Quoting: buenaventura

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: emphy

Quoteyou’re not entitled to anything.

Sorry, but this is extremely offensive. Blocking off people from cultural activities because of their financial situation or location is simply wrong.

Why? It costs 60-80 USD - often more - to go to the most popular concerts today. By far no all can afford that. Is that offensive too? Or the movies. Or theatres. They all cost, and for many it's too much. Is that wrong? Do they have the moral rights to break into these arenas if they can't afford the admission fee?

I could go on. TV channels, streaming services, DVDs, you're not entitled to any of these offerings. But with video games it's different? Get out of here. Real life doesn't work that way.

Why yes, I would say it is quite offensive that we have to pay private entities lots of money for what could/should be seen as common goods, such as culture, especially when there is no scarcity (you can make infinite digital copies of a game). It is strange, that people consider it "just so" that people should be discriminated based on income, yet balk at discriminating them based on skin color or gender.

I guess you have nothing against DRM and such, so why not make technology recognize your income and take a fair share as a price for games/video/whatev. That would be cool.

You're putting quite some effort to justify your illegal copies. I've heard these same arguments for decades (I suppose some time in the 80ies of the last century I might have used them for myself), but for the last 25 years I've bought all my games - and yes, I wasn't "filthy rich" then, as I am not now.
You can surely point out why "not being able to afford computer games" is the pinnacle of discrimination, and why "not being able to afford a spacious apartment" or "only high quality organic food" or "a decent family car" or "a second car since they neighbor has one, too" are not.

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Good write up. Thanks for putting it all together.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: EhvisIt's difficult what to make of the reviews. This game has a pretty low rating, but most of the reviews on the front page are positive. Which contrasts quite a lot with "Valley", which has a very high rating but quite a few bad reviews on the front page.

Word of advice: Ignore amateur "reviews", read real reviews to make up your mind. You'll find them on the metascore sites, for example here:

http://www.gamerankings.com/pc/643672-homefront-the-revolution/articles.html

Weeeell... "No Man's Sky" got pretty good to average reviews by the pros, but "overwhelmingly negative" ones by amateurs. What am I supposed to make of that?

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Quoting: MohandevirWas it a day one support?

Yes.

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Quoting: EhvisThe original Toki Tori is also very hard.

I remember the actual original Toki Tori. Which wasn't called Toki Tori at the time. :P Probably around 1990. Ugh, that's a loooong time ago.

I suppose this was just "Toki":

Wikipedia

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Quoting: t3gI hope this developer realizes that Epic is going to take his code, lock it down, not give it back to the community (it's not GPL), and then make millions of dollars from publishers...

Millions of dollars! For the enhanced Linux support. Sounds like a slight exaggeration. Unless of course Linux becomes the prime gaming platform in the coming years.

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Quoting: deathxxxHow to HELL download this game on GOG ???
It's no direct link. Always redirect with gogdownloader ????

What's your problem? You put in your cart and check it out. Then you can download it.

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Got my Kickstarter funding back from them. Despite being complete pricks with their communication "policy" this worked without any hiccups and in a rather professional manner.

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Oh dear... If it wasn't for GOL i'd never notice games ported to Linux at a later date.
Unless you explicitly search for "Rogue Stormers" on Steam, you won't notice its availabilty since it first appeared months ago for other platforms. Valve - are you doing this deliberately?

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Quoting: TuxeeDid anyone seriously think that Project Cars would ever see the light of day on SteamOS? The announcement was more than vague. There are a far more "outspoken" candidates out there which still have to deliver - Rocket League comes to my mind. And to spare you some future disappointment: If Star Citizen ever will be finished, we still won't see a Linux version. As with Kingdom Come: Deliverance (which reminds me, that I should finally get my refund from those bastards).

Star citizen is coming to Linux, and its been confirmed mutliple times.
Also the game is expected to be released by the end of the year.

The reason we dont have a port is because OpenGL are missing stuff along with cryengien.
But they will work on it.

Ofcourse they could probably back out, but I doubt it.
You can just ask the support what the exact problem are at the moment and Im sure they give u a strait answer.

About as confirmed as HL3.

There has never been an explicit confirmation of a Linux version ("looking into it", "some time after release", etc). If I'm wrong: Send pix to prove it. For a start: Why did they pick Cryengine which Linux support is spotty at best, and was de-facto non-existent when RSI decided upon it.

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