Quoting: axredneckI'll buy this game it it will have better designed main character. I don't want to play with a marshmallow.

Huh. Playing a marshmallow was the feature that interested me the most.

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Quoting: kneekooHow about we look at the Epic Games Store (EGS) like it's something new? How about acknowledging the need for a business to establish a new product first, and later evaluate expansion opportunities? How about considering the fact that opening the EGS client for Linux-based operating systems also means dealing with a different set of other customer support issues?

I see no reason to consider squat. I'm not a charity. If I were, megacorporations with slush funds of literal billions of dollars would not be what I gave charity to. Let's be clear on the relationship here: They are supposed to be offering things which consumers want enough to give them money for. The consumers then give them money to get what they want. Well guess what? As a consumer, I'm a Linux user. If they consider it too difficult or expensive to cater to my wants, needs or interests that's understandable but not a reason for me to give them money or even hesitate to speak ill of them.

And further, corporations are legal entities established for the express and, these days, sole purpose of extracting money from the public. They have no emotions or consciences or ethics. And their executives are basically sworn to take that same viewpoint. I have some responsibility with normal fellow human beings to give them some benefit of doubts, to not speak too ill of them, to take into account their point of view and so forth. That responsibility does not extend to corporations and is seriously diminished when it comes to their executives while in an official capacity.

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Quoting: qptain Nemo

Quoting: Purple Library GuySo Linux users can now use the Epic store!
. . . Ask me if I care.

Do you care?

No. :)

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Quoting: scaineSo, developer Lars Doucet did an interesting twitter thread on Epic's money recently. Have a read here [External Link].

Based on that thread, it's absolutely mind-boggling to think that it's anything other than absolutely trivial for this company to support our platform. But instead, they'd rather throw a rounding error at Lutris devs to absolve all support burden and keep us at arm's length, while they continue to throw anywhere between $5M-$50M at AAA devs to go exclusive on their store.

Pretty depressing. So, well done Lutris devs. I hope they go for and get the grant. But no thanks, not for me. Not touching anything to do with these anti-consumer... people. And Tim Sweeney... urgh. The hypocrisy just gets my goat.

A great thread, although I think he missed out marketing expenses, which can be very big--the bigger the studio, the bigger marketing expenses tend to loom, even in proportion to size. However, the basic point that Epic == Swimming In Dough still holds, especially since he flat out deliberately ignored all of their normal revenue sources other than Fortnite; presumably those normal revenue sources would be enough to pay for the marketing.

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Quoting: g000h(4) If you have to buy a Windows-only title, at least try to buy it on Steam and play it with Proton, to boost Linux play and purchase statistics.

So many reasons to be annoyed by the Epic store I hadn't even thought of this angle. To be sure, a store with no Linux client and no Linux games and nothing like Proton is going to record all Linux users and all Linux purchases as Windows. We can use it but we will be non-persons; all use of the Epic store rather than Steam will look like a drop in Linux gaming. And no matter how many Linux gamers use the store Sweeney will have no motivation to improve our situation because we will be invisible to him.

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So Linux users can now use the Epic store!
. . . Ask me if I care.

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Quoting: whizseThe game itself have a minimum requirement of 6GB RAM. I'm guessing DXVK and Wine have some overhead so it's kind of surprising that it's at all playable.

I suspect when declaring such requirements it's wise to overestimate what constitutes "minimum".

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Fell Seal: Vicious Aquatic Mammals!

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Quoting: EMO GANGSTER

Quoting: 2fastHunterI switched from evaluating Unity to Godot. It is a shame, that such a design- and developmenttool is not able to scale its GUI correctly with the monitors resolution. On a 4k monitor, it was/is a pain to use the Unity editor.

Yeah, bugs and the GUI scaling made me shelf a project hopeful they fixed it. With that said, has Godot got a lot better it seemed very limited over 5 years ago when I played around with it.

I've no personal experience, but by all accounts Godot has been developing very fast and is indeed a long way from where it was 5 years ago. Apparently very good for 2d, still needing a fair amount of work for 3d is the impression I've gotten around here.

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Definitely putting this on the wishlist. In fact, I just fired up Steam and did so.

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