Quoting: wolfyrion

Quoting: 14

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Honestly and I know am going to get slated for it this is just one more nail in the coffin for me the lack of triple a gaming on linux this year aside from Tomb Raider reboot 2 means and i hate to say it i am going back to dual booting after six years on pure linux.

That's a bummer for you. For me, I'd go to PS4 before Windows and keep a Linux computer. Windows 10 is like renting a computer. It's not yours.

That said, my two cents in this seasonal conversation is that not everyone who gives Linux a shot sticks with it. I'm an IT professional who works on a team of admins that administer many Windows and Linux servers. We all despise Windows (supposedly), but guess how many of us run a Linux/GNU computer for personal use? Just me. It's too much work to not be mainstream.

Of course, I love Linux/GNU and don't imagine myself leaving any time (never say "never" ). But other people? They probably need to grow up with it, or there is like no hope.

@14 Hi, I am an IT as well :)

I am using Linux for work and other things as well but I dont think I will ever dualboot
I have a PS4 just to play AAA Titles (if I ever have time) that I cant play on Linux.
(Imagine that I have Resident Evil 7 , God of War,Monster Hunter,Shadow of the Colossus + so many other AAA tittles and I havent played anything so far)

I want to buy a VR but at the moment I am waiting for Linux support otherwise I may buy VR for PS4.

At the moment Linux Gaming is VERY VERY BAD !

1. No AAA titles are available in Linux (Especially the newest titles like PUBG etc)
2. NO VR Support and no cool VR Games in Linux
3. No gamer will want to play a game after 1 or 2 years if it will be ported.
4. Gamers jump from one game to another , I mean that gamers test every new game is getting released and if is trending they just stuck on it and play it until the next trending game tittle.

More than 5 years have passed and still Linux gaming is not a thing.
Yeah we do have many tittles especially indie games but until big companies decide to support Linux , Linux gaming will stay as is.

We're in the same boat it sounds like. I also have a PS4 mostly for exclusives and Ubisoft games.

When you say "AAA game," do you mean big hit games or big budget games? I don't consider PUBG or Fortnite AAA, but they're obviously the hottest thing besides LoL and Dota2. But I won't get too tripped up on semantics. I completely agree that it's hard to be a strictly Linux gamer when you have to forgo the games the majority of people are playing. Some of the games I really wish I could play are BF4 and BF5, PUBG, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm, Skyrim, Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2, others. Yes, some of those can run in WINE. That's only if you're desperate IMO. What keeps me from booting into Windows and playing those games? I don't have time for all the games I want to play. So, I cut out the ones that don't run on Linux. I still don't have enough time to play all the Linux games I have. That's what I console myself with anyway.

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Quoting: skinnyraf

Quoting: 14That's a bummer for you. For me, I'd go to PS4 before Windows and keep a Linux computer. Windows 10 is like renting a computer. It's not yours.

Don't you realise inconsistency here? You prefer PS4, a fully locked-down system, both hardware- and software-wise, where the vendor has full control over what you can do and what they can do with the system you purchased, with a Windows-running PC. While Microsoft moved towards walled garden approach a lot in last few years, Windows 10 is still relatively open compared with consoles. And, if it comes to the worst and Microsoft disables Windows license key, you still have a PC you can use. If Sony decides to brick your PS4, there's nothing you can do about it. And let's not even start talking about cross-system multiplayer...

That said, I will probably follow your route. I won't replace my aging PC. It's fine for indie games on Linux. For AAA I will probably buy PS4 Pro - though issues with cross play between PS4 and other platforms might change my decision.

You're not wrong. But a gaming console and my general purpose computer have different requirements even though the computer can overlap in the gaming function. I am not going to check my bank account, read/write emails, apply to jobs, VPN to work, write scripts, manage family photo library, etc. on a gaming console. In short, I don't use gaming consoles to work with my more intimate data, thus complete control over the platform is not as important to me.

By the way, what is the cross-platform multiplayer problem? I know I can play Rocket League and FF between PS4 and PC clients, which makes me think any other blocking would be a publisher decision. What's making the publisher choose that would be the important question.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Honestly and I know am going to get slated for it this is just one more nail in the coffin for me the lack of triple a gaming on linux this year aside from Tomb Raider reboot 2 means and i hate to say it i am going back to dual booting after six years on pure linux.

That's a bummer for you. For me, I'd go to PS4 before Windows and keep a Linux computer. Windows 10 is like renting a computer. It's not yours.

That said, my two cents in this seasonal conversation is that not everyone who gives Linux a shot sticks with it. I'm an IT professional who works on a team of admins that administer many Windows and Linux servers. We all despise Windows (supposedly), but guess how many of us run a Linux/GNU computer for personal use? Just me. It's too much work to not be mainstream.

Of course, I love Linux/GNU and don't imagine myself leaving any time (never say "never" ). But other people? They probably need to grow up with it, or there is like no hope.

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I'm gonna pick this up. Looks fun and the trailer gave me a chuckle.

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The presentation looks very good. I might actually pick this one up, despite my usual "meh" feeling toward pixel graphics.

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Quoting: mylka

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: mylkamaybe they get more money with each sale, but now they have higher costes. own servers and linux programmer for the launcher
maybe gog follows

I think that it's simply that they have now grown big enough to where those costs are less than having to give away 30% of each sale to companies such as Valve.

Now I don't have longer data than back to 2013 in the database (they listed their share in 2016) but they seam to have made some nice increase in both sales and profit (ptp in the table below is the pre-tax-profit) and while not close to a behemoth like EA they are probably as I wrote before closing in on the kind of sales numbers where 30% suddenly are quite a lot of actual money (aprox 35M EUR in 2017 if we assume that all sales are from places like Steam).

does steam really take 30%. assassins creed costs the same on steam and uplay. actually its now cheaper in the steam sale, than the uplay sale
why wouldnt ubisoft make their games like 10-20% cheaper in their own store? the customers would pay less, so they would get more costumers and they would make more money with each sale

why is EA selling their games only on origin, but ubisoft isnt, if they would save so much money?

I'm not sure if this is still the case, but years ago, EA games were removed from Steam because they breached Valve's policy of no in-game purchases.

Quoting: mortigarWorks good on ubuntu 18.04 needed to install libgconf-2-4 no biggie though :D

But wait, your profile icon says Manjaro.

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This looks very promising. I hope it comes to Linux. I have to be honest and say that this game made me think of Astroneer every second, which has already been confirmed for Linux in Q2, 2018. I'm also looking forward to that one.

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woot woot

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I bought this game with intent on my wife playing it and me watching. That hasn't happened yet. Perhaps I should just play it myself. :P

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The graphics don't really look any better than PS3 Socom, except the resolution. I find that disappointing. I like Insurgency a lot. I have 36 hours logged. (Hey, that's pretty good considering how little I play shooters these days.) But a graphics overhaul to, say, an Insurgency 2 would be quite nice.

Still, there's a pretty good chance I'll get this Sandstorm game on Linux.

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