Could be interesting, but I suspect most people will use it like they used natural disasters in the SimCity games: save the game, unleash natural disasters and reduce your city to a smoldering ruin, then reload your game and continue playing as normal. As hard as it is to keep a city running in Skylines, I can't see how it would be much fun to have your metropolis randomly destroyed by a meteor or tornado.

Speaking of Cities: Skylines, I wonder when they're going to get the Linux performance issues sorted out?

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Quoting: EhvisCiv 6 actually sounds kind of reasonable.

I thought it was already confirmed that Civ 6 is coming to Linux.

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Quoting: Mountain ManMad Max?

Feral is doing that one.

Oh, right... getting my porting shops mixed up. I'm just so used to Feral's regular releases that I had forgotten about Aspyr.

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Mad Max?

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It always frustrates me when people make money with stupid stuff like this because I wish I had thought of it.

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It's a fun game, but always playing the same map gets boring. First time I played Dota 2, I was actually shocked when I discovered that it only had one map.

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Looks pretty cool.

On a different note, I really hate these game trailers that make you wait almost a minute into the video before showing you any actual gameplay.

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Quoting: manero666This is what is written if you scroll to the bottom of the main page:

"Bundle Stars is the official retail partner of 600+ game publishers"

And what would you expect them to say about themselves if they weren't legit?

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Of course all the caveats of buying from key resellers apply...

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Quoting: throghSimply as that: SteamOS is NOT GNU/Linux and that is made clear by this. Who in fact can prevent Valve from changing this derivate so it is more incompatible with the general Linux-stack? Exactly: Nobody. Just using the kernel and some firmware and what about the rest? Just more proprietary software and addons doesn't bring Open-Source more clear in the foreground, but I like those discussions here ... when some people are crying out because they don't get the game to make Linux more shiny one day and in fact it is nothing more than a copy of Windows on their local system. :D

It will be relativized repeatedly, I know. But using proprietary software with DRM is just an option and possibility, nothing more. It doesn't help Linux in any way.

There's no reason whatsoever to think Valve will someday make SteamOS incompatible with Linux. That's just Microsoft-style FUD, and Valve knows better than to piss off millions of loyal customers as well as hundreds of developers who have already taken the risk of supporting Linux/SteamOS in the first place.

Like Gabe Newall once said when asked if Steam would ever suddenly become a subscription service after gaining a large customer base: "Sure, we could screw over our customers. We could also cover ourselves with gasoline and light ourselves on fire. Neither one sounds like a good idea."

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