I'm providing my experience trying to game with windows-based friends.

I have hundreds of games in steam. Some had poor or broken play with games Windows users play together without issues.

I think this community is a bit defensive. I have hundreds of games in my steam library that I play. A large number with multiplayer, I have had issues with my windows friends.

Most recently the pain in the ass games have been AoE4, and BeamMP. AoE4 crashes in muliplayer, there is a patch for that crash on protondb, but it seems I'm also impacted by an AMD related bug that happens intermittently and will restart X at a random times specifically due to playing AoE4. Tried various kernels and video cards, still crashes.

BeamMP, looks like a lot of people have this issue, some have been able to resolve it.

Civ6 used to have stability issues, the Linux client is a joke, I use the proton version because it's more stable.

We're gonna act like Bronze doesn't mean broken sometimes? Okay.

This is the sort of honest discourse we should be having in the community. The recent advances are nothing short of amazing, and I can play tons of great games with my windows friends, but there are some games, that left me, and sometimes them with terrible experiences.

Nothing like investing over an hour into a game with friends only to crash due to some Linux specific issue.

Ummm, I say that because I'm the friend in the friend group where the games don't work sometimes, and I'm not going to pretend like that isn't the case simply because I'm a FOSS advocate.

I own a steam deck, I have decades of experience with Linux as a Desktop, server, and even some years doing game development, so it's not for a lack of effort.

It's undoubtedly a fact that some mainstream games don't work at all, or well enough that you'll play seamlessly with your windows friends. Even protondb admits hundreds of outright borked games. Being dishonest about this does more harm than good.

It's amazing what Steam, Valve, AMD, etc, have done recently for Linux gaming, but it's not the YotLD yet.

Sorry that by release 1.6 it's too much for me to expect not to see duplicate NPCs inside the diner, one of them standing through the table.

AAA game, big money, big disappointment.

Worth it on sale to play through once.

Sunken cost fallacy for some.

I bought it, I enjoyed it enough, part of that enjoyment was the bugs that enabled me to amass tons of cash.

I'm not going to tell myself they delivered the product as promised.

What they did was scummy, what they still do is scummy.

1. The game is eye candy and the story is decent
2. It doesn't feel like a AAA game
3. The bugs are embarrassing, duplicate NPCs down to the outfits, walking through solid objects, terrible vehicle physics, mission breaking bugs.
4. They are selling DLC.

Fuck CDPR.

Right, well even though San Diego might have state park beach front property, we shouldn't have a tent city filling it up. This quickly becomes unhygienic, and crime rises, among other issues.