I havent played/checked Arma3 since it was in Beta/EarlyAccess and i had a Dedicated Server running under wine,

so i dont know if there are Server-Binaries for Linux yet (they were planning to do Linux-Servers since beta aswell) - but if there arent, it could also be that this is "only" the dedicated Server Version for Linux?

Edith:

No, https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Dedicated_Server#Launching [External Link] suggests Server Binaries are out since ages, so scratch my comment.

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"Honestly, if they rolled it out with a pay what you want including zero, or just a donation option with a small cut to Valve and the original game developer this would have been much better received I think. People would have been much more open to fully paid mods once that system had been in place for a while too."

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I See a lot of room for Drama.

When people buy stuff with money, they automatically demand stuff. Working Features, somewhat continuus development, etc.

On the other hand we will have a significant amount of scammers hoping for the Quick Money with all the negative aspects that Early Access brought to steam.

There will be Drama around this, and its just a matter of time. And then Valve will have to make restrictions.

And Copyright people will love this, lots of people to sue!

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- Why do you dual boot?

After all, it saves time. I sometimes like to actually play games when coming home from work, and not work more to make them work.

And thats fully a "graphics drivers vs Xorg" issue whats consuming that much time for me.
Today i wasted 9 hours again in trying to get nvidia-optimus/bumblebee running in some kind of reliable fashion, with the end result that my x wont start anymore.

Oh my god thinking of Wayland and Vulcan makes me happy.

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Considering a lot of people still classify this game still in an "unplayable state" on windows, im surprised. ( And im not even thinking about the obvious performance problems here, but rahter "the economy tears itself apart the longer the simulation runs"-kind of problems)

I do like the X-Games and got that one on launch, but they really screwed it up (like ego always does :D) but so far i was still "waiting to be fixed on windows".

Not sure what to think of this then, but i may well be surprised!

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But you do know that "DRM" is "Digital Rights Management" and is a nother word for "Copy Protection" ? Ive never seen anyone making profiles with e.g. SecuROM. The only problem you should have with DRM is that it violates the Open Source / GNU principles, thats it. But thats the struggle you have with trying to run a subscription based game service.

Battle.net is basicly the same as Steam and i havent see you rant below Steam-Related posts at all.

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Yes. Seems like if they wanna sell it they have to make some heavy marketing to convice people who want to buy a console that a steam machine is the better deal. Or they have to come with loads of Steam-Games bundled.

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The Pricetags are really ... high.

But yeah, you can compare to XBone / PS4 on raw money, but that leaves out that theres basicly no XBone/PS4 Game under $60 and the fact that you need to buy the Premium Subscription Service (XBox Live / Playstation Plus) with a monthly fee to play online.

Whereas, on the Steam machine you have a higher hardware cost but no mandatory Subscription Fee to play online, and you can rely on the Game-Key market for new releases which mostly comes down to 10-30% cheaper for Day1 releases of new games.

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