Does the game still force you to pick a new nation for each and every new era? If yes, it's still a hard pass.

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I got the original C&C DVDs in my basement... but buying the bundle would probably be cheaper and easier! :D

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Didn't expect this, but I like it. I miss the days when Obsidian made non-First Person games.

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Most companies don't treat their employees like crap.

I am fairly confident that you think that because most of us are conditioned to accept being treated like crap by employers to be "normal", so we just won't expect anything better.

That would be counterproductive.

Not really. Paying workers the lowest possible wages while making them work the longest possible hours, under the worst conditions permitted by law is profitable, because the owners get to keep more of your productivity. If somebody quits, they just hire the next person to exploit while they can.

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To be honest, I've seen unions cause more problems than they solve.

While that's not entirely without merit, keep in mind that unions wouldn't be needed if not close to 100% of all companies wouldn't treat their employees like crap.

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the only real solution for that is verified boot with a signature whitelist. that would mean you can only play on popular distros with one of their official kernels but its better than nothing

No. The only working solution would be to design the games to be cheat-resilient in the first place, under the assumption that the client cannot be trusted at any time. This notion that a game developer would somehow be able to wrest control of a PC from its very owner is ridiculous. People who think that ever works don't really understand security.

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That's not true. Wine is the main reason we can actually play Windows games on our system. That's really disrespectful to ignore the almost 32 years of development history. Without Wine, DXVK & Proton are nothing.

While WINE is certainly the basis without we wouldn't have Proton, remember that WINE absolutely stunk at running games before Valve chimed in. The statement is still true - without Valve we wouldn't be able to run the vast majority of Windows games as flawlessly as we can do today.

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Seriously, I don't feel like I'm missing much. Meaning... Missing anything.

Same here. I don't think I will ever play any game made by Epic, as I am just not into shooters. Problem is that Fortnite IS a very popular game, and having it run in Linux would remove one obstacle for people to switch. Keep in mind we're living in a time and age when people largely ignore new games and play popular existing ones for years instead. Fortnite is one of these.

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How could Microsoft already be too late? The vast majority of PC gamers don't own a Steam Deck (according to Valve's statistics, less than 1% of all Steam users). The alternative would be that there's actually not much of a market at all.

Because the other 99% still have an existing library on Steam and probably don't want to buy games again just to play them on a 3rd party handheld that's hard-locked to a proprietary store. Their target audience is pretty much existing Xbox owners that don't use Steam at all. In other words, a niche.

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They already tried the same in the smartphone market. We all know how well that went. Money sure helps, but it doesn't compensate for the complete absence of innovation and customer focus Microsoft has been demonstrating for years now.

Thing is that the vast majority of gamers have zero interest in streaming and they have even less interest in switching to a store not called Steam. Keep in mind that Xbox is a thing in the console market for sure, but it's not really a big thing in gaming overall. Their leverage isn't all that big, really. And if people absolutely insist on using Windows on their handheld, they already can.

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