Quoting: Nim8Yeah, I think a lot of media for steam didn't really mention DF project is trying to ...

This comment should have become an article on GoL. Thanks for all the information!

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Quoting: scaineHuh, so I didn't realise that they'd started their own funding platform, which explains why the patreon contributions are in decline. They're still making $10K/month on Patreon too, but it's on the way down, definitely. I was contributing there and must have missed their announcement that they were setting up on their own. Link is here if you're interested: https://fund.godotengine.org [External Link].

There's this site where I find out about this stuff 😉

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/godot-engine-has-a-new-funding-platform-and-theyre-calling-for-help/

Don't you link such obscure websites here please! Gaming? On Linux?!? What a joke!

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Quoting: razing32Not to be a stick in the mud ... BUT ... why oh WHY do they always have to be "comedy"
I get Monkey Island was a classic and damn good , but does every game need comedy in it ?
I'd love to play a point and click horror or sci-fi , just straight up , no quips or sarcasm/pop culture references.

I'm fine with comedy - if they do it well. I'm fine with other genres as well. (Though there's a problem with point and click when there's something urgent, like a alarm had been set off. It's just not going to resonate with pointing, clicking and puzzle solving.)

All those eighties/nineties customer service pop culture references though... Just too many of them.

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Quoting: Installisnt this bad news for linux? from what i understand that engine supports linux.

I share this sentiment. I played many good games made with Unity, and it's sad to follow this development.

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Quoting: reaplyLet’s just say, this has made moderating the Godot discord a thousand times more difficult. :whistle:

Just due to many newbies, or something else?

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Quoting: fabertaweI get your "point" but I don't consider 60s Star Trek "woke" at all. Far from it. Sixties Star Trek is one of my most beloved 70s childhood TV memories (and what great theme music btw). There is a massive difference between what 60s Star Trek stood for (the vision of equality and fairness) and the madness that's going on today. Anyway, enough off-topic.

That's what wokeness is all about. The difference is that it nowadays includes people that the Sixties didn't think about (like transgender), and it actually asks for the same rights (like gay marriage). But you can't have equality and fairness without including everybody.

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Quoting: MangojuicedrinkerIt is simply a direct reaction to actions of blizzard over the years.

My point is that such response is content for a gaming article. Go blog about it. It has nothing to do in a game REVIEW. A game review is about the game, as it stands before us today. Not pre-hype, not capitalist motivations, not what the fans *expected* or *demanded*, not about the company behind it or how they fare with their fans.

Just a judgement of the game itself, behind the fluff.
That's what a game review should focus on. Can they also MENTION the surrounding chaos? Well, sure. But the rating should never be based on THAT.
So such user bombings of low ratings of the game is just... childish. Like the least effort possible to make a statement. And they ruin the user review feature while they are at it.

Well, let me disagree: User reviews is where the company feels and maybe even reads when they've done something wrong. They don't give a flying one for what I blog. Giving a bad review for bad behaviour is making use of consumer power.

I agree that this might make the reviews less helpful for people only wanting to know how good a game is. But no matter if a game has been review bombed or not, I often look at the highest rated reviews to give an impression.

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Quoting: saellavenI've always held the position that wine/proton are great for using older software/games, but harmful to luring people to native ports in the future. Why write native ports when you get the entire Linux base for free? We're already seeing companies that always made Linux a priority dropping native support for future games.

It's true, we are. But we are also seeing Linux native releases from outfits that never did that before.

Maybe, hopefully, I'm only seeing one side of the story. I'm "following" good games with a Linux port, see them making announcements for their next games, and it feels like more often than not, the next game is not getting some love for penguins.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfThe lack of a native Linux port is a huge disappointment to me (especially considering that other games from Paradox Interactive got native ports) and the reason why I won't buy this game even though I am a huge Star Trek fan.

... and even more so as it seems to be technically based on a game with a port.
Somebody must have said: "Remove this Linux build stuff from the system!"

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Demo available!

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