Quoting: razing32I like the idea of a PvE focused MMO.
Would be nice to see.
Curios how they keep players engaged for endgame though. Maybe raids or so ?

While many MMOs are PvE focused, they still are -competitive-. People compete for open world mining nodes that let only one character exploit them, world bosses with insane respawn cooldowns people fight over the right who gets to kill them, creature spawn points people camp for loot, silly "server firsts" (don't ask me why people care about that, but they do) and so on. Even if these games disallow players to openly bash the heads of random strangers, pretty much all still make you hate the presence of other players. Which is quite silly for a multiplayer game, if you think about it.

This one seems to finally get the idea what a multiplayer PvE game SHOULD be like - cooperative. I don't normally care for zombie stuff, but I might have a look at this one, for that reason alone. And the art is kinda neat for an Indie game. 95% of all Indie games are a total eyesore, but this one is cute.

Maybe they are also the first ever MMO to get endgame right. Raids suck. lol

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Quoting: throghWell, what to say? Oh yes: Praising just more proprietary platforms helps, of course for a system based on user's freedom. :P

Being thankful for what exactly? The business decision from Steam / Valve? The half-hearted lie GOG is going to tell the user? No DRM? Very bad jokes and not the best arguments for a bright future. But yes: It's possible to praise that. Making every Linux-distribution to another copy of known paradigma.

Well, you can't have the cake and eat it. There are how many free-as-in-freedom games out there, that can even remotely compete with commercially made ones in terms of quality?

Yes, there is 0AD.

That's...it.

So if you want good commercial games on your free-as-in-freedom platform, you will have to live with the quirks that come with commercial software. No source code. No freedom. DRM. Proprietary technology. Silly EULAs. Yep, not ideal, but it's a take it or leave it thing, really. Let's face reality for a second - with our 2% market share, we're not exactly in a position where we could blackmail publishers with "DRM will go, or we won't buy it!!!" lines without making them laugh.

I am not a fan of DRM and Steam's near monopoly on games distribution either, but it's either sucking it up or having no AAA games at all. We would have exactly NOTHING if not for Steam and them pushing us.

Either you accept that or your catalogue of games will mainly consist of Tux Racer and Nethack. But if you want AAA games and then refuse buying them when they are offered, your just shooting yourself in the foot.

Pick your poison!

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Quoting: skinnyrafSure, I miss the Witcher 3 and everything from Blizzard, but 75+ excellent Linux games on my Steam wishlist is the reality.

Haha, same! My wishlist has about 25 games at this point, and I just can't justify buying more games when I still have at least 25 games in my Steam library I have yet to start even once.

Honestly, in terms of numbers we're more than fine now. There are more Linux games now than there were Windows games just a few years ago. 'nuff said.
And while 90% of these games might suck - which isn't any different for Windows games - 10% of 3,500 is still an awesome collection of good games to pick from.
I am also not one of these people who'd go ahead and buy an entire system just because they have an exclusive game or two they think they can't live without. If Windows gamers can accept that Horizon Zero Dawn isn't available for their platform of choice, we just have to adopt the same attitude for our own platform and stop complaining because this or that game won't ever get ported.

That being said, there is still room for improvement in certain areas, such as underrepresented genres (there is still not ONE AAA MMO available for Linux...), or big budget games in general, which we still generally lack despite we saw a few good releases lately. My hope for 2017 or 2018 is that at least one other major publisher will give Linux a shot and get us a much needed push in the AAA department. Yes, Bethesda, I am looking at you... :D

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Quoting: iiariI'm actually more optimistic for Linux gaming in the future than even today, as I think eventually gaming will largely be streaming, and as long as the streaming clients exist for Linux, then we'll be good. That way, if anything, we'll have an even bigger selection than we do today...

I don't think streaming games per se has much of a future. In contrast to music (tiny files) and movies (you usually watch them only once) there is no compelling reason to stream games over installing them. You -still- need a gaming capable PC to run streamed games, and the performance of locally rendered games will ALWAYS be better compared to sending data to the other side of Earth and back and keeping everything in sync. But we will probably see more client/server online games like MMOs and online FPS games. The days of pure offline games might actually end sooner rather than later.

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Setting up proxy companies in tax havens to evade having to contribute to society is considered a standard practice in international business.

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I backed Worlds of Magic back then, and signed up for a DRM free copy. They handed out Steam "beta" keys eventually and told us the DRM free versions would come "later". The Steam keys became the full game one day. I am still waiting for my DRM free copy. I sent them multiple mails, even telling them I'd accept a Steam key if I'd get ANYTHING. They never responded.

I consider them frauds, really. I am fairly convinced I won't buy anything from them again, ever.

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Skyrim
Fallout 4
Elder Scrolls Online
Rise of the Tomb Raider

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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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