Quoting: GuestOn a more positive note, in the niche market of flight simulators, i have seen people excited by VR.

That's the one area where VR has a chance to shine. Otherwise, they have no mass market appeal. I anticipate that VR will always be a high-dollar niche product for the "hardcore" crowd.

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Interesting strategy on Micorsoft's part. Since they realize that Valve's commitment to Linux is a threat to their ability to control the market on the distribution side, they appear to be cutting Linux off at the knees by taking control of the development side.

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I've been interested in this series for a while and almost pulled the trigger on Tropico 5 multiple times, but the wide range of mixed reviews always stopped me.

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The importance of an open source motherboard is to prevent things like what Microsoft tried several years ago when they quietly attempted to strong-arm motherboard manufactures into adding some sort of Windows-only layer to prevent the motherboards from booting other operating systems.

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So they sucker people into donating to Kickstarter, and then release it as "free to pay"? Wow.

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Crusader Kings II is the greatest grand strategy/political simulation/role playing game ever made, and every expansion makes it even greatester. That's a word, right?

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Quoting: Mountain ManI assume this is one of those cases where even though the source code is in the public domain, it's not possible to simply get the game for free?

Edit: Yep, just checked the GitHub page, and they make it clear that what's available in the repository is not actually the whole game but only select portions of code as a resource for other developers who are interested in learning the Unreal Engine.

The games source code is there, but the assets are not. Similar to how a lot of developers do it, so that they earn money still while allowing others to use the code.

Yes. I don't have a problem with that. I was just looking for clarification.

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I assume this is one of those cases where even though the source code is in the public domain, it's not possible to simply get the game for free?

Edit: Yep, just checked the GitHub page, and they make it clear that what's available in the repository is not actually the whole game but only select portions of code as a resource for other developers who are interested in learning the Unreal Engine.

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This would be a lot more tempting as a Linux purchase if the Aurora toolset wasn't Windows-only.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Mountain ManNow if only they would give us an easy way to install Unreal Tournament on Linux.

The new one? Don't think they even develop it any more. Their focused heavily on Fortnite.

I obviously haven't kept up with the news.

For the record, I have zero interest in Fortnite, but my son is addicted to it.

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