Quoting: NeverthelessCall to Power was a nice approach, but especially CtP2 was a complete code mess. They never got stable network gaming running..

Haha, I remember me having looked at the code. It's a really a mess. Don't ask me how that game even managed to run halfway stable. Never tried the multiplayer mode, though. Tbh, I think Civ is not a great game for multiplayer.

To be honest, what I would love to see is CtP2's core systems paired with Civ 5's hex map. CtP2 pretty much solved Civ combat, otherwise.

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I will get burnt at the stake for saying this, but having played every single Civ game there ever was, the one with the best overall features and mechanics was Call to Power II (which isn't even an official part of the franchise). IMHO of course.

They introduced waaaay too many micromanagement features in the later releases. For starters, I absolutely hate having to build my nation around randomly distributed resources and managing city districts. Yes, I get the idea it's realistic, but sometimes simpler is better.

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Most of the list isn't my cup of tea, but Crusader Kings III and Wasteland 3 are definite buys.

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No virtual currency. No pay-to-win. No micro transactions. Ever.

Wishlisted!

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It's money and (as far as we know) it was made in a legal fashion, so the Kira devs don't need to care who it's from. Good for them, I say!

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The worrisome bit is that our market-share is still exactly the same 1% it has been before Steam for Linux was launched (which was arguably the birthday of Linux as a viable gaming platform). I clearly thought that the only thing Linux needed to take off as platform was games. We got games. But still no growth. And that's -despite- Microsoft decided to do us a favor by replacing the well-liked Windows 7 with that buggy mess of spyware that is Windows 10.

Honestly, if the thousands of games we got was not able to give us a push, I am not sure what could.

The good news of 2019 is that Proton largely made the problem irrelevant, because nobody really needs to actively support us anymore for us to be able to play their games. Which is the and the only reason why 2019 might have been the best year for Linux gaming yet. For the first time ever, we're able to play a healthy portion of all AAA games on Linux.
Yes, I know some people would disagree with me. But my opinion is that I don't care what makes a game run on Linux as long as it runs.

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Quoting: edoDoes latest MS office works flawlessly? That should be a goal for wine guys

My information might be outdated, as I haven't been forced to use MS Office in over a decade, but as far as I know only the Codeweavers version can run it flawlessly.

Honestly, if there is a compelling need for it, you can just use Office 365 in a browser these days, which runs flawlessly on Linux. My daughter has to use it for school, and that's what she's doing, so I can confirm it to work.

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Let's be realistic - there are only a handful of companies willing to work with Feral, so any wishlists we might come up with would probably need to be content from the usual suspects.

I will be honest - I didn't buy a single game from Feral this year, because the only one they ported that interested me was Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Which got ported a year after the Windows version, so I already had bought it. And no matter what the YOU SHALL NOT BUY WINDOWS GAMES!!! crowd is saying, but I am not waiting a year for a game I am interested in to get ported.

I will take a "let's see what they come up with" stance, for that reason. If they come up with a game that's both interesting to me and released acceptably soon after the Windows version, I will get it. If not, then, well, not.

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Family sharing is the most useless feature in Steam, honestly. You'd expect it to lock only the game somebody is using, but it locks the entire library. So if my daughter is playing any Steam game, I can't use my entire library as long as she's playing. Might as well let her use my computer in the first place. *rolleyes*

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Quoting: username>designed for both PC and console platforms

well, rip.

I don't want to be Negative Nancy either, but how many projects announce to deliver for Windows, Mac, Linux and consoles and then discover halfway through development that the middleware they're using for their Windows and console builds isn't available for Mac and Linux, so these targets "stop making business sense" and get cut?

On the plus side, it's Kalypso. They and Paradox are the two most Linux friendly of the bigger publishers, and have a long track history of publishing for Linux. So there is some hope that the guys working for that new studio know what they're doing.

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