Quoting: elmapulthat is one of the reasons why we have games with constant updates nowadays and all mobile games tend to follow this trend, even if someone manage to reverse enginering the game to pirate it, it takes time and when that happens, they update the game with new features and maybe an new drm scheme, the pirated version is always fighting to keep being updated so the margin for profit of the crackers or margin of enjoyment of pirates is reduced.

So wait, you're saying that pirates are responsible for game companies releasing updates and new features for games? I never realized pirates were so awesome!

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Arguably those open source attributes could apply equally well to polytheism. But it's certainly an appropriate joke for someone who wants "iconoclasts".

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPThat's a good idea, but my hope is that such functionality should be made official and implemented within Wine itself.
After all, Wine's biggest problem is that is simply doesn't "just work". There's always some fiddling around required.

Not quite... all software from this page Just Works (tm):
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&sTitle=Browse+Applications&iappVersion-ratingOp0=5&sappVersion-ratingData0=Platinum&sOrderBy=appName&bAscending=true [External Link]

Well, no. My understanding is, Platinum means it works perfectly if you set the fiddly stuff correctly, not that you can ignore the fiddly stuff. In this discussion at least, I think people are using Just Works to mean you just click something and it installs properly and happens, rather than having to figure out how to configure it first.
There is probably some Platinum stuff that Just Works in that second sense as well, but plenty that doesn't. So things like this, and PlayonLinux and so on, have always been welcome initiatives and I really hope at some point one becomes really solid--achieves critical mass so most stuff is there, and is easily maintainable so it doesn't rot.

Definition of the Wine Platinum ranking: "Applications which install and run flawlessly on an out-of-the-box Wine installation"
Gold is the one you described: "Applications that work flawlessly with some special configuration"

I stand corrected . . . partially. Presumably this means you don't need to download anything, but there's a lot of potential not-so-"special" configuration in an "out-of-the-box Wine installation". There's all these settings on tabs--which Windows version, which this, which that, and I tend to have no clue which of them matter for any given application.

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Surviving Mars sure beats the alternative (failing to survive Mars).

Never hire a Linux-using cleaning lady. Obviously, she doesn't do Windows.

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Quoting: shigutso

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThat's a good idea, but my hope is that such functionality should be made official and implemented within Wine itself.
After all, Wine's biggest problem is that is simply doesn't "just work". There's always some fiddling around required.

Not quite... all software from this page Just Works (tm):
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&sTitle=Browse+Applications&iappVersion-ratingOp0=5&sappVersion-ratingData0=Platinum&sOrderBy=appName&bAscending=true [External Link]

Well, no. My understanding is, Platinum means it works perfectly if you set the fiddly stuff correctly, not that you can ignore the fiddly stuff. In this discussion at least, I think people are using Just Works to mean you just click something and it installs properly and happens, rather than having to figure out how to configure it first.
There is probably some Platinum stuff that Just Works in that second sense as well, but plenty that doesn't. So things like this, and PlayonLinux and so on, have always been welcome initiatives and I really hope at some point one becomes really solid--achieves critical mass so most stuff is there, and is easily maintainable so it doesn't rot.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPSpeaking about reviews, I seriously hope they will remove that thumbs down/up nonsense, since many games simply aren't that clearly good or bad. A simple 5 star system would be much better.

Yeah . . . although a lot of people use 5 or 10 star systems a little oddly. Like first, if the average rating isn't as high as the person's individual rating, they will tend to rate it 5/10 even if they think it's actually somewhat lower than that in an attempt to pull up the average; or contrariwise if they don't like it they'll rate it 1 to pull down the average. Second, there is sometimes an odd compression . . . I guess you notice it more on 10-star systems, where I've seen a tendency that 10 means excellent, 8 means mediocre, and 5 means horrible piece of shit I wouldn't pollute my precious saliva by spitting on.

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Quoting: Stupendous ManBig publishers buying small studios is never a good thing for the customer. Do we really want a few large publishers only and not small independent studios with creative freedom?

Yet this is the way indies usually grow into AAA studios. I'm not a fan of big companies in general, but this isn't as simple as you might think. It's entirely up to the publisher if they give developers free rein or play it safe. Usually things go to shit when the bureaucracy grows big enough that the ones making decisions have no interest in the end product beyond how much money it brings in.

Wandering off topic, I think this is why Valve seems to be somewhat odd for a big company--the top guns and ownership are mostly nerds who are still interested in nerd issues and maybe even still get their hands dirty sometimes.

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Quoting: TcheyI'm not sure i like that. Paradox may be quite Linux friendly, but they are becoming big, and big stuff tend to act like they own the world. I prefer to deal with several little studios, and that's why i mostly play indi games rather than large "AAA" ones.

I'm ambivalent about that. I don't disagree with your point as such--I'd prefer a world dominated by lots of little studios rather than a few big ones. And I'm not personally that invested in AAA games coming to Linux, but the people who say we need AAA games in order to be considered a serious gaming platform (and thus grow in market share) have a point. And the way things are with the current AAA game publishers, I'd say we're more likely to get games through Linux-friendly studios becoming AAA than by existing AAA companies becoming Linux-friendly.

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Quoting: 14At the end of the day, I barely rely on the Steam store page to find new games that I might be interested in. The avenues that make me curios of new games: GoL, Twitch, GOG, Co-Optimus.

I basically use GamingOnLinux. When a game is talked about here that seems like my kind of thing, I put it on my Steam wishlist. Never end up with Windows-only games that way!

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Quoting: rkfgThis is really good. That's what real freedom of speech means. Not creating echo chambers full of people searching for a reason to be offended but a truly open place with something for everyone. Hell, I WANT to have things I hate there because that would exactly mean that something I love and somebody else hates is also welcome.

That does not necessarily follow, but in this case I'd agree chances are decent.

As a general rule, it seems quite common for authorities (government or corporate) to allow one kind of offensive content in the name of free speech while forbidding pretty comparable kinds of content without acknowledging any contradiction. For instance, near the height of the "Charlie Hebdo" thing, when everyone was waxing incredibly sanctimonious about Charlie Hebdo's free speech (which, just to be clear, is fine by me as far as it goes), some Muslim kid took a Charlie Hebdo page, substituted a few words so it seemed to be saying bad things about a different religion instead of about Islam, and put it up on the internet. The French "Free Speech R Us" authorities put him in jail. So you gotta watch people who claim to support allowing offensive stuff in the name of freedom--often turns out that some freedom is more equal than other freedom.

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