Quoting: GuestDXVK is awesome. It is hard to believe it only began a couple of years ago.

That's putting it mildly. It was a complete game changer. In my book, DXVK is what made WINE gaming viable. Before, WINE was mostly useful for running legacy games. But modern games would either not run at all or run in a way that tempted you to boot back into Windows...

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I said it before, but even when the money is coming from the next best thing to the devil, it's still money that will help Godot to become a better product, and they would be fools not to take it. If Godot will one day become good enough to bite into Unreal's market-share and cost Epic MORE money, that would be an added plus.

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To say I am not a fan of the F2P business model would be the understatement of the century, so I am not sure. I have yet to see a F2P game that's NOT designed to suck unless you cough up dough and keep coughing up dough. And if developers claim otherwise, it's usually...well...not quite true.

Otherwise it would look interesting.

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Biggest point release ever? Haha!

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Yeah, that just made it easier to get the money where it needs to be, haha! And my daughter got a few games, so it's win/win!

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Quoting: EhvisI think the problem is that this is not a reasonable sum. That amount of money funds at most a single person for one year.

It completely depends on the life situation, really. If these people have to pay rent and support a family, it won't last them long, at least not if they live in any developed country. If they are not primary bread earners and can actually invest the entire sum in the game, 50k is a LOT, particularly considering that they had coding and art covered. Their art doesn't look overly complex, so one should think even commissioning some parts wouldn't break the bank.

I have seen people starting Indie projects blowing a lot of money on expensive software licenses when decent OSS alternatives are available, though. Particularly when the project head is an artist (they often seem to be conditioned to the idea that software cannot be good unless it's expensive.) So who knows, really.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPCan't blame them for shifting focus away from a game that just doesn't perform well.

That's not really what's written in the article. More like the opposite of what you said...

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It's kinda funny they're asking, because we all know that most AAA publishers out there won't consider letting Feral port their stuff anyway. But ok, they asked and I shall answer:

1. The Sims 4.
2. Cyberpunk 2077
3. Fallen Jedi.

Ok, that was for giggles, because we all know that chances of any of these games making it to Linux are lower than sanity returning to world politics. But they asked! :D

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Quoting: KimyrielleI'd be curious what the "alternate" history is and how it ties into the storyline, but couldn't find anything about it on their website or on Steam.

I imagine the ability to make choices to change endings it's what they mean by alternate.

By that logic every single strategy game ever made is "alternate history".

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Quoting: KimyrielleI'd be curious what the "alternate" history is and how it ties into the storyline, but couldn't find anything about it on their website or on Steam.

I am guessing its like panzer general where it is possible to win in europe and start a mainland invasion of the USA i did that it took nearly six months, what helped was signing a truce then eventual alliance with the British Empire which gave me canada to launch attacks from as well as a bump in avilable personel if its something like that i am down.

That a strategy game is winnable even by the side that historically did not, is not alternate history, it's the nature of a strategy game. Alternate history would be e.g. if WWII was started by the British Empire invading the Soviet Union with the help of the Japanese navy.

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