Cool, I didn't realize this was for sale yet, grabbed a copy for a Linux friend who I think will be stoked on this.

Launching a game reminds me of building a fire, you want to get enough gamer engagement & positive reviews as you can to get the blaze going to snowball. Linux gamers are great at that whole "network effect" thing -- I can't tell you how many copies of Terraria or other games I've bought people some of whom only use Linux occasionally, actually at the time got a bunch of kids in school to start playing too (same w/ Starbound).

Once again the numbers point to us being a modestly big enough piece of the pie to notice. I mean I sure as hell wouldn't throw out a pie with 7 of the 8 slices eaten,

Or like bake some bread and be like "well I added 7 of the 8 ingredients -- I dunno if I like this yeast stuff so I'm gonna leave it out."

Lol.

This game looks epic, super stoked to see what it's about and only $5 atm, not bad at all.

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It's cool that some people who otherwise couldn't can get legal copies of games for free.

It's cool that people are making it easier for themselves and others.

The lame part is Epic Games & their nasty attitudes these last (5?) few years.

I would encourage the creators to consider expanding the scope to included GOG, Itch and others in addition to Epic.

For someone like me I'd rather spend the extra 50 bucks to not have to register an Epic account and support Tencent/China -- destroyer of Riot Games / League of Legends and other things I used to like.

Tim Sweeny is a hot-head who got himself & Epic into a epic lawsuit with Apple over in-app transactions. Guess it doesn't always pay to be off your rocker.

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Quoting: Breizh

The good news is that Epic will not be locking it down to their systems

for now.*

I'll give it 6 months. That's how long it took Epic to murder Rocket League IIRC.

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The new Launcher is welcome, I've hated Kickoff for more than 10 years, and good alternatives haven't existed like they do in Gnome with Arc Menu for example.

I love the scope of KDE's features, but between every major version it seems like useful things are left behind for unknown periods of time (Look @you global menu)

And the features that do exist always feel like they haven't been fleshed out (Installing addons is done in a ackward menu with no screenshots except a tiny thumbnail, no user-feedback and multiple installation sources with poorly named files making it difficult to understand which one is the newest version)

That and now the whole Qt 6.0 / Qt 5.15 Drama, I am surprised KDE is entering a "stable" time when Qt's new commercial LTS plans are essentially creating a year or more of instability. Seems bizarre.

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Black Mesa
Half Life Alyx
LISA
Road Redemption
Distance (The updates are amazing)

AoE II Definitive Edition (A new expansion is coming in January after 20 years)
Caesar 3 -- Augustus Mod
Halo MCC
System Shock 2
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered with Mods

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I miss Stargus being in active development :( After seeing how amazing Caesar III in Augustus and Julius are and OpenRCT2 for Rollercoaster Tycoon I would love to see a open-source reimplementation of StarCraft BroodWar. This game plays similar and warrants following closely.

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Show me to the AUR

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I would welcome Steam adding _donation_ buttons to MODDERS & Workshop content producers.

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I hope to have the option to buy them for Linux on Steam.

Google hasn't earned my trust there's zero change I'm buying into another one of their services after the bullshit they are pulling with YouTube & the self-appointed powers to remove individuals privacy.

If anything all the bullshit this 6 months has made me much more interested in GOG. Being even _more_ dependent on the Internet is _not_ a good thing.

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They said it will need an internet connection to activate.

I can think of no good reason why a internet connection should be _required_. It honestly pisses me off how dependent and lazy game developers, console makers and others have used the internet in order to push broken things out.

Also, what if you don't live in a area with a good internet connection? It does happen. Not everyone lives in a mega-city.

Big turn-off.

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