Odd that they depend their porting decision on requests. Even a tiny fraction of a market can generate substantial noise, that makes said fraction look larger than it really is. Like the raiders in MMOs, who usually represent numbers close to the Linux market share on desktops, but make so much noise that you think every MMO player is a raider. So devs continue making that sort of content despite almost nobody plays it... *giggles*

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so it's an especially useful tool if you have great artistic skills, but perhaps not so great programming skills.

Does it work well if your talents are aligned the other way around? I can code reasonably well, but I can't draw stick figures to save my life.

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Quoting: slaapliedje6 that are DX12 exclusive...

Using DX12 exclusively would be financial suicide for a publisher at this point, given that they'd lock themselves out of 75% of the Windows market NOT running Win 10.

Really nice of MS, pushing Vulkan for us like this. :D

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Quoting: kellerkindtRidiculous shot to the knee by M$ to support DX12 only on Win 10 - but I cannot complain about that :D

Well, that's exactly what they did with DX10 and DX11 (available only for Windows Vista and newer). And as most of you probably noticed, they really want everyone to use the latest version of their system ;)

Yes, the shot in the knee part is when they expected Win 10 to be successful, and people didn't even want it for free, making DX12 stuck with a market share that will force developers to offer DX11 legacy support for years to come... Or just use Vulkan and get rid of the problem entirely. :D

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I don't ride the Star Citizen hype train, but the news that major developers are dumping DX12 in favour of Vulkan is nothing short of awesome! :D

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Sounds awesome! They are sooo going to need these parachutes! :D

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Quoting: pbBut the same could happen in real life, right? ;-)

I swear I never died from pressing the wrong button.

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I'd rather want publishers to pay porting houses a flat sum for the porting work instead of sub-licensing the game to them and make them rely on their own sales. This would end this discussion right here and there, eliminate the confusing "which platform is the purchase actually attributed to?" stuff, and is more befitting the actual work they do anyway (which is essentially outsourcing).

I can see this particular case as being exceptional, but generally I do not wish to pay separately for each platform I want to play a game on, and would largely refuse to. I hope Valve won't stop pressuring publishers not to adopt "per platform" sales. Ideally, a game runs on every platform on release day and people can install it on whatever OS they prefer.

Really what's next? Charging again to make the game run on a different GPU?

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I was highly critical of the "city sprawl" mechanics before Civ VI launched, but I must admit it works much better than I thought it would. One thing about it I still don't like is the tons of requirements and restrictions for building districts. Some of these restrictions are super-arbitrary and severely limit or at least elbow you into a certain way to build cities. But generally, the new city building is certainly more interesting than its predecessors.

I also still hate the childish cartoon art, but that's of course a matter of taste.

That being said, Civ V WITH the DLCs is also a great game. If budget is an issue, get whatever game is cheaper.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHuh. I'm a Vancouver man myself. And really, Victoria? Cold in winter? Half the US is colder than Victoria in winter; I think half the time they never get a single snowfall. Or, like, maybe one or two, that stick for a day and then there's rain the next day. Even Vancouver doesn't get much, except this year which has been a total Global Weirding bizarrefest.

This winter was horrible. I actually had to shovel snow. Can you imagine! That...didn't happen in the past 10 years or so.
And I have no idea why I am mentioning that, but the US East Coast is getting hit by a blizzard while I am writing this. But WE are the frozen wasteland! Yeah, right!!! No snow here. Just rain! As is proper! *flails arms*

But...honestly? They could put us in with our special unit being a hockey team and our cultural focus being a Double Double. If they would just put us in the game. Once.

But I think I rather see another serious winter before THAT will happen. *sob*

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