From what I heard, some developers are keen on -either- DX12 or Vulkan right now. Some voiced that DX11 is "good enough" and low-level APIs aren't worth the additional trouble.

If that holds true, Vulkan might not turn out to be the perfect solution for cross-platform development we hoped for, and we'd still face the issue that DX11 is both the better API and massively more popular than OpenGL.

Still glad to see that they're going to add it!

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Not my cup of tea, and it will probably die soon enough anyway. MMOs tend to be utterly boring unless they can draw in a few hundred thousand players and I can't see how a cheap Indie production would ever be able to pull that feat off. Particularly one that seems to be an equal opportunity offender in combining infantile art with hardcore gameplay. What target audience is that sort of game even aimed at?

MMO devs these days seem to be obsessed with this strange notion that old-school MMOs were somehow better, when they in fact appealed to a tiny fraction of MMO players. Most present day MMO players wouldn't have touched Ultima Online or Everquest with a ten foot pole. And yet they bring back all these hardcore features that died for a reason.

I guess I will just continue playing GW2 and Star Trek Online in WINE. The good thing about nobody making a good MMO anymore is that all existing major MMOs run quite flawlessly in WINE. \o/

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Quoting: KelsThis sounds like the base game without any expansions is now much better than when it was first released.

This is -very- common for Paradox games. They sell DLCs (which some people hate them for), but release lots and lots of features for free as well. The haters can bash them for their approach as much as they want, but in truth everyone profits, even the players who never buy any DLC.

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I am torn on seeing yet another TW game being ported. On one hand, strategy is hands down my favorite singleplayer genre (second only to MMOs), and it's a blessing to have such a great selection of strategy games available on my OS of choice. On the other hand, we have some glaring gaps elsewhere that still needed filling. Such as aforementioned MMOs, but also RPGs in general. If I knew that Feral can and will churn out another dozen AAA games this games, I'd still welcome this release - but if this is going to be one of three high-profile ports we will be getting in all of 2018 (like 2017 felt to me), I'd have opted for something else, given the choice.

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Sooo...what keeps them from merging the Staging patches into the main branch anyway? If they have been used for that long, should think they are proven to work, no?

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Which gaming relevant patches are in Staging that didn't yet make it to the main branch?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt is looking like the market share of Linux for gaming in specific may be less than 1%. I've been wondering about the difference; are Linux users mostly not gamers?

Given that for the longest time of Linux' existence you had to accept having no games whatsoever available for it, I guess that's a safe assumption to make. For all but the last 3-4 years (plus the short time when Loki ported some games), Linux was one of the few operating systems on Earth you absolutely couldn't game with. I guess it's safe to say that -nobody- here starting using it for gaming, and I suppose a OS you can't game with is particularly attractive to people who don't game in the first place.
In my (totally not representative) group of Linux users I know in real life, I am the only gamer...

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Quoting: Mountain Man"SteamOS didn't turn out to be what we all hoped."

He speaks for all of us.

Seriously. Can somebody message that Paradox quote to Gabe?

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Quoting: liamdaweThey have seriously long-term support for their games, more so than the vast majority of developers. Pushing out DLC (that is not required) enables them to continue getting funds for each team working on each game, plus they always do a free content patch with each DLC.

I agree! I mean...look at how old CK2 is, and they are STILL making content for it. I love this game, and they keep making it better and better. Which is waaaay better than the usual "fire and forget" approach other publishers take. If you compare that to the Civilization franchise, they keep (re-)making the same game over and over, releasing it with graphics updates (and sometimes downgrades, like the horrible art style they picked for Civ VI), and one or two minor new features, I keep buying CK2 DLC for a few years longer, thank you!

As for their continued Linux support - I guess we're safe as far as their Clausewitz II games go, as they already ported that engine to Linux and can probably port games using it to Linux with minimal effort, as long as they keep using/updating that engine.
The problem might be their -other- games. Like Cities Skylines, which probably had to be built from the ground up to support Linux, costing them additional resources. They might be tempted to say "nah, let's not bother" next time. Which would suck, thinking that Cities Skylines is one of the best games we have on Linux.

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Quoting: buenaventuraI just bought Europa Universalis IV for 10 euros at their awesome Valentine's Sale (which wasn't even advertised here as far as I've seen?) and I am just getting into it. Feels like a typical "mega nerd dad game" that will just devour my nocturnal life, so Paradox, expect me to buy some DLC real soon!

The odd thing really is that I was flabbergasted when I read that Paradox isn't doing well on Linux. They make the exact type of games I would have assumed to be really appealing to Linux users. I would have expected their Linux market share to be way above industry average.

Turns out, not. Meh :(

Just bought three DLC packs I didn't yet have, too. Just because.

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