Finally bought Shadowrun Dragonfall for less than three euros. One less game on the wishlist. Also got Spelunky for free, which would be nice if it ran on Linux.

EDIT: Three, not four.

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Quoting: IgnisGOG's definition of “soon” is pretty weird.

No weirder than Valve's. :)

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Aww, someone's feeling a bit grumpy. :'(

Hey, any of my fellow traitors up for a circle-jerk?

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Quoting: omer666On another hand, they almost dominate mobile phones market, on the past 5 years they were tied with Samsung.

Only in the US. In the EU and the rest of the world Android is the clear leader with more than 80% of the market.

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Quoting: HalKadoInteresting thought, I do wonder if these businesses could have survived had they done it differently. I guess you could look at apple as a great example of a computer manufacture thats happy to make profit rather then dominate market share, but its a really different approach to business, I wonder if MS would have survived going that route.

Apple would love to dominate the market (well, any market). It's definitely not for lack of trying. They've got the smallish but extremely lucrative hipster and yuppie markets in their pocket though, so they do just fine.

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Quoting: titiThe better question on this early state is if the developers have cross plattform development in mind !

They're developing for PS4, xbone and Windows so yes, they do. And this isn't the first cross-platform game they've done, they know what's involved. I think it's always better to ask if Linux is specifically one of the target platforms, just like Liam did.

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Quoting: EhvisThese days an interesting question would be whether the game is developed primarily in Vulkan. Or even DX12. Both should make the porting effort a whole lot easier.

There's probably a strong chance they're using a version of the same in-house engine that their later SR games ran on. They could be adding a Vulkan backend though, who knows.

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According to Volition the game is also part of the Saints Row universe apparently, even though it's not a sequel. I for one would love to play it on Linux.

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Aww, I thought it would be about actually cleaning up the city afterwards, maybe learning about the event in the process like the topic led me to believe/hope, not repetitive zombie-slaughter with heavy machinery. This could have been an interesting and innovative mix of exploration and excavator simulation. Of course I wouldn't have minded if there was some aftermath-related action involved, like a bit of running from zombie stragglers, but this is just... meh.

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The "negative hype train" has never made me think I should be using Windows, but maybe I'm just not the hype-swallowing type. Sure, a large part of the game-consuming public is interested solely in games, not operating systems, and will play on whatever platform gives them the means to play whatever they want. And that's completely understandable. It's perfectly natural to think in black and white, but personally I like the shades between these absolutes of "everything" and "nothing" just fine. Settling for "enough" is not a sign of weakness, contrary to common belief and the holy tenets of consumerism.

Somehow I get the feeling that the doom-and-gloom types among us tend to be people who still spend a lot of time playing games on Windows and are trying to convince the rest of us that they have no real choice, or maybe that their choice is the right one and that the rest of us should see how justified they are in doing so, because "oh noes, if they don't agree with everything I say and do as I do they must think they're better than me!". Welp, who cares. Back to work.

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