OK, Valve, you had your fun. Now how about making the games you know we actually want?

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At first I read that as "MAGAfest", and I was like, "Awesome!"

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Graphics look beautiful. Let's just hope there's a compelling reason to explore the game world, because traveling around and taking screenshots could get old very quickly.

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Quoting: stretch611

Quoting: HoriHype, hype.

Paradox games are easily my favourite strategy games.

I have so many plans for this game. I think I was never before so exited about a game before its release.

Started playing Paradox games with CK2. Eventually I started wishing that they would make an alternative to Galactic Civilisations and something similar to CK2 but in the roman era. My dreams came true with Stellaris and soon with Imperator.

Ahh...Galactic Civilizations... That brings back memories... What a wonderful OS/2 native game that was.

Yep. Wardell made a bad bet that OS/2 was going to be a major player. Of course it would have been if Bill Gates hadn't stabbed IBM in the back.

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Quoting: Mountain ManWow, that trailer gives you absolutely no idea what the game will actually be like.

True enough. I guess strategy titles tend that way--a trailer that shows you clicking on a piece of terrain to build a road or an aqueduct just wouldn't pack a lot of punch drama-wise.

That and, well, it's kinda hard to showcase complex strategy games in a trailer. Without making it sound like a presentation, at least.

Yeah, but the target audience for these kinds of deep strategy games wouldn't be turned off by the presentation approach.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyEven Stardock seem to be shifting more Linuxward lately, dunno why. They might have decided to go Vulkan or something. Mind you, they must have been fairly aware of Linux all along, they have a sideline in "Stuff to pimp out your Windows desktop so it does things that Linux DEs do".

Windows extensions is not their sideline, it's their primary source of income. Brad Wardell said once that Stardock's game development doesn't bring in much money at all, and in some cases even loses money. But Stardock is going to keep developing games simply because Wardell likes doing it.

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Wow, that trailer gives you absolutely no idea what the game will actually be like.

At any rate, it will be interesting to see how Paradox is able to distinguish this game from Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis.

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Steam reviews suggest that the game is in pretty rough shape, which is not surprising after reading Jon Shafer's blog.

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An open-world game where you can ruin everything? That just sounds like life, man.

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Quoting: IceTorchHahahaha! This is amazing :D So here I am, writing an official email to gamingonlinux.com, with a question could you guys maybe post an article about us and is Linux community interested. And boom. You did it already, before I even finished the email :DDD

So, instead of finish that email - I'll just jump in here and talk to you directly - how about that? ^_^

First of all - THANK YOU soooo much! All the kind words and honest curiosity about our game is already so motivating and inspiring. I really haven't seen that one coming. None of us did.

Next, to elaborate about the matter more in-deep:
As I said on the forums: yes, we do not discard Linux port. Actually - Ultra Off-Road is BEING MADE on Linux. Our lead programmer is a huge Linux evangelist and he does all the coding on his penguinish machine. Both Linux and iOS are UNIX operating systems. And as we intend to go with our game on Apple's storefront - having a UNIX supported version of the game was always on our To-Do List. Heck - that is why we discarded all DirectX libs and use OpenGL only. That being said - posting to Linux, when being rather easy - is still not just 'a click of a button'. It still needs some work. Ergo - some time.

So what I can promise, is that Ultra Off-Road WILL support Linux - take it for granted. But it is in your hands - how quickly and how soon. You define its priority. As I've been quoted: spam the living hell out of our game's forum demanding Linux port - and you'll get it, maybe even at the very day of release.

This is no marketing or PR tricks. It's simple math - we do what our players want. If our players want a Linux port - they will get it. After all - we don't make games for ourselves. We do it for you.

You talk - we listen. No strings attached.

So yeah - put this thing on fire guys - and lets all sit and watch the flames :)

This post confuses. If it's being developed on Linux and for Linux then why wouldn't it just naturally be a Day 1 Linux release?

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