If I'd be interested in two year old games I'd have bought it for Windows already and run it in WINE. Racing games leave me colder than ice anyway, so it's all good.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovicThe number of people who have stuck with Windows 7 is a blessing for Linux since it's held back adoption of DX12. It's made a more stationary target. Hopefully those people stick with Windows 7 a little longer or switch to Linux, so we can keep it up, and hopefully if DX12 does become mainstream we'll be ready before it happens. It really does help with pushing Vulkan too, the longer Windows 7 survives and the more users Linux can get, the more attractive Vulkan becomes. If only Apple had gone with Vulkan for Mac.. x_x

While a lot of developers are mentally stuck in the DX world and likely never will look at any alternative no matter how good they are, Vulkan got adopted faster than I personally thought it would be. I also don't see DX11 die anytime soon, even after the end of Win 7. There were a lot of voices that seem to consider DX11 "good enough" for their purposes.

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June, eh? Oh well, that will put it just shy from its 1st anniversary of its Windows launch. So when it will be on Linux it will be just an old game, not an ancient one.

That's...something...I guess?

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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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