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Quoting: razing32I hate trailers that tell me nothing of the game. :-|

Yeah, that was weird. But may be they don't even know how it will look since it's in the very early design phase? They only announced the project, not some release or anything the like.

I think it's at least partly that they're assuming if you don't already know what Axis & Allies is, you're not likely to buy it. The audience for this is fans.

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Man, that takes me back. To be honest, I never played, but I remember in my university gaming club in the 80s, while one group o' nerds including me was around one table playing paper&pencil RPGs there would often be another such group at another table playing Axis & Allies. It was up there with Squid Leader . . . uh, I mean Squad Leader.

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Quoting: AllocSo much misinformation in one thread :(

As Code Artisan wrote above EAC can't make the Windows version of EAC work on Wine. It's kernel level code that will never run with Wine.

While I'm sure your theory as to why this is so is very solid, I could have sworn there were people in this very thread saying it used to in fact do so, for them even. So unless EAC changed from not being kernel-level code to being kernel-level code (in which case whoever decided to make that change was also in effect deciding to make it not work in Wine and so people's complaints are not invalidated by your point), there's some sort of contradiction between the theory and some people's lived experience.

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So why is it called "Oh, BS!" ?

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Quoting: GuestUnfortunately, it was even the case when MAC hardware made them good gaming platforms. Apple was never interested. Also, back in the day compilers for beginners were simply not easy to get by so you did not learn to program on a mac. I never did on mine, i did a few thing on a DOS dinosaur because the resource was available there.

Another problem is devs complain of the huge support burden from MAC users. You sometimes hear the same remarks about Linux gamers but on a more nuanced tone.

I get the impression that in the Linux case, although on one hand there might be support headaches, on the other Linux gamers have a strong contingent willing and able to get their hands dirty pinpointing and working around bugs (a contingent I don't belong to but for which I am thankful). In the Mac case, this is just a wild guess but I'm thinking there are far fewer such, so no silver lining.

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Quoting: salamanderrakeIts strange as there are games EAC that work on linux natively that they wouldn't actually try to get it working with proton, but who knows, developers are sometimes funny and believe that its easier to cheat on Linux then on windows, except that 90% if not all of the cheating software only runs on windows.

Heh. One category we don't mind missing out on. But it probably runs on Wine . . .

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Quoting: KimyrielleLast time I checked, the number of big-budget games on Linux was not really stunning, and we seem to get LESS these days than 2-3 years back. Some genres are still missing completely (the number of good MMORPGs having a native client is still zero).

What about the number of true Scotsmen? :P
Not that I disagree with your point.

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Quoting: Alm888Who cares about yet another Windows game not running on Linux? As if it is the only one…

By now we are basically swimming in good native games, so why bother spending your time on some Windows title which developers don't even care about Linux?

P.S. And the "But… But… But it is sooooo popular with my classmates!!!" argument is just lame. As it was stated before, "Appeal to Popularity" is a common logic pitfall.

P.P.S. I know I'm also using a logic trick, basically "I personally do not care so every one else should not care" statement thinly veiled as a question. But it is no worse than "Many people care so you also should care" approach. :)

Appeal to popularity is a logic pitfall if the argument is about quality. If the argument is about relevance to advancement of Linux as a gaming platform for the masses, then whether things the masses want to play run on it is absolutely a logical question.

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That looks pretty cool.

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I remember there being an article about this here before. Quick search . . . there were two articles about this here before.
The first one
The second one

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