They are not words without distinction. "Downloadable content" traditionally refers to minor things like skins, sprites, and maps. "Expansion pack" traditionally refers to substantial content, such as an entirely new story quest in an RPG, or significant additions or changes to the gameplay.

Yes, all of these are technically "downloadable content" since in this day and age it's content that you download, but language isn't always literal. There's some nuance here.

At any rate, Paradox looks to be taking the route of beefing the game up with free patches before releasing any expansions.

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Quoting: dmantione

This is good news, as I’ve been pretty happy with Feral’s porting work

You are? Performance issues and AMD incompatibilities are the rule rather than these exception with these guys.

Talk to AMD about their shitty drivers. That's not Feral's fault. Anybody who is serious about Linux gaming needs to get an Nvidia card. As for performance, some games run better than others (XCOM 2, for example, actually runs slightly better on Linux than it does on Windows; Tomb Raider runs slightly worse), but I've never seen any reason to complain since all of Feral's ports have been solid and stable with steady, playable framerates.

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"...would have preferred something a little more, err, meaty – something that affected gameplay – for a first expansion."

To be fair, this isn't an expansion. It's cosmetic DLC. They're sure to release meatier content in the future.

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"...we have a few keys to give away."

Darn, and I just bought this last night.

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Everything I read about Train Fever suggested that it was broken and buggy even years after release. Hopefully they have a better QA pipeline for this game as it looks rather neat, but this is a developer who has yet to prove themselves.

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Quoting: oldrocker99I was booting into a 14.04 virtual machine to play OOTP Baseball, which does not run on 16.04 :><:

Is this an older version of OOTP? Because OOTP 17 works just fine in 16.04.

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I still say Steam is doing a disservice to Linux with this survey. They should release comprehensive numbers some time.

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It looks nice, but I'm honestly not seeing anything we haven't already seen in Portal 2.

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This game really reminds me of Rune Factor 4 for the 3DS.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: neowiz73I blame the Mac vs PC commercials for starting the paradigm of calling all windows based systems "PCs".

It started long before that. "PC" has always been synonymous with Microsoft in one way or another for decades.

not as much, because before the commercials mainly I remember Windows PCs being thing, because Macs were being sold in stores and were referred to Mac PCs vs Windows PCs. But Steve Jobs wanted to make a distinct difference between the two with the commercials by simply stating Macs were *Macs* and Windows PCs were just PCs.

I don't think I've ever heard a Mac referred to as a "Mac PC". What I do remember back in the day is that "PC compatible" was a big selling point for IBM clones, which basically meant they were compatible with IBM PCs meaning they could run MS-DOS. And for whatever reason when Microsoft and IBM parted ways, the term "PC" stuck with Microsoft, probably not by accident.

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