That's peanuts (50-60k). Some company will come up with the money sponsoring it, thinking on how much effort and within that cash was spent by AMD/Intel/Valve to get there.

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Buying a steamlink and steam controller instead of a ps/xbox for the living room was actually one of the best choices I made.

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Oh yeah.
From "it was not worth it" about the pillars port to "we don't know if we'll do a linux release on the next game" to "day-1"...

Really looking forward to this one.

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I do. It does not run well on my setup (I7 with 770 GTX and 8 GB RAM, stuttering, frame drops etc.).

And ye, I own it anyway, but I can't enjoy playing it.

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Quoting: pete910Can someone explain why cross platform seems to cause problems? Is it engine specific ?

Could be the engine - but usually engines supporting multiple platforms or being ported to another platform you'd port the network code as well.

More likely is that they used a network middleware in Windows for the network code which does not exist for Linux, and which they didn't get the right and code to port. Due to legal issues, you can't just reverse engineer and implement it either without explicit permission of the company which owns the rights, leaving it on the spot we are now - a different protocol for Linux.

Maybe one day a port of that network layer will find it's way to a Windows version (or a compatibility layer), but I doubt that.

For the game - great. But I'm not sure I'll go for the highest option just now before I tried it. While I do love the RTS genre, I hardly found any games I really learned to love over the years (ofc, there was StarCraft, C&C and AoE).

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Ohhh :-( .. twitch is blocked at work.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: lucifertdarkWow it must be really bad for you to say don't buy it, I don't remember the last time you ended a review like that.

It's something I very rarely say, and I don't like saying it. It's just not worth it.

The 22nd of September isn't that long ago... "Waste of time"... ;-).

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/dominate-the-world-in-strategy-game-agenda-now-on-linux-heres-my-review.8150

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Most interesting part for me was that middleware companies actually start to adopt. That's real news to me.

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Interesting, never had any issue with the page.

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Quoting: ajgpwe are in a single source market for Linux games and would hate the rug to be pulled now if something were ever to happen to Feral.

I'd consider Tropico, CoH, Dying Light, Talos Principle, Shroud of the Avatar, Mount&Blade Warband, Metro-Series AAA titles as well.

And we got some good other games as well, not necessarily AAA, but very good games with quite a budget... (Cities: Skylines, PoE, ..).

The most important thing is that the developers start building up skills/know-how in Linux, because that's a huge issue for a lot of developers/studios. Even though, there is a lack of experience (even on the engine part) so there are probably a lot of issues to be solved, but we're getting along, taking one step after the other.

And there still are a few in the pipeline I consider AAA titles.
Yes, it's true, a few we'll very likely never see or at least not any time soon (FarCry, Dragon Age [or whatever-by-EA-Games], WoW [or-what-ever-from-Activision/Blizzard] etc. come to my mind).

There are not so many AAA titles every year, and of quite some we got ports now at a later point in time. That may change in future, but I don't see that any time soon :-).

I personally think that every engine vendor will in future release a AAA for their own engine (if they're a game developer as well, so not Unity probably) with each generation. Why? Showcase.

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