Looks like company of heroes, I wonder if their going to nickle and dime people to death with micro-transactions (dlc) or if their just going to give people the best they got and simply rely on a good game and reviews to sell their product?

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The poor sales are from a BAD reception of the games lack luster story line and DLC content, coupled with bad performance issues on PC. Unfortunately they are outright blaming people not spending money as the issue... its not.

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Well its good to see they are using Vulkan now, I'm not sure if they ever got DX12 out the door but there seems to be no practical reason to use DX12 when you game is on multi-platform. Its a real shame Apple doesn't support Vulkan, but I guess in time there will be some VK to Metal conversion tools to make the process quite easy for developers.

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Reminds me of Kinetic Void, the devs of that game basically ran out of energy/money to finish it properly so its mostly abandon-ware atm. Still works, just not quite a finish feel to it!

And another game called Limit Theory which has never been released yet due to developer loosing his mind and being sent off to the loonie bin or something... (maybe he recovered, hard to say given the project has still yet not appeared!) EDIT: I just checked the devblogs, Josh has come back to life in the past month with LT and things are looking like progress, still its one of those indie games that has been in development for 5x as long as originally planned!

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G2A just doesn't have much regulation, the most they have is that Shield nonsense, which only protects the buyer and not the publisher/developer.

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The thing is G2A is like a sellers market, much in the way EBAY is. They don't physically put allot of these keys up themselves from what I gather, rather sellers just advertise with them a set number of keys.

Honestly I haven't had any issues with them like you guys, but I don't really buy much off them, only the odd occasional RISKY purchase if I can get a cheap deal on something. Such as titles on the verge of abandon-ware situation.
(Its ironic that DX:MD is at that stage now, publisher blaming customers for poor sales instead of game quality!)

It should also be noted that many PROMINENT YT streamers are still advertising G2A as the bees-nees, so that doesn't help, but what can you do?

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I wonder if they will need to keep applying these improvements to these sort of games each release or if they will automatically apply to other games that use the same rendering features?

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Yes and if we had that Vulkan version on PC Windows it would be a literal game changer. Refer to DOOM on how well it works via Vulkan on wine.

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If they could port over Skyrim Special Edition then it would be AMAZE BALLS! But I'm pretty sure Bethesda would outright say NO in a very loud and angry voice. Bethesda is kinda anti-Linux....

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I suspect once the AMD and NVIDIA (Mostly AMD) driver situation settles and they get to a point where hardware performs nicely and also works with anything you toss it, THEN we might see some AAA titles get more attention like Witcher3.

And don't try to tell me AMD's confusing quad-ripple driver option (choice has its downside) is rock solid now, its not for allot of hardware as reported not long ago. The NVIDIA drivers could be made to install ALLOT easier also, to eliminate the dreaded black-screen issues (and need for X.org to be disabled) that can still occur when installing them manually (installing via distro driver selection is generally safer!).

AND THEN we need to wait until VEGA comes out so AMD users can actually have hardware to play these new games at 4k@60fps :p

I would like to see the below games ported over:
Hello Feral? you there? you want loads of money for a port >>> (from sales)

The Witcher 3
Skyrim SE
Fallout 4
GTA 5

If these games got ported over to work well (wrapping DX11 into Vulkan API would yield best results!), it would change Linux gaming landscape forever! But I suspect it will never happen as the developers of these games have no heart for Linux in general :(

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