Quoting: KuJoOnly Singleplayer, no MP.

It also sounds like another "roleplay" game making you play a premade character. :S

It looks decent, though.

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Quoting: MalI use Steam so this thing has not much value for me. I understand though that they'd like to have Steam services also on other (un)platforms they sell on to and I welcomed their company wide infrastructural projects.

The thing is I don't like launchers. It's an additional click away from my game, launchers go against every modern rule of usability and user friendliness. I can't really understand why game houses are so stubborn with them. Old management I guess. I doubt a millenial would come out with such an idea. Anyway Paradox already uses launchers for each one of their games so I guess in the end having a unified one instead of many will not change anything compared to now.

So in the end I'm just disappointed that they didn't used this chance to get rid of launchers entirely.

I don't see the point in launchers either. They make no sense to me. Game settings belong in the actual game, and it's not that you're going to change them every single time you start it. It's really just one more unneeded click.

I am not a fan of the de-facto monopoly Steam has on game management platforms (monopolies are bad, period!), but let's face it - it's not going to change just because every Tom, Dick and Harry publisher is going to add its own platform ON TOP of Steam and/or with an extremely limited stock of games it supports.

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Soon we will have one separate client for every single game on Earth!

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I don't mind card games, but their appeal tends to get suddenly squashed for me, if they tell me I have to buy 10,000 booster packs to get on halfway even footing with the average Jane playing it. I would probably like that sort of games if they'd give both side the full selection of cards to build their decks with and then let skill win. Pay2Win sucks, though.

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You will be assimilated! :D

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Quoting: ShmerlBasically, Apple wants to tax cross platform developers. In this sense, they are worse than MS these days.

They are worse than MS in -every- regard. It wasn't MS who invented locked-down operating systems and monopolized software distribution giving them complete and exclusive control on what you do with YOUR device. Honestly, in terms of disgusting business practices, I'd argue Apple is easily the most evil technology company on Earth. I find it laughably how this company gets defended by its hordes of hipster fanboys, hipster fangirls and hipster design studios just because Apple products are apparently more "cool" than anything else. I dunno, I rather have a less "cool" product that performs way better, allows me to do what I want to do, and costs way less to boot.

Back on topic, I actually think the numbers aren't THAT bad - we seem to outdo our actual market share in the desktop OS market, even (which most think is a bit less than 2%). The only downside of this is that despite Linux gaming has been vastly improving over the past few years, our numbers do not trend upwards at all. We have been given a load of indie games, a meaningful selection of AAA titles (come on, what other than MMOs -don't- we have these days?), better drivers, better distros - and we're still roughly where we started. Windows 10 is definitely disappointing people and Mac never has been a good gaming platform, so one should think at least some would give Linux a shot?

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They seem to be reasonably fast with getting new patches to work on Linux, so it's all good. :)

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Quoting: KimyrielleNubia, eh?

I wonder when they are going to include Canada for the first time ever in a Civ game, and what it would take for them to consider having the second largest country on Earth in there. I know, I know...we're America's hat and the unofficial 51st state. But still!

Maybe after the "Jamaica and Easter Island" DLC?

No offence but Canada is 150 years old and the game might just as well end at the year which Canada was founded. It's just a country made of people from around the world, just like the USA but at least they are the world's superpower. There are plenty ancient or old civilizations that are not included in the game and probably never will be so I wouldn't hold my breath for Canada.

Isn't Australia in the game ?

Yes, it is. Despite Canada is older (not by much, but still), larger both in area and population and a bigger economy.

But they are not considered America's hat. *shrug*

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionIt looks like there is actually a studio behind 0AD development which would explain the quality that is normally absent from open source games.

This is indeed the only commercial-quality open source game I am aware of. Apparently it's trivial to find talented programmers willing to contribute work to a community project, but not artists. Most OSS games really look as if a three year old having no artistic talent tried out random buttons in Photoshop, while this one is a very welcome exception. I don't know why this is. I guess artists are much more obsessed with getting paid for their work and retain all the rights, that's the only explanation I have.

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Quoting: mrdeathjrIn this wine staging version fallout 4 works with glitches in video (faces) and audio dont work correctly (pulse or alsa mode)

^_^

Wow, I had no idea that FO4 is -anywhere- near running in WINE. That's great news! :)

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