Like many people in there I'm waiting for AMD's answer. I think they definitely tried something with the RX 560 on the power/perf ratio and if they release something like the GTX 1050 Ti (but a little beefier) I'll definitely buy it.

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Quoting: MVinhasI bought a Windows Phone smartphone back in 2015. I really liked that OS and didn't care about being developed by Microsoft. Windows Phone was at his peak, with a good set of apps (nothing like Android or iOS, but still) and a decent performance. Then, the company A stated that they will not release the next version of their app on WP. Ok. Some weeks later, Company B anounced the same. And the downfall of WP started, IIRC on late 2015.

I hope this isn't happening on Linux Gaming world, Rust abandoning Linux was a huge letdown, now Football Manager...two AAA games and I really like both. Thing is, since 2012 until this date we didn't had news like this, the number of AAA games was always increasing. I'm kinda worried because I've seen this before.

Rust, according to one of the developers, is only a temporary situation due to Unity issues and driver bugs. Their situation can't really be compared with this, since they didn't directly remove support due to sales.

This isn't the first time we've had news like this and it hasn't really changed anything when it happened before. There's The Witcher 3, Darksiders 1 & 2, Carmageddon, Street Fighter, Project Cars and plenty of others. So yeah, it's happened before, will happen again and nothing's really changed overall in my opinion.

...and there is also a much older iteration with id software that proves Leopard's point wrong. Everything was operational on Linux, yet they said "it doesn't generate enough money" and didn't release Rage on Linux, even if every single game before got released on our system since 1993. John Carmack even stated that if we want games we should rely on Wine.

It was way before Steam on Linux, and yet, Linux gaming got bigger anyway. It just got bigger without them.

PS: Yes I do write a lot about this story but it really felt like a betrayal to me. They even ended Linux support for Quake Live, which drew all players from Quake 3, so I can't play that game online anymore. And I've been consistently playing Quake since the first game got released on Mac OS. That is pretty sh*tty.

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Quoting: omer666

Quoting: yar4eIt was "IMHO" :) Two times i tried to finish this game and two times i failed in this because i became very bored right in the middle of the game..

Of course, no harm taken ;-)
Do you play a lot of JRPGs?

I played many JRPGs, but finished less then ten of them. And my most favorite of them is Vagrant story, FFX,FFXII and of course brilliant Chrono Trigger. FFXII i playing right now and it runs perfect in WINE+DXVK by the way) and about the Skies of Arcadia - i really like the setting and music but the rest..

Ok, that explains the difference of opinion. Skies of Arcadia has a more classical gameplay compared to your favourite titles. Ever played one of the older Tales of titles?

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Quoting: yar4eIt was "IMHO" :) Two times i tried to finish this game and two times i failed in this because i became very bored right in the middle of the game..

Of course, no harm taken ;-)
Do you play a lot of JRPGs?

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Quoting: yar4eBut the game itself is boring)

Allow me to disagree completely. It is a prime example of a JRPG done right, highly recommended. It's way better than most RPGs Square released on the PS2.

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Quoting: Guest16€ for such an old game! Well that helps me decide not to buy it :) (I probably wouldn’t play it if I bought it anyway.)

While Turok may be old, but at the same time they re-wrote the entire engine in order to correct some of the game's weaknesses...

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Quoting: appetrosyanI wish blizzard would take their heads out of their ******s and finally consider us 'nix gamers.

And why should they do that? You seem to be quite content purchasing and playing their Windows™ products. No need to change anything. :D

SC2 is now free, though.

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Not at home for the weekend, but I've been playing Turok for the entire week and it's been a nice experience. Also playing through Borderlands 2's DLCs and The Pre-sequel. Quite a lot of shooting these days :p

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: tuubiWhaaat? Am I really the only one who lost interest in the NFS series after they introduced police chases in the third installment?

Police chases are about the only thing that can still make me interested in racing games for more than a few minutes, so vastly different experience here :)

That said, I don't think I've seen any other game that does it, so I don't actually own any racing game at the moment.

That's because people shifted to GTA for their police chasing fix. Saints Row can offer really fun police chases if you can get past the open worldliness and the overall tone of the game.

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Quoting: GuestI would like to share this interesting bit : around me, in France, the only people I know who are using Linux are environmental / left wing militants / activists. Apart from those, I don't know any. Not even people working in computer science (except if they are also militants) and obviously not gamers.

I'm French and don't consider myself an activist, but I consider myself a gamer with close to 3000 hours on the last iterations of the Battlefield Franchise (BC2, BF3 & BF4), plus a lot of other games. So obviously there are some like me, but I agree that I can't see a lot in my environment. I'm trying to make people switch to Linux but gamers I know mainly don't want to leave out their Windows Steam libraries and don't want to mess with Wine and such complicated workarounds :(

Being a Frenchman myself I would say that french people like to belong to the mainstream. Everything, from movies to music to literature is utterly mainstream in France. As a master student I chose to specialise in science fiction, which is not even considered as a literary genre. Our metal bands are awarded at Grammy awards but are completely ignored. Our best writers sell less than 50 Shades of Grey. Guess what, it's the same with computers. We spend 300,000 a year in software in our public institutions and keep cutting the education budget.

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