As much as I despise Epic as a company, but that looks pretty amazing for sure! Give credit where credit is due! But yeah, it'd better run on Linux!

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Quoting: Liam DaweAgain, speculation, no one knows and it doesn't help anyone to act like we know and say they have abandoned anything. Don't spread the negativity that's just not needed.

Fine. Let the facts speak, then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspyr [External Link]

Fact is that Civ 6 WAS their last Linux port. Yeah, I get it, just negativity.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Mountain Man

Aspyr Media, who did the original Linux port of Sid Meier's Civilization VI have been contacted about it. They've been pretty silent recently (Borderlands 2/TPS are missing updates)...

I've been largely disappointed with Aspyr. They did some good work early on bringing games to Linux and then all but abandoned the platform.

If they're getting these DLC up at the same time, as we've been told and quoted in the article, they've clearly not abandoned it.

To be fair, this is very likely because of their agreement with Firaxis covering the DLCs, so they probably HAVE to. Aspyr did NOT port any newer game to Linux since then. They did indeed abandon Linux.

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Quoting: DMGDid they finally fixed AI or it still as bad as it was in beginning and question "what else can we do" was more about "how else we can milk money from those players, without fixing the game"? :huh:

The AI will always be bad because of how complex the game is.

I don't think I can agree with that. There is no reason why the diplomacy AI needs to behave like a drunkard, yet it has been doing that since Civ 1. Being best buddies in round N, then declaring war out of thin air in round N+1? Give me a break, that's not a game being too complex, that's just a badly written AI.

If you want an example of games WAY more complex than Civ 6, and still have an AI that doesn't do overly stupid things every other minute, just go look at any of Paradox's grand strategy titles.

About the packs. I dunno. I feel that Civ 6 already has plenty of Civilizations to pick from. The additional ones won't add a lot to the game. This is indeed more about milking every last possible drop before announcing Civ 7.

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Godot is probably the most exciting OSS project right now. :)

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Quoting: Liam DaweAnd yes, some of it is an arbitrary decision. I cover things based a lot on personal interest, hence very little visual novel coverage here for example.

Fair enough.

Moving on! :)

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Quoting: Liam DaweSo people having another way/option to play games, while on Linux, is now not good news? Madness. I get not wanting to use it but it's an option and for many, a good one to play games that were previously impossible.

If you don't like it, don't read it or just filter it out in your profile settings. It's as if people just want to moan at this point and it's not productive for anyone.

It's not that I couldn't get behind the reasoning "If it can be played on Linux we'll cover it." I don't think that's the issue why some people find covering Stadia here a bit odd. It's more because covering Stadia but not great new Windows games that have, say, at least a Gold rating on ProtonDB seems to be a very arbitrary decision. If playing on Stadia is gaming on Linux, so is playing Windows games on Linux with Proton. I don't get why one is covered and the other is not.

I get the idea that GoL is your blog and you can write about whatever you and whenever you want, including writing about the weather if you so chose. But you can't really be surprised that if your selection criteria are that arbitrary, people might wonder why?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: velemas@Liam please do not associate Stadia with Linux gaming, there are a lot more of Linux fans outside of 14 lucky countries where Stadia is available. Currently Stadia means nothing to me and likely in foreseeable future if at all.

It's playing games, on Linux. I will cover it and I shall continue to do so. Don't like it? Don't read it. Filter it out if you must in your profile settings.

As a reminder to all: This website is Gaming On Linux, don't put us in a box of your own making. We cover everything.

I dunno. Saying that Stadia is "gaming on Linux" is really like getting all excited over being able to access Amazon.com on Chrome running on Linux and call it "browsing on Linux!"

Yeah...ok...I guess that would work? And it means...what exactly?

So using the same logic, running games in a Windows VM running on a Linux host is "gaming on Linux", too? Means...everything is?

Just food for thought.

And before anyone says PROTON!!!... Proton translates Windows games to be able to run on Linux. They literally run on Linux. MY Linux desktop.
Stadia? Yeah, it can display games on Linux. Big news! It can display games on anything able to run a web-browser. It's what it's meant to do. Is this gaming on Linux? In my book, it's not. There is a borderline what still constitutes gaming on Linux. If Stadia's servers happened to run on Windows 10 and not Linux, would you still consider it gaming on Linux? And if yes, really, what is NOT gaming on Linux?

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I got some of the Creed games from the Humble sub. Have yet to play any of them. So far I couldn't be bothered to set up UPlay in WINE in a way that I could redeem the Humble keys. I guess I am not THAT interested in Ubi's games, so no biggie for me if they jump ship to EGS. Not interested in Stadia either. Not sure why I'd want to waste multiple Gigabytes of bandwidth per hour just to stream a game my computer could render locally just as well, if not better.

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Quoting: vipor29i can never understand the thought process of companies supporting the mac seeing it is not that much bigger than linux is,what by 5 or 6% that is not much at all.i would of thought with valve's backing at least we would of been hitting at least 10% by now.that ship has probably sailed unfortunally.

As for the market share, the problem is that most people have zero reason to replace their pre-installed and working Windows with another OS. We're the 1% that would do such things.

As for why supporting Mac, and not Linux, that's easy to explain, too. There is really just one Mac architecture they have to test and support. Linux is much more fragmented, which makes QA and support much harder. I am pretty sure if there would be no distro other than say, Ubuntu, the situation would be at least a bit different. But make no mistake, Mac isn't THAT much better supported than Linux. It might seem that way because a few AAA publishers have released games for Mac when they wouldn't touch Linux with a ten foot pole. But the difference in support is pretty marginal, IMHO. In the end, most game devs seem to have surprisingly narrow skill sets. They know how to use their Windows tools to make Windows games with, and that's it. We probably tend to forget that, because as a Linux user, you're almost guaranteed to have experience with other OSes and their tools, too.

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