As you can see, I care about achievements: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56525516

As others have said, it’s a great incentive to go deeper in a game. It should just not become a grind and that’s why I don’t 100% a lot of games.

It can also make you remember what branch of a story you went for in a story driven game.

If it gives data to developer about how a game is played, it ain’t something I mind as the way I play isn’t a important privacy wise as other data.

What’s stupid is when people buy a game just because it has easy achievements though…

The voice chat isn’t activated on my kids account as hés clearly too young. I didn’t have anything to do to disable it, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable if he wasn’t playing Roblox in the luving room where I can see what hés playing.

Also he loves it when I watch him play so we get to share and discuss a lot about the games he plays.

I guess Roblox is a game where you have to have good parenting behind.

My son plays a lot of Roblox (1 hour a day at my place , way more with his mom).

At first I had a really bad impression about it because I thought it was just another microtransaction hell with pedophiles lurking around.

In the end, hés not really spending money and there are some pretty good and different games on the platform.

I also appreciate the fact that Roblox made him accept that you can play graphically simple games and have fun on cheap hardware.

So, while I’d prefer if he only played single player games on Linux or Playstation like me, I think Roblox is better than what people are saying.

I’m not saying it’s good for the game industry or consumer, but it’s almost better than an Nba 2k with its constant microtransactions despite paying for the game already…

Yeah I know. What I wanted to say is that it would be an incentive to buy one (and convert it to Linux) if they were losing money on every unit.

That would feel even sweeter if they were losing money on every Helix sold.

To be honest, my Linux daily driver is a Microsoft Surface Go 1 and it has served me well for the last 6 years.

Still it’s not what I’d get if I had to choose again.

So if I have to upgrade from my Steam Deck/Playstation 5 gaming combo, it’s probably be a Steam Machine, even if it’s way less poweful than Helix.

While I agree that they aren’t likely to be on Lemmy, even outside of Lemmy, I’ve never met one of them.

I just know people who don’t know there is something else.

Still it’s good for me to have to use (a debloated version) Windows at work, as it allows me to still know how to deal with it.

I guess I’m not techie enough to meet these people as I’m just talking to windows end users.

I guess because no one is passionate about it. It’s just something people are using because it came with their computer.

Here people are almost only talking badly about it. It’s not a good product but I wonder if it’s as bad as people on Lemmy make it sound.

Still I don’t want to waste time away from Linux to discover it by myself.

Oh thanks for the alt + F3 tip as it worked for OnlyOffice.

Now I just have to solve the issues with Evolution, so its keyring issue and the fact that it deletes the kWin rule every time.

Add Mass Effect, Dead Space and Star Wars Jedi series…

But yeah I wish all of these were DRM free, without any online connection and on GOG.

What are the permissions you think I should change? In Fedora (Gnome) the same Flatpaks don’t show these issues with the default permissions.

While I understand the pain of someone having no hardware right now, I think you should still be able to get an old gaming PC or an old Playstation 4 to enjoy games for cheap.

In fact, almost everyone has something like this lying around…

While it means running old AAA or lower demanding current games, it’s still great gaming time.

You haven’t read my comment I guess.

I have a lot of games that I bought (mostly for max CHF 20.-, so max 25$), but they are only playing free live service games.

I have kids and I have a huge library of games on Playstation and PC. What are they playing?

Fortnite and Roblox instead, which they could play for free if they didn’t want to get cool skins. So, no, games aren’t as expensive for kids as they used to be, except if they waste a lot of money in predatory schemes in games where they could play for free and just 1-2 things to support the devs.

The price of new games isn’t a problem for me as they are still cheaper than what they were when I was a kid. In my country Switzerland, an expensive new game is stll less than CHF100.- when some Nes games were CHF120.- thirty years ago. Back in the Playstation 1 era games were around CHF89.- and now most Playstation 5 games are around CHF79.-.

And that’s not taking inflation into account!

Gaming is one of the few things which has become cheaper in my lifetime, especially now that I get a lot of old games on my Steam Deck and only racing sims on my Playstation 5.

For me the problem is that you can pay such an amount and still be subject to many popups begging for your money (microtransactions) or DRM’s (always online or others).

Or that, thanks to digital games, you’ll soon not be able to resell an expensive game that you didn’t enjoy enough to keep.

And also the fact that games aren’t really prettier than 10 years ago but that you still need better hardware to play them.

I think game companies really need to have a look at why their games are becoming so expensive, because I don’t think it’s because they are treating their employees better.

Clearly everyone is different as switching is what forced me to fully go into Linux and don’t look back. It’s the same with using Virtual Machines, I can’t fully immerse myself as not everything is configured the way it would if it was on bare metal (gestures for instances…).

I think my advice would be to fully switch if dual booting (two OS’s, or even more, on the same computer) isn’t an option or if you don’t have a second computer which can give you a solid experience (not talking about an early 2000 laptop which is gonna make you think that Linux is slow).

Also, about your Mac, I run a 2012 upgraded MacBook Pro as a secondary comptuer and it runs Fedora perfectly. Once every 1-2 year, there is a small problem with the broadcom wifi chip, but otherwise I haven’t encountered any issue.

In fact, I have less issues with it than on my main computer (a Surface Go 1 hooked to a big screen), but its smaller size is more practical to me.

I’m hoping the game will be released on GOG as I wouldn’t buy a game I’ve already owned on console on Steam since it wouldn’t be DRM free.

I guess the old one might feel really old if it’s your first Final Fantasy.

Even the remakes feel a bit dated in a way (not graphically).

As long you can still play the old version with your old save, I don’t see the problem.

Although I wonder what the new version introduces…

I might replay FFVII at one point after getting the third episode of the remake. It’d be a nice way to spot the differences in the story…

What got me disappointed is that I heard so much about KDE customization and that it wasn’t buggy anymore.

I thought I’d be able to reproduce the vanilla Gnome workflow where you easily switch between workspaces. This with the advantage of things being customizable.

But it’s just too buggy and complicated for me…