Quoting: Guest

Quoting: TealPeople flying off their handle are just confused and pseudo-educated in economy. Yeah, this might be uncomfortable but it won't have impact on most people and it's more or less necessary to curb problems that actually matter (corporate tax evasion).

People "flying off their handle" (whatever that means) perhaps have a reason, you know? Like it’s making selling digital goods/services *even more* complicated, as if it wasn’t already difficult enough. And of course it will impact most the little guys trying to sell their work directly. Because no, Paypal will not handle this.

Paypal won't, Google Play, Steam, Desura, Humble Store, Bandcamp, Amazon, all of these, will.

Most people who had it "easy" before just dodged taxes altogether before, it will be just more closely watched, now, that's not a bad thing.

It would be reasonable if the legislation counted with a low lump sum for very minor producers, but you can't just say "wow taxes are complicated, I shouldn't have to bother", that's not how the world works.

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Quoting: maodzedunI'm sorry but I'll have to disagree with the author. While it's an obvious inconvenience for the small developers this is a matter that goes way beyond gaming and aims to solve a much more important problem. You know how big companies operating in the states sell their production in America but pay taxes elsewhere? That hurts the national budget. So it does in Europe. Getting this rule means more fair taxation could be in place and more money would go to public services like health care and eduction or even subsidies for small, medium and large businesses. As much as I feel for indie developers this is one of these cases where the need of the many outweigh the need of the few. Plus, I'm sure they'll find a way. Worst case scenario - they'll use Skrill and PayPal for checkout and let them handle at least part of the administrative bullcrap.

This guy got it.

People flying off their handle are just confused and pseudo-educated in economy. Yeah, this might be uncomfortable but it won't have impact on most people and it's more or less necessary to curb problems that actually matter (corporate tax evasion).

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Quoting: Belarrius

Quoting: GuestFuck EU, the peoples of southern europe are tired of this monopolistic shit.

Yes, It's very yes... I'm bored, my country is dead. Europe has killing my country and same for other country in EU.

For 4TB Hard Drive we have 60€ tax, imagine...

Tax of Private Copy in France for EU [External Link]

and 20% of TVA, enjoy it!

You realize that exactly is not EUs fault but France's own fault, right?

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Quoting: GuestFuck EU, the peoples of southern europe are tired of this monopolistic shit.

Monopolistic? I am not sure you know what words mean.

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Does it run well? It heavily reminds me of one flash game (with identical idea behind it as well as as nigh identical graphics), which was, well, made in flash, and even with simple graphics like this it ran like utter shit on Linux.

So, is this done properly this time around? No input lag? No slowdowns even with massive battles?

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Quoting: laveso this is free2play with starter packs (tanks and aircrafts) right? is it pay 2 win or is there a decent amount of free vehicles included (that aint weaker than the ones in those dlc packs)

This is one of the least pay-2-win games out there, but it's rather pay-2-progress.

By that I mean you will grind your ass off if you don't throw some money at the game. As exclusive "money only" vehicles go, tho, they 90% of them are either light variations of what's already available for free (protypes, experimental modifications) (after grind tho) OR, a "captured" vehicle of one nation placed into another nation's tree.

IMHO you can have a lot of fun even for free, you just gonna have to deal with having quite limited options, unlocking a vehicle here and there. The game has a match-making system in place, tho, so most of the time your enemies shouldn't be significantly more powerful than you, so you always have a chance regardless.

Generally, 4 out of 5 situations, individual skill is significantly more important than the vehicles the players have, be it further-up-grind vehicle or a premium one.

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Aaaaaaah shiz, Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssss

This is consistently my number 1 time sink in past 2 years, now I can sink all the time into it without using Wine! Halleluyah!

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Quoting: GuestI have had these issues while porting a game to Linux and honestly it’s a pain. Now, if a game that needs porting has many wrongly-cased files, I’d probably write a code layer to remove the filesystem’s case-sensivity and be done with it.

I wonder if there is *any* point in having case-sensivity in a file system. I have never needed it and it has always been a nuisance.

I wonder if there's *any* point in being able to put spaces in a file names. Or hyphens, or periods, or the letters x y and z.
/sarcasm

I just don't understand how can an actual programmer think like you. You must obviously know that each character is based on an ascii value assigned in a table of characters, and character A has a different value than character a, and from point of the view of the computer they will always be two completely unrelated things, that just we happen to see some superficial connection between. You have to go out of your way to remove case sensitivity from software. Why do that, when you are removing functionality that way?

Not to mention that when I code, I use case sensitivity with a meaning a lot of the time. Single minor case letters are usually minor variables, like a loop counter or such. All upper case are usually constants of sorts. If I use "BUFFER" I know I am thinking of it as a constant I have set somewhere, and "buffer" would be just a variable, and if I have the variable doesn't exist, the compiler complains, instead of using the constant I forgot to have there.

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Instant buy, I was waiting for this.

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Aspyr media is doing a pretty great job with quite stable and relatively well polished and feature-complete ports of the games, alongside with having good PR attitude and seeming quite enthusiastic about their work. They are definitely a great contribution to the Linux gaming scene and their future work is promising as well.

GamingOnLinux is a page I check regularly to see the news, mainly regarding new releases to support Linux, or newly coming out ports. I also join the IRC from time to time. The community is also quite helpful when it comes to solving Linux specific issues in new games.

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