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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: LinasIf Wine needs to be hacked . . . then the result is, after the game works Wine is a little bit better.

This is incorrect, Wine will never accept per-program or specific "hacks" to make things work, only properly rewritten code that correctly works as Windows would. So there's no benefit back to the community in this instance.

That strikes me as loading in rather a lot of assumptions.

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Quoting: Avehicle788732bit PC Gaming should start being phased out, we cannot be stuck in the early 2000's forever. Involuntarily, someone is always gonna be left behind. If I'm not mistaken Mac has been 64bit exclusive for a few years now already.

Developing PC games in 32bit is bad planning if you ask me, first and foremost you're already limiting the ram usage in your game and secondly you're using an over a decade old technology.

I see a bunch of laptops everyday (97% Windows) and in the majority of cases they're 64bit. The only 32bit ones I see are either Windows XP or Vista with a Core-Duo/DDR2 era CPU.

You can talk about "phasing out", but the thing is, we are not talking here about open source software development or something. We are talking about a commercial platform on which you can buy, and theoretically own, a game without having downloaded it yet. So if I buy a game using a 32-bit computer, and then they make changes such that I can no longer download it with/to my 32-bit computer, that is something approaching fraud. If I buy a game, either they have to find some way I can take delivery of that game or they owe me my money back.

And laptops are generally shorter-lived than desktops. My laptop is quite new and certainly 64-bit. But my desktop is fairly old and 32-bit, and I do still play games on it--indeed, it will play games my laptop will not; better graphics card I believe.

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Quoting: LukeNukem

Quoting: madmachinationsNice, you might say we're "waiting for godot" then :V
hahaha-hehehe-hohoho *blows his brains out*

I don't get it...

For real, or are you being sarcastic?
Waiting for Godot [External Link]
Presumably was the point of them calling it that. Actually, by co-incidence the university library I work at has a piece of in-house software also called Godot; it does search-y stuff and I presume early versions were s-l-o-w to make with results.

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So in theory, could I use Canada to take over the USA in this game?

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Arrrr! Well, shiver me lampposts and batten down the coffee shops! It be time for plunder.

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Quoting: LinasIf the game actually needs to be hacked to work in Wine or Wine needs to be hacked to make the game work, I think the effort is better spent making an actual native port instead.

End rant. :P

I would want to claim that these are somewhat distinct scenarios (well, they could both happen at the same time, but conceptually). If the game needs to be hacked, depending how much, sure, point taken. If Wine needs to be hacked . . . then the result is, after the game works Wine is a little bit better. If enough people do that, Wine might be quite a lot better. Da power o' open source in action.

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There's nothing I have more than walls of text

That's OK, it's your job to produce 'em. Or did you mean "hate"?

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Since I am also what you'd call incompetent at this sort of thing, my pinch-hitting for the AI might not help much.

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Quoting: ShoNuffSome of you are full of it. IF this game works on wine and gets similar FPS to windows install, I guarantee you will buy and play in secret all while claiming NATIVE ONLY (in nerd voice).

Think you're using the wrong pronoun on just who is full of it. I've used Wine for some things (notably Starcraft), I've been known to use a Windows partition for some things, although I'm not doing either just lately. But unlike some, I am not so insecure as to lose it and ooze spite when I encounter someone whose commitment to some ethic is stronger than mine. Sorry, but there really are some people who are willing to endure inconvenience for a principle, and it is the mark of a very small person to pretend they are lying in an attempt to bring them down to one's own level.

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If I were a game developer, and the physical sales were an undifferentiated shmoo, and I were trying to figure out how much money I made from Linux sales, I would get the percentage of Linux sales on Steam, assume that the percentage for physical sales was roughly the same, and count the cash as if that assumption was correct. Same-same for any other sales method I didn't have platform breakdown data for.

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