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charcircuityesterday at 8:26 PM1 replyview on HN

They are advertising that it works on Windows. Developers in an ideal world shouldn't have to worry about unsupported configurations. I'm advocating that developers should only have their games judged by supported configurations.

>Should developers only release games on Windows by default unless other platforms decide to pay up?

Other platforms could be profitable enough that developers could target and support them on their own volition.


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avianlyrictoday at 1:16 AM

I don’t think anyone can seriously hold up the PC gaming platform as a paragon of “supported configurations”. The stupid number of tiny things that can cause a PC game to fail on a supposedly “supported configuration” is beyond ludicrous. To the point where I’ve personally given up running Windows completely because it’s less reliable at actual running the game I care about than Proton is.