The option would be opening a web page to their store front for micro transactions instead of relying on the steam API, unless the steam API is forced on them. At least with Shroud of the Avatar that seems the way it works, you go to it's website, buy what you want and then redeem the stuff in game after the fact.

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Quoting: Guest

Considering Shroud comes from Richard “Lord British” Garriott and Starr “Darkstarr” Long, you would expect some level of quality and direction in what they're doing, but it's a painful experience.

Ha, no, sadly for those of us who know Richard's history at least, he's been one failure after another for a long time now. Ultima had some great things about it back in the day, but since then he's been making money off his name recognition while churning out garbage. Clearly it was either the advise of other developers around him who helped to make some of the Ultima games pretty good in certain ways, or Richard has just lost his touch or never had it or only had part of it and needed help, much like George Lucas.

Tabula Rasa was a good game that ended up rushed out the door and by then it was too late.

As for SotA, a lot has changed since the original kickstarter pitch, for better or worse. It also has a lot more hand holding now then it used to at the beginning, you can see NPCs with quests sparkling and compass waypoints a la skyrim. Despite all it's flaws I'm having a surprisingly good time in single player mode, which I now started playing since it was officially released.

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Quoting: 14Nice to see an MMO on Linux. Also, their website still functions with NoScript turned on. Kinda cool. Still, now is not the right season for me to play a subscription game.

This is not subscription based. It also has single player mode. Also, single player mode still needs to be connected because it pulls stuff from online mode, but the single player and multiplayer character are completely separate.

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Quoting: BeamboomThe gameplay videos found on youtube after this video shows a remarkably much better graphics than we saw earlier - do this mean they've ramped up the visuals considerably compared to earlier videos shown here on GOL, or are the video clips just remarkably selective in what they show?

I can't really compare, since I have to run it on lowest and even then it's garbage in terms of performance. Not Linux specific either, plenty of Windows gamers saying the same thing.

Depends what videos you mean.

Edit: I misread you, edited.

I don't see any performance difference between low and high graphical settings(with he exception of shadow distance) so make yourself a favor and crank the settings all the way up when you play this game.

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Quoting: bubexelFor the same reason that games like quake 3, doom 3, quake 2 and others that already have their own linux client aren't on steam for linux. They do games multiplatform in mind but they dont want release it on linux just for unknown reason.

Because all those were released with unsupported binaries from the start, now old and crusty, and what we have today are third party engines forked from the original source.

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I would buy it for sure.

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Quoting: Eike.

That point is on point.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: 0aTTInteresting read:

https://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-hooray-valves-going-to-start-shipping-games-again/ [External Link]

"We've always been a little bit jealous of companies like Nintendo," Newell said. "When Miyamoto is sitting down and thinking about the next version of Zelda or Mario, he's thinking what is the controller going to look like, what sort of graphics and other capabilities. He can introduce new capabilities like motion input because he controls both of those things. And he can make the hardware look as good as possible because he's designing the software at the same time that's really going to take advantage of it. So that is something we've been jealous of, and that's something that you'll see us taking advantage of subsequently."

Erm... Does this sound like "We're going to make a console." to you, too?

As long as that console runs linux, and as long as all it's titles become available on the PC linux client, I see no problem, aside from how well Steam machines went for them...

Edited for typos

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Well, I tried it right now and seems performance has improved on linux, or at least it's not as terrible as it was. Now if only it wasn't such a memory hog...

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I would play this game a lot more but as it was already mentioned, performance is terrible on my 750 Ti(which at the time I bought mostly because I wanted to play this game ASAP), and it has only gotten worse so far, although scene loading times sure have improved at the expense of player houses loading after the initial loading so you're not presented with a fully loaded scene at the start. Changing video quality doesn't do much at all to improve FPS, it just looks better or worse, with the exception of shadow draw distance. Still I have 239 hours logged in from logging on and off once in a while.

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