I picked up the previous game for like £3 on sale, so will give that one a go first. If it's good then I'll get this one too.

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Great news! I honestly don't care much for their product personally since I think the price-to-performance ratio is terrible (but then again, it's always the case with anything prebuilt) but their commitment to the project is great and these mystery new titles are very intriguing :)

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Quoting: liamdaweIt would also serve to make Linux look bad if they did it, and it failed.

That's a very good point actually. Might be better for more low-profile porters and low-profile games though?

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To be honest, the idea of multi-billion dollar companies like Sony essentially using crowdfunding as a "market research" platform doesn't really sit well with me. They have the funds to take risks, but time and time again the AAA industry puts out the same generic garbage because they're not willing to "risk" their stock falling by fractions of a percentage due to a new IP not selling as well as predicted. The more big companies are using the platform, the more the little guys who are actually creating original stuff and don't have the money to throw around will be shut out.

The only plus side I can see to big companies doing this is that it might put a load of marketing people out of work and maybe they can cease to define popular culture by making broad generalisations on demographics and "market demands" despite having no contact with reality:

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However, I would love to see companies like Feral and Aspyr do it since they are in the same category as indie developers in the sense that big developers and publishers won't cough up the money if they think there's no "market" for it (see above). I think a lot of Linux gamers would put forward the money since these companies are very trusted names and there wouldn't be as many of the associated risks that come along with crowdfunding.

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Doing a quick Google search, it seems that Valve won't be going to E3.

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Quoting: KeizgonActually, the more I think about it, it probably isn't coming to Linux. Remember the failure of the paid mods? When Gabe publicly stated on a reddit post (you can Google it), he stated that the drama and uproar around it costed them a butt load a cash (millions). Many were sceptical and assumed he meant customer service, but I believe the possibility of Valve losing Bethesda's confidence may have costed them some relations damage because Bethesda got a lot of shit from their customers as well.

However, I could be wrong. He could have meant anything, really.

This is actually a very good point, but like the dates thing it's also probably also a coincidence (I hope, because it would make me very, very sad if it were the case), but yeah I really like the logic :)

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Quoting: NovenI just submitted refund requests for crappy windows games that I never played. I should get like $85 back that I can spend on linux games.

That's a pretty good idea!

Thanks for the write up, very informative and didn't realise the system was so sensible. I'm not too sure about letting people keep their trading cards though, I can see people abusing this for the cards even though they'll only get like 20p.

EDIT: Refunding games from over 14 days ago didn't work for me... I feel like I should get my money back for Eador: Masters of the Broken World and Dying Light, since the former never ran on Linux at all (despite saying it did) and the latter is still very broken. I would re-purchase both these games if they were playable, but they're just not night now.

I kind of feel like the 14 day thing should be waivered in cases like this where the developers either falsely advertised an OS it didn't actually support, or where the game is pretty much unplayable since neither have to do with personal tastes.

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Quoting: KeizgonTBH, I was skeptical if they were going to release it or not. While I'm not into Survival games (except Don't Starve, that game is awesome), I'm glad to hear it coming out. I will praise them on this though... THANK GOD it's not another survival zombie game.

Well, it also seems to have quite an intriguing story and UE4 makes it look amazing!

Just an FYI to other people looking to get this game and expanding on what Liam has said in the article, the game seems to be very poorly optimised currently (30fps on a GTX 980). Though according to patchnotes, patches have improved this by 10-30%, so hopefully within the next year we can see more good performance gains. Also, just scanning through the forums, the devs seem to be very active and involved.

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This is actually the game I've most been looking forward to this past month.

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Quoting: BTREIt's kind of pointless to wait for the game to be complete IMO. With the current DLC model, both EU4 and CK2 will only be 'complete' when people stop buying expansions and it's no longer viable to finance new material. The games have been a success and that's why they can afford to keep supporting their games. Paradox don't have a vision of what the game will look like when it's 'complete' because they're coming up with new stuff all the time, not to mention listening to what the customers want. They use the money people spend on DLC to pay for patches and ideas for even more new stuff, so it's a never-ending cycle :P

Maybe we could stop buying the DLC and that would motivate them to release Victoria III :D

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