Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B

Re:Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks... by lapetitejort on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:07PM (#24545835)

Following from alternate stores on consoles, we're not far away from Valve's SteamBox, i.e. prebuilt PCs marketed for living room play. I'm disappointed the idea never took off.

I would love the game industry to fully embrace Linux. If cloud gaming gains more traction, the industry might just do that. Why develop games to run on custom-built blades in a data center when generic blades exist?

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Re:Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks... by criddell on Monday September 21, 2020 @01:17PM (#24545964)

> prebuilt PCs marketed for living room play

That's been a dream for a long time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX

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Re:Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks... by andoriyu on Monday September 21, 2020 @02:54PM (#24547030)

> I would love the game industry to fully embrace Linux.

Take a look at what all linux games are lacking and what nearly all AAA game that aren't on linux have.

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DRM and Anti-Cheat.

Let's forget that DRM is trash. Publishers want to have it, and they don't care about our opinion of it. You can't really "port" DRM, you have to develop a whole new one for Linux and figure how to prevent easy-peasy eBPF programs to make cracking it easy.

Anti-Cheat is another story. Valve and Easy Anti-Cheat are currently working on bringing it to Linux. You need that and you want that for any online game. Probably not as hard as DRM, but still requires a lot of linux specific work.

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