The latter. We're not exactly the largest population around on Steam, so every sale identified as GNU/Linux counts. :)

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Yup. Plus, we couldn't even take advantage of the flash sale, as I don't think it would have shown we exist. Gah.

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Quoting: IvancilloHello Liam.

I don't intend to offend with this my opinion.
But I think this article shows double morale.

Double morale, because some days ago you call us (the people who don't like Steam) pedanthics for thinking Steam is DRM.

And for the topic itself, yes, I think we don't need Ubiplay in Linux, as I think the same about Steam and Origin.

This one is from FutureSuture, not from Liam.
There are no double standards here, just varying opinions. :)

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Now this is more reasonable - and I won't deny that they have their very own way of doing things; but as far as i'm concerned it doesn't diminish the games in any way, it's just a specific mindset to get into before playing. Other games have an interface so simple you don't even feel it (say, Tokyo Jungle, again).
Turn-based combat is a mixed bag. I feel most JRPGs take it the wrong way, as if all of your fights were just preparations for the REAL fights... which are all too often optional, even hidden bosses. And that sucks indeed.
Does it mean the genre is bad? Hey, I sure would like it to be more challenging, but it has its own charm. I can't say ANY RPG experience has beaten FFVI for me (apart maybe for Kingdoms of Amalur, and that's ONLY on the design side of things). :)
AS to the obviousness of things... Many western games have the same fault in another form: how many of them handhold you all the way? F*** OFF XCOM, I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY EXPLOSIVES, NOW SHUT THE F*** UP. ;)

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Quoting: commodore256

Quoting: HyeronMost modern western games are terrible.

Don't play Call of Duty, Batman Arkham City, I like the fight with Mr. Freeze because he doesn't fall for the same trick twice, you pull a trick on him and he makes it impossible for you to use the same exploit. Play The Blackwell series, best adventure games I ever played (though I mostly recommend Gemini Rue for an adventure game) and most Japanese adventure games are just Visual Novels or WAIFU Simulators with no control apart from dialogue, so it's basically mass effect without the action. I could list names of good western games for hours because "The West" only means "Not Japan", so it's the whole world minus Japan and it doesn't mean "'Murica", it includes Poland where The Witcher is made, it includes Canada of which a development studio from there made Mark of the Ninja and it's a Ninja game where you play a Ninja of which Japanese companies has failed to produce a Ninja game where you play as a Ninja that's marketed as a Ninja. Though Rikimaru from Tenchu was pretty close, but he failed at covering his whole face during missions. My other problem with most Japanese games is the main protagonists are whiny emo b!tches and don't have much confidence and that's very unrealistic, if a person like that tried being a hero, they would be killed because they don't think like a hero or at least an engineer like Gordon Freeman where his intellect makes him successful.

Quoting: HyeronI see FPS as games for people that have no ability to think at all.

Then if people that can't think at all can play, play them. I bet somebody as smart as you would be very good at them. After all, you don't want those "mindless" people to embarrass you now do we? I bet you can show them who's boss if you're so smart.

Oh and I find turn based combat to be very easy, the only time I find it harder than it should be is when I don't know something. Like using a Phoenix Down on the Second Evrea in FFX and once I know exploits, why wouldn't I use them to my advantage?

Should I have used quotation marks? Did you really, seriously not see I was turning your argument upside down to show you how preposterous it was? ;)
All of what you're saying here is valid for japanese games too - and that was the point.
I enjoy a mindless session of Painkiller or Singularity as much as I enjoy a mind-numbing session of Catherine.
I do have the ability to think, and the ability to think on my feet, thank you very much.

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Quoting: commodore256From Software makes good games, (apart from Ninja Blade) But other than Dark Souls or Demon Souls, most modern Japanese games are terrible. I see turn based RPGs as games an accessibility to people that have no ability to think on their feet. (however I like how FFVII has a time limit for turns) To me the only time a game is hard is when I don't know what to do or I think I know what to do and screw it up.

Not sure what you're getting at WRT Ubi on Linux, but whatever. :)
Most modern western games are terrible. I see FPS as games for people that have no ability to think at all.
Don't judge a whole bunch of people so easily. Please? ;)
Most any JRPG with ATB has the option to turn on time limit, as far as I'm aware; and Japanese games are MUCH more than JRPGs (and more than "traditional" JPRGs). I mean, Tokyo Jungle? Cave Story? Elona? Rewrite? Astebreed? TorqueL? Revolver360? KoF XIII? La-Mulana? Mighty N°9? Azure Striker? Block Legend? One Way Heroics? Gunhound? Keroblaster? Recettear? Catherine? Yume Nikki? Metal Gear Solid? Patapon? Monster Hunter? Dynasty Warriors? Gran Turismo? Mario Kart?
That you don't like their respective genres is a matter of taste. But dismissing all of THAT as a whole is plain ridiculous.

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Quoting: commodore256All Ubisoft games? Yes.
Uplay? No.

Except it's Ubisoft we're talking about. We're not getting the former without the latter. And THAT is the problem (well, that and their sh***y behavior toward customers).

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Does a healthy system need a cancer? Does a healthy ecosystem need a plague?
What kind of question is that? ;p

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Now if someone could make OpenKrondor, I'd be in heaven.

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Wow, thanks for the giveaway! :)

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