That’s not what you said though, you said Linux users would be no customer at all, that was never true.

Proton made the responsibility for support change from the Developers to Valve, and meant that Developers no longer cared to support Linux directly.

Be that good or bad or whatever.

But that’s literally not true, there were more games with official Linux support than there are now before Proton launched.

In the couple of years before Proton took off games with Linux support was at an all time high, companies like Aspyr and Feryl Interactive helped studios port their game.

Proton has killed off official Linux support and the industry around it for better or for worse.

You’re absolutely right, it’s bizarre how Activision handled the updates to these games. They went full Games As a Service and now it’s almost impossible to play CoD MW, and the game sits at over 200GB

It really depends on what folks want to play on it, the Steam Deck can still play many thousands of games perfectly well, this machine will be better, and it also gives developers a target to aim for when optimising their games, it’s already been proven with the Steam Deck that there’s appetite to do this.

I’ve finished Kingmaker and WotR is in my backlog.

Pathfinder is a really decent RPG system with tons of choice, but the game Kingmaker comes out as quite linear, you don’t really have much choice in how you play the game apart from being good or evil.

The game is split between being a typical adventure explorer RPG and being a kingdom management game, the former is interesting and has good quests, the latter is opaque, difficult to get to grips with and inflexible.

The worse part is no matter your best intentions, it you don’t do exactly the right things with your kingdom you can find yourself in a dire losing position by the late game.

I don’t mind games that have failure conditions, but losing the Kingmaker game after 30+hrs of playtime because your kingdom starts rioting and you can’t complete any events seems too harsh to me.

Personally I had to turnoff all the failure conditions in the options so that I could grind through the game to get through the final quests, it ended up leaving a bitter taste for the game which started off as promising.

I hear most of these issues have been addressed in WotR though so I’m looking forward to picking up that.