Quoting: FeistOK, never heard of "Ken Follet" or this before but it sounds great so I´ll be sure to pick this one up.

Check the book series to the game, its a joy to read.

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Read the books. Instant buy.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyI started downloading it. While it did, I checked to see how much the full game would cost. $40. Okay, fine.

Then I saw a shop with loads and loads of stuff, like home decorations for $10 - $100. And a boat for $300. Then I googled a bit and found this Eurogamer article about the real-money housing market [External Link] and yeah... I aborted the download.

This is not really something I want to be part of. Hell, I could just play EVE Online if I wanted to live in a libertarian hellscape.

I've backed this game very early on, when it wasn't clear how it would become. What you describe drove me quite off a bit too. But since I love to play this kind of game as crafter, I'll very likely give it a shot anyway.

Depends on where they go from there, it could become pay2win. Not going there.

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I'll go with
Elder Scrolls Online
Settlers 7
Anno Series
Dragon Age: Inquisition
The Witcher 3
GTA V

Sadly the only ones I do not own is Settlers 7, DA:Inq and GTAV.

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Tyranny.

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However, we are disappointed by the promotion of piracy by some

I have not seen that anywhere, would be interesting to see where they stumbled across this.

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So sad it does not work with mesa :-(.

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I did convert my grandmother to Linux. Her needs the OS and Applications fit perfectly well, so ye, that worked out (my grandmother is good in adopting to things too, and she's over 80).

I am fairily confident I could do the same with my Parents. I certainly couldn't with my Sister, my best friend (she's graphics designer) and a few other persons in my Family, because I know they use tools they'd miss.

We are not, and will not in the near future be anywhere close to taking a market share as Apple does, because yes, the users are using those tools and they'd miss it. It's not about the OS, the regular user couldn't care less. It's all about the applications.

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Quoting: Grim85Politics - there are microsoft published titles using UE4 (and probably DX12) - by all means they'll make vulkan a windows option, but I'd bet these politics will keep it not the default

Doesn't Tim Sweeney like to complain about MS? Going all way Vulkan sounds like an easy way to undermine some of MS hegemony.

He always complains, but actually they never took real action. They just hold the hammer above the heads.

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The state our graphics stack was in, it was expected that Valve can not change the world overnight. They're investing real money into our display stack (drivers/mesa) by hiring developers.

It was never expected that our graphics driver will be anywhere closed to complete and stable within a year or two. If they continue to invest like that, if we're lucky, that's by 2020 that Mesa is anywhere close to NVidia.

For Vulkan - don't know, still a lot of work needed - i know - but it's quite "there" already, working and stable.

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