Quoting: ColomboDarn. I was waiting for it. Additionally, they say that it will be released for "PC" and they have steam/steamOS logo on their website. But, with current devs, this can mean anything.

Disappointed.

I launched a wall of text on the reddit thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/55vuci/civilization_vi_aspyr_to_launch_mac_version_linux/

Go over there and show your support, we gotta keep causing a ruckus and continue to lay out plainly why Linux Is The Future and why Windows & Apple marketplaces will be bad for business.

The less they think we care the less they'll try.

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This is a example of a game with a simple concept and simple mechanics executed well.

(I'm glad there's DLC and the game is so fun)

Good Mechanics and Simplicity = Fun

Of course you could go the Fizbin route
View video on youtube.com

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@Liam - Maybe reach out to someone to clarify the situation?

This sounds like that other situation with GOG where the dude who said nay was completely clueless as to the situation.

Civ 6 graphics seem like a downgrade from Civ 5, and it will be new and lacking maturity and polish (as was the case with Civ 5 until all the DLC fixed Civ 5)

Their Beyond Earth game wasn't good at all, my girl who loves 5 and plays on her Archbox all the time demo'd it and it was lackluster. I bet sales weren't so stellar as their development took a turn for the worst.

I seriously hope Civ 6 had as good of a crew as Civ 5 because 5 was beast and 6 looks like 3D grit lacking, polished, amateur garbage.

Even though it looks terrible so far, in the hopes that it one day becomes as awesome or more than Civ 5 I hope they just had a internal fsckup and aren't legit about pulling out. PC gaming will inevitably be SteamOS.

SteamOS is the only platform that will truely protect investors and consumers from the middleman fscking everything up like they always do - Windows Store, Apple AppStore -- you know how long a AppReview can take to get your new version pushed out on the AppStore - I've heard up to 8 - 10 months in nightmare scenario's.

Now, call me crazy - but that doesn't sound like a very stable environment for game development investors to put all their chips in on, and then the appstore can just say "Nah, we don't agree or like your thing so we refuse service." -- this has been the case for various comics on Apple's AppStore, and Windows is the new Apple but even more evil. Everyone always expected Apple to look out first for their own interests, but Windows is going out of it's way to be evil spying on users File Tree, Cortona Search Queries, Files, Data, Keystrokes, etc... and they've been responsible for some of the biggest clusterfsck's in PC gaming history - Games for Windows Live? What a fscking hit!

Windows 8? Another hit. Windows Vista? Brilliant! Windows Millennium Edition? Fantastic.

Any developer who sits exclusively on Windows or Mac camp is gonna get their buttox burned when the stove turns on.

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I don't like Steam Controller because FPS are easier with 2 Joysticks. SC Controller does work good, and it runs a daemon as well which is nice.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismSigh... I guess modern FPS' have classes now where you deploy with weapon-sets and don't have to strategically acquire and guard weapon spawns on a map.

Totally different mechanically from Halo, and of course old Unreal Tournament had lots of little mechanics that made the game fun.

The Secret to Fun? Game Mechanics, not 10 billion classes or a hundred million units or variations of procedural generated weapons. Maybe worlds but not weapons.

Modern fps are more accessible. Remembering when armour spawns is HARD. I want to use rail gun all the time and when someone else takes it I am sad. I want to shoot people, not THINK. Thinking is hard. Skill? Tactics? Ugh.

Notice the context of my comment - particularly games ranging from 1999 - 2007. Super Mario Bros from 1987 could be more fun than a modern side scroller because of good mechanics executed well.

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: ElectricPrismold Unreal Tournament had lots of little mechanics that made the game fun

Speaking of that! How's the new Unreal game doing? They've been working on it a long time now haven't they?

I download it from their forum and it's extremely awesome and fun. The only problem is that every time I want to play I have to manually patch the game.

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Not as bad as Section 8 Prejudice or Storm United

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I wonder if modding would allow new maps -- that would really boost SDV's replayability & increase gamer value

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Sigh... I guess modern FPS' have classes now where you deploy with weapon-sets and don't have to strategically acquire and guard weapon spawns on a map.

Totally different mechanically from Halo, and of course old Unreal Tournament had lots of little mechanics that made the game fun.

The Secret to Fun? Game Mechanics, not 10 billion classes or a hundred million units or variations of procedural generated weapons. Maybe worlds but not weapons.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: MaCroX95Valve releasing an awesome Linux exclusive would mean only 1 thing... thousands of gamers rushing to install Linux to play a game HL3 for example :D Such thing needs to be done so Windows users would lose their tight grip to 1 OS. But back to reality Valve would never do such thing because they are really the one company that cares about PC gaming and their users opposite to majority of game development companies out there.

While I'm against platform-exclusive games on principle, I wouldn't particularly mind if Half-Life 3 was released on Linux first, say, perhaps a week before releasing to other platforms… :)

I disagree, however I wouldnt mind Half Life 3 having Legendary Exclusive perks only on SteamOS.

However im not against developers choosing to do exclusives.

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QuoteReimplementation of the clipboard API.

I wonder if this will mean clipboard copy/paste will work from chrome to Photoshop.

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