Quoting: YoggyBeerDo you see a "trial version" in a corner ?

They talk about it on steam community [External Link]

Yes, that's me.

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Quoting: BeamboomIt's still in early access though. I would not call that a "release" in the classic meaning of the word, but rather a pre-release, beta or test build.

I think people put too much power in the term "release". If it's available to purchase with real world money, and to download and play then it's released. Early Access/Alpha/Beta etc are all made up terms by developers. My point: it's just a word(s), you're still paying for an advertised product, so it should work to some real degree here.

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Quoting: Nyamiou

Quoting: WikipediaThe Royal Scam is the fifth album ...

Need I say more?

Don't get me excited like that.

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Quoting: aristoriasWhat GPUs, what driver, why Ubuntu for AMD and why SteamOS for nVidia.
Whoever did this should be ashamed that these questions rise and stay unanswered.
What a pointless waste of time and effort.

They are at the very start of the video, try watching it.

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Quoting: nattydreadis it a native build or a port?

It was ported by Feral Interactive, and it is native. A port doesn't make something not native.

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I actually now have the "Epic" pack, so I will be getting access on the 24th instead of the 25th. Cost a little extra, but it will be worth it as I time free during the day on both, so should be worth it to help me cover it and give my impressions.

Quoting: KeyrockAfter reading the description of the zones I'm more confused than ever. So if you want to PvP you flag yourself, if you don't want to PvP you don't flag yourself, but you can be attacked by flagged players anyway. That seems weird to me.

Anyway, suffice to say I'll likely never play this. Not my jam. I'm not looking to get griefed in a game. It may be a cool game, but it's not for me.

You flag if you want to attack, if you do you show up on the radar for non-pvp people to know round about where you are. It's quite simple really. The charging on it is to prevent someone standing right next to you suddenly going pvp and attacking you.

Sounds like quite a sane system really.

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Quoting: FredOOne question though, what about games that were released in 2014, between the last GOTY awards and the end of the year - are they included this year?

^^^^
This !

To keep it simple, this is for 2015 releases only.

I didn't remember when last one happened.
Got it: GamingOnLinux GOTY Section & Nominations Now Open 22 december 2014.

Fair enough, if the next one is planned at the same date. :)

It will open again then yes, I have it in my calendar marked and ready. Then it will be nominations by users up to the 1st of January 2016, then a week or so to check it over and then voting will begin around the second week of January hopefully sooner.

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Quoting: kellerkindtDid you ever try Cinnamon as desktop?
Its a quiet decent one, without that fancy large icons popping from everywhere in your face.

I did, but my experience was soured by the major bug it had a while back with the desktop constantly pausing for a second every now and then, and I had it quite often. Apparently it's fixed now, but I've no current plans to move. Cinnamon is lovely though, their attention to detail is awesome. Clem even implemented a few features I directly requested to him in Nemo such as giving you the option to set something executable when trying to launch it, instead of the old message of telling you it's not executable (yep, that was at my request).

AMD's open source driver will hopefully save it, as Catalyst moves far, far too slowly right now. Although, apparently Catalyst will work with parts of AMDGPU in future, so it will be easier to update to new kernels or something?

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Doing a simple "+1" post is actually against Steam's own rules, someone quoted it to me before but it's true.

Nothing wrong with meaningful discussion, but I'm sure that Laptop moderator does it on purpose to give him a reason to lock it, as he does it so often.

Just another hurdle for us in the wider community, stay strong and polite folks.

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It will be run in two stages: Nominations by all, then we will curate the list to remove the cruft and any duplicates that slip by. Both stages will be announced, that way people can help point out things in the wrong places we miss.

I've added an Engine Reimplementation category, so stuff like Arx can go in it and whatever else.

I don't want to limit a category down to five or so like you suggested Beamboom as it's 100% opinion what deserves to be in there, and what doesn't. This is what the voting is for, and I don't want to limit a game because I or someone else feels it isn't worthy - I think that's quite a negative way to do it. I know this is how other game awards do it, but this is like a lot of what we do is run with the community, it's not for us to pick.

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