I don't know anything about this Garry guy, I don't have anything against him, and I don't mind his comments about Linux. I'm willing to accept the idea that he's blunt, outspoken, sarcastic, enjoys stirring up controversy and whatnot (which, OK, if he was operating in my social milieu would probably be taken as "he's a jerk", but I can deal with the concept that social environments differ). All fine.

What strikes me as weird is him then saying stuff like

Also Linux Community - being abusive, demanding, rude to the few developers actually shipping games to your favourite OS isn't the way to go. It makes me regret ever shipping Linux versions.

Hang on, mate, isn't that just the Linux community being blunt, outspoken and sarcastic, maybe a little controversial? Suddenly if it's someone else being a bit forthright, that's not OK and he gets to be what he would no doubt call a snowflake? If you're going to be insisting others have a thick skin, you should maybe cultivate one of your own. Contrariwise, if someone's going to insist that everyone be sweet and nice and polite to them, then perhaps they should put a rein on their blunt outspoken sarcasm. One set of rules, friend. To put it the old fashioned way, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

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Looking at the gameplay demo, oddly what struck me was the music. I like the music quite a lot--always been fond of jazz trumpets.
I mean, the rest looked pretty cool, don't get me wrong. But it's rare for me to start looking at a game and the first thing I think is, "I can dig this sound".

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Quoting: qptain Nemo

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Slow and steady wins the race?

Not usually that great a tactic, but it seems to work for Valve (gestures towards great steaming mountains of money).

Why not?

Because you tend to get beaten by "fast". The real moral of "The Tortoise and the Hare" is "don't underestimate your opponent", not "be slow".

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The tea gets cold? What kind of sordid horror game is this?!

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Slow and steady wins the race?

Not usually that great a tactic, but it seems to work for Valve (gestures towards great steaming mountains of money).

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Quoting: razing32Interesting they added a new faction with new gameplay mechanics.
Would be curios how it works in practice.
Just wish they got a better voice actress for that trailer. "Capeapble" <- what was that ?

It was a bit odd. I get the impression this bunch aren't supposed to be real vikings, like they're some kind of neighbouring slavs, like Bulgars or Huns or something. I mean really, what kind of viking doesn't care about fame?

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: KristianOkay, so you are talking specific issues with particular games? I mean I get that crossplatform-play presents challenges, but the wording "practically impossible" made me think it was almost unheard of and a major breakthrough by Aspyr.

It is a major breakthrough. Ports rarely have cross-platform multiplayer unless the port was planned for the beginning. Lots of games have cross-platform multiplayer, but very few (third party) ports do, because they're often done after the original was released, so the original game has been designed with no thought as to how other platforms might perform. I think Anza explains it pretty well.

In any case, I seem to recall that we know for sure with Civ VI that there was a problem with a closed floating-point thingie in the original Windows version that caused precisely the de-syncing problem that's been talked about here. So, as scaine wondered in the first post, how did they fix it? Aspyr had previously stated in so many words that they weren't fixing it because they couldn't. What changed?

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: GuestAverage Steam sales numbers were about 32,000 in 2015. It should be noted that now it's probably even lower due to the massive boom in Steam releases caused by Steam Direct.

A wholly unscientific steamspy.com crawl seems to indicate that "0 .. 20,000" is actually the most common amount of sales for an indie game, even for games released well before Steam Direct.

That's the thing about averages, they can be skewed badly by really big numbers at the high end, like a few AAA selling gajillions each. You get the same problem with incomes when there's billionaires waltzing around--it's why you shouldn't trust anyone telling you the economy's fine because average income has gone up, say--that could still mean most people's income has gone down, but the hyperrich have made out like gangbusters. Look for the median instead.

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Quoting: g000hI'm sure it's good and worth the money, but.... When I observe my own gaming..... 150+ hours of Slay The Spire, 250+ hours of FTL, 300+ hours of 7 Days To Die, 200+ hours of Rust - I paid less than £10 ($12) for each of those games, and look at the number of hours of enjoyment I've had with them (Real value!)

There's only 168 hours in 7 days, how could you have more than that in 7 Days to Die? Are you sure you weren't playing A Fortnight to Die? ;)

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A game called TUNG that twists your brain. So it's a . . . TUNG twister.

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