Quoting: FirearmsUnitedYou're all doing it wrong. Let me explain this from a very simple economist point of view:
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So everyone who is defending geo blocking in this thread does either not know or understand about the concepts of globalisation or should ask themselves why they are willingly accepting all the downsides of globalisation without demanding at least a tiny bit of fairness in their own favour by being allowed to participate in the same global market like the companies that try to deny them this right.

This EU regulation attempt actually seems to be about reselling "physical copies" that happen to be only access-codes these days. And for these I tend to somewhat agree with you and the EU stance, as it is a minor market and is a customer's right.

But your "simple economist" view when expanded to general regional pricing is indeed too simple, as other's tried to explain already. In the end you need to also consider supply and demand curves VS. investment costs, and in the current market the price equilibrium seems to tend towards not lowering the prices for everyone (like you suggest), but rather asking the same high price everywhere if regional pricing is not possible (Edit: mainly because of rampant software piracy and "key smuggling" in poorer countries, which obviously isn't included in your simple economic view developed based on physical goods).

But high prices everywhere are IMHO in the greater view of things not a desirable outcome for anyone involved, nor is optimal from a pure business perspective.

P.S.: You can easily benefit from cheaper regional pricing yourself if you get a local SIM card during holidays and switch your store setting temporarily (you need a local IP and for most places a valid local telephone number). You can actually recover quite a bit of the holiday costs if you plan to buy a few AAA titles ;) You can not gift them to others, but in your own library or via Family sharing they work just fine even after setting the store back to our high price home country. Oh and don't try this via a VPN from home... that will get your account suspended!

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A graphical presentation like Intralism (fun, cheap rhythm game that runs on Linux) would go a long way to induce that trance like feeling though that is necessary to really play these games well :)

Oh and I wish there was a Crypt of the Necrodancer sequel or similar game :(
Edit: actually, a sequel called "Cadence of Hyrule" is coming, but apparently only to the Nintendo Switch :(

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Probably a screw-up... but brightening the image confirms what previous leaks have shown: there is a strange modular part below the face-plate that can probably be replaced and seems to be / might be connected via a USB port.

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Does anyone know what Ryan is doing with FTE? It's a very cool Quake engine that recently added Half-life 1 support.

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Hopefully also: https://www.aow-planetfall.com/ [External Link]

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Anyone got Sunless Seas actually running? On my Solus Linux system it always crashes on startup.

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The big advantage of these over the old games is that you can use their servers to play with any device (that has a browser) as the the input device. Thus anyone can just come over an play with their smartphone as a controller.

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Age of Wonders: Planetfall seems at least possible, although there has been some contradicting news regarding a Linux port.

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Quoting: iiari

Quoting: Juliusone of the best Distros for gaming due to it's bleeding edge GPU driver support.

Genuinely curious, how is this different from any other rolling distro? When new Nvidia drivers are announced, I'm getting those about a day later on Manjaro testing branch.

No idea :) Budgy as a DE is a nice GTK based option for those that do not like GNOME3 too much.
Not having tried Manjaro, I would guess the strong point of Solus is friendliness for people switching from Windows while the same time giving them all the latest software updates so that they don't complain about "outdated" software in the Ubuntu repos and then mess up their system by trying to update stuff manually.

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Great, I guess changes will get into Solus then ;)
Even without Doherty it seems to be going well and is probably one of the best Distros for gaming due to it's bleeding edge GPU driver support.

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