Subj : Re: Latest Valve's announcement
To   : hollowone
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Nov 24 2025 10:15:38

  Re: Re: Latest Valve's announcement
  By: hollowone to Nightfox on Fri Nov 21 2025 01:50 pm

 ho> Same on Mac. Steam/Valve did a lot of good job with wine backed launchers
 ho> to launch windows only games on other major OSes. Not even speaking that
 ho> more companies are actually releasing multiplatform these days.

That's cool.  I've noticed that myself - A couple of the games I've played in the last several years have had multi-platform releases.  And one of the games I discovered recently (Overload) was released in 2018, and it was released for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS.

 ho> Windows is not that critical for PC gaming anymore.

Why is that?  Is it because there are more Mac and Linux users these days? I thought Windows was still important for PC gaming, as a lot of game developers still seem to at least make a Windows release by default.

I thought I'd heard that a lot of people these days don't have a PC of any kind anymore though (which seems odd to me), so I'd think consoles might be a significant factor these days (as they always were).

Nightfox
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