Quoting: Mountain ManWhere did you hear that Aspyr is moving away from Linux?

I thought them barely doing any Linux ports anymore would be a hint?

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Aspyr is gradually moving away from Linux and has been for a while now. That doesn't mean it's all doom and gloom. Firaxis seems to be fairly committed to Linux (they had all their recent games ported to it, IIRC). If Aspyr doesn't want to port for Linux anymore, they will find someone else to do it for them. Or -gosh- really do it in-house. The next Civ title is probably 3-4 years away, maybe by then multi-platform publishing is the new normal, who knows!

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Quoting: liamdaweI don't get the issue.

To me, the issue is that such temporary content does nothing for the long-term growth of the game. The event comes, and goes, and then the game is at the exact state it was before. These things do consume developer resources that otherwise could have been used to make the game -permanently- larger and add to its replayability.

A much better solution would have been to leave in these targets permanently, but make it so that dying would put you on a long cooldown (e.g. a week) before you can try again.

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Quoting: GuestDownloading now, I'll just have to pay an extra charge for going over my data limit. Must play.

Not sure if they offer it in your area, but I got an unlimited data upgrade a while ago for $15. These monthly caps are a joke. Without the unlimited upgrade, my limit would be 500GB. Hitman has almost 70GB... Their data caps are really just a hidden fee hike. I was close to the cap in pretty much every month before, and I don't use Netflix or any filesharing apps.

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Bought! I normally don't get games that force me to play a male character, but since Square Enix also publishes Tomb Raider, I consider them an equal opportunity employer. :D

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Quoting: OrkultusSo what happens when Mac developers start going full Metal API? This means that these mac ports that are Opengl, wont be available for a easy transfer to Linux anymore.

Depending on Vulkan's success, it might rather be Mac that's going to be left out in the cold.

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Quoting: fedotixI am happy that 3000 games ...
But what i wish in that some blockbluster very popular on windows (call of duty, battlefield ...) could be ported in linux.
Can we hope for soon ?
What do you think ?

I wouldn't bet as much as a dime to see ANYTHING made by EA or Activision on Linux, ever. At least not before hell freezes over. Of the big three publishers, Ubisoft might be closest to consider ports (they actually did one...one!), but I wouldn't hold my breath for that, either. The one larger studio not already on Linux we -might- see one day is Bethesda. And even that is more wishful thinking on my part.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusInteresting that a mere two years ago, at the end of 2015, [Steam only had 2,964 games altogether](https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/804072335997358084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw), and now here we have 3,000 on Linux. :)

Though the flip side is, simply having more games doesn't necessarily mean more games I want to play, nor does it include some games I do want to play. But hey, as long as they're making someone happy, that's fine with me. :)

Unfortunately, that's true. Of the 3,000 games, roughly 2,500 suck very extremely hard. Indie development has brought us gems like Prison Architect and Stardew Valley. But also a lot of people who can barely code Hello World suddenly thought they could be the next game development star and published their drivel on Steam because nobody stopped them. That's actually a huge problem these days, because it's getting harder and harder to find the few good games in the mountain of drivel.

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Quoting: tmtvl

Quoting: KimyrielleFallout 4

I thought you said "Quality Games"? You may have misspelled Fallout: New Vegas.

*throws a shoe*

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That was fast? Didn't we just celebrate the 2,000 milestone? oO

Other than that...yeah, I am after quality games these days. I am pretty sure I'd trade at least 1,500 of these games for Fallout 4. :D

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