It's quite funny how the very games aren't getting ported to Linux that would incur the least financial risk. Porting a game is a fixed cost type - it doesn't matter if your game sells 500 or 500,000 copies - the costs of porting it to Linux are the same. But assuming that the game's Linux market share is 2% in both cases, the mass-market game would bring in waaaaay more revenue to offset porting costs and generate profit. If PUBG would achieve 2% more sales with a Linux port, we'd be talking a ton of additional revenue, that would make porting costs insignificant by comparison. What keeps them, really? Personally I don't care about this game at all, but I know that having it on our platform would give us a huge boost right now.

Yes, I know that there is the issue of support costs, which according to some sources we don't look good at, compared to Windows. I really, really think dev studios need to be more drastic and flat out refuse to even look at support requests for distros other than Ubuntu and maybe SteamOS, to keep these costs down. Because this issue seems to be holding us back.

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Would be awesome to see AMD becoming a real alternative to NVidia again. I certainly like their way to handle the community better than NVidia's...

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Quoting: BOYSSSSSWhat happened to "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

Probably because it's rubbish. Words can hurt MORE than "sticks and stones".

Also, they have a point. I don't know when it became acceptable for a -business- to use foul language in what's for all practical purposes a -business communication-. One can really see how the Internet and the (illusion of) anonymity there has contributed to the erosion of basic manners, to a degree that even businesses are using it now for professional communication. But hey, what do you expect from a medium where it's apparently acceptable to haul insults and f-bombs at people you're playing a game with.

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Quoting: KimyrielleEven if Albion would add PvE content one day, there is still nothing at all I find appealing about it. It's a niche game with eyesore graphics and hardcore MMO concepts from the olden days, which, like dinosaurs, died out for a reason.

Is that why Blizzard is reviving WoW Vanilla? ;)

Of course to attract the masses it helps to ensure everyone regardless of skill-level can succceed. But not everyone likes that. Just like not everyone enjoys the latest dumbed down action movies labeled "Star Trek" which aim to attract the masses.

I really enjoy Albion Online ;)

I know that there are people around who love old-school MMOs and there is nothing wrong with that. But I guess my point was that for every hardcore MMOer who loves open world PvP, perma-death, looting corpses, competing with other players for mining nodes and rare world bosses, endless grind, and super-hard raids, there will be 10 others that will be like me and hate all of the above. It's really about where the money is. MMOs become a mass-phenomena only when developers moved away from that hardcore stuff and made games more accessible for us filthy casuals. ;)

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Quoting: marcelomendesI sometimes think in buy this, since Shroud of the Avatar is unplayable and buggy. But the PVP oriented aspect makes me think twice. I'm really happy playing GW2, even if not native. Still waiting for THE MMO of Linux world. For now I'll stick with GW2.

In addition to GW2, Star Wars The Old Republic also runs pretty fantastic in WINE.

I have come to terms with the idea that there will be no native AAA MMO anytime soon, probably not for many years. I am not even aware of an upcoming AAA MMO project for Windows at this time. There is simply nothing at all in the pipe right now. These two games at least can be played in Linux, for those of us who want to play a AAA MMO without having to boot into Windows all the time.

Even if Albion would add PvE content one day, there is still nothing at all I find appealing about it. It's a niche game with eyesore graphics and hardcore MMO concepts from the olden days, which, like dinosaurs, died out for a reason.

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Quoting: kalinAs I see I need to buy starter pack to test the game. I was left with impression that the game is free to play.

Free to Play is sometimes used loosely by both MMO devs and players, for games you need to buy but do not incur a monthly subscription (like apparently this one). Correctly, these games would fall under the "Buy to Play" category.

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I don't know why they feel they need to release a major version either. Most people don't care. They just download each new release, because every new release is an improvement over the previous.

That being said, I really like where DX11 support has been going lately, and there is some hope that we will be able to play more recent AAA games soon. I even got back into GuildWars 2, because it now runs really nice in WINE, when it produced single digit FPS rates for the longest time.

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I still consider NWN the best computer game ever made. Only reason why I am not playing it anymore is the dated looks. If they can polish them enough to look not totally out of place on a 2017 PC, I can see me playing it a lot again. I think having the editor is a must, though. The game was great because it was essentially a $50 RPG game engine people could make their own games with. The official campaign isn't' all that good, though.

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I love the alternate history scenarios. I just wish the AI would sometimes pick alternate routes for countries it is playing, too. Playing as England, and kicking Soviet butt at the side of a democratic Germany? That would be fun!

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Quoting: johndoe86xLinux needs three things to succeed as a competitive gaming platform.

It needs -something- over Windows, not necessarily any of the features you mentioned. But something. A unique selling point. And unfortunately, "freedom" won't cut it. People at large don't mind the NSA reading their email and them getting filmed by 1,000 different CCTV cameras a day. They don't care about Windows 10 being unfree and spyware, either. Sad, but true.

A better performance than Windows across the board would definitely help getting us some attention. But as long as most games are designed to run on Windows and ported to Linux as an afterthought, this will be not too easy to achieve.

Btw. Installing Windows is just as painful or easy as Linux. The point is that it doesn't matter, as nobody has to install Windows. It comes pre-installed on close to 100% of all PCs sold on Earth, after all. This is the exact reason why we need to achieve a -better-, not equal experience for gaming on Linux. Why else would a Windows user switch from something that they already have and works for them?

It's really the same with SteamOS vs Ubuntu. SteamOS doesn't offer anything tangible over Ubuntu (or any other major distro) at this point, so why would anyone switch? It's not a better gaming platform than Ubuntu by any stretch of imagination.

I don't think we necessarily need EA or Ubisoft on board, though. My personal indifference about them and their games aside, but for console users it is totally normal NOT to have access to games that are exclusives for other consoles. They accept that. We don't need to have 100% of all publishers on Linux, either. We DO need a reasonable amount of AAA games though, and we still have painfully little (although there has been some slow progress in the past two years).

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