Looks cute. Anyone familiar with the game's progress knows if their business model is sane? I have to admit I am quite wary of F2P games. I don't mind these games selling convenience items, additional content and faster leveling, but many of them making actually make -playing- the game impossible unless you keep pouring in money (like most of these stupid "free" mobile games, ugh). And the latter I detest with quite a passion.

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Quoting: seguleh@Kimyrielle: War Thunder. It's MMO game and it's very good. However I would like to see SW:TOR on Linux... ;)

I should have said MMORPG, because that's what I meant. MOBAs, MMOFPS and MMORTS I have not too much interest in. :D

Agreed on SWTOR, though.

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Quoting: skinnyrafHow naive I was. There are so many great games for Linux, my wishlist has 57 games for SteamOS and the backlog is growing again.

Seriously. I have more good games for Linux than I can possibly play and 25 more waiting on the wishlist. Generally, I (mostly) stopped buying Windows games around two years ago. The only exceptions I grant myself are MMOs (as there is still not a single decent one available for Linux) and Bethesda's games. Otherwise I haven't looked back. I guess in my case it helps that I consider anything made by EA and Ubisoft garbage by definition, and while I wouldn't label Blizzard games that, I still don't buy their stuff (I can't stand their choice of art style, it makes my eyes bleed).
If I wouldn't be such a die-hard MMO fan, I'd probably have wiped Windows off my hard drive already. It will still happen, sooner or later.

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Quoting: EhvisMaybe we should be happy with the lack of day 1 releases. The experience should be better after a few updates.

A week or two of delay doesn't matter much, but when the Linux version is months behind the Windows release, some might just bite the bullet and get the game for Windows, driving down Linux sales in the process. Which is hardly a good thing, as our sales figures aren't terribly impressive to begin with.

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Quoting: Mountain ManDidn't realize there were so few games for OSX!

Same, really. Mac had years of headstart on us in terms of developer acceptance, but it seems we're catching up fast.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised seeing Linux overtaking Mac in terms of releases soon. Apple has shown time and again that they don't care about their desktop line anymore. The hardware platform is laughably outdated and their proprietary Metal garbage will discourage studios from supporting Mac. Linux gaming picked up when it became reasonably easy to deploy on it - Apple is intentionally moving away from platform interdependence, making it -harder- to deploy there. That won't work well for a niche platform.

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I think in terms of numbers we're more than fine now. These days, the more interesting number is indeed the % of top selling games available for Linux as quality trumps quantity. Not sure where you got the 8/10 from, but when I look at the "Global Top Sellers" list in Steam, we're not quite at 80%, even when counting Arma III (which AFAIK has an unofficial Linux port) and Civ VI (which is confirmed for Linux, but doesn't show the Linux tag in Steam).
Also, don't forget that the top 3 publishers in terms of top selling games aren't even on Steam (EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft). To calculate an accurate % of all top selling games for Linux we'd probably have to include them (although I personally won't shed a tear about never seeing one of their games on Linux.)

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Sounds awesome, except the separated multi-player. They really should make this a priority for future titles. Finding matches in online games is sometimes hard enough even in Windows.

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Quoting: Mountain Man"Easier fishing"

That would be great. I hate the fishing mini-game! I actually installed a mod to make it easier, but having it be a legitimate part of the game will be nice.

Same. The fishing minigame is the only real bummer about the game. It's just a mindless, mouse-shattering clickfest. I loved the way they did fishing in some MMOs such as Rift and Black Desert.

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Quoting: BeamboomWow - an mmorpg without a cookie-cutter fantasy theme? Stop the press! Colour me extremely interested!

Not only that, it doesn't even have the usual WoW-style infantile cartoon art either. oO

If it feels a bit like The Secret World, I am interested. I don't mind sword and board MMORPGs, but change is a good thing!

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I kickstarted it, too. Actually I forgot that I did until it was mentioned here. Looking forward to see the completed thing! :D

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