generally accept that a ps4 game won’t play on an xbox etc. So it is a bit odd.

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        28 days ago

        That’s a bad analogy because 99% of the games that people play on steam machines will be Windows games, not Linux games. It’s an issue when you don’t know if a steam game will work on a steam machines, or any other PC game won’t work on your pc.

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            28 days ago

            It is when the reason they don’t work on Linux is because it doesn’t support kernel level anti-cheat.

        • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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          28 days ago

          I mean, it’s pretty easy to know. They have an icon directly next to the game that says what it works on.
          You have just as much knowledge about if it’ll work as you do based on hardware requirements. Which is to say “none, unless you look at the place where they tell you”.