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Kind of. It helps boost Vulkan adoption, but it still needs to translate into those developers releasing normal Linux versions (on GOG, Steam and etc.). Not all
by shmerl 7y ago
Kind of. It helps boost Vulkan adoption, but it still needs to translate into those developers releasing normal Linux versions (on GOG, Steam and etc.). Not all of them will do it, like the very above example demonstrates. Bethesda simply doesn't care.
- benologist 7y agoI am currently waiting to buy multiple games that have been retroactively-limited to specific marketplaces because of eg Epic, Ubisoft etc requiring or incentivizing exclusivity. Stadia will probably have its own conditions or incentives to do that too, so while it might create an overall increase in linux compatibility that doesn't necessarily translate to more games for linux and it may even mean less as already-compatible games go into exclusivity.
- shmerl 7y agoNot all developers are interested in falling into exclusivity trap. Normal ones benefit from wider reach. Why should they limit their sales to one store, if they can sell in all and get more profit? I.e. they'll release on Stadia and in all normal stores. Hopefully for Linux too, since they'll already have the Linux version.