About time! There are not nearly enough WW2 games out there!!!

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Quoting: Alm888By now we are basically swimming in good native games, so why bother spending your time on some Windows title which developers don't even care about Linux?

Last time I checked, the number of big-budget games on Linux was not really stunning, and we seem to get LESS these days than 2-3 years back. Some genres are still missing completely (the number of good MMORPGs having a native client is still zero).

In all honesty, without WINE I probably would still play more in Windows, than Linux.

On-topic: While I can understand the need to combat cheaters, I never felt comfortable installing intrusive Anti-cheat software. I wish game devs came up with intelligent methods to detect cheating -behaviour- instead of the tools used to make it possible. Ideally, games should be designed from the ground up to make cheating impossible, so that EAC and Co wouldn't be needed. Security as an afterthought (and that's what Anti-Cheat software is) has never worked well anywhere.

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As always, we advise against preordering on principle

As much as I can see why people would think like that, but if there is ONE publisher on Earth I trust blindly to deliver their Linux promises, it's Paradox.

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That didn't take them long! :D

As for my hopes for the 4.x series, well, I don't have a specific feature I am wishing for, but I hope they can further improve WINE so it will run even MORE Windows games out of the box at the end of the year, even newer ones. I guess a particular area that needs attention is getting these intrusive dumbass DRM systems (*looks at Denuvo*) to work that currently prevent some games to run in WINE that otherwise would.

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Can the scenes you make with this be used in your own game projects?

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Quoting: rat2000Why is everyone bashing only Epic?

Epic is coercing people into exclusive contracts with them by offering them monetary incentives. They are the source of the problem. The Metro guys just fell to that temptation and took their money.

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Quoting: KimyrielleCorporations don't want to compete...

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Nobody wants to compete, at least not for their living, if they can avoid it. Competing is hard, and you risk losing. One of the great myths on (and about) the pro-market side of the economic argument is that if you support free markets, you must support every business in every action it takes (or at least, refrain from criticism). Smith understood that, on the contrary, businessmen can be the greatest enemy of market freedom.

That's correct. I find it funny when most supporters of unregulated free markets quote Adam Smith to support their position. Smith wrote something like (in short):

"Free markets produce optimal results... "

(that's when right-wing economics supporters stop reading)

"...in markets with perfect competition and perfect transparency."

It's too funny how these people not only don't have the slightest clue about economics, but obviously fail to even read the very book they base their entire line of reasoning on.

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Quoting: GuestEpic can buy as many "Exclusives" or timed exclusives as they want. I wont use the Epic Launcher. If i want Metro i just gonna buy it for my Xbox One.

So you resent Epic's business practices and try to protest them by instead handing your money to a corporation that created one of the most locked-down and vendor-controlled devices on Earth?

*slow clap*

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Quoting: GuestThis is also all the more reason why everyone should support official Linux support by developers that's DRM-free so not tied to any one particular store.

This would work really well, since we have such an overabundance of DRM-free big box titles on Linux...

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It's not a new business pattern. Corporations don't want to compete (that's for the labor force), so they are trying to monopolize entire industries (not sure why the name Facebook came to my mind now), or when they can't, at least their own market. Like Disney pulling their stuff from Netflix to set up their own little streaming monopoly for their productions you won't get anywhere else. Or grocery chains buying other stores just to close them down, so people don't have a choice where to shop anymore. I could go on all day long. Baseline is that all sufficiently large business is evil. Which is why we'd need regulations against such practices, but they keep telling gullible people that regulations are bad, so what can I say?

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