Quoting: PikoloThis is sad news. Not that Activision Blizzard is a good company or anything, but Microsoft is already way too large. I hope antimonopoly regulations prevent this from going through.

your propic is familiar where is this from?

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so...
microsoft may not be able to convince many thirdy parties to adopt the latest directX standards, wich means, wine may be closer to perfection each year...
but they can acquire a lot of companies and then control they to force then adopt something that will make our lifes easier, if not impossible do develop something like wine.
(it take some time for wine to catch up with the latest apis or dx stuff, and if by that time they migrate the code to something new, then by the time something start working it break again, that is pretty much the reason why anti cheat is almost impossible to dodge)

if microsoft do it with enough critical franchises, we can kiss goodbye to any chances of improving linux share.

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Quoting: LordDaveTheKind

Quoting: GuestDon't forget Nintendo off that list

I recall there are a few constraints on acquiring a Japanese company. Am I wrong?

yeah, there are laws against being acquired by international companies, that is, if you are big enough.

and even if they tried, nintendo laughed at then once, they wont be trying again any time soon i guess.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: syylkWell, most Blizzard products were known to run well under WINE since dirt was invented - to the point of speculating if somebody internally was smoothing them at the edges on purpose to keep some sort of unsupported-but-working compatibility...

Wasn't speculation. In the past the WoW team did implement things here and there to smoothen running it in Wine. I don't have a source to hand but it was in public postings from their team on their official forum.

Possibly goes back to when Sam Lantinga worked there.

i remember reading somewhere that blizard had an internal build of warcraft running on linux, people especulated that they plan to relase it soon, years have passed and nothing happened, i always assumed that the linux comunity miss interpret the news, an headless server without any graphical pipeline to draw stuff on screen became "it has an native linux port, blizzard might relase it at any moment" only false hopes to convince people to not giveup on linux...
but now, reading this, i think their build was true, it just wasnt native...

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"$68.7 billion"
xbox division dont have this kinda money AFAIK, so i guess the main microsoft company is involved, i doubt its to compete against sony and nintendo, this probably is their answer to valve.

"which is so much money I can't even begin to imagine it."
mandatory meme:

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Quoting: elmapulits kinda worthless since most wiiU games were already ported to switch, some of then received upgrades, and we already have switch emulators on linux.

but it may be good for performance reasons, maybe emulate powerpc is easier than arm?

I don't know if it's easier necessarily, no idea of the technical stuff, but Wii U emulation at this point is certainly further along than Switch emulation at this point in time, possibly because its similar enough in architecture to the original Wii and GameCube that a lot of the emulation techniques from Dolphin could be recycled. At least that's my guess.

omg i completely forgot this, wiiU has support for Wii games for a reason

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pointless if none of my friends gonna use it.
and why would they?
anyway, they are using an browser to render stuff? because not having features like bold support, wtf?
by the UI i think its something like gtk/qt wich will be a waste of time when they try to add more features (reinventing the whell instead of using an browser rendering capabilities).

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" support for more than 8-bit colours"
more than 8 per channel i guess? (R,G,B)

" DRM Leasing support added for VR headsets"
you mean Direct Rendering Manager, not Digital rights Management i guess.

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its kinda worthless since most wiiU games were already ported to switch, some of then received upgrades, and we already have switch emulators on linux.

but it may be good for performance reasons, maybe emulate powerpc is easier than arm?

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maybe developers can include linux as an tag...

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