Quoting: GuestCivilization V that I own worked perfectly on Linux until its maintainers downgraded it with an old patch that made the game crappy, since then it keeps crashing.

Despite the fact that I immediately reported the problem to them, nothing was done to make the game playable again, this most certainly to force us to buy the latest version of the game which was at the time Civilization VI ;-(

After having lived such an adventure, I don't think I will buy a game of this franchise again...

You could have installed the Windows version via Proton. Even Civilization VI ran like a pig on Linux from day one, and Proton was always the preferred way to play.

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Quoting: Mountain ManAssuming it's not proprietary or licensed. That's one part of this debate that is never considered, that developers may not legally be able to release their games for free.

I don't see why this should be the consumers problem instead of the developers. If a legislation is enacted according to the initiave, than such kind of licensing isn't the way to go (within EU) anymore, so what? THEN the market could sort out the rest.

You can't expect the entire global software industry to suddenly go open source just because some gamers in Europe have their noses out of joint. It's never going to happen. And that's not even considering the fact that a lot of developers use licensed intellectual property, music, and artwork in their games that they can't simply give away. You say it's not the consumer's problem, but it is, and they already have 100% control over the situation: If you have any concern whatsoever that an online service for a game might be discontinued at some point in the future, then don't buy that game.

To be frank, if the government takes up this cause and passes legislation saying that companies must make their games available to consumers in perpetuity, then I can see a lot of developers and publishers deciding that the EU market isn't worth the trouble.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI expect this to go nowhere. The idea that you can force a company to make their product available indefinitely is ridiculous on its face.

Well, open source the server code would be sufficient

Assuming it's not proprietary or licensed. That's one part of this debate that is never considered, that developers may not legally be able to release their games for free.

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I expect this to go nowhere. The idea that you can force a company to make their product available indefinitely is ridiculous on its face.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887I wonder what's up with the GOG releases being Windows only.

Is it a surprise when they never bothered to port their Galaxy downloader to Linux?

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The original Dragon Age is one of my all-time favorite RPGs. It's also the last game BioWare developed as an independent studio before selling out to EA.

I wonder if this one will be any good?

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Quoting: Mountain ManI remember the cars in the demo had neat physics modeling but were way too bouncy and squirrelly, and slid across the dirt like they were on ice, making them almost impossible to control. Has that improved?

They behaved a lot like very powerful but very light open wheelers on loose dirt. Difficult to control, obviously, but not unrealistically so. This isn't an arcade off-road racer, even if it looks a bit like it should be.

I'm not asking for an arcade racer, but the cars in the previous demos seemed far too light with tires that didn't dig in like they should but lightly skipped across the surface instead.

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I remember the cars in the demo had neat physics modeling but were way too bouncy and squirrelly, and slid across the dirt like they were on ice, making them almost impossible to control. Has that improved?

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It's like a cross between Tetris and Carcassonne. Looks pretty cool.

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Steam Deck, at the moment, is arguably the most perfect combination of hardware and software in the handheld computing market. It's as easy to use as a console, but also allows power users to open the hood and do whatever they want without restriction. Not to mention that Steam OS/Linux is vastly superior to Windows on a handheld platform.

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