Should I care? According to the ratings it seems to be a pretty mediocre title.

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@Scaine

Couldn't agree more with you. When it comes to Snap about half of the Linux world is into running its own backend store. You forgot to mention that we trust the deb packages published by the very same company which apparently runs a completely untrustworthy proprietary Snap store...

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Does anyone really trust Amazon as a digital content store?

Why should I care? I don't pay for it anyway. It's not as if I have my Prime membership for their games and if they take it away they could refund exactly zero Euros. I suppose if I am genuinely interested in a game I'd most likely buy it on Steam.
And "buying isn't owning" applies to ALL (online) game purchases.

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To be honest, I prefer buying games on Epic Games now. Steam is the only proprietary user space application I use and I'd definitely like to get rid of it. With Epic Games, I don't have that problem at all. I can simply download and play via Minigalaxy, legendary or HGL for example.

Interesting. And the games you bought on Epic and which are running on your machine are not proprietary user space applications?

Seriously, this must be the most awkward "justification" I've heard in a long time. To sum it up: You are running Linux because you are oh so deeply into this open source philosophy and therefore despise the company which frequently and substantially fosters your open source ecosystem BUT shop instead on a company's store who openly fights your open source operating system. What puts the cherry on the cake is of course that Valve is the main reason why you can actually play your Epic-obtained Windows games on your open source OS.

Did I get that right?

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Of course it looks "way better" - but not necessarily because of RT but because of the completely redone assets. The old version had some "leaves on a wall" texture, the RT version has complete 3D models of vines growing up a wall with 3D bricks...

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At the moment you can only get one of these things without figuratively handing the keys to your pc over to someone you don't know.

Exactly the opposite: My banking app will ONLY run on a smartphone that has not been rooted. Which in turn means no LineageOS or GrapheneOS.

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I do not recall my bank asking me to provide it to them as a service???

Well, do you have any local software installed that makes your transaction process any faster? No? Thought so.

Anyway, War Thunder does all battle related calculations on the server but they cannot avoid a local software which say increases contrast of your viewport or fakes user input or persists map markers longer, etc. That's what only your local anti cheat can handle.

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Would play it if not for PayToWin(pay to rest your crew, pay for certain behind paywall vehicles, etc.)
I have no problem to pay for game ones. But certainly not over 100$ a year for subscription game.

Far from it. On the contrary: The team with more premium player frequently loses. Why? Because plenty of noobs think that a premium vehicle is in some way superior, spawn, get obliterated immediately and are out of the game again. 2 minutes in the game and of your 16 team members only 8 are left...

Besides: What's the problem of paying 100$ for a game you play frequently for one whole year? If you play less often - just play for free and enjoy the lower tiers which are frequently a lot more fun.

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Until they revert that. I would recommend to anyone, not to spend a dime on such online games. You never know when they will pull the rug.

Why should they? They have been supporting Linux since 2014 (and I have been playing it since then). They have switched from OpenGL to Vulkan, they put some effort into supporting the Steam Deck.

I have been playing and enjoying it for 10+ years now - bummer if I'd followed your advice back a decade ago (when it was much more likely that they "pull the rug").

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Quoting: M@GOidI don't care about the MMO part.

Then we are talking about an entirely different game. Not just "a [different] version".

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